Thailand's Truth Maritime welcomes third crewboat in series

Singapore shipbuilder Strategic Marine has delivered a new fast crewboat to Thai offshore support company Truth Maritime Services (TMS).

The vessel is the third in a series of crewboats to be built by Strategic Marine to a design by Australian naval architecture firm Southerly Designs. TMS Ranod, the first vessel in the series, was handed over to TMS last year.

The newbuild has an aluminium hull, an LOA of 42 metres, a moulded beam of 8.2 metres, a maximum draught of 1.9 metres, business class seating for up to 70 technicians, and 140 square metres of total deck space for the transport of assorted payloads.

A hybrid propulsion arrangement designed in collaboration with the client uses an energy storage system to capture and harness energy generated by the main engines for various applications on the vessel.

A highly efficient new hull form combined with a Z-bow will improve seakeeping and will require less power for the same speed and deadweight tonnage, reducing fuel consumption and lowering emissions without impacting the vessel's cargo- and passenger-carrying capability.

Strategic Marine said TMS will operate the new crewboat in servicing customers in the Southeast Asia offshore petroleum exploration and production market.