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Siem Offshore:
ENC Service from Single Supplier Siem Offshore recently celebrated a newbuilding in its Brazilian operations. This ship, its Brazilian siblings and its two dozen Norwegian cousins all run on charts from Jeppesen. We asked them why a single supplier and why Jeppesen. /// In mid-February, a representative from the top echelons of Petrobras and Norway’s Minister of Trade and Industry attended the christening of a modestly sized crewboat built in Brazil called the Siem Pendotiba. It was the fifth ship in a fleet that will soon number ten for Brazilian offshore supply company Siem Consub. The significance of this christening is tied to the increasingly strong ties between the
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Norwegian and Brazilian economies. It’s a tie-up being felt by everyone related to the offshore and shipping segments in either Norway or Brazil, including offshore companies like Siem Offshore (Siem Consub’s Norwegian mother company) and their key suppliers, such as Jeppesen. “We’re all about growth. Siem Offshore has only existed since 2005, when we had effectively zero ships. Today, we have 40+ ships,
if we include ships on the orderbook,” says Siem Offshore’s Chief Commercial Officer Christian Berg. It is understood that Siem Offshore chooses partners with the same attitude towards growth. Single supplIER “From day one, we’ve been a customer of Jeppesen. Why? Jeppesen’s the market leader and they can provide us with a single source for all of our electronic chart needs. They can provide the same, familiar system on all of our vessels, with truly worldwide coverage. They’re also renowned as the best, far and away, in the North Sea,” says Berg. Siem Offshore’s ships use both Telchart and TECDIS, both produced by Telko. From Jeppesen, Siem Offshore uses both Professional+ commercial charts and ENCs from Jeppesen. Specifically, 10 of its most modern vessels trading in the North Sea and Brazil operate paperless with ENCs from Jeppesen. As Siem Offshore’s vessels trade all over the world (Black Sea, West Africa, Gulf of Mexico, Brazil and the North Sea), the company needs a charts supplier with global coverage. “The Siem Consub ships will also use charts from Jeppesen, and we have faith in their ability to serve us also in Brazil,” says Berg.