PROFILE
Atlantic Marine & Aviation
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Below Paul Crowther, managing director Atlantic Marine & Aviation
& Aviation LLP is a rapidly expanding business with a wealth of experience in air, sea and property. Today the company’s strongest areas are commercial shipping, yacht management and aviation, where it has close to three decades of experience in asset ownership and management. Within the commercial shipping sector, Atlantic Marine & Aviation is solely engaged in chartering vessels that are fully managed and crewed with a particular focus on offshore support and supply vessels as well as survey craft. The company’s yacht management division offers crewing, management and charter services for vessels ranging from 30 metres to 80 metres in length, while its aviation sector owns and operates private jet aircraft for charter. Following meetings with clients within the offshore sector during 2009, the company began a programme of acquiring further vessels to serve this market. By 2010 it had acquired the first vessel in its new fleet, the Atlantic Guardian, and from thereon the company went on to acquire a further five ships. During 2012 Atlantic Marine & Aviation acquired the Atlantic Wind and Atlantic Carrier as part of its continued expansion. Commenting on the fleet in 2013 when the company was last profiled in European Oil & Gas Magazine, managing director Paul Crowther said: “Our unique selling point is that each one of our vessels is multipurpose with its own unique capabilities. Every vessel is capable of doing something different to its sisters in the fleet. Our
model is based upon purchasing older tonnage that is in a good condition and then putting a lot of investment into the vessel at the outset to make it as multipurpose as possible. This enables us to offer extremely competitive rates of between 20 and 30 per cent less than anyone else in the marketplace for our particular vessel.” Indeed throughout 2013 and 2014 Atlantic Marine & Aviation has continued to invest in its fleet to ensure that it is able to provide
a broad base of solutions to the changing offshore and oil and gas markets. During 2013 the company announced further expansion to its fleet with the acquisition of the Atlantic Explorer. Previously named MV Deepworker, the vessel was converted into a bespoke working platform for deepwater exploration, survey and salvage operations. Furthermore the vessel was refitted with a L3 Naurtinox NMS 6000 dynamic positioning system (DPS) and a four metre by 4.5-metre moon pool, which allows it to safely undertake high precision and remote subsea operations. The ship also carries a full spread of survey support equipment including ROV, a 20 tonne subsea umbilical and winch capable of
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