March 17, 2016 - A new launch for Vittoria Shipyard in Adria (Italy). The ceremony for Blue Brother took place in the waters of the Canalbianco-Po River. The supply vessel will be leased out to Bambini di Ravenna, specialized in providing offshore support services. The new vessel is property of the shipowning company Adriese di Navigazione, which is also the holding company of the group the Vittoria Shipyard belongs to.
Both the “Adriese” and “Vittoria” firms have the same shareholding group, which is controlled by the Duò family. Blue Brother is set to provide support services to petrol platforms and offshore installations, special transport (with capacity for up to 80 people) and is licensed for international sailing. The new prototype is 51.75 metres long and 9.20 metres wide and can reach 28 knots. Construction started in March 2015 and only took a year. The contract worth 11 million Euros.
Building supply vessels is one of the many specialities of Vittoria Shipyard, which through continual research work and innovation on hull performances, has managed to achieve impressive levels of speed and seakeeping given size and construction material, aluminium. Blue Brother is provided with a DP2 class dynamic positioning system produced by Kongsberg that allows the vessel to keep its position by automatically adjusting the power and direction of the propellers. The vessel is equipped with four Cummins KTA50-M2 engines, which produce 1342 kW each at 1900 rpm. This is not the first delivery made to the Bambini company.
Vittoria Shipyard has already built ships of this type, Blue Mommy and Blue Daddy, as well as two Shuttle 200s for passenger transport. “Launch time”, said Luigi Duò, president of Vittoria Shipyard “always represents the crowning moment of a collective effort that brings together workers, engineers and managers with the same passion. Flexibility and agility of the yard’s organisation allowed us to combine speed of construction and top quality standards, strengthening a lengthy collaborative relationship with the Bambini company, of which we are all proud.”
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