Hong Kong’s Kuma Shipping has ordered the P128 designs for delivery in 2014. They will be built at a Chinese shipyard.

 “This is a design that combines low fuel oil consumption with high carrying capacity at an attractive price,” said Ove Dimmen of Ulstein Design & Solutions.

“We wanted to come up with a design for a smaller PSV that could support barges and rigs in a more economical way than the traditional offshore support vessel, both in terms of building cost and operational costs.”

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