Strategic Marine’s main focus in the commercial sector has been on vessels servicing the offshore oilfield sector, particularly crew boats, although the company has also built a number of landing crafts, ferries, fishing vessels and pleasure boats.
The company prides itself on its 10m-65m aluminium crew boats, landing its first contract to build seven offshore crew vessels for reputable shipping companies Svitzer from Denmark and Singapore’s EMAS Offshore in 2001.
That was followed by a contract in 2006 to build two 40m crew boats for Malaysia’s Syarikat Borcos Shipping, a company which has ordered a total of nine vessels over the last three years.
The company’s increasing focus on the oil services industry has also seen it win orders from Indonesia’s Baruna Raya Logistics for four 31m crew boats, and Dutch shipping company SMIT International for three 22.1m crew/pilot vessels for use in the Middle East.
Strategic Marine launched into the Americas in late 2007, when Blue Marine ordered two 52m crew boats in a contract worth US$11.9 million to carry out operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
In conjunction with this, Strategic Marine announced its first joint venture in the Americas with Mexican shipyard company SENI.
The company’s most recent step, now that the Vietnamese yard has steel fabrication technology, has been to diversify into building larger steel ships.
As a result, Strategic Marine has secured the contract to build two 143 metre dive support vessels for Singapore client Marfield Limited, as well as constructing the steel pontoon for the Australian Marine Complex’s floating dry dock.
Strategic Marine’s commercial portfolio includes:
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