With a high velocity of 25 knots, the 2 Damen Stan Pilot 1505 pilot boats, Um Alhoul 1 and Um Alhoul 2, might be used to hold out pilot duties and transport personnel across the $7.5bn port. They’re twin 15.4 LOA x 5 m beam vessels.

The three Damen Stan Tug 1606 mooring boats, Mwani 1, Mwani 2 and Mwani 3, have a bollard pull capability of 13.7 tonnes. The 16.7 LOA by 5.9 m beam vessels might be deployed to help ships coming into and departing the port close to Doha.

NDSQ constructed the 5 vessels at its Erhama Bin Jaber Al Jalahma Shipyard in Ras Laffan Industrial Metropolis and delivered them just lately to Hamad underneath its ‘New Port Venture’ (NPP) moniker following profitable sea trials. 

Captain Abdulla Al-Khanji, ceo of Qatar’s ports authority Mwani and NNP common supervisor described the supply of the vessels as an “necessary milestone” within the on-going growth of Hamad Port which is already operating at about one third capability and to be formally opened in December.

Quickly rising on a 28sq km web site south of Doha, Hamad is poised to remodel Qatari delivery as soon as it’s full in 2020. It is going to ultimately be house to a few extremely automated container terminals, every boasting 2m teu capability and no less than eight tremendous post-panamax gantry cranes. There may even be ro-ro, livestock, common cargo and bulk terminals in addition to an offshore provide terminal and Qatari Emiri Naval Forces and Coastguard bases.

“Hamad Port is being developed as a world-class facility as befits the State of Qatar and the completion of those marine items symbolize the end result of a profitable collaboration between NPP and NDSQ,” mentioned Al-Khanji.  

“To have vessels of such excellent high quality manufactured in Qatar, to be used in Hamad Port, is testomony to the professionalism of all these concerned.”

NDSQ is a three way partnership between Nakilat, the delivery arm of Qatar’s LNG business, and Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards. It builds vessels in metal, aluminium and glass bolstered plastic (GRP) boats as much as 170m and likewise affords restore and refit providers.

“The cooperation between Nakilat and NPP is a superb instance of how native organisations are working collectively to help the event and progress of our native financial system, that may in flip contribute to the achievements of Qatar Nationwide imaginative and prescient 2030,” mentioned Nakilat md, Engineer Abdullah Al-Sulaiti.