Winds of change Crist

Winds of cHAnge

Crist S.A. is a European market leader in the design, production and servicing of offshore maritime constructions. The company’s pro-active and innovative approach is driving the winds of change in offshore technologies. Philip Yorke reports on the latest developments of a remarkable Polish company.

Crist S.A. was founded in Poland in 1990, and began as a partnership between two very talented and driven individuals. They were both inspired by the promise of the availability of renewable energy across the world. The success of the company led to Crist being listed as a joint stock company in 2010. Since that time it has continued to see rapid growth across all its specialised maritime disciplines.

Today the company specialises in shipbuilding, offshore constructions and steel constructions, as well as sea and civil engineering structures. The company operates its own fully-equipped shipyard in Poland, the

only shipyard in Europe to have constructed three units for the installation and servicing of offshore wind farms. Crist S.A. serves major shipping and wind farm operators in Poland, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

optimising deep-sea technologies

In 2018 Crist S.A. delivered its second vessel, the Live Fish Carrier, ‘Acqua Tromoy’, to Dess Aquaculture Shipping of Norway. This contract for the fully outfitted, multi-purpose live fish carrier of the SC75 design, was announced just over a year ago. Following the successful delivery of two sister vessels, they were transferred to the fleet of the newly established DESS Acquaculture Shipping company.

DESS is a joint venture between Marine Harvest and Deep Sea Supply. With a 3000 square metre fish tank capacity and a minimal ten person crew, the new ship is acknowledged as a major technological leap forward for its Norwegian owners and operators. The state-of-the-art and highly automated, multipurpose vessel, with diesel-electric propulsion, will be operating in the North Sea and in the northern Atlantic waters.

The vessel’s futuristic design comes from the designers of Seacon A.S., a Norwegian consulting and naval architecture company that specialises in fishing and fish-farming industry vessels.

unique floating-dock expertise

A prestige international floating-dock project, code named “Marco Polo” has been designed to increase the usable land area of the Monaco Principality by more than 6 hectares. It has recently received its final caisson from the Crist shipyard. The new floating dock is part of a major contract for the Bouygues Travaux Publics Company of France that together with its partners is finalising the creation of an entirely new district in Monaco. This huge project has been made possible by converting part of the Bay of Monaco to dry land. Luxury apartments, promenades and parks are planned to be constructed on the new land area extending to over 60,000 square metres.

This enormous unit has been built entirely by the Crist Shipyard, which was also contracted to build multifunctional caissons, made from reinforced concrete. These act as foundations for the new reclaimed land project. The new floating dock is equipped with unique ballast and measurement systems that allow continuous levelling of the unit, thus ensuring safety during working hours and protection against wind and waves as well as from dangerous currents.

Lukasz Topa, Poject manager at Crist S.A. in Poland said, “We are pleased that the unit was specially designed and built by the Crist Shipyard, and that we have been involved in such a prestigious international project. “Marco Polo” performed its task perfectly, which underscores the professionalism and high quality of work carried out by our shipyard”.

Cable-laying optimisation

Earlier this year, Crist began the production of a specialised cablelaying vessel, the Nexans Aurora, that features a DP3 dynamic positioning system. The new ship will be adapted to work in difficult working conditions, whilst maintaining high manoeuvrability with consistent positioning. The futuristic vessel is 149 metres long and 31 metres wide and has a 17,000t load capacity and will accommo-

date a crew of almost 100 people. It has been adapted for the laying of power cables, including cables in bundles, as well as connecting, repairing and protecting them. Additional equipment includes a special basket for fibre optic cables with a capacity of 450 tons.

The new unit is being built at the Crist shipyard in Poland and the final finishing works will be carried out at the Norwegian shipyard, Ulstein with the final recipient being Nexans of France. Nexans currently employs more than 26,000 people worldwide and offers customers more than 120 years of cabling experience.

One of AN-ELEC key partners on the Polish market is CRIST SA Shipyard. Through our long-term and multifaceted cooperation, we jointly implemented difficult and innovative projects (from the execution of works, assembly of locksmith / electrical installation equipment to service) as: Heavy Lift Jack Up vessel (Innovation and Vidar), Heavy Lift Jack Up Barge (Zourite), one of the first hybrid ferries (Elektra) or the Floating Dock used to expand the land territory of the Principality of Monaco.

For further details of the Crist S.A. shipyard and its specialised offshore and onshore products and services visit: www.crist.com

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