OSV deliveries slow to a crawl

摘要

No newbuilding order for a large offshore support vessel has been placed since December 2017, according to VesselsValue. This is the inevitable consequence of the current levels of oversupply, best described as enormous. The orderbook is congested with vessels that few owners are willing to take delivery of, as the offshore market is still clearly in the trough of the cycle. On the positive side, sales for scrapping have started to pick up, and there is still a healthy turnover in sales for further trading. The newbuilding contract for Ada Centaurus was signed in 2017, and the vessel is due to follow sister vessel Ada Auriga to the outfitting yard. Acta Centaurus is a construction support/walk-to-work vessel featuring Ulstein's SX195 design, incorporating X-BOW and X-STERN.