Sea Flyer and Sea Forth were awarded multi-year contracts with options, with scheduled commencement dates in December 2013 for the Sea Flyer and January 2014 for the Sea Forth. Sea Flyer and Sea Forth will join sister vessel Sea Falcon in Apache’s North Sea fleet, with the latter unit also working on a multi-year contract that commenced in April 2013.

All three vessels were built by Sinopacific at the Zhejiang Shipyard in Ningbo, China. Sea Falcon was delivered in February 2013, with Sea Flyer and Sea Forth following in May and August 2013 respectively. All three were built to Ulstein’s PX 105 design utilising the X-BOW hull design, which provides low vibration levels and results in increased comfort and no loss of speed due to the elimination of bow wave impact. Seabrokers was pleased to have been involved in these contracts.