Support for SafeWay System
The NIBC Mezzanine & Equity Partners and Rotterdam Port Fund have come to a principle agreement with the Van Aalst Group, Dordrecht, to participate as minority shareholder providing business-building capital for realising its growth plans. With the new funds SafeWay, as part of the Van Aalst Group, can now build a rental fleet of state-of-the-art gangways for the international offshore oil, gas, wind and renewables industries. Production of the first series of gangways has already commenced. Delivery is scheduled for Q1-2018.
SafeWay is producer and operator of motion compensated offshore access systems, designed for safely and efficiently transferring personnel and cargo from an offshore vessel to a structure. The design, with its distinctive technologies such as the roll compensating mast, the Zero Impact Bumpering mode and the vertical elevation option, is so revolutionary, that SafeWay believes the gangway will be a gamechanger in the offshore industry. The company has therefore expressed its ambition to become one of the leaders in safe Walk to Work solutions at sea. The first SafeWay gangway is currently being installed on the 95m long OCV Olympic Intervention IV, owned by Olympic Subsea, Norway, operating in the German sector of the North Sea.