North East firm Osbit has completed a huge subsea trenching vehicle that will used on offshore wind farm projects.
The Northumberland firm has built the Swordfish for Luxembourg vessel operator, Jan De Nul. Taking a year to design and build, it will help bury cables in the ocean.
Neil Harrison, director at Osbit said: “Our focused team of skilled engineers have performed tremendously and really pulled together to produce a class-leading multi-purpose trenching vehicle in such a short space of time, despite ongoing global supply chain issues, and the hugely volatile market.
“Due to the growing complexity of offshore wind farm sites, installation companies need Osbit’s specialist engineering skills more than ever, as the world transitions to using more clean energy sources. This new piece of equipment has excellent capabilities and has enabled Osbit to further strengthen our exports of specialist equipment to mainland Europe.”
Riding Mill-based Osbit - which also has a site at the Port of Blyth - was last year acquired by the newly-formed Venterra group, which was looking to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in the wind power sector. It later said that the deal had helped it grow by a third, with the creation of 40 new jobs.
The company also won’s a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the innovation section earlier this year.
