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Big Taiwan wind contract win
for Australia’s MMA Offshore
Contract to serve as entry point to Taiwanese offshore wind market
TAIWAN PERTH-BASED MMA Offshore has secured a Alongside the Pinnacle and Prestige will be
trio of offshore wind contracts in waters west of the MMA Crystal. The Crystal will primarily sup-
the main island of Taiwan, as one of Asia’s leading port the project by way of cable trenching and is
wind installation nations continues to push wind expected to be on location to begin operations by
over all other forms of renewable energy. the end of next month.
Top-notch vessels in addition to highly special- MMA’s David Ross, the firm’s managing
ised subsea skill sets offered by MMA will form the director, speaking in a statement released on the
backbone of the Australian firm’s commitment to company homepage said of the contract: “We
the project in Taiwan. are extremely pleased to secure contracts for
It is understood the contracts worth $20mn two of our larger vessels for a material portion
come with firm periods of 370 days and rely on of 2023 underpinning utilisation of our MPSV
MMA first moving its state-of-the-art MMA fleet. These contract awards are a major mile-
Pinnacle from its current berth off Singa- stone in our diversification strategy, with off-
pore, to a location just over 3,000 km to the shore wind being a key target market for MMA
north-east. in future.”
The 100-berth Pinnacle is equipped with a 150 Referring more specifically to the company’s
tonne ultra-deepwater crane and is fully fitted out local office MMA Clean Energy, Ross added: “It
to stay longer in remote locations with limited is also very pleasing to see our Taiwan-flagged
support. vessel MMA Crystal secure an integrated support
MMA will, reports say, be responsible for ini- contract through our local Taiwanese entity MMA
tial survey operations and eventual cable laying in Clean Energy. This is an endorsement to our entry
addition to turbine maintenance capabilities sup- into Taiwan, to support the growing offshore wind
ported by the MMA Prestige. market in the region.”
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