COSCO Shipping Co. Ltd. (COSCOL) has signed a contract with Shell Offshore Inc. for the transportation of the Appomattox semisubmersible offshore platform hull from South Korea to Ingleside, Texas. This contract was awarded as part of an enterprise frame agreement between Shell and COSCOL.
Shell’s 41,165-tonne hull will be transported on COSCOL’s Guang Hua Kou, currently under construction at the COMEC shipyard in Guangzhou, China. The Guang Hua Kou is a 98,000-dwt vessel and expected to be delivered in to service late 2016.