It has been a busy year and we would like to thank all our customers and partners, working with us on these projects.

The year has seen a huge amount of development in a range of new builds and we are looking forward to a busy start to 2025 with a number of vessels expected to be delivered in the first few months of 2025.

The first vessel delivered was almost at new year when the MV ‘Police’, a 13m harbour workboat / tug was delivered by Atlantis Marine of Turkey to its Dutch owners.

2 x 14.0m Line Handling harbour workboats were completed by Cheoy Lee shipyards. The vessels designed specifically for Cheoy Lee Shipyards to complement their standard range of tugs and workboats were completed and delivered to local owners.

‘AQS Trym’ an 18.5m Catamaran aquaculture service boat was delivered by TRX Marine of Turkey to AQS AS in Norway. The vessel was developed with close cooperation between the owners, Macduff Ship Design and Skagen Ship Consulting. The design incorporated an electric drive train, driven by a large battery pack, with 2 backup generators. The boat also boasts an impressive deck machinery package supplied by SHM to support aquaculture service with bespoke equipment for the vessel’s operations including double drum anchor / towing winch, pop up pins, sharks jaw and stern roller, alongside 2 Palfinger PK 150002M marine cranes.

‘Eternal Promise’ a 20m fishing trawler was completed by Macduff Shipyards for local owners. The design development saw close cooperation between the teams at Macduff Ship Design, and Macduff Shipyards, in developing the new design vessel. Close attention was paid to optimising the hull form, for improved towing performance, coupled with higher cruising speed, and lower fuel consumption.

‘Forever Faithful, a 22.75m fishing trawler completed by Macduff Shipyards for local owners. This followed a similar development trend as the smaller vessel completed by Macduff Shipyards with careful attention paid to a new hull design, with work from Wolfson unit in Southampton leading to the final hull form.

‘Arthur Douglas’ a 21m landing craft style workboat with port offset wheelhouse and twin cranes to starboard was delivered by Nauplius Workboats to its owner Inverlussa Marine Services of Scotland. This was the third sister vessel built to the same design but at different shipyards for the Isle of Mull based aquaculture service company.

‘Righ Na Mara’ a 24m Landing Craft style workboat with port offset wheelhouse and twin cranes to starboard. The vessel was delivered by Macduff Shipyards to its owners Bakkafrost to provide support within their salmon farming business. This vessel was the second of this successful design built for the same owners.