Vroon Offshore Services’ AHTS vessel VOS Champagne starts first charter

Last Saturday, 22 November, Vroon Offshore Services’ AHTS vessel, VOS Champagne, was delivered to Chevron Thailand at the start of a four-year charter. She replaces VOS Atlas, which has been employed by Chevron for the past month, the company said in its press release.
 
VOS Champagne is a Focal-680-design vessel from Focal Marine, with LOA of 65.0m. She is equipped with DP-2, 2 x 10T bow thrusters, 1 x 8T stern thruster and has a certified bollard pull of 87 metric tonnes. VOS Champagne is the first of two vessels constructed at Fujian Funing Shipyard in China, with her sister vessel, VOS Chablis, scheduled for delivery to Vroon early next year.