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Dubai-based P&O Maritime Logistics will use its Multi Carrying Vessel (MCV) fleet to transport off-site manufactured, pre-finished hotel villas to the Sheybarah Island Resort on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Coast. The company has signed a new contract with global heavy lifting and transport specialist Mammoet, to transport the hotel villas, all the way from Hamriyah in the UAE to the Sheybarah Island Resort.
The MCVs selected for the project were serviced in drydock facilities before the contract in order to limit their possible impact on local marine life and their ballast systems were filled with water from the Red Sea to reduce the chance of introducing foreign organisms. Additionally, the shallow draft of MCVs and with the versatile thruster arrangement used on P&O Maritime Logistics vessels mean that there will be minimal disturbance of the shallow seabed.
Jad Ayoub, Project Director for Mammoet, said: “We have selected P&O Maritime Logistics for its vessels with shallower drafts that will have minimal impact on the sensitive marine environment of the Red Sea. With Mammoet’s ongoing commitment to sustainability and sustainability being the vision for the project, it was crucial to partner with a company that ensures their operations and values are aligned with ours.”
P&O Maritime Logistics, a subsidiary of DP World, recently opened a new route between the Port of Jeddah and Port Sudan. As a result its MCV fleet is carrying containers across the Red Sea for the first time, generating additional volumes and reducing waiting times for main line carriers.
