Materials administration and logistics supplier ASCO has secured a five-year contract price $87.6 million (GBP 70 million) to supply base and logistics providers to Aker BP ASA in Norway till 2030.
The contract encompasses providers together with warehouse administration, load carriers, waste providers, and personnel leasing for logistics and helicopter coordination in Tananger, Sandnessjøen, and Farsund, in accordance with a latest information launch.
ASCO Norge AS industrial director Øyvind Salte mentioned: “Aker BP’s continued alternative of ASCO for his or her base and logistics providers is extraordinarily vital to us. We look ahead to additional growing as an organization and persevering with our proud partnership with Aker BP.
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“This contract strengthens our current actions in Norway and lays the muse for additional growing the wonderful collaboration with Aker BP. We may also proceed to simplify, streamline and digitalize all elements of its providers,” Salte added.
Vegard Olsen, Logistics Supervisor at Aker BP, mentioned, “The partnership with ASCO is essential to sustaining continuity in our offshore operations. Base and transport providers act because the lifelines for supplies between sea and land, making certain that we are able to preserve steady and environment friendly operations. We look ahead to persevering with the collaboration and dealing collectively to additional enhance our logistics processes”.
Runar Hatletvedt, Managing Director at ASCO Norge AS, mentioned, “Aker BP has been a vital buyer of ASCO Norge AS for a few years. The corporate has supplied base and logistics providers since 2011. A brand new contract with Aker BP secures jobs at ASCO’s bases in Tananger, Sandnessjøen, and Farsund and gives stability and predictability for the long run. It is a very constructive and vital contract for us”.
Fleet Improve
Final month, ASCO mentioned it’s upgrading its fleet in the UK (UK) by a multimillion pound program.
ASCO additionally expanded its capabilities at Albert Quay in Aberdeen with the addition of a brand-new Liebherr crane, following the strategic relocation of the same crane from Hammerfest, Norway earlier in 2024.
The transfer “enhances the entire overhaul of the corporate’s forklift fleet in all its UK bases, changing older fashions with fashionable, eco-friendly 16-tonne forklifts that provide enhanced security and ergonomic options,” ASCO mentioned in a separate information launch.
ASCO CEO Mike Pettigrew mentioned, “This funding demonstrates our unwavering dedication to the vitality trade within the area. Whereas persevering with to serve longstanding shoppers like BP and TotalEnergies, we’re investing in infrastructure that helps the way forward for the evolving provide chain and strengthens our function within the vitality transition.”
The corporate added that the funding aligns with Port of Aberdeen’s ongoing vitality transition plans, designed to assist current prospects in oil and fuel whereas establishing itself as a nationwide hub for offshore wind.
Bob Sanguinetti, CEO of the Port of Aberdeen, mentioned, “[The] Port of Aberdeen is a key logistics hub for the North Sea offshore sector. As we transfer by a rigorously managed transition from fossil fuels to renewables, the port will proceed to assist the area’s vitality wants—whether or not that’s current oil and fuel, decommissioning, or the following technology of Scotland’s offshore wind developments”.
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