Offshore vessel operator Astro Offshore, an Adani Group company, has acquired five offshore vessels en bloc, raising its fleet size to 49 ships and strengthening its presence in West Africa.The deal includes four platform supply vessels (PSVs), two of which are diesel-electric, and one high-specification 86-meter multipurpose supply vessel (MPSV) equipped with a 160-tonne crane.
Offshore vessel operator Astro Offshore, an Adani Group company, has acquired two modern platform supply vessels (PSVs) and entered the West African market, expanding its global footprint.The vessels, Astro Rastaban (built 2020) and Astro Rigel (built 2023), lift the company’s fleet to 44 vessels and mark its first operations in West Africa.
While the advent of full autonomy in the maritime space is still a generation or more in the future, companies like Alewijnse are determined to take step changes toward increased automation, and in fact claim that "autonomous sailing is coming soon."Alewijnse is a key player in the Fieldlab Autonomous Sailing Technology (F.A.S.T.) project, an initiative designed to revolutionize ship automation.