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No guts, no glory Pipe handling deck spread contract award for EB March 2006 A contract to design and supply a new pipeline handling system for its latest pipelay vessel 'Audacia' has been awarded to The Engineering Business (EB) by the Sociéte de l' Exploitation du Audacia S.A. The awarding company is a sister company of Allseas Group S.A. in Châtel-Saint-Denis, Switzerland. The 225m bulk carrier was built in 2005 at the Jiangnan Shipyard in China and is currently being converted into a pipelay vessel intended for operation in all water depths, by Keppel Verolme, Holland. The multi-million-pound contract covers the design and manufacture of a full suite of equipment for the vessel from pipe load out to firing line. This includes welding trolleys, line-up and transfer buggies and a roller conveyor system complete with workstations. An integrated control and monitoring system will ensure the accurate and safe control of pipe sections at all times. "This is a very significant contract for EB," says Toby Bailey, EB Sales and Marketing Director. "We are delighted to gain Allseas as a new international customer. The award confirms EB's position as a provider of innovative product handling systems for the new generation of pipelay vessels." EB is particularly pleased to be associated with Allseas because the philosophies and work ethic of the two companies are complementary. An extract from Allseas website, reproduced with their permission, states: Any new concept starts with true imagination. A technical breakthrough can only be achieved if one is willing and daring to challenge all existing options, turning them upside down in the process and looking at them from a different perspective. It challenges the ability to imagine the yet impossible - not asking 'why?' but 'why not?'. It requires people whose feelings run just ahead of their thinking, believing that if you can dream it, you can do it. People who share and believe in 'no guts, no glory'. "These are strong words with which we are delighted to associate ourselves," says Bailey.
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