window.dotcom = window.dotcom || { cmd: [] }; window.dotcom.ads = window.dotcom.ads || { resolves: {enabled: [], getAdTag: []}, enabled: () => new Promise(r => window.dotcom.ads.resolves.enabled.push(r)), getAdTag: () => new Promise(r => window.dotcom.ads.resolves.getAdTag.push(r)) }; setTimeout(() => { if(window.dotcom.ads.resolves){ window.dotcom.ads.resolves.enabled.forEach(r => r(false)); window.dotcom.ads.resolves.getAdTag.forEach(r => r("")); window.dotcom.ads.enabled = () => new Promise(r => r(false)); window.dotcom.ads.getAdTag = () => new Promise(r => r("")); console.error("NGAS load timeout"); } }, 5000)
Skip to content

Jersey Ports to sell workboat to Caribbean firm

Jack Silver
BBC News, Channel Islands
Ports of Jersey A workboat called Duke of Normandy, ed in Jersey. It has a blue hull, white cabin and a yellow hydraulic lifting arm.Ports of Jersey
The Duke of Normandy has been in service for nearly two decades, providing a "range of marine services"

Ports of Jersey has agreed to sell one of its workboats to a Caribbean shipping hire company.

Ports has agreed to sell the Duke of Normandy to St Lucia-based Lead Marine Contractors after an initial two-year charter to the company.

The 26m (85ft) boat, which was built in 2005, has been in service for nearly two decades, providing a "range of marine services" including towing, maintaining moorings and levelling the seabed.

Ports said the deal would generate a "short-term income" allowing for its "planned retirement" of the vessel, with money from the sale being reinvested into its fleet.

A spokesperson said: "The Duke will be delivered to the Caribbean in June and re-flagged under Panama, a widely used international ship registry."

Ports said it had acquired a new tug boat, which would be renamed Fleur de Lis, to take over the Duke of Normandy's tug boat duties.

Ports' marine services division operates a fleet of five vessels, it said.

Follow BBC Jersey on X and Facebook. Send your story ideas to [email protected].

More on this story
Related internet links