Irish Mainport Holdings was delighted to welcome one of their two seismic support ships, Mainport Cedar, when the vessel made a brief call to Cork Harbour recently.

The 54.6m length overall (LOA) Mainport Cedar, made the call to the Port of Cork while in transit from Namibia to Rotterdam, Netherlands, having worked in the southern African nation since October 2023, at the base port of Walvis Bay & Luderitz.

Currently, the 1,659 gross tonnage vessel is underway in the North Sea, from where it will work with the same client for the summer season, engaging in a number of seismic support projects with this client.

During the call to the port in Munster, this facilitated carrying out a Class Annual inspections of the vessel (built in 2013 by Shin Yang Miri Malaysia), with ship classification society, (BV) Bureau Veritas.

In addition, the call to a Cork City central quay, led to the availing of local service providers and to renew some of the annual inspections / maintenance on safety equipment, and life saving appliances etc.

The call was also an opportunity for a crew change (11 on 11 off) and both of the crews agreed to pose for the new Mainport Cedar football team (as pictured above) where the off signers are the lads with the biggest smiles!

Mainport Cedar departed Cork last Friday for Rotterdam, and Afloat this afternoon tracked the vessel north-east of the Shetlands, having departed the Dutch port bound for Ålesund, western Norway, from where this will be the ship’s base port for the crew’s next project.

The second seismic support ship (part of the group’s mixed fleet) is the Mainport Pine, built a year later of its twin and was also launched from the same shipyard in Asia.