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Here is the CBO Iguaco a Havyard 843, the last of a set of six built by Havyard delivered the other day in Brazil to CBO a Brazilian shipping company. I can't find out what CBO stands for. However the ship has a bollard pull of about 200 tons developed with the help of prime movers producing 18,000 bhp. The winch has a pull on the first wrap of 350 tons and the various bits of deck equipment were provided by Triplex. At the time of this photo it was providing heading aide for an FPSO.
Here is the UT 755 XL F.D.Remarkable backing into the River Dee In Aberdeen back in 2012. The UT 755 may still be the most populous offshore vessel ever, having been built in large numbers between 1996 and 2012. FD stands for Fratelli D'Amato who owned a small fleet of UT 755s built in Italy at Rosetti Marino and managed by Gulf Offshore UK. In 2014 this vessel was sold to Gulf for a reported $30 million and renamed Highland Duke. The company also sold others of its fleet to Tidewater.
It is a while since we featured an ECO ship. Of course we are a bit put off by the fact that the company do not choose to tell us anything about their vessels. So this one looks as if it has a deck area of about 1000 m2 and was built in Brazil. Unusually for a platform ship, it is fitted with a Triplex MDH which is a system for handling stuff on the deck. You can see that it is a crane mounted on a gantry system which can run up and down the ship. It appears to be a special PSV system, but what possible use can it be? The video on the Triplex site is no help.