The Offshore Ship Designers group has opened a design office in Shanghai, China. Initially staffed with six naval architects it will provide design resources to OSD’s European partners and also provide Asian shipyards with innovative tug and offshore support vessel designs.
OSD has recently undergone a change in partners with the acquisition by Norway’s Ulstein Group of one of the founding partners, Dutch heavy offshore vessel designer Sea of Solutions. OSD now consists of the combined resources of WorldWise Marine, the specialist tug design and consultancy, and IMT Marine Consultants, which has a strong portfolio of offshore support vessels of all types.
Offshore Ship Designers Group (OSD) is a global one-stop resource delivering naval architecture and marine engineering skills to the shipping and offshore energy industries. It draws on an experienced global workforce to provide high quality feasibility studies, conceptual and detailed designs for tugs and offshore support vessels of all types. OSD is based in IJmuiden, The Netherlands and has offices in Montrose, York and Shanghai.