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October 20, 2008
The Star |
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OMS to add barge and
tugboat |
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Optic Marine Services International Ltd (OMS), a
Port Klang-based submarine fibre optic cable
services provider, plans to acquire another set
of cable empowered barge and tugboat due to
robust demand from the telecommunications
industry.
Chief executive officer Ronnie Lim told StarBiz
that the submarine fibre optic cable industry
had a bright future as demand had always been on
an up trend for additional telecommunications
bandwidth.
“This is apparent in the Asian region where
Internet usage has been on the rise.
“We will also be looking at increasing our work
force by about 50 people in line with the plan
to expand our fleet,” he said.
OMS recently launched its newly acquired cable
empowered barge at Sumber Samudera shipyard in
Teluk Intan, Perak.
The barge will be towed by a new tugboat, Janet.
Both the barge and tugboat cost about RM20mil.
The cable empowered barge is capable of
performing shore-end fibre optics cable
installations up to 20m which is proven to be
cost effective and efficient.
According to Lim, the new barge and tugboat will
be deployed to Indonesia for the Jakabare
project.
“The project comprises 60km of shore-end
installations. “Upon completion of the Jakabare
project, both vessels will be mobilised to India
and Pakistan where they will help install a
total of 63km of shore-end cable for the India -
Middle East - Western Europe cable system,” he
said.
OMS recently completed 80km of submarine optic
fibre cable installation works including for NEC
Corp in Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand and Vietnam. |
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