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P&O and Mammoet bring a touch of luxury to Red Sea resort

[ February 7, 2023   //   ]

P&O Maritime Logistics is to use its multi carrying vessel (MCV) fleet to transport prefabricated villas from the port of Hamriyah near Dubai to the Sheybarah Island Resort on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast.

The shipping company has signed a new contract with global heavy lifting and transport specialist Mammoet to transport the hotel villas to their destination.

P&O Maritime Logistics, part of the DP World Group, operates 400 vessels worldwide and offers a range of value-added services to customers. 

The two companies are supporting Red Sea Global in its project to construct the resort which forms part of the Saudi 2030 vision. It will consist of a total of 73 uniquely shaped and prefabricated villas, some of which will hover above the island’s diverse ecosystem. The stainless-steel orbs were conceptualised by Oppenheim Architecture, based in Miami and designed by Killa Design. With mangroves, beaches and coral reefs, the resort will utilise the latest sustainable and eco-friendly technologies to preserve and enhance the local environment.

The MCVs selected for the project were serviced in drydock before the contract in order to limit their possible impact on local marine life – and their ballast systems were filled with water from the Red Sea to reduce the chance of introducing foreign organisms. Their shallow draft and thruster arrangement mean that the vessels will keep disturbance of the shallow seabed to a minimum.

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