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Trico used to be Norwegian and
now are American. They were the subject of an ongoing controversy some
time into the new millenium, being
accused by the International Labour Organisation of being anti-union. This
has caused some strikes in various places including Norway. Well, the
Americans do not really seem to have got the hang of unions except, if the
1950s gangster films are anything to go by, as a means of lining dishonest
people's pockets with money.
Whether
the ILO's case is right or wrong, in Europe Trico have large numbers of
well found ships having purchased the Viking fleet, probably in about 1998.
In 2008 Trico purchased
Active Subsea/Haganaes Shipping's eight vessels under
construction in India. They are VS 470 MkII designs
described as multi purpose light construction vessels.
The vessels detailed in
this section are those designated by the Trico Group as
"Trico Supply". There is an American Company,
which on this site is designated as Trico Marine Assets
and which has its own page. Separate pages are also
included for the Trico subsidiaries Deepocan and CTC
Marine.
In September 2010 Trico in
America filed for bankruptcy protection. But this
excluded the European business. Also a few ships
appear to have been sold to a company called Eastern
Marine Services in Singapore. Is this actually a
subsidiary.
It appears now, in 2012,
that Trico Supply, the UK part of the now defunct Trico
Marine, has become part of the Deepocean Group, and has
been renamed Trico Offshore. It has been a bumpy ride,
but maybe the remaining part of the business is now
stable. Updated 26/4/12
At the time of the 2013
review Trico Offshore is billed as being part of the
DeepOcean Group, but for convenience the fleet remains
on its own page. The Northern Canyon appears on the
Trico Offshore page, although we have it as being
transfered to DeepOcean.
Finding DeepOcean on the
internet has been a bit difficult which does not really
auger well, but anyway according to their page this is
what they have. Trico as it was is now no more, and so
this page remains as history and a new page for
DeepOceasn has been started up.
Updated 16th October 2014 |