Fastnet Shipping Limited is a privately owned marine plant hire and marine services company based both in Ireland and the UK. We have over 50 Years’ experience of both operating and chartering vessels and marine plant. Our broad wealth of knowledge within the business includes Dredging, Harbour & Coastal towage , Crew Transfers and Transport , Offshore Logistics and the operation and charter of various other vessels and marine plant.

We have an extensive portfolio of tugs, pontoons, barges, windfarm service vessels, dredgers, combifloats ,unifloats and various marine plant for charter,most of which can be tailored to suit each client’s bespoke and individual project requirements.

We operate the largest private fleet of tugs within Ireland and provide over 99.9% of all required towage within Waterford Harbour and theSouth East of Ireland. We presently can offer six different tugs ranging in size from 5 ton to 45 ton bollard pull.

In 2010 we entered the Turbine Transfer & Offshore Windfarm Support market and took delivery of our 1st two bespoke multipurpose high speed Turbine Transfer/Wind farm Service vessels the “Fastnet Swift” and “Fastnet Tern”. Both vessels went straight to work on the UKs offshore wind farms and were immediately very well received by our clients so much so that we have ordered two more 14m Turbine Transfer vessels. Our new vessels the “Fastnet Skua” and the “Fastnet Puffin” will be launched and operational in early 2012. All vessels are dually certified by both the Irish Dept. of Transport (P5 Licence) and the MCA (Cat 2 60 Miles)......read more