About Us

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 to various clients. Our broad wealth of knowledge within the business includes Dredging, Harbour and Coastal towage , Crew Transfers, Windfarm Support, Offshore Logistics Support 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 Offshore Windfarm / Turbine Transfer 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 dual certified by both the Irish Dept. of Transport (P5 Licence) and the MCA (Cat 2 60 Miles).

To date our involvement in offshore renewables has included  operating and chartering various vessels within our fleet on the following offshore wind projects , Barrow Offshore Windfarm, Robin Rigg, Sheringham Shoal , Greater Gabbard, The Galloper, London Array,Linc Offshore, Arklow Banks, and the Kish Bray and Codling Windpark.

We are the largest Independent operator of Jack up barges both modular and mono hull in Ireland and we are also the only operator of VoithSchneider bed levelling tugs in Ireland which offers our clients unrivalled manoeuvrability and very high production rates when compared to that of other conventional units..

At Fastnet Shipping we are always interested and open to investing in new and upcoming opportunities within the industry so that we can always offer our client the best possible service at the forefront of the industry, so whatever your need or charter requirement please don’t hesitate to contact us for a very costcompetitivequote from bare boat charter to full charter packages inclusive of any ancillary requirements you may need.