EMAS Migrates to Inmarsat's XpressLink Service

EMAS, a leading global contracting group providing offshore/subsea construction, marine, production and well intervention services, has equipped 35 vessels with Inmarsat’s XpressLink service.  The company took the decision to migrate its vessels from Inmarsat FleetBroadband to XpressLink to more efficiently deliver enhanced services to its customers.

XpressLink is the world’s leading, fully-integrated Ku-band and L-band solution with VSAT and FleetBroadband terminals. It is proving highly popular with ship owners across the world with its offer of unlimited data for a fixed monthly fee, while also delivering a fully-redundant and resilient service.

XpressLink also offers an easy upgrade path to Global Xpress, which is on schedule to achieve full global coverage by the end of 2014.

“EMAS has grown rapidly over the past 20 years and we take pride in providing our clients with quality service and support,” said Mr Bennett Neo, CEO of EMAS Marine (EMAS’ offshore support services division). “We always ensure that our fleet are at the forefront of innovation and our decision to migrate our vessels’ communications system to XpressLink allows us to deliver better services to our customers in a commercial environment in which service quality is an important differentiator.”

Frank Coles, President, Inmarsat Maritime said: “Inmarsat understands the complexity of offshore support operations and we are committed to provide this sector with reliable communications solutions in order to help them manage the pressure of growing customer demands.”

With a combined fleet of over 65 marine support and offshore construction vessels and over 8,000 employees located all over the world, EMAS is a leading full field contracting group providing specialized marine support services, subsea construction and offshore installation, floating production, fabrication and well services to the global offshore energy sector coupled with a 40-year track record of providing subsea engineering solutions for the offshore oil and gas industry.