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Pirtek Cork makes good use of its location in a port city to generate work in the maritime sector. The franchise attends to the Port of Cork’s vessels, cranes and other machinery; ongoing contracts include working for clients such as the Irish Naval Service, shipping companies, marine services providers and Mainport Group. The franchise also services ships berthing in the harbour short term, from pleasure craft through to oil tankers. Franchisee, Greg Cummins explains, “I used to work on oil tankers as a marine engineer for Shell International Shipping so with Cork being a port city, when we first opened up we looked into the marine sector. “The most important thing for marine work is our 24-7 service because the shipping industry doesn’t stop. A shipping company can ring us at three in the morning and know we will have a van there within an hour. “Technically, there’s nothing particularly different from any other hydraulic application. It’s just that we’re used to ships and shipping – it’s not like working on dry land.” Irish Mainport Holdings Pirtek Cork has been working with Irish Mainport Holdings for at least 14 years, increasingly so for the last six years.” The Cork-based company has a fleet of vessels. Two of these, the Mainport Pine and Mainport Cedar, support seismic survey ships serving the oil industry. Seismic vessels pull streamers at sea with each cable up to 10 or 12 kilometres long. To recover and deploy the cables can be a three or four day process so the vessels remain at sea continuously.
BACKUP: Mainport Holding’s seismic support vessel, Mainport Pine
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