Press Releases

Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 27, 2024 – Bridgemans Services Group (Bridgemans), the world’s premier provider of floatel and related marine services, has acquired MV Diamond XI, a 150-cabin passenger ship that is being converted to Bridgemans sixth floatel for...

Vancouver, BC, Canada, January 3, 2024 – Bridgemans Services Group (Bridgemans) is excited to announce MV Isabelle has arrived in Burrard Inlet after a 40-day, 22,563-kilometre journey from Estonia and through the Panama Canal. MV Isabelle is a 652-cabin luxury...

Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 28, 2023 – Bridgemans Services Group (Bridgemans) has been selected to provide on-site workforce accommodation for Woodfibre LNG’s liquified natural gas (LNG) export project near Squamish, BC,...

Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 31, 2023 – Bridgemans Services Group (Bridgemans) has taken delivery of the MV Isabelle, a 35,000-gross-tonne vessel, and is now beginning an extensive retrofit of its environmental systems and living, dining, recreation, and gathering...

Mozambique, Africa, December 2020– Bridgemans’ floatel, MV Bluefort, is currently located offshore Mozambique, providing accommodations and hotel services for dutch dredging specialist Van Oord, while they execute the shallow offshore installation scope of the LNG...

Richmond, BC, Canada, November 2021 - Bridgemans Services Group a global leader in remote accommodation and marine transport solutions, announces the retirement of its MV Bluefort. The 142-meter Bluefort’s remarkable and distinguished record illustrates the reach and...

Mozambique, Africa, June 2021 –  Bridgemans’ floatel MV Bluefort, is currently located offshore east coast of Africa, ready to provide accommodations and hotel services for up to 200 workers.    MV Bluefort is a "mobile command center" and one of the most secure and...

Richmond, BC, Canada, October 2020 – MV Bluefort is en route to Europe after spending the majority of covid lock downs in the Caribbean. The vessel will return to France for upgrades and ready for the next project, beginning early in the New Year. Thank you to our...

Richmond, BC, Canada, March 2020 – MV Bluefort is the optimum Mobile Command Center which can be deployed anywhere in the world for emergency relief projects. The vessel is equipped with 210 cabins, a CTV boat landing, helicopter pad, covered deck space for 25 ISO...

Caribbean, March 2020 – Bridgemans’ floatel, MV Bluefort, is currently located in the Caribbean undergoing upgrades and positioning for contract. MV Bluefort has completed successful contracts in a variety of industries, from wind-farm support in Northern Europe to...

Ocean Cay, Bahamas, December 2019 - Ocean Cay is a private island in Bahamas owned by MSC Cruises. The Italian company announced its plans to buy a small Bahamian island in the end of 2015. MSC negotiated with Bahamas Government to build an exclusive cruise port in...

Bahamas,  November 2019 - Bridgemans’ well-known floatel, the MV Bluefort, has arrived in the The Bahamas and is currently supporting the cruise ship industry by providing accommodations for workers. The Bluefort is one of the best values in today’s market.  Ample...

Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, October 2019 - Relief accommodation for a Canadian mine expansion in northeastern Labrador was urgently needed. With land camps at maximum capacity, no road access to the site, and the only means of re-provisioning by air or sea, the...

Tomrefjord, Norway, May 2019 – With the final months of a custom cruise ship build on the horizon, an influx of carpenters and interior finishers coming to the remote Norwegian shipyard, accommodation and catering for the workforce was required on short notice. The...

Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, August 2019 –While many people are working below ground right now, there are also crews working above ground to build a new camp. Until that is finished, Vale workers are staying on a floating hotel in the bay. "The 'floatel' was an...

Ostend, Belgium, December 2017 – Bridgemans Services Group (BSG) has entered an agreement to provide full-service floatel accommodations and CTV boat landing services for MHI Vestas Belgium. Having recently undergone an extensive refurbishment, Bridgemans’ 142-metre...

Tallinn, Estonia, July 2016 - Bridgemans Services Group LP is pleased to announce that an extensive 10-month process to refit and repurpose the company’s 142-metre accommodations vessel, MV Bluefort, has been successfully completed. The vessel is now ready and...

Tallinn, Estonia, April 2016 - Bridgemans Services Group LP is pleased to announce that the 142-metre Bridgemans Bluefort is in the final stages of an extensive 10-month process to refit and repurpose the vessel to provide premium level accommodations, hotel and...

Barrow Island, Western Australia, January 2016 - Bridgemans of Vancouver, BC is pleased to announce it has successfully completed an 18-month contract on behalf of US integrated energy company Chevron to provide accommodations for as many as 1400 workers who have now...

Tallinn, Estonia, January 2016 - Bridgemans of Vancouver, BC announces with international seaworthiness permits secured, Bluefort will now undergo a major refit at an Estonian shipyard to upgrade and renovate 200 deluxe self-contained cabins, creating comfortable and...

Vancouver, B.C. June 19, 2015 - Bridgemans is pleased to announce that it has acquired MV Bluefort, a 460-foot (142-metre) former Mediterranean Sea ferry that is being converted to a premium hotel vessel and industrial work platform. The ship is ideally suited for...

Barrow Island, Western Australia, September 2014 - Bridgemans of Vancouver, BC is pleased to announce that it has been contracted by US integrated energy company Chevron to provide accommodations for up to 1400 workers currently employed on the completion phase of the...

Estonia, Tallinn, August 2014 - Bridgemans of Vancouver, BC announces that it has completed engineering and architectural plans that enable the company to immediately begin a major refit and conversion of Europa, a 650-foot 14-deck former Baltic Sea cruise ferry the...

Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 2014 - Bridgemans of Vancouver, BC is pleased to announce that it has acquired Silja Europa, a 650-foot former Baltic Sea cruise ferry from Estonian-based ferry operator, Tallink plans to convert the 14-deck ship into a luxurious...

Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 2014 - The owners and staff of Bridgemans will gather at Vancouver Harbour tomorrow afternoon to welcome the Silja Festival, a 171-metre (555-foot) Baltic Sea cruise ferry the company is having converted into a luxurious full-service...

Kitimat, BC, Canada, July 2014 - Bridgemans wishes to announce that it has entered an agreement with the Council of the Haisla First Nation that will enable the company to work with representatives of Haisla Business Operations to offer floatel accommodations...

Kitimat, BC, Canada, January 2014 - Bridgemans of Vancouver, BC, Canada is pleased to announce that it has entered into a contractual agreement with Bechtel, a global leader in engineering, construction and project management, to provide full-service accommodations...

Vancouver, BC, Canada, December 2013 - Bridgemans is pleased to announce that Remote Catering Services International (RCSI) of Richmond, BC, Canada has agreed to join forces to provide premium level Hotel Management and Guest Operations services aboard all Bridgemans...

Vancouver, BC, Canada, December 2013 - Bridgemans of Vancouver, BC is pleased to announce that it has acquired a 171-metre (555-foot) Baltic Sea cruise ferry that it plans to convert into a luxurious full-service accommodations vessel that can be quickly deployed to...

Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 2013 – A four-member consortium of entrepreneurs from BC, Alberta and Washington is pleased to announce its collaboration to form Bridgemans. Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, the company will offer full-service floating accommodations...

Sassnitz, Rügen, Germany, March 2018 – Bridgemans Services Group (BSG) has entered into an agreement to provide full-service accommodation support for Adwen Offshore’s Wikinger project. Having undergone an extensive refurbishment, Bridgemans’ 142-metre MV Bluefort...

Ostend, Belgium, December 2017 – Bridgemans Services Group (BSG) is pleased to announce they have successfully completed a contract for accommodations and CTV boat landing services for MHI Vestas Offshore Wind in Belgium. “We are very pleased to report that the MV...

Sassnitz, Rügen, Germany, June 2018 – The largest floatel in the wind industry has arrived at Wikinger Offshore Wind Farm in the Baltic Sea to provide a home for up to 200 workers as they commission the project’s 70 Adwen 5 megawatt (MW) turbines. The newly...

Sassnitz, Rügen, Germany, September 2018 – The offshore wind industry’s largest floatel has cut an operational bottleneck with its new boat landing facility that is capable of transferring up to 150 turbine technicians into the field each day. Workers staying onboard...

Sassnitz, Rügen, Germany, October 2018 – After more than 20,000 incident free transfers, MV Bluefort has departed the German North Sea’s Wikinger project for thefinal time as its seven-month contract comes to a close. Since March the offshore wind industry’s largest...