From need to missions

OCEA, the strategic solution to your maritime challenges

Global solutions with high operational efficiency

  • Ranges of proven platforms
  • Customized solutions
  • Versatile vessels
  • Comprehensive services packages
  • Long term in-service support

Mastered design of innovative solutions

  • Specialist in aluminium ship design and building
  • Dedicated R&D department to anticipate the trends and needs of the market
  • Engineering support, traditional and sustainable financing solutions

Low impact solutions

  • Reduced operating costs
  • Reduced fuel, maintenance and paint costs
  • Reduced carbon footprint

Strategy and sovereignty

Maritime territory knowledge and management is a challenge for every country in terms of sovereignty, economical issues, safety and security at sea.

Coast Guard, Maritime Police, Customs and Navies have to undertake a wide variety of missions in order to :

  • Secure the Economic Exclusive Zone (EEZ)
  • Ensure safety at sea
  • Anticipate and respond to threats
  • Manage resources and the Blue Economy

Blue economy and development

The Blue Economy has become one of the vectors for the development of the world economy. Most maritime countries have a strong ambition to develop the Blue Economy in a sustainable manner. Among your essential conditions for this development are a good knowledge of the EEZ is an essential condition for this development, as well as safety and security in the maritime domain.

Environmental and economic sustainability

States must acquire and operate the means necessary to carry out their safety and security missions at least cost, while respecting the global goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to sustainably exploit their maritime domain.

International duties:

  • Montego Bay convention
  • IMO requirements and cooperation
  • SOLAS, MARPOL rules…

 

Complete range

Experience benefiting our customers

OCEA safety and security ships operate in more than 40 countries • 200+ new designs • 70 First of Class built Successful management and delivery of large international programs with full capability integration.

Maritime safety and security

  • To watch, monitor and secure your EEZ
  • To intervene, escort and deter

Auxiliary

  • To know, protect and train

The concept

OCEA permanently conducts strategic marketing studies on the needs and trends of the Maritime Safety and Security market in order to design its platform ranges. These studies benefit from returns on experience and direct exchanges with customers and end-users, in order to integrate innovations intended to facilitate and secure operations at sea.

Integrated platforms and functions

Flexible proven platforms

To achieve your missions, OCEA has developed dedicated ranges of sea-proven boat platforms enhancing the natural qualities of aluminium :

  • Optimised sea keeping
  • Reduction of environmental impact (noise, vibration, pollution)
  • Reduced operating costs
  • Reduced carbon footprint

OCEA’s integrated design office develops tailor-made solutions and customizes each platform to integrate your requirements and specific needs.

Supports and services

In order to perpetuate skills and to ensure the operational and sustainable efficiency of your vessels, OCEA trains your crews and maintenance technicians, provides on-site technical assistance, as well as supplying spare parts, tools and the execution of maintenance. • Over 2000 trained sailors, officers and technicians. • Over 150 ships worldwide benefiting from in-service support.

Useful innovation

Experience-enhanced integrated design

The integrated design department of OCEA seeks to optimise the hull design of each platform and the systems integration to ensure the operational efficiency and sustainability of your vessels.  To achieve these goals, OCEA has collected data on each first of class for more than 35 years.

  • to capitalize on the actual operation of the vessels
  • to define OCEA proprietary rules for structure and manufacturing methods.

As a result, the actual expected life span of OCEA’s vessels are above 50 years, compared to the 30 years life span specified by classification regulations.

 

Compétitive solution

 

Aluminium design

Light construction materials are the future of shipbuilding.

Customers request low cost of ownership and environmentally friendly ships. Since 1987, to offer our customers solutions with reduced environmental impact and improved operational capabilities, OCEA decided to use aluminium for the construction of its ships.

OCEA shipyards and industrial organization are designed to optimize production costs and delivery time to its customers benefit :

  • Lean manufacturing
  • Shipyards meeting the latest environmental requirements
  • In-house designed workshop tools and organisation

 

 

 

Reduced waste and emissions

 

Teams in the middle of the design

OCEA’s expert teams work together and with you, from the commercial phase to the operational maintenance of your vessels, to design and implement complete solutions for you.

  • Internal Design offices
  • Production
  • Support and services

A customer care delicated team

Integrating your cultural habits, being at your side at all times, facilitating all your logistical matters, are the key drivers of our dedicated customer care team. They organize and manage the welcoming and support of our customers, from the prospective phase to the VIP visits, and for the entire stay of your teams during the execution of a contract: follow-up teams, acceptance teams, training of crews and maintenance teams.