A pair of ocean-going tugs operated by Dutch offshore services provider Boskalis has completed a roughly six-week tow of MODEC's FPSO Cidade de Niterói (MV18) across the Atlantic, from the Campos Basin offshore Brazil to Frederikshavn in Denmark.

The sister vessels BOKA Alpine and BOKA Glacier, each rated at 205 tonnes of bollard pull, carried out the operation, Boskalis disclosed. The voyage included a bunkering stop in Cape Verde before the 315-meter-long floating production, storage and offloading unit reached Danish waters.

The destination points to recycling. Frederikshavn is an established European ship-recycling and decommissioning hub, and the unit — a long-serving floater in the Campos Basin — now leaves the Brazilian offshore inventory.

For Boskalis, the job adds a transatlantic FPSO towage reference to a marine heavy-transport portfolio that spans dredging, offshore installation and subsea services. The company said the tow demonstrated its capability in complex long-distance towing operations.

The removal of the Cidade de Niterói from Brazilian waters continues the gradual turnover of the Campos Basin floater fleet, where early-generation units are giving way to newbuild FPSOs pitched at pre-salt and deepwater prospects.

The watch item: further MODEC and Petrobras-linked floaters queued for departure from Brazil as decommissioning schedules in the Campos Basin firm up.