Offshore support newbuildings and secondhand vessels' prices continue to increase in the first quarter of 2012, according to data from Clarksons.
The cost of new anchor handlers and platform supply vessels both crept up in the first three months of the year, while a climb in the value of larger PSVs pushed up the overall price of secondhand offshore ships.
Figures from the world’s largest shipbroker pin offshore newbuildings at 2% more expensive at the end of the quarter, while secondhand tags are up 5% since the start of the year.
Clarksons prices a new top end anchor handler of 240-tbp at $92.5m, a rise from $91.0m at the end of 2011.
A new large PSV of 4,000-dwt is just over $1m more expensive at $48.0m.
Clarksons values a five-year-old AHTS of 200-tbp at $57.5m at the end of March, up just 1% over the first three months of the year.
The cost of a 4,000-dwt PSV of the same age picked up by 6% to $35m.