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Jan De Nul Orders Second Next-Generation Offshore Crane Vessel

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Luxembourg-based marine services company Jan De Nul has ordered a second next-generation offshore wind turbine installation vessel. The new vessel, named Les Alizés, will be built at China Merchants Industry Holdings shipyard in in Haimen, China with delivery in 2022. The order comes just six months after Jan De Nul pulled the trigged on the 3,000-ton capacity jack-up … [Read more...]

Jan De Nul Wins Offshore Wind Contract in Denmark

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Belgium-based Jan De Nul says it has secured a contract from Vattenfall Vindkraft Kriegers Flak to transport and install 72 large offshore wing turbines for the Kriegers Flak Offshore Wind Farm (OWF) in Denmark. The Kriegers Flak OWF will be located approximately 9 miles from shore in the Baltic Sea in water depths ranging from 15 and 30 meters. Jan De Nul already built, … [Read more...]

Jan De Nul Orders World’s Most-Capable Wind Turbine Installation Vessel

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Belgian offshore construction and dredging group Jan De Nul has placed an order for its third and largest offshore wind turbine installation group at COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry in China. The Offshore Jack-Up Installation Vessel, named Voltaire, will be built with a payload of approximately 14,000 tonnes and an unrivaled crane capacity of over 3,000 tonnes, making it the … [Read more...]

The Offshore Wind Industry Needs Bigger Boats. Much Bigger

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By Lars Paulsson, Jeremy Hodges and Chris Martin (Bloomberg) -- How do you install a wind turbine almost the size of the Chrysler building in the open ocean? Just get a boat with deck space larger than a football field and a crane that can lift the weight of 1,100 Chevy Suburban SUVs. Those specialist ships are scarce, numbering about a dozen in the world. And at a cost of … [Read more...]