Ship&Offshore | Issue 04/2018
Partnership reinforced
The French Louis Dreyfus Armateurs Group (LDA) and Ørsted, a Danish renewable company, have reinforced their 2017 partnership with the order of a second service operation vessel (SOV) for the Hornsea Project Two offshore windfarm off the English coast. As sister vessel of the Wind of Change , the first SOV ordered by LDA in 2017, the new ship will also be designed in close cooperation with Salt Ship Design and will be built by the Turkish shipyard Cemre for delivery in 2021. The 84m-long, 19.4m-wide ship will be equipped by a highly innovative hybrid propulsion system using diesel generators with variable speed, a direct current propulsion network (DC grid) and the assistance from batteries capable of backing up any faulty diesel generator....