Ship&Offshore | Issue 04/2017
Joint effort to build a wind farm service vessel
SOVs In January 2015, Hamburg-based shipping company, Bernhard Schulte and Siemens signed a charter contract for two service operation vessels (SOVs) to facilitate maintenance of offshore wind farms. The next generation of SOVs was jointly designed by Bernhard Schulte Offshore and Ulstein Design & Solutions according to the specific requirements provided by Siemens Windpower. In the following article, Christian Brozinski, business development manager at Bernhard Schulte Offshore GmbH, describes the collaboration of the companies during the building process.