Ship&Offshore | Issue 06/2022
Damen plans new class of service vessels for floating wind
Damen Shipyards is preparing for the large-scale roll-out of floating wind technology by developing a new class of larger anchor handling vessels. They will be designed to load, transport and install bigger mooring components including anchors themselves, steel wire, synthetic rope, clump weights and other heavy equipment. Forecasts on the floating wind sector project that more than 200 GW of new floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) capacity could be in operation by 2050, equating to about 13,500 units....