Ship&Offshore | Issue 05/2023
First assignment in German North Sea
Les Alizés | In late summer, Jan De Nul’s latest heavy-lift vessel, Les Alizés , began installation work on the first of 107 monopile foundations for the construction of Ørsted’s Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 wind farms in German waters. The vessel, built at the China Merchants Heavy Industry Haimen shipyard, had arrived at the Dutch port of Eemshaven at the end of June after its maiden voyage from Asia. The first of the wind turbine monopile foundations were then loaded. The new vessel will also install one offshore substation foundation....