Ship&Offshore | Issue 06/2012
Cost-effective transportation and securing systems
OFFSHORE WIND PARKS Systems for the transportation and seafastening of wind turbine foundations usually involve complex assembly and high material costs. With the aid of a socket framework, however, transport frames and carriers bearing foundation structures or components can easily be locked into place, writes Peter Behr, managing director of the Hamburg office of Wader-Wittis Wind Turbine Transportation & Installation Systems GmbH.