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INTERVIEW MIKKEL GLEERUP, CEO, CADELER

Ef? ciencies are really important with these bigger projects

Everything seems to be getting bigger in (to expedite the installation process and the time to produce the offshore wind sector, and it’s now at ? rst energy and revenue), particularly as the projects move a point where it’s unclear if it’s the larger further offshore, and also with the global expansion, as we see turbines are driving the demand for the that the U.S. and Asia is growing very fast.

larger vessels or vice versa. How do you see it?

When you look ahead, how do you see the

I’ve worked in offshore wind for more than 15 years, and we vessels that serve this market evolving?

don’t have to go too many years back where we thought that

There, rightfully so, is much focus on the vessels, their ef? - a 6MW turbine was a huge turbine. Today we are at a point where I think that most believe that they will at least become ciencies, with projections of how many in each class that we’ll need. But I think it’s also important to focus on people. It’s not bigger than 20MW. With that, there is a strong push for bigger enough to invest in steel. You need to have some soft skills as machines to support these bigger turbines and bigger projects. well in order to be a success in this industry. So I think that if

Stand-out projects not too long ago were 300 to 500MW range.

Now everything is around the gigawatt size and upwards. So we have that right communication with the developers and the it is really growing very fast, not only on equipment size, but clients, then I think we will be able to continue to make this also on project size, which obviously also drives the need for industry a success. But it has to be in a prudent way, and we have to do it sustainably.

bigger, more capable and more ef? cient vessels.

X-CLASS MAIN PARTICULARS st Cad d l eler additi ion theb oom h ha th he opti ion to Vessel Owner Cadeler addition, the boom has the option to be upgraded from 155m

Shipyard COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry, Qidong to 175 m, so that lifting height can be increased to 200 m

Type X-Class Wind Turbine Installation Vessels Deck Space 5,600 sq. m.

Price $651m Payload more than 17,600 tons

Delivery Q3/2024 & Q1/2025 Capabilities The X-Class ships will be able to

Cranes Huisman >2,000 t Leg Encircling Cranes (LEC) transport and install seven complete 15MW turbine sets per with a 155 m long boom and a reach of 180 m above deck. In load or ? ve sets of 20+ MW turbines 32 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • February 2022

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