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launch, support turbine integration, store and maintain structures tion. This is not the case. The highest bollard pull anchor handlers that will feature turbines with rotor diameters over 220 meters. featuring the largest clear back decks and biggest chain lockers

Floating wind ports will likely host large submersible barges, to will be a minimum requirement for many ? oating wind projects transfer and launch substructures, as well as some extremely large and may even be considered technically inef? cient. A new as- quayside cranes, of which there is currently insuf? cient supply. set class concept suitable for ? oating wind projects is emerging. ? 7urbine supply Three western OEMs currently domi- These feature bollard pulls in well in excess of 300 tonnes, back nate the market outside of China: GE, Siemens Gamesa and decks over 1,200 square meters, AHC cranes with a minimum

Vestas. We anticipate the rise of Asin OEMs, and particularly 250 tonnes capacity and chain clockers to accommodate multiple the Chinese OEMs who are developing 16-18 MM turbines, mooring spreads. It is hard to see these vessels being ? nanced which only push the potential size of structures even bigger. and built in numbers without ? rm commitments to long-term de- ? 'ynamic cables Floating wind projects will feature ployment. To date, we have not seen such commitments.

subsea cables, and particularly the inter-array cables that con- ? 0aMor component repair and e[change Do you tow nect the turbines, that are different in nature to bottom-? xed the structure to port for maintenance as has already been done wind. New manufacturing capacity is required. Installation of with one pilot array? Do you maintain in-situ with either ? oat- these cables will also call on the subsea ? eet, which is increas- ing cranes or turbine mounted cranes, for which there are cur- ingly occupied in the oil and gas segment. rently limited technical options? This is a question that the ? )loating substations Till now only one ? oating substa- industry is working on but still needs further development. tion has been demonstrated. Although the concept should be The ? oating wind segment presents a great opportunity to familiar to developers of deepwater oil and gas projects, new advance renewable energy supply and support the offshore concepts are required. and marine industry. But many challenges still need to be ad- ? ,nstallation vessels It is often said that ? oating wind proj- dressed to make projects and new supply chain investments ects require “small” and readily available tugs to support installa- ? nanceable and realizable.

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