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steaming stern-wards.

The Huisman-built 600- tonne deepwater pipelay system, incorporating a 62m-high vertical lay

Analysis tower, including two four- track retractable tension- ers for rigid, ? exibles and umbilicals, was installed at the ? rm’s Schiedam facility earlier this year.

The span between the

VLS and the 18m-diameter stern wheel is some 112m, wider than any competi- tors. But Ceona says it has done extensive work on the potential for vortex induced vibration and motion and says the effects

Ceona’s at Huisman Equipment’s facility in Schiedam, Netherlands.Ceona Amazon are negligible.

Photo from Ceona O