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Installing the SylWin converter station. control systems, very good contract management, piece installation in less than a day from the same vessel, instead of making sure everything runs on time and people com- using one vessel for each task, he says. “For us the transition piece is municate.” Van der Graaf is con? dent this can be done. a matter of hours, it doesn’t pay to have a separate spread,” he says.

“We have done a lot of large subcontracting before, and Looking ahead, he says it will be important to keep up with growth installation-wise, it’s not a big issue for us. It’s a repetition in the renewables business, especially with the size of foundations, of one installation 84 times. Logistics will be important, moving towards 10m-diameter, and turbines, already at 8MW units, being there on time, but it’s not di