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How the site at Teesworks will look following redevelopment

Source: Teesworks be delivered from the new manufacturing plant. Blades pro- future. It named it Voltaire, after the French writer, historian duced at Teesworks will be installed from 2024 onwards with and philosopher.

the fnal number of blades from the plant destined for Dogger The four-legged Voltaire, equipped with a DP2 system, is

Bank to be confrmed in due course. designed to transport, lift and install offshore wind turbines,

The importance of Dogger Bank goes beyond just the ports transition pieces and foundations.

and wind turbines. The project is important for offshore ser- “For many current installation vessels involved in the con- vices suppliers, vessel owners, and shipyards in Asia, too, as struction of offshore wind farms, next generation turbines the giant wind farm with its giant turbines requires giant ves- present new challenges due to growing sizes and installation sels to build it. heights, as well as ever-increasing foundation dimensions.

This is a good opportunity to remember Chief Brody, from These new larger turbines can be more than 270 meters high the 1975 movie Jaws, who, upon seeing a giant shark behind and are ftted with blades of 120 meters long.

the Orca vessel, said: ”You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” “With a crane capacity of over 3,000 metric tons, an operat- ing depth of approximately 80 meters and a payload of about

VOLTAIRE – THE BIGGEST “BOAT” 14,000 metric tons, Voltaire is specifcally designed to help

Luxembourg-based offshore installation contractor Jan De handle these challenges, JDN said at the time,” announcing

Nul Group (JDN) in April 2019 ordered the largest jack-up the order for the vessel which will be taller than the Eiffel tower.

installation vessel ever seen in the industry, on the back of the For the Voltaire, the Dutch frm Huisman has been selected forecast that the available jack-up feet wouldn’t be able to to design, construct and deliver “the biggest leg encircling handle the behemoth wind turbines of the – not so distant- crane ever installed on a wind turbine installation vessel.”

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