Swire Blue Ocean wins big contract
SHIPPING: Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München has signed a deal with the Danish shipping company Swire Blue Ocean, to assign Pacific Orca for transportation and installation of 80 Siemens wind turbines at the DanTysk offshore wind farm.
“We are delighted to have been selected as the vessel provider for the turbine installations for DanTysk”, says Lars Blicher, General Manager and Director of Swire Blue Ocean.
“This project will provide a great opportunity for SBO to demonstrate the enhanced capabilities and efficiencies of our vessel and the high standards of operational and safety performance of our personnel.”
Commencing in 2013, Pacific Orca - currently being built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea and to be delivered in 2012 - will load the wind turbines at Esbjerg before being transported to the DanTysk construction site 69 km west of the island of Sylt in the German North Sea.
“Since there is limited availability of suitable offshore vessels on the market, we are especially glad to obtain this large vessel to DanTysk”, says Georg Friedrichs, Head of Offshore Projects Vattenfall.
“The newly built vessel Pacific Orca meets our criteria with outstanding safety, efficiency and reliability. Our project team is looking forward to realising the construction of DanTysk together with our new Danish partner Swire Blue Ocean.”
SBO won the European wide tender, based also on the strength of its parent company Swire Pacific Offshore, which holds more than 30 years’ experience in offshore marine operations and operates one of the largest fleets of dynamically positioned vessels in the world. Pacific Orca will be certified by GL-Group Germanischer Lloyd in line with strict European environmental standards.
Source: Swire Blue Ocean / maritimedanmark.dk
