Original news was published on 8 August, 2014

Monopiles will be floated to HLV Svanen from Cuxhaven

Ballast Nedam will install the monopiles at the German Amrumbank West offshore wind farm with E.ON.

The company will also provide the logistics between the feeder port in Cuxhaven and the 288-megawatt wind farm, located in the North Sea about 35 kilometers north of Helgoland. It will consist of 80 Siemens’ turbines.

The monopiles weigh up to 800 tons apiece and measure up to 70 meters long, Ballast Nedam said in a statement. It will use its own 8,700-tonne heavy-lift vessel Svanen for installation, which has arrived at Cuxhaven. The monopiles will be floated to the vessel from the staging site.

Installation will begin in about a week.

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