German shipbuilder Meyer Werft experiences it has secured its first order throughout the rising offshore converter platform enterprise.
The Papenburg shipyard—a part of the Meyer Group, recognized primarily for constructing cruise ships—will perform the vast majority of the metal work for converter platforms for the DolWin4 and BorWin4 offshore connections in addition to BalWin1 and BalWin2, all destined for the North Sea.
“This order is a milestone for us in our entry into the construction of converter platforms, which we will also build at Neptun Werft in Rostock in the future. This successful expansion of our product portfolio secures knowledge and employment at our German shipyards and at the same time makes a decisive contribution to the energy transition,” mentioned Jan Meyer, chief enterprise innovation officer, liable for the event of recent enterprise areas, together with the brand new offshore wind enterprise space.
Managing director Thomas Weigend mentioned, “We are delighted to have found new customers for a new Meyer Group product with our expertise and capacities. We firmly believe in this new market.”
The converter platforms shall be manufactured on the Spanish shipyard Dragados, which works on behalf of the German firm Amperion.
“With Meyer Werft, we have another competent partner on board alongside Dragados. We are particularly pleased that the majority of our platforms will now be manufactured in Germany,” mentioned Peter Barth, managing director at Amprion Offshore.
Meyer Werft is supplying metal block sections with a quantity of virtually 6,000 tonnes of metal every for DolWin4 and BorWin4 and round 15,500 tonnes of metal every for BalWin1/BalWin2. The quantity of metal thus corresponds roughly to that of a giant cruise ship. Deliveries of the parts are deliberate for the interval from autumn 2024 to spring 2027.
