Belgium based Jan De Nul Group has actually gotten a large crane ship at the CMHI Haimen Shipyard inChina To be called Les Aliz és, it is intended mainly at installment of brand-new generation overseas wind ranches as well as will certainly be geared up with a crane with a training capability of 5,000 loads.
The order comes simply 6 months after Jan De Nul’s getting of a large overseas installment jack-up vessel, the Voltair e, at China’s COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry shipyard (see earlier tale).
Thanks to her measurements as well as excellent training as well as packing capabilities, Les Aliz és will certainly have the ability to fill out, transportation as well as mount several devices of the biggest as well as heaviest wind generator structures.
In enhancement, as a drifting crane vessel, it will certainly have the ability to mount larger as well as bigger structures right into much deeper waters as well as in even more tough seabed problems.
GIGANTIC WIND TURBINES TEST CURRRENT INSTALLMENT VESSELS
Jan De Nul claims this most current vessel financial investment is a feedback to the international overseas wind field pattern to style as well as mount significantly bigger wind generators. New generation generators can be greater than 270 meters high, with blades as much as 120 meters long as well as remain on structures of as much as 2,500 tonnes. Current installment vessels are experiencing wonderful problems in mounting these brand-new generators as well as their larger structures.
Peter De Pooter, Manager Offshore Renewables at Jan De Nul Group stated: “The order of the Voltaire was a first step in our strategy to install the newest generation of offshore wind turbines. With Les Alizés we want to further strengthen our vision and our belief in the future of offshore wind energy. We want to be a major and enduring player in this sector. For that reason, we continue to invest in the further expansion of our offshore renewables department.”
Les Aliz és is especially made for packing, delivering, raising as well as mounting overseas wind generator structures. The highlights are a major crane of 5,000 loads, a deck packing capability of 61,000 loads as well as a deck room of 9,300 sq. m. With these qualities, Les Aliz és will certainly have the ability to quickly transfer the larger future structures, a number of in one journey, to the overseas installment website, with straight advantages in preparation, gas usage as well as exhausts decrease.
Les Aliz és is geared up with a high-performance DP2 system.
Unlike the Voltaire, Les Aliz és is not a jack-up as well as, as a drifter, its capacities are not restricted by water midsts as well as the seabed problems.
ULTRA LOW DISCHARGES
The most current generation of Jan De Nul’s vessels is geared up with exhaust gas filtering system modern technology that follows the stringent European EURO PHASE V standards for exhausts ashore as well as inland rivers.
The extremely progressed twin exhaust filter system gets rid of as much as 99% of nanoparticles from exhausts utilizing a diesel particle filter (DPF) adhered to by careful catalytic decrease system (SCR) for NOx elimination.
As an outcome of these exhaust filtering system systems, Les Aliz és as well as Voltaire will certainly be the very first seagoing installment vessels worldwide with very reduced exhausts (Ultra-Low Emission Vessel or ULEv for brief) as well as with EURO PHASE V qualification (ULEv symbols).
ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY FINANCE
On July 5, 2019, Jan De Nul Group ended an arrangement for an environment-friendly finance with a consortium of 5 financial institutions, led by KBC Bank, for the funding of both financial investments. The consortium of 5 financial institutions includes KBC Bank, BNP Paribas Fortis, ING Luxembourg, Rabobank as well as Belfius Bank.
This is Jan De Nul Group’s very first eco-friendly finance, as well as KBC’s very first syndicated eco-friendly finance in the delivery field.
An eco-friendly finance needs to be utilized in its totality to fund eco-friendly jobs.The reality that both brand-new vessels will primarily help the renewable resource field, as well as are both geared up with a sophisticated exhaust gas therapy system, made certain that they were qualified for an environment-friendly finance.