Edda Wind vessel vessel might be geared up with MacGregor’s distinctive Horizon, all-electric, walk-to-work gangway.
MacGregor, a part of Cargotec, has prolonged its run of orders for walk-to-work gangway techniques from Haugesund, Norway, headquartered Edda Wind. It has booked its eighth contract to equip an Edda Wind service vessel with a W2W system which might be delivered within the third quarter of 2024.
Edda Wind owns and operates three purpose-built offshore wind SOVs and one CSOV and has ten devoted offshore wind vessels beneath development – one SOV and 9 CSOVs.
Once once more, this newest vessel might be geared up with MacGregor’s distinctive Horizon, all-electric, walk-to-work gangway. According to MacGregor, the all-electric system’s capability to ship lowest attainable emissions considerably reduces the vessel’s total environmental footprint. The redundancy degree of the gear exceeds class necessities, guaranteeing the minimal degree of unplanned downtime.
The Horizon gangway additionally optimizes logistics movement, providing the widest gangway bridge at the moment out there and the biggest passenger raise built-in on a gangway tower construction, which provides stepless connection from deck ranges to gangway degree. Safety and effectivity are enhanced by an augmented actuality operator station (AROS), which additionally will increase logistics help by permitting a single operator to seamlessly change between crane and gangway operation from a centralized management station on the vessel’s bridge. The system can also be interconnected to a Colibri 5 tonne 3D movement compensated crane, whose design is distinguished by its agility in compensating masses in 3D mode.
“MacGregor is delighted to have yet another order to supply critical equipment to the Edda Wind newbuildings,” says Pasi Lehtonen, SVP, offshore options division, at MacGregor. “This is the eigth in the series of walk-to-work gangway systems delivered to Edda Wind. We acknowledge the market validation of our capabilities in equipping this type of SOV system globally. It also reaffirms our strong commitment to provide enhanced sustainable solutions and services to our customers.”
