wiredinUSA July 2018

The newly built carousel at DOC-Swan Hunter’s storage and cable spooling yard in Vlissingen, Netherlands. Photograph courtesy of DOC-Swan Hunter BV

First turn for new carousel

DOC-Swan Hunter’s storage and cable spooling yard in Vlissingen, Netherlands, has completed export cable load-in operations for a Belgian offshorewind project, including spooling approximately 28km of 261mm export cable.

He described the achievement as the result of “tremendous effort by our personnel in combination with designers, engineers, subcontractors and suppliers over recent months. “The support from the local supply chain has been immense. The cable is now covered with UV cable-protection materials until load-out operations.”

The cable will be stored in DOC-Swan Hunter’s newly built 23m basket carousel.

“These operations saw the first use of our newly built carousel in combination with our new loading tower. “We are very proud of reaching the tremendous milestone of building this new equipment in time and soon afterwards finalizing the spooling operations,” said Swan Hunter director Gerard Kroese.

Swan Hunter said that the cable load-out is expected in the third quarter of this year.

DOC-Swan Hunter is a joint venture between Swan Hunter and Dutch Offshore Contractors, established to provide a complete service package solution to the offshore energy industry.

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