Japanese Trio Orders Big Wind Turbine Installer www.offshorewind.biz

Penta-Ocean Construction, Kajima Corporation, and Yorigami Maritime Construction have agreed to jointly construct a wind farm installation vessel capable of installing foundations and turbines with a capacity of between 10MW and 12MW.
The Self Elevating Platform (SEP) ship holding company will be established as a subsidiary of Penta-Ocean Construction and will be operated jointly by the three companies.
The basic design of the vessel will be undertaken by GustoMSC.
The vessel will be equipped with a 1,600t hoisting, fully revolving crane built by Huisman to cope with the increasing size of the offshore wind turbine and its basic foundation.
Penta-Ocean Construction owns the first Japanese multipurpose SEP, “CP-8001”, equipped with an 800t lifting capacity crane.