The agreement includes comprehensive lifecycle planning, long-term maintenance support, and technical services tailored to each vessel's operational profile.
Thanks to their large loading capacity, the vessel takes longer cables on board in a single piece and bridges longer distances with as few subsea cable connections as possible.
Windcat officially presents Windcat Rotterdam, the first of six vessels in its new CSOV Elevation Series, constructed at Ha Long Shipyard in Vietnam and developed in collaboration with Damen Shipyards Group, Windcat and CMB.TECH.
Bibby Marine laid the keel for its 6,700GT e-CSOV at the Armon Shipyard in Vigo, Spain. The first of its kind hybrid-powered vessel will operate on zero-emissions.
Each CSOV will measure approximately 87 meters in length and 19.5 meters in beam. They will be equipped with state-of-the-art DP2 positioning and seakeeping systems.
The vessel is designed by Ulstein Design & Solutions AS for ‘walk-to-work’ (W2W) operations, where personnel walks via a motion-compensated gangway from the ship to a wind turbine.
Kongsberg Maritime has delivered its 1,000th ship design - the IWS Seawalker - a state-of-the art windfarm service operation vessel (CSOV), and one of six ‘Skywalker Class’ UT5519 DE for IWS Fleet.
