Lloyd Werft in Bremerhaven, Germany, is working to complete the offshore installation jack-up vessel Aeolus for Van Oord. The shipyard has until July to get the newbuild ready for sea.
Since the beginning of January and at the request of Van Oord, Lloyd Werft craftsmen have helped Sietas to complete the building of Aeolus . However, the vessel had to be brought to Bremerhaven for fitting out and for the complicated lifting into position of her four platform legs.
“We were also able to win this very interesting job because we have already demonstrated with ‘Victoria Mathias’ and ‘Friedrich Ernestine’ what we are capable of,” explains Lloyd Werft Chairman Rüdiger Pallentin .
The four 87 metre long steel legs, each weighing 920 tons, will be settled into their jacking positions on the 139-metre long and 38-metre wide ship by using the world’s biggest crawler crane.
Aeolus’ first mission is scheduled for July 2014, when the vessel will be engaged in the construction of the Eneco Luchterduinen wind farm, off the Dutch coast.
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Press release, March 20, 2014; Image: Lloyd Werft