Van Oord Takes Delivery Of Newbuild Offshore Vessel Boreas

The Dutch based and family-owned international marine contractor Van Oord, has yesterday in a festive ceremony at the Chinese located Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Ltd. shipyard, taken delivery of its new offshore installation vessel “Boreas”.

She is a purpose-built vessel for the transport and installation of the next generation of foundations and turbines at offshore wind farms, with Van Oord informing that the vessel will be “the largest of its kind once operational.”

The vessel measures 175 metres in length and has a 155-metre-high boom, which can lift more than 3,000 tonnes, with four giant legs, each measuring 126 metres, allowing the vessel then to be jacked up and work in waters up to 70 metres deep.

“Boreas,” with these mentioned features, will be able to install up to 20 MW offshore wind turbines at sea, whilst she has the ability to operate on the future fuel methanol, reducing the ship’s footprint by more than 78%, as Van Oord said in its announcement.

Van Oord states that the “Boreas” now will be prepared to sail to the Netherlands, where the