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| Jack-up vessel Innovation sets new standards in the offshore market HGO InfraSea Solutions, a joint venture between Hochtief and GeoSea - a subsidiary of the Belgian DEME Group - officially commissioned the wind market's most powerful jack-up vessel, the Innovation. In the company of around 600 guests from the European offshore market, Geertrui Van Rompuy-Windels, wife of the President of the European Council, christened the ship in Bremerhaven. The Innovation was developed for the construction and servicing of offshore wind farms and oil and gas plants at sea. Thanks to its high deck cargo and the powerful 1, 500-ton crane, the ship is ideal for the safe and fast assembly of the latest-generation foundations and wind turbines at great water depths. Its unique features ensured that it was already chartered to AREVA for several years long before completion. Hochtief is using the jack-up vessel first to build the North Sea wind farm Global Tech I. The construction of the ship was a European project. It was commissioned at the behest of the German-Belgian joint venture HGO InfraSea Solutions and, after two years of planning, was built in only two years at the Crist shipyard in Poland. 70 percent of the purchasing volume comes from German production. This includes the powerful Liebherr crane and the jack-up system from Siemens. The Crist shipyard is currently fulfilling a follow-up order from Hochtief: The jack-up vessel VIDAR will be put into service next year. The Hochtief fleet also includes two jack-up platforms (ODIN and THOR) and three heavy-load pontoons that can be used at sea. There is huge market demand for all of this equipment and it is all working to capacity. write your comments about the article :: © 2012 Construction News :: home page |