Heavy lifting outfit ALE has completed the first load-out of the 29 jacket foundations for Iberdrola’s 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farm, which will be located in the German Baltic Sea.
The load out of the 625-tonne jacket took place in Ferrol in Spain using a self-propelled modular transporter (SPMT) and a CC8800 crawler crane, ALE said.
The company has been contracted to perform a total of 58 land transportations – two per jacket – using SPMTs and 29 load-outs using a crawler crane during 2016.
It said that it started the project in January by carrying out weighing and land transportation of the 29 jackets at the Navantia Fene shipyard.
Danish company Bladt is responsible for the other 41 foundations for the project.
Image: ALE
