Second Cadeler P-class vessel completed

Cadeler’s latest jackup offshore wind turbine installation vessel, Wind Pace, has undergone a naming ceremony at the COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry (COSCO) shipyard in Qidong, China.

Following delivery, the vessel’s initial deployment will be at a wind farm development offshore the US east coast, which is Cadeler’s second project in US waters. 

Sister vessel Wind Peak was the first of Cadeler’s two new P-class vessels. It was delivered last August and has just started work on its first installation project, the Sofia wind farm offshore the Yorkshire coast in the UK southern North Sea.

Wind Pace has been designed to accommodate the larger sizes of turbines for next-generation wind farm developments and harsh offshore conditions.

The P-class vessels can transport and install up to seven 15-MW turbine sets per voyage or five 20+ MW turbines, reducing the number of roundtrips and helping to speed up installation.

Their hybrid power systems and cyber-secure operational infrastructure bring efficiency and safety benefits, Cadeler added.

Wind Peak and Wind Pace are the largest vessels in the company’s fleet, with a deck space of 5,600 sq m, a payload capacity of more than 17,600 metric tons, and a main crane that can lift loads of up to 2,600 metric tons at 47 m. Both vessels can accommodate up to 130 crew members and installation technicians.

The design was a collaboration with COSCO, GustoMSC, NOV, Kongsberg, Huisman and MAN Energy.