Jumbo Javelin deployed on Taiwanese wind farm
The heavy-lift crane vessel Jumbo Javelin shipped and installed 80 transition pieces for the Taiwanese offshore wind farm Yunlin (Source: Jumbo Offshore)
Jumbo Offshore has used its heavy-lift crane vessel, Jumbo Javelin, at the Yunlin wind farm off the Taiwanese coast in an installation project for Yunneng Wind Power Co Ltd. The DP2 vessel was equipped specially for the job, with a Jumbo Fly-Job modular crane boom extension to increase lifting height. The ship was therefore capable of lifting 27m-high transition pieces.
The Yunlin wind farm lies in the Taiwan Strait between 8 and 17km from shore. It covers an area of 82km2 and its 80 wind turbine generators will provide up to 640 MW of clean electricity, sufficient for about 600,000 Taiwanese households.
Water depths vary from 7m to 35m across the wind farm. The shallow-water locations were not suitable for installation in DP mode so the versatile ship used its anchors for positioning to install components instead.
Loaded with four 450-tonne transition pieces each time, the Jumbo Javelin shipped and installed 80 transition pieces for the project. The procedure was completed ahead of schedule and should enable the wind farm to become operational before the end of the year.
