Netherlands-based Swan Hunter has successfully executed the final ‘workscope’ of the Northern Offshore Windfarm Export Cable Storage Project at its storage and spooling yard in Vlissingen.

The last sections of spare array and export cables were transpooled from the Van Oord CLV Nexus and the DOC-Swan Hunter 4750Te onshore basket carousel to long-term modular storage baskets.

The completion of this final spooling operation marks the end of a year-long contract for Van Oord, which included export cable load-in from HLV Da Ji, interim storage and protection, export cable load-out to CLV Nexus, spare cable transpooling and handling operations, and transportation of the loaded baskets to the long-term storage site in Belgium.

Gerard Kroese, Swan Hunter director (www.swanhunter.com), said: “The successful completion of this project for Van Oord further shows our storage and spooling yard to be an attractive and strategic choice for installation contractors in the offshore wind industry.

"With a busy schedule ahead for Q2 2019, the combination of our dedicated cable-handling equipment and our strategically placed ‘direct to sea’ yard proves the attraction of our full-service solution to the offshore wind industry supply chain.”