Van Oord has been contracted for construction of the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 Offshore Wind Farm, located 40 km offshore in the Polish Baltic Sea, being developed by Ørsted and PGE.
Van Oord is set to transport and install 111 extended monopiles, of which 107 will serve as wind turbine foundations and four as offshore substation foundations.
Van Oord will deploy offshore installation vessel Aeolus and heavy-lift installation vessel Svanen for the project. The Svanen will undergo an upgrade this year, which includes extending the gantry crane to increase its lifting capacity. The company’s flexible fallpipe vessel Nordnes will be deployed to install rock at all foundation locations.
