EEW Special Pipe Constructions and Vattenfall have become the first parties to use the 1,600t of lifting capacity crane, otherwise employed by Liebherr for its internal logistics in the Port of Rostock.
Specifically, the crane has been used for floating the first out of 72 monopiles for Vattenfall's 600 MW Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm currently under construction some 15 km off the Danish coast (scheduled to come online by end-2021, providing electricity for around 600k Danish households/year).
Once watertight-sealed and lowered into water, the 65 m-tall and 800t-heavy monopiles have been tugged to the construction site.
Landing on water of the monopiles will take place until late summer 2020.
Photo: Liebherr