Van Oord has chosen the German Baltic seaport to transship and load 50 transition pieces (TPs) for Iberdrola's 476MW offshore wind farm (30 km off the island of Rügen).

Mukran Port has already handled the first TPs for Baltic Eagle, scheduled to come online at the end of next year, providing 1.9TWh annually (sufficing the electricity need of some 475k households and cutting the local CO2 emissions by almost one million tonnes/year).

The TPs come from the Spanish Avilés.

Baltic Eagle's turbines will be provided by MHI Vestas Offshore Wind (the MVOW V174 model of 9.53MW capacity).

EEW's mega-factory in Rostock will supply the monopiles.

Van Oord's heavy-lift vessel Svanen will take care of the installation, while the company's Nexus and Dig-It will lay the cables (with 50Hertz installing the offshore substation).

Photo: Mukran Port