The Danish Esvagt saw the launching of its latest service operations vessel (SOV) at the Turkish Cemre Shipyard.
The 2022-ordered SOV will be handed over at the end of this year. The dual-fuel ship, also equipped with batteries, will serve Ørsted's 1.32-gigawatt (165 8.0-megawatt turbines) Hornsea 2 offshore wind energy farm 89 kilometres off the Yorkshire coast.
If fuelled and running on e-methanol, produced with renewables and biogenic carbon, the newbuild will have its annual footprint reduced by some 4,500 tonnes of CO2 vs when bunkered with fossil fuel.
Photo: Cemre Shipyard