Recently S.B. Submarine Systems (SBSS), Asia’s leading provider of submarine cable installation and maintenance solutions, successfully completed sea trials and took delivery of the Fu Yong 6, a 5,500t power cable installation and maintenance barge.
On the 16th of October 2020, the naming and delivery ceremony of Fu Yong 6 was held in Zhoushan Huafeng yard, where the ex-transportation barge was converted into a multi-purpose cable lay barge.
Fu Yong 6 is a multi-purpose cable lay barge equipped with a 5,500t capacity cable carousel system with high capacity caterpillar track tensioners and a 6-point mooring system. The barge is an ex-transportation pontoon and has been purposely modified by SBSS in 2020 to deliver power cable installation and maintenance works.
The barge is designed with grounding capability. SBSS will target the shallow water (up to 100 metres) high-voltage export cable installation market, where such facilities are currently in high demand in the Chinese offshore wind parks. Fu Yong 6 is also capable of carrying out shallow water Pre Lay Shore End operations in the telecommunications sector. Fu Yong 6 is equipped with Longli jetting sledge powered by high capacity submersible pumps. In the delivery configuration, the Longli sledge will achieve a burial depth of 3.3metres.