General – New Cable Installation Vessel
Offshore installation services company Jan De Nul has ordered another XL cable laying vessel (CLV), identical to the Fleeming Jenkin, which boasts ‘unrivalled cable-carrying capacity’.
Like the Fleeming Jenkin, the vessel will be 215 meters long and can transport 28,000 tonnes of cables.
The new XL ship will be the fifth vessel in Jan De Nul Group’s cable-laying fleet.
That fleet has installed 2,500 kilometres of submarine cables in 25 countries over the past decade. They connected Crete to mainland Greece, for example, so that the island no longer has to rely on diesel generators to generate electricity. Those cables span a length of 135 kilometres and are located at depths of up to 1,000 metres with a – to put it mildly – bitterly rough and challenging seabed.
Jan Van de Velde, Director New Building, Jan De Nul Group: “We are and remain a big believer in the transition to renewable energy. With this second XL cable-laying vessel, we continue to reinforce our pioneering role. Both vessels combine all the cable installation expertise we have built up over the past decade. The result are vessels that operate very efficiently and have a much smaller carbon footprint.”
The Fleeming Jenkin is scheduled for delivery from China’s CMHI Haimen shipyard in 2026. The vessel has already been booked for its first projects.
