General – TP Load-in
22 kilometers off the Scottish coast, Moray West marks the third offshore wind farm in the Moray Firth region, joining Moray East and Beatrice.
The clean energy project will help to deliver a low-cost, low-carbon electricity supply feeding up to 1.33 million homes.
Having already worked together in the past, Global Energy Group trusted Mammoet’s guidance and engineering when a planned RoRo method of offloading the TPs was no longer feasible.
The company proposed transhipping the TPs onto Self-Propelled Modular Transporters (SPMTs) using a crawler crane, with its ballast supported by a separate axle line combination.
The method resulted in greater manoeuvrability and less downtime between lifts. It also prevented the shifting tides at the marshalling port from impacting the operation.
Mammoet’s scope for the work in this clean energy project was to receive the components at the Port of Nigg following seaborne transport, offload them onto SPMT trailers, and then drive them to a temporary storage area where pre-installation works could be performed.
Once the TPs were ready to be delivered offshore, they would be driven back to the quayside by SPMT in batches of four, to be collected and delivered to the offshore wind farm site by the Apollo, DEME’s installation vessel.
