General – Cable Installation Vessel
Penta-Ocean Construction from Japan has signed a shipbuilding contract with PaxOcean Group to construct a large-scale cable-laying vessel.
The offshore wind power generation in Japan is progressing with a focus on developing bottom-fixed offshore wind power facilities in the port areas.
As a leading company in marine civil engineering, Penta-Ocean has been actively investing in the construction of large-scale work vessels required for offshore wind construction including offshore installation vessels, to contribute to the expansion of offshore wind power supply in Japan.
To expand our business from offshore wind turbine construction to power cable laying, we have decided to build the world’s largest and most advanced CLV, eyeing future offshore wind power construction in the EEZ and the general sea areas.
The CLV is capable of laying and burying not only cables for bottom-fixed offshore wind turbines but also for floating-type offshore wind turbines, as well as submarine direct current power transmission cables.
The new CLV will be fitted with two 5,000t cable carousels, also known as cable storage, to enable safe and efficient cable laying in the open sea with severe harsh metocean conditions. Equipped with a state of the art trencher (for burying cables) and a work class ROV, the vessel will be able to carry out cable burial operations efficiently.
The ship design will be contracted to Salt Ship Design (Norway), known for its extensive experience in CLV design, while the shipbuilding will be assigned to PaxOcean (Singapore), also the shipbuilder of Penta-Ocean’s offshore installation vessel “CP-16001.
The vessel is scheduled to be completed in February 2028 and begin operations in the first half of FY 3/29.
