Belgian marine contractor Jan De Nul has launched its newest cable laying vessel (CLV), the Fleeming Jenkin, at the CMHI Haimen shipyard in China, which has now entered the final phase of
Belgian marine contractor Jan De Nul has launched its newest cable laying vessel (CLV), the Fleeming Jenkin, at the CMHI Haimen shipyard in China, which has now entered the final phase of construction ahead of delivery planned for second half of 2026.
The 215-meter-long vessel has a loading capacity of 28,000 tonnes, making it the world’s largest of its kind.
Jan De Nul will use the vessel to install subsea cables for the transmission of renewable energy, as the Fleeming Jenkin was specifically designed to install longer and heavier cables in ultra-deep waters up to 3,000 meters.
With the launch, that took place by flooding the dry dock at the shipyard, the final vessel construction phase has begun, which also includes sea trials.
Besides the Fleeming Jenkin, Jan De Nul is also building a second cable-laying vessel, the identical sister vessel William Thomson.
Once operational, the Fleeming Jenkin will immediately start her first assignment at the 2 GW program by TenneT, the grid operator for the Netherlands and large parts of Germany.
This program introduces a new generation of offshore grid connection systems that can each transmit up to 2 GW. Fleeming Jenkin will install export cables on
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