Dynamic Positioning

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GLOBAL ARC arrived on 16th August having spent at least a week out in the bay at anchor.
Her cargo was listed as spools and I wondered where they were being stored on Battleshp for her.
They were not on Battleship but on MAERSK CONNECTOR which took up position off her earlier this week having been in the south harbour since her arrival on 21st August
I have never seen a ship 'moored' in the middle of the river in my lifetime
Regards
Graham

BRITANNIA BEAVER in front yesterday, discharging sand for the windfarm project

from the north this morning

and from the south this afternoon. Look carefully and you can see the spools going into GLOBAL ARC's holds

close up of GLOBAL ARC

little man in the crane - just like the pilot on an Airfix plane :-)

[creemaster]

MAERSK CONNECTOR LOADS FIRST NEMO LINK CABLES
DeepOcean’s Maersk Connector has completed loading of the first phase on the Nemo Link cables in
the port of Blyth. Two 59-kilometre-long 400kv HVDC XPLE cables were simultaneously spooled
from a freighter onto the 7,000 te. split capacity duel concentric carousel. The vessel is now on her
way to the UK coast near Ramsgate where she will commence the installation of the cables. The
cables will be buried by DeepOcean’s T3200 trencher. The second phase of the project is scheduled
to be completed by DeepOcean in the second quarter of 2018. Nemo Link will consist of two subsea
and underground cables connected to a converter station and an electricity substation in Belgium
and the UK, which will allow up to 1,000MW of electricity to flow in either direction between the
two countries. Under the contract with J-Power Systems, a division of Sumitomo Electric,
DeepOcean is responsible for all marine works associated with the installation and protection of the

HVDC bundled cables from the transition joint bay in Kent, UK to the transition joint bay in
Zeebrugge, Belgium. The offshore works is scheduled to be completed in 2018. In
addition to the installation and trenching of the bundled cable system, DeepOcean’s work scope
includes route surveys and engineering, pre-lay grapnel runs, out of service cable
clearance, pre-sweeping in sandwave areas and crossings construction.
(Source: Offshore Wind)

Regards
Graham