Boskalis wins export cable contract Ostwind 2

Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has been awarded an export cable installation contract by 50Hertz for the German Ostwind 2 offshore grid connection. The contract has a value in excess of € 250 million and is the largest cable installation contract for Boskalis ever.

Ostwind 2 will connect the planned Arcadis Ost 1 and Baltic Eagle offshore wind farms to the onshore substation in Lubmin. The contract is won in a consortium with NKT. NKT will supply approximately 270 km of 220 kV high-voltage AC XLPE offshore export cable system, and approx. 8 km of 220 kV high-voltage AC XLPE onshore cable system. The export cable system will be manufactured both in Karlskrona, Sweden, and in Cologne, Germany, with production start beginning of 2020.

Boskalis will design and install the approximately 270 kilometre of export cable. The company will deliver an integrated solution of in-house services including supporting UXO survey, geotechnical and geophysical surveys (through Boskalis subsidiary Gardline), seabed preparation works, pre-lay run, transport and installation of the 220kV export cables and seabed reinstatement. It will deploy a wide variety of its in-house assets including trailing suction hopper and backhoe dredgers, geophysical and geotechnical survey vessels, cable-laying vessels and a wide range of trenching tools.

Peter Berdowski, CEO Boskalis: “We are very proud to have been selected for this contract, the largest cable installation contract ever for Boskalis. The fact that we are able to combine our dredging services, recently acquired survey capabilities together with our cable installation competencies demonstrates Boskalis’ ability to offer a unique breadth of services. We look forward to further expanding this position for our clients as the leading subsea cable installation contractor.”

The project is expected to commence in 2019 with a planned completion late 2022. (Photo: Boskalis)

 

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