CABLE LAYER BARGE INTO SELF PROPELLED DP2 CABLE LAYER MAJOR UPGRADE

During 2014/15 Cebarka Ltd. supported Viktor Lenac shipyard in Rijeka, Croatia, through consultancy / lead role activities within Yard QC & commissioning team, in their major upgrade project ´Cable Enterprise´ intended for Prysmian Powerlink Services from the UK, in which a moored cable-laying barge was upgraded into a DP2 cable-laying barge able to autonomously manoeuvre with her own propulsion system during cable installation process.

PARTICULARS UPON UPGRADE:

·       LOA = 124.30 m (barge has been extended for 10 m), B = 31.60 m, T = 4.94 m, H = 6.98 m, deadweight = 10543 MT

·       1400 tons of new steel fit (bulbous bow, fwd & aft engine room block, two new decks for accommodation)

·       155 km of cables & 145 tons of piping installed

·       accommodation upgrade of up to 80 persons

·       2 x VOITH Schneider 360° rotating thrusters

·       2 x Wärtsilä Retractable Azimuth Thrusters

·       2 x Wärtsilä Transverse Thrusters

·       8.000 kw installed power (makes her amongst the most powerful submarine cable-laying barges)

·       7 independent positioning systems

·       sophisticated NoX emission reduction system based on urea solution production plant (achieving an almost 80% NoX emission reduction), compliant with IMO Tier 3 standard installed

·       new cable tank to increase barge versatility for future cable projects installed

·       4,000 tons carousel

·  bundled cable lay capability 180 tons, pull ahead winch for ploughing operations