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Cadeler has inked a contract to build a pair of new X-class wind turbine installation vessels at Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry.
The new vessels will be the largest in the industry upon completion. The first X-class vessel will be ready by Q3, 2024 and the second vessel will be delivered in Q1, 2025. Construction of both vessels will start immediately at Cosco’s Qidong yard.
Mikkel Gleerup, CEO of Cadeler says: “Expansion of our fleet is an important strategic priority to ensure that we can meet the demand we are seeing from clients for greater installation capacity. Offshore wind plays an increasingly important role in the green energy transition, and the installed offshore wind capacity is expected to grow substantially the coming years across several regions.”