CASE STUDY ULTRA-HEAVY PONTOONS FOR WIND FARM SUPPORT FACILITY Lowestoft Walcon Marine has installed a maximum heavy- duty berthing facility at ABP’s Hamilton Dock at Lowestoft, on the UK’s east coast. The facility has been designed and built to withstand the rough and tumble of the round-the-clock, fast turnaround activities of crew transfer vessels servicing the off shore wind farm East Anglia ONE, currently under construction in the North Sea. The specifi cation also required the pontoons to withstand once in a thousand-year tides. The facility is designed to accommodate up to four wind farm crew transfer vessels / fast crew suppliers, which are typically catamaran designs up to 30 metres in length. It consists of four pontoons each 29 metres long, with two running along t

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