Wind energy components

Over the past years, wind energy has advanced to one of the leading innovations to promote the delivery of clean, safe and environmentally sensitive energy.

SAL has been closely involved in the transport of windmill towers, turbines and blades mainly within Europe and to the Far East. Apart from the actual shipment of windmill units, carriers have contributed to the design of necessary loading and stowage equipment to efficiently ship this type of cargo. Quality, reliable and safe services are what SAL stands for. By transporting the cargo for the projects "Walney Offshore Phase I" and "Ormonde Windfarm", SAL proved a fast and efficient performance.

Ormonde Windfarm Project
REpower System AG commissioned SAL with the transportation of 30 (5 MW) wind mills for the Ormonde Windfarm Project. The components, blades, hubs, nacelles and tower sections were loaded in several ports of Northern Germany to discharge in Belfast. 13 consecutive voyages were needed to fulfill this project.

Walney Offshore Project
For Danish client DONG Energy, SAL’s vessel MV "Annette" transported 51 monopiles from Germany to the UK. From March to June 2010, 11 consecutive voyages between Rostock and Barrow-in-Furness were necessary for SAL to successfully close the project.
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Dynamic Positioning With the new buildings of type 183 which are equipped with a Dynamic Positioning System, SAL offers their clients even larger assistance in offshore wind power plant erection and transportation of heavy and overdimensional windmill units.The DP System manufactured by market leader Kongsberg is designed to keep the vessels within a specific position and predefined heading limits by using its own thrusters, azimuths, propellers and different sensors which give information to the host computer, so that it can calculate the required steering angle and thruster output for each thruster. DP2 vessels have built-in redundancy systems so that no single fault in an active system will cause the system to fail.