Huisman has been awarded a contract for the design, engineering, construction and delivery of the main crane on Jan De Nul’s newest offshore wind turbine installation vessel ‘Voltaire’.The Leg Encircling Crane capacity will be over 3,000 tonnes and has a lifting height able to install turbines of more than 270 metres high and with blades of 120 metres long. The vessel will be built by COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry in China and the Huisman crane will be built in Huisman’s own production facility in Xiamen, P.R. of China and installed at the shipyard.
