BigLift Shipping’s flagship mv Happy Star has been busy transporting four monopiles and 11 transition pieces for the Akita Noshiro wind farm, Japan’s first large-scale offshore wind project.
Kajima Corporation, the project’s EPCI contractor, contracted BigLift to complete the shipment with a very short lead time. The grillages and saddles where designed and manufactured by BigLift, all in accordance to project requirements.
The 139 MW Akita-Noshiro project comprises two sites off Akita Port and Noshiro Port. Thirteen Vestas V117-4.2 MW typhoon variant turbines will be installed at the Akita site, while the Noshiro site will comprise 20 turbines.
SAL Heavy Lift and United United Heavy Lift have also transported Monopiles and TP’s to Akita in Japan this year.
