ecological and energy transition : Le Havre : loading the first wind turbines

In the port of Le Havre, the first wind turbine have been loaded. The jack-up vessel Brave Tern, moored on the Joannès Couvert quayside, will load 62 wind turbines in the direction of the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm, i.e. 16 convoys scheduled.

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For a few days, the residents of Le Havre can see the assembly of strange structures on the Joannès Couvert’s quayside of Siemens Gamesa. On site, the pre-assembly of the future wind turbines of the wind farm of Saint-Brieuc has started.  

A colossal weight

62 masts will be assembled on the quayside before being loaded onto the impressive Brave Tern jack-up vessel. The elements will be transported vertically in XXL shipments, each weighing around 4,000 tons. It will take 16 shipments to transport all the masts, nacelles or blades to the dumping site.

An extraordinary transport

The Brave Tern "wind turbine installer" was chosen for these operations. Equipped with a crane that articulates and deploys according to the size of the elements to be transported, the vessel can adapt to any type of load: masts, nacelles or blades. It’s 132 m long and 39 m wide and has a storage area of 3,200 m².

Thanks to its four "legs", the Brave Tern can install offshore wind turbines at depths of up to 40 meters.

The operations are subject to weather conditions: they will take place from mid-April and will be completed in a few months.