DEME Group has contracted Chevalier Floatels to provide a floating hotel for the crew working on the cable laying vessel Living Stone in Vlissingen, the Netherlands.
Having only a two-week lead time to get a floatel prepared, stocked and on location in Vlissingen, Chevalier Floatels fixed the hotel vessel Rossini on the charter with DEME.
Equipped with 110 cabins and providing accommodation for 220 persons, Rossini is being used to accommodate the persons installing the cable lay equipment on board the Living Stone.
”Thanks to the great teamwork of the Chevalier crew and the good cooperation with Deme the vessel was ready on time to house and feed the employees on board the Rossini. The project is scheduled to last a few weeks,” the company said.
The Living Stone arrived in Vlissingen from Spain for final outfitting earlier this month.
DEME will install a dual lane cable installation system on the Living Stone with a capacity of 10,000 tons. Having two systems will allow the vessel to install one cable, while fully preparing the second one on deck, minimizing the time to prepare the second cable.
The vessel is expected to be completed in June after which it will leave for Hornsea Project One for its first cable laying assignment.