A2SEA will use its vessel, the Sea Jack, to transport 30 of REpower’s pre-assembled 5MW turbines from Belfast Harbour to Ormonde, set 10km off the coast of Cumbria.

The Sea Jack, one of two jack-up barges in A2SEA’s stable, already saw action at Vattenfall’s Thanet project in Kent.

The vessel is expected to be on site at Ormonde from March 2011.

David Hodkinson, head of development at Vattenfall’s UK wind division, calls the agreement with A2SEA “an important part of the supply chain’s jigsaw”.

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