Global Marine nabs export cable work at RWE's Gwynt y Mor

Global Marine Systems (GMS) has won the export-cable installation contract for the 567MW Gwynt y Mor project under construction in the Irish Sea, underscoring RWE’s strategy of awarding work to a vast roster of companies.

The past few months have seen RWE issue a torrent of contracts for the €2bn ($2.6bn) Gwynt y Mor project, which will be the German utility’s third offshore wind farm off the coast of north Wales when construction is finished in 2014.

That strategy runs counter to other projects, such as Belgium’s Belwind, where Dutch marine contractor Van Oord was responsible for nearly all engineering, procurement and construction decisions.

“Bringing on all these different companies allows us to maintain greater control over the project,” says Mark Fleming, a spokesman for npower…

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