Vidar, like its two predecessors Thor and Innovation, was builtat the Crist shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, with Hochtief Solutions placing theorder in early 2012.
Vidar will immediately be launched into service in the German North Seainstalling blades on turbines at the 400MW Global Tech 1 project, whose largestshareholder is Stadtwerke München.
Vidar is smaller than Hochtief’s Innovation – which was launched lastyear – with a crane capable of lifting 1,200 tonnes and a load capacity of6,500 tonnes – compared to 1,500 tonnes and 8,000 tonnes respectively for Innovation.
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