Samsung Heavy Industries has inked an order to build a cable laying vessel for Dutch maritime services provider Royal Boskalis Westminster. The price of the vessel was not revealed. The vessel will have a length of 100 m and a cable loading capacity of 5,000 tonnes, slated to be delivered in the second-half of 2012, Boskalis announced Wednesday. The Samsung-built vessel is expected to lay two power cables between the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali under a new €20m contract won by Boskalis from the Indonesia State Electricity Corporation. “There is demand for underwater interconnector power cables as a consequence of increased energy consumption, geographic disbalances in energy consumption and the growth of off-shore wind farms,” Boskalis said.
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