Concept verification model tests for Friede & Goldman’s BargeRack system
Conference/JournalMARIN Report 142
Date17 Dec 2024
The offshore wind industry is growing rapidly with an ever-increasing need for efficient, reliable, safe, and scalable installation solutions to help keep up with offshore wind developments. Compounded by port limitations, logistics bottlenecks, and cabotage laws there is more and more interest in wind turbine component feeder solutions to help meet this demand.
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BargeRack concept
Friede & Goldman has developed its proprietary BargeRack system, which is a modular, safe, and cost-effective feeder solution for offshore wind installation, designed to comply with the US Jones Act. The BargeRack is a novel solution based on a lifting module concept attached to an (existing) Wind Turbine Installation Vessel (WTIV). The system can lift a feeder barge with wind turbine components out of the water, from which the components can be installed directly on the foundations from the fixed platform.
WTIV with the BargeRack Lifting Module