An 18,000tonne platform has completed the next stage in its long journey to a North Sea windfarm.
The BorWin3 Gamma platform began its 7,400mile journey from a Dubai shipyard two weeks ago.
It has now passed through the famous Suez Canal in Egypt, a narrow waterway connecting the Red Sea to the Mediterranean.
Amazing! Our giant #BorWin3 successfully passed the 72km of #Suez Canal. With a total width of 71m, the transit was a tight thing & other vessels couldn’t pass meanwhile. Congrats to the captain & team! https://t.co/fIPGptTloZ #Petrofac @Tennet @wirrwa #GlobalWindSummit pic.twitter.com/3quX0UfV3g
— Siemens_Energy (@Siemens_Energy) September 24, 2018
The 71-metre width of the huge platform meant other vessels could not pass through the 44mile stretch while it travelling through.
The platform will then go past Gibraltar, through the Bay of Biscay and into the North Sea where Petrofac will integrate it with the jacket 80miles off the German coast.
The energy services firm successfully installed the 10,000tonne gamma jacket in May.
Once completed, the BorWin3 project will power nearly a million homes.
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