Palfinger Marine today informed it had entered the Asian offshore wind crane market for the first time with two PF 8000 fixed boom type platform cranes delivered to Taiwanese company Fortune Electric Co., Ltd.
The cranes will be mounted on transition pieces in the building yard in Shanghai and then delivered to Taiwan, where they will be installed in a final step at the offshore wind farm Formosa 1 OWF Phase 1.
Formosa 1 project, with a total capacity of 108MW, is located five kilometres off the Chunan coast in Miaoli County and will have 30 wind turbines installed in water depths from 5m to 30m.
Formosa 1 OWF Phase 1 is a pilot project with two turbines and a total capacity of 8MW.