Jan De Nul orders third jack-up installation vessel at COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry

Jan De Nul Group has ordered its third offshore jack-up installation vessel at China’s COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry.

The vessel, which will be named Voltaire after the famed French writer and philosopher, is scheduled to be delivered in 2022.

Voltaire will be used in the construction of offshore wind farms and will be fitted with an exhaust gas filtering system to reduce carbon emissions.