Jan De Nul has named its new XL cable-laying vessel (CLV), identical to the Fleeming Jenkin ordered last year, after the Irish physicist William Thomson. William Thomson, ordered earlier this year, will have three carousels and a cable-carrying capacity of 28,000 tonnes, the same as the previously ordered Fleeming Jenkin. Together, the vessels are expected […]

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