The Justice and Public Administration Adviser, Josu Erkoreka, and the Economic Development and Competitiveness Adviser, ArantxaTapia, attend the launch of the ship Living Stone at the facilities of La Naval. A ship with a length of 161 meters equipped for the installation of marine cabling for the offshore wind energy sector (Irekia Euskadi)

The state-of-the-art "Living Stone" cable built for DEME was thrown into the shipyard of La Naval. The ceremony's godmother was Sarah Tommelein, wife of the vice minister-president of the Flanders government and Flemish energy minister. The wiring is the most advanced in the world with the capacity to also make ditches on the sea bed. It is equipped with two decks under cover of 5,000 t cable capacity. Both carretels can transport more than 200 km of cable that can be installed on a single trip. It has 3,500 m2 of cover where the entire shape of the cable handling system is located. In addition, it can be equipped with a third cartel on deck with a load capacity of 2,000 t and a crane of 600 t. Tideway has developed a system with which the Living Stone will install faster and more efficiently longer cable lengths of more meters and therefore with less connections, than any other cable ship on the high seas. It has DP3 and will have two dual engines using as a liquefied natural gas fuel. The Linving Stone will feature the Clean Design notation and the Green Passport. It will have the capacity to accommodate 100 people and will be operated by the German subsidiary Tideway de Deme. Its delivery is scheduled for the second half of 2017 and its first mission will be in the German wind park Merkur, 45 km north of Borkum, in the North Sea, for the installation and storage of cables. In addition, it will install the cabling of the largest offshore wind park, the Hornsea Project One, in the United Kingdom.