Norway’s Kleven has informed that BN 373, offshore construction vessel, Edda Freya will be launched from the slipway at Kleven Verft, Saturday August 15 at 12:00.

Edda Freya is designed by Salt Ship Design (304 OCV) in cooperation with Østensjø Rederi and DeepOcean.

With a length of 149.8 metres, a width of 27 metres and 2300 square metres of total deck space the vessel is expected to boost DeepOcean’s competitiveness in the offshore construction market.

Edda Freya is scheduled to join the DeepOcean fleet in the first quarter of 2016 and execute the company’s SURF installation contract for Statoil.

The vessel will be equipped with a 150 tons dual tensioner vertical lay system (VLS) located in the moon pool, a 3000 tons carousel below deck and a 400 tons active heave compensated (AHC) knuckle boom main crane that can lift 600 tons in double fall mode.

The ship will be delivered with a new Siemens BlueDrive+C diesel electric hybrid propulsion system, developed by Siemens in cooperation with its owner Østensjø Rederi.