{"id":2749,"date":"2015-01-08T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimejournal.nfdtesting.uk\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2015\/01\/08\/windfarm-trencher\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:31:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:31:49","slug":"windfarm-trencher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2015\/01\/08\/windfarm-trencher\/","title":{"rendered":"Windfarm trencher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The multi-purpose cable trencher can bury cable under the ocean floor, and can be used with a wide range of cable types. Van der Vlist facilitated extensive modifications to the machine, as well as multiple dry and wet tests on the quayside in Moerdijk.<\/p>\n<p>The Trenchformer was then ready for its first project, laying cable for a wind farm off the coast of Noordwijk. In order to get to the site, the vehicle was loaded to a barge from quay, to be taken across and join the ship \u2018Ndurance\u2019, which had been modified to support the machine in its task.<\/p>\n<p>Following the successful first project, the Trenchformer has returned to secure indoor storage in Moerdijk, where it will be assessed, monitored and tested ready for its next voyage.<\/p>\n<p>By Jake Frith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Maritime Journal\u2019 has heard reports that a very special machine has been operating out of Van der Vlist\u2019s Terminal Moerdijk facility over the past few months. The Boskalis Trenchformer has been using the terminal as a base for its operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-key-deals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2751,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions\/2751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}