Floating Power Cable for Shipboard & Wharf Duty

Keeping power off the seabed

Where a cable crosses open water to a ship, a dredge or a floating platform, laying it on the bottom exposes it to abrasion, anchors and dragging gear. A buoyant or neutrally buoyant construction keeps the run in the water column with enough slack to absorb tide and movement, and removes the failure mechanism that accounts for most of these cable losses.

Composite runs for wharf supply

Wharf and dredge supply cables usually need power together with control and monitoring pairs, so we build them as one composite cable with tinned-copper conductors and screened signal pairs, sized for the length of the crossing and the current required. As with all our seawater work, the termination is agreed with the cable so the ingress protection holds at the ends as well as along the run.

Performance parameters

Applications

This construction is supplied into the following installations. Tell us which one applies and we will confirm the governing requirement.

Customisation

Core count and cross-section, screen arrangement, sheath compound and colour, print legend, length and termination are all built to order. Send the requirement — including the failed OEM part if this is a replacement — and we will propose the construction and confirm the lead time.