One of the world’s largest heavy-lift vessels is currently moored off Frederikshavn, loaded with the end-of-life FPSO vessel Northern Endeavour, which has made the 17,000 km journey from Australia to be scrapped at the M.A.R.S recycling yard in Frederikshavn.
The final voyage for the 274-metre-long, 43,000-tonne vessel began on 24 February, when the 26-year-old vessel was loaded onto the Chinese heavy-lift vessel Hua Rui Long, itself now 26 years old. The decommissioned vessel was in too poor a condition to make the journey to Fredrikshavn itself, where M.A.R.S. won the contract to scrap the ship last year, reports TV 2 Nord.
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The Australian government is behind the decision regarding both the transport and scrapping of the vessel, which operated in oil fields from 1999 to 2019 around 550 kilometres north-west of Darwin in the Timor Sea between Australia and Indonesia.
The background is that the company behind the Northern Endeavour went bankrupt in 2020, leaving the responsibility for the clean-up with the authorities. However, the approximately 17,000-kilometre transport to Denmark has sparked debate in Australia. Shipyard workers in particular are unhappy that the vessel is not being scrapped locally, but is instead being sent to Europe.
