MacGregor, part of Cargotec, announced on 27 November that it had won an order for substructure connection mooring systems for the world’s first floating offshore wind farm: Statoil’s Hywind pilot park in Scottish waters.

MacGregor will be responsible for the delivery of the Pusnes substructure mooring connection system for the pilot project’s five floating wind turbines. Delivery of equipment is planned from the second through to the fourth quarter of 2016 and installation of the wind turbines is scheduled for 2017.