Pacific Orca, the world’s largest wind farm installation vessel, is ready for launch. Samsung Heavy Industries has successfully built Pacific Orca, the world’s largest wind farm installation vessel (WIV), and delivered it to SPO (Swire Pacific Offshore), a Singapore-based shipper. The wind farm installation vessel is a new special vessel for which demand is expected to grow as the focus of the wind power generation market shifts from in-land wind farms to offshore wind farms. The capacity of global offshore wind farms is expected to grow rapidly to reach 239GW by 2030, which is about 70 times the 3.5GW capacity (1000 units of 3.5MW-class power generators) it has today. The shipbuilding industry has focused on developing the related technology based on predictions of a rapid increase in the demand for wind farm installation vessels. Pacific Orca is 161m long, 49m wide and 10.4m high, and as the world’s largest wind farm installation vessel, it is capable of transporting and installing 12 units of 3.6MW.