Wind Express Brochure

Product catalog summary

Overview of Austal Wind Express Series

The Austal Wind Express Series is designed to provide efficient and reliable transportation solutions for the offshore wind farm industry. These vessels combine fuel efficiency with advanced seakeeping characteristics, utilizing Austal's renowned hull design and engineering capabilities. Each vessel is customizable to meet specific sea conditions, routes, and payload requirements, ensuring optimum personnel comfort and safety.

Key Features

Ride Control System (RCS): Proven over two decades, this system enhances safety and productivity in rough conditions.
Customizable Vessels: Tailored to specific operational needs with a large in-house design team ensuring short delivery times.
Global Support: Austal offers a worldwide network for vessel support and maintenance, backed by a global warranty and service network.

Wind Express Catamaran

Developed from over 20 years of experience with more than 140 catamarans, the Wind Express Catamaran offers lower operating costs and greater range due to its efficient hull form. This design reduces power and fuel requirements, enhancing productivity by minimizing sea sickness and improving payload capacity.

Wind Express TriSWATh

The TriSWATh hull form maximizes performance in rough seas, providing high levels of seakeeping, passenger comfort, and fuel efficiency. It combines SWATh hull benefits with trimaran technology, allowing safe personnel transfer in significant wave heights up to 3.0 meters.

About Austal

Austal is a leading designer and builder of high-performance aluminum vessels for commercial and defense applications, having delivered over 220 vessels globally. Their product range includes ferries, offshore service vessels, patrol boats, and more. Austal is recognized for its capability to deliver customized solutions with vessels ranging from 16 to 127 meters in length, featuring various hull forms.

Contact Information:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +61 8 9410 1111

Catalog excerpts

AUSTAL WIND EXPRESS SERIES

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AUSTAL WIND EXPRESS SERIES Combining fuel efficiency with advanced seakeeping characteristics, Austal‘s new series of Wind Express platforms are the premier transportation solution for the burgeoning offshore wind farm industry. By utilising Austal’s world-renowned advanced hull design and engineering capabilities, each vessel is specifically designed to provide offshore wind farm operators with a rugged, reliable and efficient multi-purpose work boat platform. Characterised by their optimum personnel comfort and safety, each vessel in the Wind Express series can be further customised to suit...

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Wind express Catamaran OPeRATinG eFFiCienCy Developed based on the experience of producing over 140 catamarans over a period of more than 20 years, Austal’s refined catamaran hull form delivers lower operating costs and greater range by requiring less power and using less fuel than other catamaran designs. inCReASeD PRODuCTiviTy The efficient hull form with its high tunnel also enhances productivity of both vessel and technicians by lowering sea sickness, improving payload capacity and enabling operations in a wider range of conditions. Wind express trisWath MAxiMiSeD ROuGh SeA PeRFORMAnCe For...

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ABOUT AUSTAL Austal is the world’s leading designer and builder of customised, high performance aluminium vessels for both commercial and defence applications and has delivered more than 220 vessels for customers around the world. Austal is also an established provider of worldwide vessel maintenance and management services. Austal’s product range includes passenger and vehicle-passenger ferries, offshore service vessels, patrol boats, theatre support vessels, combat ships, multi-role vessels and luxury private live-aboards. Austal also designs, installs, integrates and maintains sophisticated...

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