Cartagena Marine Cluster, repaired thruster e-motor returned to a ship anchored in the bay of Cartagena with a steel deckbarge. Job manged by Wilfried Ellmer. In a near future ships will dock on a repair platform which is very much a “baystead concept” get their repairs done in the middle of the bay of Cartagena and continue their business around the globe. This repair platform infrastructure will be based on concrete honeycomb technology instead of steel deck barges. Port infrastructure investors are invited to be part of the project. The Cartagena Marine Business Cluster is a inevitable waypoint for ships on their way to pass the Panama Channel.
Cartagena bay afloat ship repair
ship repair barge assisting oil rig, the barge is a steel deckbarge, it contains a living container, compressor, generator,
valliant jetty, submarine repair shop on a concrete barge
adriatic LNG industrial installation on a floating concrete honeycomb structure
floating concrete structures next big thing in real estate
floating drydock
Offshore crane Svanen, this crane assists the offshore industry worldwide, it builds bridges, offshore windfarms, oilrigs, and similar things that require heavy lifting at offshore sites. The crew works on board, sleeps and lives on board for many months, it is worldwide mobile or stationary depending on the job. It has its own jurisdiction (flag of convenience Bahamas declares it territory of Bahamas although it works mostly in Europe), SVANEN makes money at sea, worldwide, so already applies to many key factors that make a seastead, and more important set a seastead apart from a ship or barge…it is a floating community of 15 people on a floating island built in honeycomb platform technology, designed around a crane and offshore heavy lifting operations… the crew could easyly claim to be “the first seasteaders” (if they where not busy to do their job and would care about artificial word definitions) The concept is not very known to a broad public but definitly very close to be a “fully functional seastead” according to all definitions brought up so far. So – will offhore heavy lifting business lead to seasteading? – definitly yes. The first seasteads are not “decades in the future” they are already out there doing their job as we speak. We are quickly approching a “singularity” where it becomes evident for a broader public that ocean colonization is already here.
