Exploration of sea resources and development of both renewables & marine traffic are generating more & more equipments requiring buoyancy properties.
Without being exhaustive, here below are the most common applications:
- FPSO towing & mooring installation,with chain support buoys,
- Hopper Suction dredger with pipe floats and bow coupling float,
- LIDAR buoys (or weather buoys) to real time marine monitoring & information system,
- Anti-intrusion barrier to prevent from any potential risk,
- Marker buoys for navigation aids,
- Mooring buoys to anchor vessel during offshore operation,
- Pick-up buoys linked to a mooring line,
- Submarine ballast buoy measurement,
- Aquaculture buoys,
- and Power buoy or charging buoy to reduce hybrid vessel gas emissions while at sea.