A strange vehicle will be driving on the bottom of the harbor in the western port area of the Port of Rotterdam, on a trial basis. It is the Deep Dig-it, an unmanned trencher of 17 meters long and 138,000 kilos clean on the hook.
Deep Dig-it will play an important role in the construction of the new offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust Zuid. The electricity that the wind farm will generate first goes to a large offshore transformer station or the electronic socket at sea.
The Deep Dig-it must lay...