As the coronavirus pandemic makes construction of land-based power stations difficult, demand rises for powerships or floating power plants.
FLOATING POWER PLANT. A powership docked in a shipyard of Altinova district in Yalova, Turkey, on June 16, 2020. Photo by Ozan Kose/AFP
Enter Karpowership, which has been building floating plants for almost 15 years by converting old freight ships, making it a leading player in the industry with a fleet of 25 powerships. "Credit committees were not approving credits, suppliers weren't able to meet their timelines, [and] workers weren't able to do constructions on site," Zeynep Harezi, Karpowership's chief commercial officer, told Agence France-Presse.
The floating plants provide more than half of the electricity consumed by several West African countries, including Guinea-Bissau, The Gambia, and Sierra Leone. Ankara earlier this month sent a delegation including the foreign and finance ministers to Tripoli for talks. "At the shipyard, it takes around 18 months to build a ship, but since we are doing our construction back to back, we can produce our ships in 6 months," explained Deniz Yalcindag, a Karpowership engineer.
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