Advertisement New-build cable-laying vessel Nexans Aurora will be making waves in more ways than one when it hits the water shortly - as it will also mark the launch of the next generation in boat-handling systems. Cable-laying vessel Nexans Aurora, featuring the MissionEase system incorporated in the hull, docked at Ulstein Verft in Norway. Photo Credit: Ulstein Verft The state-of-the-art new-build, now in the final stages of construction at Norwegian shipyard Ulstein Verft, has been designed specifically to work in harsh-environment conditions and therefore required a boat deployment system with a high level of flexibility and redundancy. The DP3 vessel, with a cable capacity of 10 000 t, will perform cable-laying, cable system protection and trenching for Nexans Subsea Operations, and its first contract will entail installing export cables for the Seagreen wind farm project off Scotland following sailaway this spring.