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Offshore construction at the Bałtyk 3 site (in the Polish exclusive economic zone of the Baltic Sea, 22 km off the coast near Łeba) commenced in January 2026 with the start of the subsea rock installation campaign. Van Oord deployed up to four rock-placement vessels to lay down more than one million tonnes of material to provide scour protection for the 50 monopile foundations and to stabilise the export and inter-array cable corridors ahead of cable lay. The wider 2026 offshore construction campaign — covering monopiles, transition pieces, selected offshore substation components and subsea cables — was scheduled to follow from spring 2026 using Heerema Marine Contractors' heavy-lift vessel Thialf and a fleet of more than 20 vessels in total. First power is expected in 2027 with full commercial operation in 2028.