World's largest pipelaying vessel crosses Çanakkale's Dardanelles

The Pioneering Spirit passes through the Dardanelles Strait in Çanakkale, Turkey on June 19, 2018. The deep-water offshore construction of the first line of the TurkStream natural gas pipeline is now complete as the world's largest pipelaying vessel, the Pioneering Spirit, reached the Turkish shore off Kiyikoy in northwest Turkey on Monday. The Pioneering Spirit commenced offshore operations in August 2016 with the removal of a mobile production platform from Norwegian waters. TurkStream is the vessel's maiden pipelaying project. It commenced deep-water pipelaying operations late June 2017 and has been working exclusively for the TurkStream project ever since