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  • 24 January 2024
    R&D, Technology, Vessels

    Tidal Transit, a supplier of purpose-design crew transfer vessels for the offshore wind industry, has begun the design and engineering phase of a project to deliver what the company claims to be the world’s first retrofit electric crew transfer vessel (E-CTV). Over the next 15 months, the UK-based company will retrofit a diesel-powered Mercurio 20-metre […]

  • 1 November 2023
    Vessels

    The Finnish shipbuilder, Uudenkaupungin Työvene OY (Työvene), has secured an order for three hybrid-ready SWATH crew transfer vessels (CTVs) from the Scottish company Maritime Craft Services (Clyde) Ltd (MCS). The first of Työvene’s SWATHs will be delivered to Maritime Craft Services in the spring of 2025. “The major advantage of the SWATH design and its […]

  • 18 January 2024
    Industry, Operations & Maintenance, Supply Chain, Vessels

    A consortium led by Bibby Marine, which is working on bringing a zero-emission electric service operation vessel (eSOV) to the UK and European offshore wind markets, has contracted Longitude Engineering, a UK-based engineering consultancy and ship design firm, to design the new SOV. Bibby Marine announced the company and its consortium partners Port of Aberdeen, […]

  • 3 October 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Boskalis’ heavy lift installation vessel, Bokalift 2, arrived at Invergordon Port on 1 October to commence loading of the first batch of three monopiles for installation at the Moray West offshore wind farm site in Scotland. The monopile installation work will be carried out by the vessel Bokalift 2, under a contract Boskalis signed with […]

  • 25 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Supply Chain, Vessels

    Cyan Renewables, a Singapore-headquartered offshore wind vessel owner established in 2022 by investment management company Seraya Partners, has acquired a majority stake in Sentinel Marine to strengthen its position in the UK offshore wind market and boost its local content. Cyan Renewables has acquired a 75 per cent stake in Sentinel Marine, the owner of […]

  • 19 March 2024
    Business development, R&D, Research & Development, Vessels

    France-headquartered Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) has introduced a concept for a service operations vessel (SOV) that utilises liquid hydrogen as its primary fuel source. The liquid-hydrogen SOV, currently in the concept design phase, will be able to operate 95 per cent of the time with zero carbon emission, with the vessel only releasing water during […]

  • 21 February 2024
    Contracts & Tenders, Supply Chain, Vessels

    The Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) Line has placed an order with Kosaba Shipbuilding Corporation for a crew transfer vessel (CTV), the first vessel of this kind NYK has ordered from a shipyard in its home country. The hull of the new 28-metre-long, 12-pax crew transfer vessel will be built based on a […]

  • 15 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Supply Chain, Vessels

    Vard has signed a contract for the design and construction of a hybrid power service operation vessel (SOV) for Singapore-headquartered Cyan Renewables. The 85.5-metre-long vessel will be built, outfitted, commissioned, and delivered from Vard Vung Tau in Vietnam, with the delivery scheduled for the second quarter of 2026. The announcement follows after Siemens Gamesa awarded […]

  • 22 March 2024
    Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Cable burial activities at the inter-array routes within the Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm site have been completed, following the wrap-up of cable installation works in January. The pre-lay grapnel run (PLGR) along the inter-array cable (IAC) routes was completed in November 2023 by the vessel Pacific Discovery. The PGLR work started in March […]

  • 18 March 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Wind turbine installation is expected to start soon at Ørsted’s Borkum Riffgrund 3 and Gode Wind 3 offshore wind farms in Germany as Seaway7’s newbuild Seaway Ventus, which has been hired to do the work, arrived in Europe. Seaway Ventus was built by China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) at its shipyard in Nantong, Jiangsu province, […]

  • 9 January 2024
    Vessels

    FRS Windcat Offshore Logistics (FWOL) has deployed the first hydrogen-powered dual-fuel crew transfer vessel (CTV) in Germany for the German transmission system operator (TSO) 50Hertz. The Hydrocat 55 is a CTV equipped with the dual-fuel hydrogen technology of CMB.TECH, one of FWOL’s shareholders. Delivered in 2023, the vessel is built the same way as the […]

  • 23 October 2023
    Collaboration, Industry, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Vessels

    Windward Offshore; a joint venture consortium led by SeaRenergy Group in collaboration with Blue Star Group, Diana Shipping, and SeraVerse; has ordered two hybrid Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOVs) from VARD to establish maritime asset services focusing on bolstering the offshore wind industry. Windward Offshore aims to play a key role in the energy transition […]

  • 19 March 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    The installation of Siemens Gamesa’s 14 MW wind turbines at the Moray West offshore wind farm site in Scotland is scheduled to start in April. The vessel chartered to install the turbines, Cadeler’s Wind Orca, has just arrived in Esbjerg, Denmark, to mobilise for the project after completing a crane upgrade in the Netherlands. In […]

  • 18 December 2023
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Foundations, Industry, Manufacturing, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Planning & Permitting, Ports & Logistics, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Turbines

    As new offshore wind markets keep emerging and targets in established markets keep increasing, questions on how much capacity can actually be installed, especially until 2030 which is just around the corner, have come to the sector’s foreground. The most vocal on the (un)likeliness of the national and regional targets for 2030 being met – […]

  • 31 October 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    New York is days away from having its first offshore wind turbine. The first wind turbine components for the South Fork offshore wind farm have been loaded onto a barge and the installation vessel Aeolus is already in the project site area. The South Fork team has loaded out the components for the first wind […]

  • 20 December 2023
    Cables, Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Grid Connection, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord has completed the installation of all foundations and inter-array cables at Iberdrola’s Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in the German sector of the Baltic Sea. The heavy-lift installation vessel Svanen installed the final monopile in September and the company has now put all the transition pieces (TPs) in place. The TPs were installed […]

  • 24 October 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Supply Chain, Vessels

    Eneti has unveiled that Seajacks UK, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, signed a contract with an undisclosed client to transport and install turbines. With mobilization commencing in the second quarter of 2027, the contract will be performed by one of Eneti’s two NG16000X wind turbine installation vessels (WTIVs) currently under construction at Hanwa Ocean […]

  • 29 September 2023
    R&D, Technology

    ZF Wind Power has sent off the first powertrain for Vestas’s V236-15 MW offshore wind turbine, ahead of serial production starting next year. The Vesta’s powertrain is transported from Belgium to Denmark via inland waterways and seas. The Vestas V236-15 MW wind turbine features 115.5-long blades and, with a swept area of 43,742 m2, it […]

  • 30 October 2023
    Business development, R&D, Research & Development, Technology

    Ørsted has become “the first offshore wind company in the world” to use giant autonomous drones to transport cargo to wind turbines. The Danish offshore wind giant is testing the drones to transport cargo from vessels to its 1.2 GW Hornsea One project in the UK. Building on its previous experience using smaller drones in […]

  • 23 November 2023
    Collaboration, Contracts & Tenders, Outlook & Strategy, Supply Chain, Vessels

    Havfram Wind has entered into a strategic cooperation with Integrated Wind Solutions (IWS), through their wholly-owned subsidiaries, IWS Fleet AS and IWS Fleet Management. The collaboration involves IWS providing technical management services to Havfram Wind’s two offshore wind turbine installation vessels (WTIVs) with scheduled delivery in 2025. These WTIVs are designed to install turbines exceeding […]

  • 13 December 2023
    Collaboration, Industry, Outlook & Strategy

    Building on a previous collaboration focused on tower foundations and lifting guidelines, Siemens Gamesa and Vestas, facilitated by Energy Cluster Denmark, have signed a new partnership agreement to increase standardisation within the wind industry. Initially, the partners will standardise equipment for the transportation of wind turbine towers. “Currently, whenever a wind turbine tower is shipped […]

  • 14 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Supply Chain, Vessels

    Siemens Gamesa has awarded a 15-year charter contract to Cyan Renewables for its first service operation vessel (SOV) in Asia. The contract will begin in 2026 and the SOV will be used to service 73 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD wind turbines at the Hai Long offshore wind farms, located about 50 kilometres off the […]

  • 14 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Supply Chain

    Netherlands-based Van Oord has been contracted for the construction of the Baltica 2, which is the first stage of the Baltica Offshore Wind Farm in the Polish Baltic Sea. The offshore wind project, developed by PGE and Ørsted, will be located in the Polish section of the Baltic Sea approximately 40 kilometres off the coast […]

  • 26 January 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Work on the construction of a service base that will serve the Baltic Power offshore wind farm, a joint project between ORLEN Group and Northland Power, has begun in Łeba, Poland. The service base in Łeba will be ready in 2025, one year before the Baltic Power offshore wind farm becomes operational. The service base […]

  • 27 February 2024
    Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    RWE is establishing a dedicated servicing team for offshore wind farms in the UK and Germany, where the company currently has five operational projects. For this purpose, the developer has signed a three-year agreement with Global Wind Services to provide a team of expert team leads and technicians, and an 18-month contract with Rem Offshore […]

  • 18 September 2023
    Vessels

    Shanghai Electric’s two Ulstein-designed service operation vessels (SOVs), the first SOVs for wind farms in China, were launched at the ZMPC yard on 16 September. The launch ceremony was attended by China offshore wind farm developers like the State Power Investment Corporation, Three Gorges Corporation, and China Nuclear Power. The two vessels are of the […]