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  • 26 November 2025
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Damen Shipyards Group, a Dutch shipbuilding giant, has been tasked with bringing to life a new multi-purpose accommodation support vessel (MP-ASV) for Windcat, a part of CMB.TECH, said to be one of the world’s largest listed, diversified, and future-proof maritime groups, with a fleet of about 250 vessels. An option to build five additional ships […]

  • 25 July 2025
    Vessels

    Windcat Rotterdam, the first in the Elevation Series of Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOVs) being built by Damen, has completed sea trials. Windcat Rotterdam is now entering the final stages before delivery this summer. The vessel is based on Damen’s proven CSOV design, adapted in close cooperation with its client Windcat. After more than a […]

  • 7 October 2025
    Technology, Vessels

    Robosys Automation has secured a new contract to retrofit a Damen crew transfer vessel (CTV) with its Voyager AI maritime autonomy software. This is the second CTV designed and built by Damen to be fitted with the UK company’s autonomy software. Robosys Automation left the client who ordered the retrofit unnamed, only saying that it […]

  • 26 August 2025
    Vessels

    Windcat has officially launched the first of six hybrid-powered Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOVs) that are part of the company’s newly developed Elevation Series. The CSOV, named Windcat Rotterdam, was constructed at Ha Long Shipyard in Vietnam and developed in collaboration with Damen Shipyards Group, Windcat, and CMB.TECH. “We see a bright future for our […]

  • 8 July 2025
    Vessels

    Deugro’s Rotra Futura, which was delivered in April 2025, has officially commenced operations with the transportation of offshore wind turbine blades from Denmark to the US. The project supply vessel, specifically designed to handle larger and heavier offshore wind turbine components, collected the 108-metre blades at the Port of Aalborg under the supervision of deugro […]

  • 2 December 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Offshore services provider, High Speed Transfers (HST) Marine, and Damen Shipyards have signed a contract for the supply of three hybrid Fast Crew Supplier 2710 vessels at the annual Damen Maritime Festival held in Gorinchem, the Netherlands, at Damen’s headquarters. The three Damen vessels will be fitted with 190 kW battery arrays that will enable […]

  • 24 February 2025
    Business & Finance, Innovation

    This is an article by Navingo, owner of the offshoreWIND.biz media brand and the organiser of the annual Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference in Amsterdam.  The year has just started but the exhibition floor for Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) 2025 in November is filling up quickly. Only around 30 per cent of the […]

  • 25 November 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Damen Shipyards Group has delivered a Fast Crew Supplier 1204 to Total Offshore B.V. Total Offshore will use the crew transfer vessel (CTV), named Swift, to transport offshore personnel to wind farms in the North Sea. Damen and Total Offshore signed the contract in early October. The FCS 1204 was ready for delivery just over […]

  • 11 July 2012
    Operations & Maintenance

    Last week, two twin axe catamarans of the successful Damen FCS 2610 type have been launched at Damen’s newbuilding yard in Singapore. Both vessels will be completed in the coming weeks after which they will be transported to the Damen yard in Gorinchem, The Netherlands where they will be delivered to SeaZip Offshore Service in […]

  • 1 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Boat manufacturer Metal Shark has reached an agreement with Damen Shipyards to market Damen designs, which the company will construct at its Franklin, Louisiana shipyard.  “We are proud to offer globally proven Damen designs as we expand our footprint in new markets,” said Metal Shark president Chris Allard. “Damen’s impressive portfolio serves as the perfect […]

  • 18 July 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Vessels

    Damen Shipyards Group, Ampelmann and VEEM demonstrated the capabilities of their joint marine access solution – a Damen Fast Crew Supplier 5009 equipped with an Ampelmann L-type gangway and two VEEM VG 260SD gyro stabilisers – at the end of June on Eneco’s Princess Amalia offshore wind farm in the Netherlands.

  • 19 May 2021
    Vessels

    French workboat operator Atlantique Maritime Services (AMS) has bought one Damen Fast Crew Supplier. The Damen FCS 2610, named JLD Jayce, will be the first Damen Crew Transfer Vessel fully dedicated to the French offshore wind industry, the Dutch ship designer and shipbuilder said. AMS, which is part of Groupe LHD, already owns two Damen […]

  • 28 September 2015
    Vessels

    The Damen Shipyards Group is shipping a total of 22 vessels from several Damen shipyards aboard the heavy-lift vessel Happy Star. This is Damen’s largest transportation of stock vessels to date. Upon arrival in Europe later this month, the completed vessels will be ready for immediate sale and can swiftly be put into operation.   […]

  • 30 July 2013

    Danish company Sea Consult ApS has taken delivery of its first Damen Twin Axe as the company prepares to enter the offshore wind market. Based in Marstal, Sea Consult is a new customer to Damen and this will be the first Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) 2610 to be operated by a Danish company. The vessel […]

  • 8 December 2020
    Vessels

    Damen Shipyards Group has signed a contract with the Hamburg-based Opus Marine for the delivery of a Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) 2710. The vessel, to be named Allegro, will serve the offshore wind industry in the German section of the North Sea. Damen will deliver the vessel to Opus Marine in March 2021. The relative […]

  • 21 October 2015
    Vessels

    On 20 October, BigLift Shipping’s heavy-lift vessel Happy Star arrived in the Port of Rotterdam, bringing Damen’s largest transportation of stock vessels to date – a total of 22 vessels. Included in the Damen transport are two Fast Crew Suppliers 2610, one ASD Tug 2310, three ASD Tugs 2411 and three ASD Tugs 3212, all of which […]

  • 26 November 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Damen Shipyards Group has designed a new Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) 3410 service accommodation and transfer vessel (SATV) with features that are said to ensure its suitability for operations in the developing offshore wind market in North America.

  • 30 April 2014

    Damen announced that Windwave Workboats will be the launching customer of the Twin Axe Fast Crew Supplier (FCS) 2008. The Twin Axe FCS 2008 is a smaller version of Damen’s successful FCS 2610 which launched in 2011 and has subsequently become the industry standard for the offshore wind market, given its capability of operating further […]

  • 30 November 2022
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    At the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2022, Kommer Damen, Chairman of Damen Shipyards Group, and Arjan van Stee of Van Stee Offshore have signed a contract for the delivery of an 80-metre Multibuster 8020 ultra-shallow draught, multi-purpose workboat. To be delivered next year, Van Stee’s Multibuster 8020 is the first of a new class […]

  • 23 May 2012

    During the Seawork Awards Dinner on 22 May, Kommer Damen was awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Arnout Damen, COO of Damen Shipyards Group, accepted the inaugural award on behalf of his father from Caroline Dinenage, MP for Gosport, Stubbington, Lee-on-the-Solent and Hill Head. After working in the family business, Kommer Damen set up his […]

  • 23 December 2019
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    Damen Shipyards Group has appointed Arnout Damen as the new CEO, succeeding René Berkvens, who held the position for more than 13 years. Arnout Damen will take over the CEO position as of 1 January, when his current CCO position will be taken over by Jan-Wim Dekker. Over the past nine years, Damen has been […]

  • 24 March 2021
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Damen Shipyards Group has partnered with MO4 to pair its Triton monitoring platform with MO4 motion forecasting service for the offshore wind sector. This strategic alliance aims to offer data analytics-based services, expected to make vessel operations more effective and safety levels to increase. MO4 and Damen saw the opportunity to integrate the motion forecasting […]

  • 2 May 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Vessels

    The Damen Shipyards Group and GustoMSC have started collaborating in order to produce a range of self-propelled and non-self-propelled jack-up platforms for the offshore industries – the DG JACK range. The collaboration, announced at this year’s OTC in Houston, will be based on GustoMSC’s track record in the design of jack-ups and provision of jacking systems, combined with […]

  • 10 June 2014

    Windwave Workboats have launched Susie S, the first of the new Damen FCS 2008 crew transfer vessels at Seawork. The vessel, the first of this type from Damen, is a 20m, Bureau Veritas classed, aluminium catamaran utilising Damen’s proven Twin Axe design. Windwave Workboats Commercial Director, Peter Scriven, together with his daughter Susie Scriven, christened the vessel. […]

  • 11 July 2012

    Mr Maarten Jongen has officially been appointed Managing Director of Damen Shipyards Singapore (DSSi) from March 2012. In his new role Mr Jongen will focus on marketing, services and further improving efficiency at the yard that has been building (aluminium) Damen vessels since 2000. DSSi has been part of the Damen Shipyards Group since 2000. […]

  • 13 March 2015
    Vessels

    Robert E. Derecktor Inc. (Derecktor Shipyard) and Damen Shipyard Group (DAMEN) have entered into a license agreement authorizing Derecktor to act as an official builder of DAMEN designs. Derecktor will now offer its customers Pilot Boats and Wind Farm Support Vessels (WFSVs) by combining the wide range and international experience of DAMEN designs with its […]