Boskalis will invest in a new high-capacity cable-laying vessel (CLV) targeting the offshore wind and interconnector markets, the company said on 18 May. According to the company, the vessel is designed to support growing demand for long-distance cable installation, particularly for high-voltage dir
South Korea’s Taihan Cable & Solution has acquired a 2016-built cable laying vessel (CLV) from Norwegian DOF Group, representing the second offshore wind-dedicated CLV introduced in Korea. The 10,000-tonne class Skandi Connector was designed by Dutch shipbuilder Damen and has to date been deployed o
SPIE Global Services Energy has been awarded a contract by Seaway7 to deliver inter-array cable termination and testing works for the Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 offshore wind farms in Poland. The work will be carried out by SPIE Wind Connect, the group’s specialist high-voltage wind power business unit
Norwegian company Agalas has taken delivery of a cable laying support (CLSV) and light construction vessel built in Türkiye that will operate with compatriot offshore contractor Cecon Contracting. Cecon Vigor was launched at the Sefine Shipyard in April 2025 and, following delivery to Agalas yesterd
Norwegian shipbuilder Ulstein has held the naming ceremony for Nexans’ new 155-metre-long cable-laying vessel (CLV) Nexans Electra. Based on the ST-297 CLV design by Skipsteknisk, Nexans Electra, ordered as the second vessel by Nexans at Norway’s Ulstein Verft, is an updated version of the sister ve
Jan De Nul has completed the installation of two export cables for the Fengmiao 1 offshore wind farm, being built by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) 35 kilometres off the coast of Taichung, Taiwan. The two high-voltage subsea cables, measuring 45 kilometres and 44 kilometres, have been inst
DeepOcean has secured a contract for the installation support of inter-array cables at the TPC offshore wind farm phase 2 (TPC-II) offshore Taiwan. The Norwegian company’s scope encompasses the installation of inter-array cables, as well as engineering and project management services. The offshore w
The hull of NKT’s new cable-laying vessel (CLV) NKT Eleonora has been launched into the water at Vard’s shipyard in Tulcea, Romania. The official keel laying for the vessel took place in January 2025, some two months after the first steel was cut. NKT Eleonora will be able to run on both methanol an
Transmission system operators (TSOs) TenneT and National Grid Ventures (NGV) have signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to advance LionLink, a hybrid interconnector linking the UK and the Netherlands via a future offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. The agreement sets out how the two part
ClassNK has issued Approval of Manufacturing Procedure (AMP) and Type Approval certificates for a high-corrosion-resistant semi-parallel wire cable (SPWC) developed by Japanese company KOBELCO Wire. According to ClassNK, the certification confirms the product meets the requirements set out in its gu
Installation of the first of 84 Siemens Gamesa 11 MW wind turbines is underway at the Sunrise Wind project site, located approximately 30 miles (around 48 kilometres) east of Montauk, New York. The installation vessel Wind Scylla, owned by Cadeler, arrived at the site on 25/26 March, according to th
Jan De Nul has contracted CRP Subsea to supply protection systems for inter-array cables at Vattenfall’s Nordlicht I offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. CRP Subsea will deliver 141 NjordGuard cable protection systems (CPS), with three NjordGuard CPS designs to be engineered to meet the speci
