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AF Gruppen Buys Acteon Business to Expand Its Decom and Offshore Wind Offering
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AF Gruppen Buys Acteon Business to Expand Its Decom and Offshore Wind Offering

Norway’s AF Gruppen is acquiring Aberdeen-headquartered Claxton from Acteon Group for an agreed enterprise value of GBP 63.5 million (around EUR 72.8 million). The transaction comprises the operating companies Claxton Engineering Service Ltd. (UK), Probe Manufacturing and Fabrication Ltd. (UK), Clax

about 4 months ago
Hull Assembly Starts for Asso.subsea’s New Cable Layer
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Hull Assembly Starts for Asso.subsea’s New Cable Layer

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China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) has held the keel laying ceremony for Asso.subsea’s new cable-laying vessel (CLV), marking the start of the vessel’s assembly. The keel-laying ceremony was held on 9 April at CMHI’s shipyard on Mazhou Island, Shenzhen, some five months after the start of constru

about 4 months ago
Industry’s Largest Subsea Rock Installation Vessel in Final Preparations for First Job
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Industry’s Largest Subsea Rock Installation Vessel in Final Preparations for First Job

Boskalis’s new subsea rock installation (SRI) vessel, described by the company as the largest in the industry, has arrived in the Netherlands for final outfitting and commissioning ahead of its first assignment later this year. Windpiper, whose purchase Boskalis announced in January 2025, was develo

about 5 months ago
NKT Eleonora Enters New Construction Phase as Its Hull Makes a Splash
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NKT Eleonora Enters New Construction Phase as Its Hull Makes a Splash

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

about 5 months ago
Dutch Start Building Enshore’s Specialist Shallow Draft Cable Lay Barge
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Dutch Start Building Enshore’s Specialist Shallow Draft Cable Lay Barge

Holland Shipyards Group is constructing a specialist shallow draft cable lay barge, purpose-built to support nearshore and inshore cable installation and marine support operations, for Enshore Subsea, with delivery expected this summer. Enshore Advantage is being built at Holland Shipyards Group’s y

about 5 months ago
PASSER and Australian Partner Plan Dedicated Storage and Cable‑Handling Hub in Singapore
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PASSER and Australian Partner Plan Dedicated Storage and Cable‑Handling Hub in Singapore

Norway-headquartered PASSER Group and Australia’s Qube International are planning to establish a dedicated storage and cable‑handling hub in Singapore with the aim of strengthening regional capability and creating a more efficient, integrated logistics footprint for the energy sector across the Asia

about 5 months ago
One New and One Converted Trenching Support Vessel to Enrich Jan De Nul’s Fleet
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One New and One Converted Trenching Support Vessel to Enrich Jan De Nul’s Fleet

Jan De Nul is expanding its fleet with the addition of two trenching support vessels, with the first being a newbuild and the other to be converted from a water injection dredger. The new trenching support vessel, of an Ulstein design and to be built at the China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) ship

about 6 months ago
Asso.subsea Orders Second Next-Gen Trenching Support Vessel from China Merchants
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Asso.subsea Orders Second Next-Gen Trenching Support Vessel from China Merchants

Greece’s Asso.subsea has signed the shipbuilding contract with China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) for the construction of a second next-generation trenching support vessel (TSV), sister to the one announced in September 2025. The TSV Andromeda will be built at CMHI’s Shenzhen Shipyard, where the

about 6 months ago
Ørsted Launch Customer of UK’s First Commercial Biomethanol Bunkering Service
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Ørsted Launch Customer of UK’s First Commercial Biomethanol Bunkering Service

The UK’s first commercially ready biomethanol storage and supply service for shipping has been launched at the Port of Immingham, the largest port by cargo volume in the UK, as part of efforts to advance decarbonisation in maritime transport. The first company to use the new service will be the offs

about 6 months ago
WATCH: Subsea Construction Vessel Now Ready for Inter-Array Cable Installation
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WATCH: Subsea Construction Vessel Now Ready for Inter-Array Cable Installation

DeepOcean has upgraded a multifunctional subsea support and construction vessel it chartered from Olympic Subsea with dedicated cable-lay and installation capacity for offshore wind. The two Norwegian companies entered into a two-year time charter agreement for Olympic Ares in March 2023, with an op

about 7 months ago
Subsea Cable Firm XLCC Relaunches as Aquora, Focuses on Installation First
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Subsea Cable Firm XLCC Relaunches as Aquora, Focuses on Installation First

UK-based XLCC has rebranded and relaunched as Aquora, with a focus on cable installation and manufacturing to address the “critical demand” for high-voltage cable supply in the UK and Europe. Aquora will focus first on installation, utilising a new, UK-flagged cable-lay vessel (CLV), which will also

about 7 months ago
‘Mobilising EUR 1 Trillion in Investments’ | North Sea Countries, Industry, TSOs to Ink Offshore Wind Pact
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‘Mobilising EUR 1 Trillion in Investments’ | North Sea Countries, Industry, TSOs to Ink Offshore Wind Pact

Government officials from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK are set to sign a declaration confirming the ambition to build 300 GW of offshore wind in the North Seas by 2050, and an investment pact with the offshore wind industry and transmissi

about 7 months ago
Ulstein Building Two 130-Metre Cable-Laying Vessels for OMS Group
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Ulstein Building Two 130-Metre Cable-Laying Vessels for OMS Group

Norway-headquartered subsea services provider OMS Group has signed contracts with Norwegian shipbuilder Ulstein for the design and construction of two cable-laying vessels (CLVs). Designed by Ulstein Design & Solutions, the ULSTEIN SX252 vessels will be 130 metres long and 22 metres wide and will ha

about 7 months ago
A photo of the Rampion offshore wind farm off Brighton, UK, in sunrise
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Ten Most Read News on offshoreWIND.biz in 2025

OffshoreWIND.biz has millions of views per year and hundreds of thousands per month. In 2025, some stories received significantly bigger attention than others, and in this overview, we are bringing the ten most popular news in the now-past year. In August, only days after Ørsted reported that Revolu

about 8 months ago