Portsmouth based cargo operator MMD Shipping Services has secured a 10-year agreement with international wind turbine manufacturer MHI Vestas Offshore Wind.
Van Oord’s cable laying vessel Nexus has started installing cables on Ørsted’s 450MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.
The Buss Orange Blue Terminal Eemshaven has signed a contract with GeoSea for port logistics services of 87 monopiles and transition pieces for the 497MW Hohe See and the 112MW Albatros offshore wind farms in the German North Sea.
Swire Blue Ocean’s wind turbine installation vessel Pacific Osprey has installed the first monopile foundation on the 497MW EnBW Hohe See offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.
DEME Group’s advanced cable lay vessel Living Stone has arrived from Santurtzi in Spain to Vlissingen, the Netherlands, where the vessel will undergo final outfittings before completion, DEME’s spokesperson told Offshore WIND.
The recently converted self-propelled DP2 crane vessel Bokalift 1 has started installing foundation pin piles on the 102-turbine East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm in the UK North Sea waters, Van Oord, the contractor for the foundation transport and installation works, told Offshore WIND.
China Steel Corporation (CSC) has held a groundbreaking ceremony for an offshore wind foundations manufacturing plant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Fugro’s geotechnical drill vessel Fugro Scout has completed a three-week programme of test drilling at the locations of the 90 turbine foundations and two offshore substations on the 860MW Triton Knoll offshore wind farm.
Offshore wind installation vessel Pacific Osprey is loading the first monopiles and transition pieces for the 497MW EnBW Hohe See offshore wind farm at the Port of Vlissingen in the Netherlands.
EnBW has started the offshore construction on two wind farms in the German North Sea – the 497MW Hohe See and the 112MW Albatros.
The Hornsea Project One offshore substation topside Z12 has been loaded onto a barge and is awaiting sail out to the installation site some 120 kilometres off Yorkshire, UK.
The construction of new offshore wind farms off the US East Coast states could lead to the creation of more than 75,000 clean energy jobs, according to a new report from the Center for American Progress and the New Jersey Work Environment Council (WEC).
Bay State Wind, the US-based 50-50 partnership between Ørsted and Eversource developing an offshore wind project in Massachusetts, has entered into an agreement with the steel pipe manufacturing specialist EEW to open and staff a Massachusetts facility to manufacture offshore wind turbine foundation
GE Renewable Energy has hired specialists from RTS Wind AG to work on the 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm, which marks the first cooperation between the two companies.
