On 21 July, Taipower and Taiwan International Ports Corporation (TIPC) officially signed an agreement on the development of three sites at the Port of Taichung for offshore wind farm construction. Works already started on 11 June and are now well under way.
The Ibaraki Prefectural Government in Japan has selected the Kajima offshore wind power consortium comprising Wind Power Energy and Hitachi Wind Power to develop the 93.6MW Kashima Port offshore wind project.
United Wind Logistics’ new special purpose vessel Vestvind arrived at the Port of Esbjerg today, 7 July, the port reported via social media.
The Port of Esbjerg, a Danish offshore wind hub, expects increased activity towards 2030, both within existing and new business areas and is looking into the possibilities of further expansion to meet the demand.
In response to the U.S. President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., and Washington State Governor Jay Inslee announced the formation of the United States Climate Alliance.
The Port of Rotterdam has taken the decision to create space for an offshore center for wind energy at sea – the Rotterdam Offshore Center Maasvlakte 2.
The Port of Esbjerg informed via social media that it is preparing to handle the components of the Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm in Denmark.
The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) held the second offshore wind public hearing on 30 March and saw hundreds of Marylanders, including legislators, business leaders, labour groups, environmental organisations and other citizens joining the meeting.
Scotland’s Port of Cromarty Firth has been awarded two contracts by Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) to support the installation of the 580MW Beatrice offshore wind farm in Outer Moray Firth.
Offshore wind farm components accounting for 1,100MW of capacity were shipped from the Port of Esbjerg in 2016, more than double the amount in 2015, according to the port, which reported a record turnover of EUR 30.94 million and a record net profit of EUR 10.68 million for 2016.
UK port owner and operator Forth Ports is investing GBP 10 million to construct a new quayside at the Port of Dundee in order to put the port at the forefront of the North Sea oil & gas decommissioning and offshore wind sectors.
Quonset Development Corporation (QDC) has started working on modernising and rehabilitating Pier 2 at the Port of Davisville, after receiving an approval for a USD 50 million general obligation bond for the redevelopment of the pier in November 2016.
Blue Abyss, a GBP 65 million subsea, Space and life science training, research and testing centre designed by Robin Partington and planned to be operational by the end of the next year, will incorporate the world’s biggest training pool.
Today, the Port of Esbjerg is hosting Siemens Wind Power’s official presentation of its first customised “roll on/roll off ” (RoRo) transport vessel, Rotra Vente. “We look forward to seeing the vessels frequently at the Port, where we are currently building two new RoRo ramps and expanding our piers
