Consortium partners Dura Vermeer and De Vries & Van der Wiel today started work on the Kooyhaven development at the Dutch Port of Den Helder, a project expected to open up the region to the offshore wind industry. Kooyhaven is located immediately to the south of the N99 trunk road, and to the east o
SeaRoc, the company behind the SeaPlanner marine management software, said it is looking ahead to a much more active offshore wind market in the following three years, after a relatively slow 2015. SeaRoc Group’s Managing Director Steve Pears said: “2015 has brought both challenges and opportunities
Port of Cromarty Firth Services Ltd has bought a 90-tonne and 130-tonne Liebherr mobile cranes for more than £1m. Martin Brayshaw, Managing Director, Port of Cromarty Firth Services Ltd, said: “Purchasing these cranes will not only help to service our customers in oil and gas, they will also be used
Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: Sea Challenger loading Gode Wind turbine components at the Port of Esbjerg, while transition pieces (TPs) and monopiles for the Sandbank offshore wind farm are ready for load out. Earlier this month, A2SEA’s installation vessel Sea Challenger returned to Port of Esb
The UK Government will secure funding for three offshore wind auctions by 2020 under the condition that the industry further cuts down the costs. This was announced by the UK Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd, who revealed a new direction for UK energy policy today, setting out her poli
Port of Cherbourg is getting ready for the first French offshore wind farms, with 44ha of port land alongside a heavy-load quay with a bearing capacity of 15t/m2 already available for the marine renewable energies sector. The new heavy-load quay has been in service since March 2015. With the ongoing
Port of Ardersier Ltd, the company behind the plan to develop an offshore wind manufacturing hub at the former McDermott Fabrication Yard in Ardersier, has gone into administration. In 2013, the company submitted applications to Highland Council, Marine Scotland and Transport Scotland for the consen
JDR has expanded its service footprint with PD Ports in Hartlepool to support its continued growth in the oil and gas and renewables sectors, the company reported today. JDR has been a tenant at the Port of Hartlepool since first acquiring 97,000 square foot (sq.ft.) of warehouse space in 2008 and s
Per Aarsleff A/S has entered into a contract with Frederikshavn Havn A/S for the enlargement of Port of Frederikshavn. The contract worth DKK 552 million (approx. EUR 74 million) covers phase 1 of a major expansion project for Port of Frederikshavn. The Port will enlarge and improve its current harb
During the 3rd Offshore Summit in the Port of Sassnitz, the Sassnitz-Mukran site was celebrated for being a focal point of offshore wind farm projects in the Baltic Sea. Major players in the energy industry, representatives from politics, industry and associations exchanged views on projects and pot
Frederikshavn Havn A/S, after an invitation to tender which involved four tenderers, expects to enter into a contract with Per Aarsleff A/S for the first phase of the port enlargement. The contract is expected to have a total value of DKK 500-600 million (approx. EUR 67-80 million). The invitation t
E.ON has selected the Port of Sassnitz in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as a logistics base for its Arkona Becken Südost, a wind farm it plans to build in the German Baltic Sea. The port would serve the wind farm during construction and then become its operations center. With Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s Energ
ORIX has agreed to participate in the joint development and construction of Kashima Port Large-Scale Offshore Wind Farm which is to be built offshore of Kashima Port in Kamisu City, Ibaraki Prefecture. The equity investment by ORIX into the project company was also completed today. The project invol
This morning, the jack-up vessel WIND arrived at the Port of Oostende for the first time, where it will pick up parts for the Belwind offshore wind farm. The vessel is carrying out maintenance work on Belwind. The Belwind offshore wind farm comprises fifty five Vestas’ V90-3.0MW (MHI Vestas Offshore
