Sea Puffin 1, the world’s first daughter craft based on surface-effect-ship (SES) technology, has kicked off two months of sea trials at Vattenfall’s Horns Rev 1 and Ørsted’s Horns Rev 2 offshore wind farms in the Danish North Sea.
Taiwan International Ports Corp. (TIPC) has launched Taiwan’s first offshore wind crew transfer vessel (CTV) at the Port of Taichung in the Changhua County.
GeoSea’s jack-up vessel Innovation has installed the last of the twenty suction bucket jacket foundations on Orsted’s 450MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.
Fugro started carrying out a geotechnical campaign at the Dieppe-Le Tréport offshore wind farm site in France at the beginning of July, when the company mobilised its Excalibur vessel for the works that involve several borehole tests on various locations.
GE Renewable Energy has contracted Bernhard Schulte Offshore to provide a new-build service operation vessel (SOV) for the 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm.
Eight out of 32 monopile foundations have been installed on the Trianel Windpark Borkum II in the German North Sea, the project’s developers said.
GeoSea’s multi-purpose, self-propelled jack-up vessel Apollo completed the full-height testing of its jacking system on 25 June 2018 at the Uljanik Shipyard in Pula, Croatia, rising above the city and its ancient landmarks such as the Pula Arena amphitheatre and Temple of Augustus.
Van Oord has started the next campaign to install jacket foundations at East Anglia One wind farm offshore Suffolk, UK, with twelve of the units now already in place.
Boskalis’s cable laying vessel Stemat Spirit has started loading inter-array cables for the 497MW EnBW Hohe See offshore wind farm project.
Following the announcement of new Contracts for Difference (CfDs) auctions in the UK, which will add hundreds of new offshore wind turbines, the UK Chamber of Shipping called for a more meticulous approach to planning so disruption to shipping could me minimised.
Van Oord’s freshly upgraded jack-up Aeolus is currently undergoing final preparations at the Port of Vlissingen, the Netherlands, prior to heading out to the Norther offshore wind farm to install the first monopile foundations.
The first MHI Vestas 8.3MW wind turbine has been installed on Vattenfall’s 406.7MW Horns Rev 3 wind farm in the Danish North Sea.
CSBC has commenced construction of a 140m barge that will serve the offshore wind sector in Taiwan.
Van Oord’s cable lay vessel Nexus has loaded the final set of inter-array cables for the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm and is currently installing them at the site in the German North Sea.
