UK marine engineering company MAATS Tech has announced that it received a patent for its latest product, the Vessel Enabler, a modular chute that enables high-tension horizontal cable lay in deep waters and thus eliminates the need for a vertical lay tower or vertical lay system.
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult is coordinating a study on the psychological and physiological well-being of crew being transited to offshore wind farms in choppy waters.
Royal IHC has handed over the fully self-propelled DP2 crane vessel Gulliver to Scaldis, a subsidiary of DEME, Jan de Nul and Herbosch-Kiere.
The 75.5-metre self-elevating jack-up Seafox 7 has undergone its second five-year survey and maintenance works at Damen Shiprepair Amsterdam (DSAm).
Seaway Heavy Lifting’s heavy lift vessel Oleg Strashnov has installed the jacket foundation for the second Offshore Transformer Module (OTM) on the Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland.
Wind turbine number three and foundation number five are being installed on the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) in the Aberdeen Bay, with the northern cable installation also ongoing, Vattenfall, the owner and developer of the wind farm said.
Ørsted has signed a contract with Taiwan-based EGST to conduct three geophysical surveys at the offshore site of the Greater Changhua wind project in Taiwan.
DEME Group has contracted Chevalier Floatels to provide a floating hotel for the crew working on the cable laying vessel Living Stone in Vlissingen, the Netherlands.
Jiangsu Longyuan Zhenhua Marine Engineering has ordered an offshore wind installation platform with a lifting capacity of 2,500 tonnes from ZPMC.
Windcat Workboats has launched Windcat 41, the second crew transfer vessel (CTV) in its new MK3.5 series.
GeoSea has installed all of the transition pieces at the 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm in the German North Sea using A2SEA’s jack-up vessel Sea Challenger.
Liebherr-MCCtec Rostock GmbH marked the production start of the HLC, Liebherr’s biggest offshore crane, which will be mounted on DEME Group’s Orion, a next-generation offshore installation vessel.
Vroon’s crew transfer vessel (CTV) MPI Napoleon has secured a charter in the German sector of the Baltic Sea.
Portsmouth based cargo operator MMD Shipping Services has secured a 10-year agreement with international wind turbine manufacturer MHI Vestas Offshore Wind.
