International classification society Bureau Veritas has issued new rules for the classification of offshore service vessels.
Siem Offshore Contractors’ accommodation and personnel transfer vessel Siem Moxie has begun work on Statoil’s Hywind Scotland, the world’s first floating wind farm.
Bibby Marine Services’ service operation vessel (SOV), Bibby WaveMaster 1, has completed her maiden voyage from Damen shipyard in Galati, Romania, to the Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Managing the working and rest hours of crews whilst ensuring the successful completion of technician transfers continues to pose a significant challenge in the safe operation of offshore wind crew transfer vessels (CTVs), according to the National Workboat Association (NWA).
Isle of Wight-based Seacat Services has held an official naming ceremony for the 23-metre wind farm support vessel – Seacat Liberty.
The UK government has extended the recently introduced concession to the immigration rules to allow the employment of non-European Economic Area nationals who are joining vessels engaged in the construction and maintenance of offshore wind projects in UK territorial waters.
DeepOcean’s Maersk Connector has completed loading of the first phase on the Nemo Link cables in the port of Blyth.
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Brave Tern has installed 56 out of 70 Adwen 5MW wind turbines on the Wikinger offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea, Iberdrola, the owner and developer of the project, told Offshore WIND to mark a half way milestone on the project.
A2SEA’s wind turbine installation vessel Sea Challenger has loaded the final set of wind turbine components for the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm project at the Port of Hull.
Nexans has announced the start of construction of a new cable-laying vessel for submarine high voltage (HV) cable systems installation. Being built by Uljanik Group, a Croatia-based shipyard, the high capacity Nexans vessel is designed for worldwide installation of large volumes of HVDC and HVAC cab
Heavy lift vessel Stanislav Yudin has installed more than three quarters of the foundation piles on the 588MW Beatrice wind farm off Scotland, Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL), reports.
Vattenfall is seeking crew transfer vessels (CTVs) to assist during the construction and operations and maintenance of the 406MW Horns Rev 3 wind farm in the Danish North Sea.
Wales-based Turbine Transfers has won a contract to provide Tideway B.V., part of DEME Group, with four crew transfer vessels (CTVs) for the Merkur offshore wind farm project in the German North Sea.
UK engineers MAATS Tech delivered cable-laying equipment to NKT’s newbuild NKT Victoria prior to the vessel’s first project – the Caithness – Moray subsea link in Scotland.
