A2SEA’s wind turbine installation vessel Sea Installer left the Port of Hull on Sunday, 7 May, with the first load of wind turbine components for DONG Energy’s 580MW Race Bank offshore wind farm.
Ampelmann has completed offshore trials of the first electrical trolley, named CargoLight, on the Esvagt Froude Service Operation Vessel (SOV), which is working for Siemens Wind Power at the Baltic 2 offshore wind farm in Germany.
NKT has held a naming ceremony for NKT Victoria, the company’s new cable-laying vessel which was part of the recently completed acquisition of ABB’s high voltage cable business, at its power cable plant in Karlskrona, Sweden.
Wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Pacific Orca has arrived to the Peel Ports Great Yarmouth to load Siemens wind turbine components ahead of her first trip to the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm.
The Netherlands-based Acta Marine has contracted Norway’s Ulstein Power and Control AS to deliver complete power and control systems for Acta Marine’s Construction Support Vessel (CSV) currently under construction at Ulstein Verft.
The Manor Venture, Manor Renewable Energy’s new wind farm service vessel, has performed the first push test on the 336MW Galloper wind farm off Suffolk.
Belgium’s DEME Group is recruiting more than 200 new employees in 2017 to meet the demand driven by the growth in offshore wind energy.
Cowes-based offshore energy support vessel (OESV) operator, Seacat Services, has launched two vessels with the capacity for 24 industrial personnel – the newly-accepted Seacat Enterprise, and the upgraded Seacat Courageous.
Dutch marine services provider Van Wijngaarden Marine Services has taken delivery of Lingestroom, a Damen Shoalbuster 3512, bringing the total number of Shoalbusters in its fleet to five.
Spanish shipbuilder Gondan has launched the first of two Service Operation Vessels (SOVs) ordered by Østensjø Rederi and chartered by DONG Energy.
Offshore service vessel Island Crown has just finished a month-long walk-to-work job for Bluestream at Nordsee One wind farm in the German North Sea, Island Offshore reports.
Norway’s Umoe Mandal has launched its WAVECRAFT Voyager series of high-speed, all-composite service vessels designed to offer fast crew transport and provide an alternative to using helicopters on far offshore installations.
ELA Container Offshore GmbH has recently delivered three ELA offshore multipurpose rooms on the MPI Enterprise, MPI Offshore’s construction vessel currently working on the 336MW Nordsee One offshore wind farm.
Bremerhaven-based Innoven Marine Service GmbH has emerged as the new manager of the 1984-built Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) vessel Ocean King, which has now been renamed to Lev Twister.
