The Danish Maritime Authority (DMA) has issued a report on safety analysis for high-speed offshore vessels carrying up to 60 persons, which can be used to harmonise safety on board offshore vessels carrying wind turbine technicians.
Bremen-based shipping company Harren & Partner is set to become technical manager of Wind Lift I. The company’s Offshore Department headed by Robert Fowler will be responsible for managing the jack-up vessel starting from April.
Some 90% of Norwegian shipowners find the offshore wind industry as interesting for their activities in the future, according to a diagram published by the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association.
Hamburg-based Opus Marine has won a contract to provide crew transfer services during the construction of the 385MW Arkona offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.
Fugro will start a geophysical survey in and around the 586MW Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm in early April, a notice to mariners reveals.
GeoSea’s jack-up vessel Innovation has installed all 56 turbine foundations at the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm two months ahead of schedule, Galloper Wind Farm Ltd. reports.
Scotland’s Port of Cromarty Firth has been awarded two contracts by Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) to support the installation of the 580MW Beatrice offshore wind farm in Outer Moray Firth.
C-Job Naval Architects will provide the Basic Design package for the new wind farm installation vessel ordered by DEME from COSCO (QiDong) Offshore in China.
One of the primary drivers of non-access days at offshore wind farms is wave height, and new generation crew transfer vessels (CTVs) with a larger wave height operating range would be expected to bring non-access days down for sites with higher mean monthly Hs, according to the SPARTA Portfolio Revi
Van Oord has signed a contract for modification of its offshore installation vessel Aeolus with Damen Shiprepair at Schiedam.
Fugro’s multi-purpose offshore vessel Fugro Symphony will return to the 400MW Rampion offshore wind farm next week to install the remaining inter-array cables at the site located some 13 kilometres off the Sussex coast.
Damen Shiprepair & Conversion (DSC) has been working on Vole au vent, Jan De Nul’s 140m jack-up vessel purpose built for the installation of new generation offshore wind turbines, as the vessel has been deployed on two installation phases at the Belgian Nobelwind offshore wind farm.
Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) will begin installing piles for jacket foundations at the Beatrice offshore wind farm on 27 March. The work will be carried out by the heavy lift vessel Stanislav Yudin, recently equipped with NAMI’s purpose built 700-tonne Pile Installation Frame (PIF).
Denmark Makes Room for Testing 330m Tall Wind Turbines Danish Government has approved the expansion of the national wind turbine test centres in Østerild and Høvsøre. Four new sites will be added, facilitating testing of turbines of up to 330 metres. BNEF: 237MW of Floating Offshore Wind by 2020 The
