Dalby Offshore, in collaboration with Plymouth-based company Manuplas, has developed a new modular honeycomb bow fender to bring greater stability to its vessels in high seas, enabling wind turbine technicians to work longer in challenging sea conditions.
Olympic Shipping has chosen Kongsberg Maritime’s new K-Walk integrated vessel gangway solution for installation aboard the multipurpose offshore vessel (MPSV), Olympic Orion to provide transfer of personnel and materials between the vessel and offshore wind turbines.
Enviro-Serve’s wind farm support vessel (WFSV) Sea Fox has returned to the company’s Lowestoft shore base after working for Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke (NSW) GmbH providing 24-hour support for their inter-array cable installation at the Nordergründe offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Through
MPM North West has recently helped prepare and facilitate the latest class renewal for Fred. Olsen Windcarrier with Bayard 4 at their facility in Maryport, UK, marking the sixth time a Bayard crew transfer vessel (CTV) has used MPM North West in the last two years. Fred. Olsen Windcarrier docked thr
Colchester-based offshore wind services provider CWind will incorporate the resources of its parent company Global Marine Systems Limited Group to add power cable installation and maintenance solutions to its offering.
A consortium of European offshore wind and maritime industry players has initiated a project aimed at improving safety and productivity of technicians performing service activities on offshore wind farms by widening the weather window for Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV) use.
Dutch MPs Call For Extension of 2023 Offshore Wind Capacity Target The House of Representatives of the Netherlands has received a motion to look into the possibility of adding new offshore wind farm zones to the country’s list of projects scheduled for commissioning by 2023. Taiwan Gets Complete Off
Offshore WIND spoke to James Strong, Business Development Director at Reflex Marine, a company looking for new ways of personnel and cargo transfer between wind turbines and vessels, and one of the developers of a guidance document for personnel crane transfer, released this summer.
Offshore WIND chose the first image of the complete hull and bridge of the Bibby WaveMaster 1 as today’s photo of the day.
Vattenfall has once again contracted Danish crew transfer vessel (CTV) operator KEM Offshore for a long-term charter of two CTVs which will service the 160MW Horns Rev 1 offshore wind farm in the Danish North Sea.
Last weekend, Vroon’s DP2 platform supply vessel (PSV) VOS Prime carried out a supply run to the wind turbine installation vessel MPI Discovery at the Rampion offshore wind farm in the UK, where MPI Discovery is at work until later this month.
On some of the projects Chevalier Floatels’ vessels DP Gazina and DP Galyna were working on, the vessels made more than 50 gangway connections to different turbines in 24 hours.
Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) has ordered a new Service Operation Vessel (SOV) based on a design from Salt Ship Design. The new vessel will be built by Cemre Shipyard in Turkey and will be operating for DONG Energy after it is delivered in Q4 2018.
SeaOwls and Ulstein have launched a new heavy lift jack-up vessel design – the SOUL, developed with the installation of next-generation offshore wind turbines (10-12MW) in mind.
