As of 10 January, C-bed’s floating hotel Wind Ambition has been deployed on the Wikinger offshore wind project in the Baltic Sea, C-bed informed this morning.
An unexploded sea mine has been found floating near the Gode Wind 2 offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, Germany’s Central Command for Maritime Emergencies (Havariekommando) reports. The mine, believed to be from World War II, was spotted at the edge of the wind farm on Tuesday morning , 10 J
German navigation system manufacturer Raytheon Anschütz, together with its Norwegian distributor Syberg, will supply its Synapsis Integrated Navigation System (INS) for Esvagt’s new Havyard 831 wind farm service operation vessel (SOV). Raytheon Anschütz will supply the system with a total of six Syn
Norwegian supplier of offshore support vessels, Simon Møkster Shipping, has signed a contract with VBMS for Stril Server, which will support the company’s works in the North Sea. The vessel will be deployed for 5 months, and possibly longer, starting in April. This marks Møkster’s first contract wit
Installation of first wind turbines at the Wikinger offshore wind farm is set to start as soon as weather conditions allow. First wind turbine components have been loaded onto the jack-up vessel Brave Tern at the Port of Sassnitz-Mukran, and the vessel is now waiting for a weather window to sail out
Seacat Services informed today that it had moved into its new purpose-designed headquarters in Cowes, Isle of Wight, and strengthened its operational team ahead of the major offshore wind construction phase beginning in April this year. With a number of high-profile multi-gigawatt offshore wind deve
A2SEA’s wind farm installation vessel Sea Challenger has installed the first turbine on the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm situated some 32 kilometres off North Norfolk, UK. The first out of the 67 Siemens 6MW turbines was installed on Saturday, 7 January. For the next months, the vessel will inst
C-bed’s floating hotel Wind Innovation has started 2017 by heading off to the German North Sea and starting a new charter on the 402MW Veja Mate offshore wind farm. The new project is located 95 kilometres off Borkum Island. In total, the wind farm will comprise 67 Siemens 6MW turbines. The project
DONG Energy has signed a contract with Solstad Offshore for two construction support vessels (CSVs) to be used on offshore wind projects. The offshore wind developer hired CSV Rem Installer for a period of 23 months with further 6 months option and an additional CSV from Solstad’s fleet, to be nomin
Birkenhead-based shipyard and engineering services company Cammell Laird is to ramp up its operations in the energy sector with the appointment of a new managing director. Jonathan Brown has joined the energy division of Cammell Laird from Rolls Royce where he led its nuclear new build and projects
Colchester-based CWind supplied crew transfer vessels (CTVs) to assist with blade repair operations at E.ON’s Robin Rigg offshore wind farm. CWind deployed a MPC19 vessel and the SWATH Endurance on Robin Rigg. The MPC19 benefits from having a low operating draft, which makes it ideally equipped to o
A2SEA’s wind farm installation vessel Sea Challenger is preparing to sail out of the port of Hull with the first load of turbine components to be installed at the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm. Sea Challenger was loaded with components of four Siemens 6MW turbines on Wednesday, 4 January. The ves
Global Renewables Shipbrokers (GRS) today informed it had completed its first assignment in Taiwan by providing brokerage services on turnkey solution basis for a geotechnical soil investigation campaign in Taiwanese waters. GRS said it supported a European wind farm developer during the entire purc
The Veja Mate offshore wind farm project has entered the turbine installation phase with two of the wind farm installation vessels (WFIVs) contracted for the task currently loading the first batch of turbine components at the Port of Esbjerg in Denmark, according to Siemens. The two WFIVs tasked wit
