Remøy Management AS applied to fill several positions on ABB’s new cable-laying vessel, to be delivered next year, and advertised job vacancies. Deemed the world’s most modern cable-layer, the vessel is under construction at Kleven shipyard in Norway, with delivery expected in the first half of 2017
Olympic Shipping, a Norwegian owner and operator of offshore service vessels, has contracted its inspection, maintenance and repair ship Olympic Delta to an unnamed international client for a renewable energy project. The Olympic Delta will start its charter in August for a fixed period of 120 days
Norway’s Bonheur ASA and Ganger Rolf ASA will complete their merger on 6 May, with Bonheur ASA as the surviving entity, the companies said in a stock filing. The last day the two companies will trade separately on the Oslo Stock Exchange will be 4 May, according to the statement. The merger will be
The cable-laying vessel Siem Aimery, the latest vessel added to the Siem Offshore fleet, was christened in a naming ceremony on Wednesday, 27 April, at the Remontowa Shipbuilding yard in Gdansk, Poland. The vessel will now undergo final mobilisation prior to commencing cable loading activities for i
Her Majesty the Queen of Belgium christened the new offshore installation vessel of the Jan De Nul Group today. The vessel, named Vole au Vent, was christened in the Port of Ostend – the base port of Jan de Nul’s team for the Nobelwind (Bligh Bank Phase 2) project – in the presence of the family and
Norway-headquartered ship designer and shipbuilder Ulstein has launched its first ever wind farm service operation vessel (SOV) at its Ulstein Verft yard in Ulsteinvik. The SOV, yet to be officially named, is the first of two being constructed for Bernhard Schulte Offshore. She is chartered out to S
The first wind turbine foundations have been installed at the 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farm, Iberdrola, the owner and developer of the wind farm located in the German part of the Baltic Sea, said. The milestone was announced in the Spanish utility’s financial report for the first quarter of 2016
JR Rix & Sons Ltd and Boston Energy have formed a joint venture, BostonRix Wind Ltd, to offer a set of integrated services to offshore wind developers and OEMs. JR Rix & Sons Ltd is the parent company of the Humber-based wind farm support vessel owner and operator Rix Sea Shuttle, and the East Yorks
N-Sea has been awarded a pre-construction unexploded ordnance (UXO) contract with Galloper Offshore Wind Farm Ltd (GWFL). The clearance works commenced in April 2016 and include UXO risk management, target investigations and clearance on the Galloper wind farm, off the coast of Suffolk. Expected to
UK-based wind farm support vessel (WFSV) owner and operator Iceni Marine Sevices has issued a visual status report on the construction of their 23-metre crew transfer vessel, Iceni Defender, being built by Alicat Workboats Ltd. in Great Yarmouth. Iceni Defender is a sister vessel of Iceni Venture an
Seaway Heavy Lifting has shared this photo of the heavy-lifting vessel Stanislav Yudin setting the topside of the Horns Rev C substation down onto the jacket construction. The topside was transported from the Port of Esbjerg to the installation site some 20 kilometers off the Danish North Sea coast
E.ON has awarded the contract for the transport and installation of foundations at the Arkona offshore wind project in the German Baltic Sea to Van Oord. Van Oord intends to deploy its heavy lift installation vessel Svanen to install the project’s 60 monopiles and transition pieces. Arnoud Kuis, Man
A2SEA has won the contract to install sixty six-megawatt Siemens wind turbines at the 385MW Arkona offshore wind farm in the German part of the Baltic Sea. A2SEA will start turbine installation works in the summer of 2018. The company will use the offshore installation vessel Sea Challenger for the
BOW Terminal has shared this photo of GeoSea’s Innovation at berth in Flushing and demobilising the equipment used for the installation of foundations at the 332MW Nordsee One offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The photo shows a pile hammer stored along the heavy quay side and a noise mitig
