Suomen Hyötytuuli Oy, the developer of the 40MW Tahkoluoto offshore wind farm in Pori, Finland, and Jan De Nul NV, the project’s main contractor for marine construction, have invited local businesses to join the two companies in constructing the world’s first offshore wind farm suitable for icy cond
Vroon has taken delivery of VOS Star, the second and final subsea-support vessel (SSV) in a series ordered at China’s Fujian Southeast Shipbuilding. The vessel, a DP2, SPS-coded, 68-metre SSV, was delivered during a short ceremony held at the shipyard on 13 April 2016. VOS Star left the shipyard on
Over the last weekend, Belgium’s GeoSea installed the final foundation at the 332MW Nordsee One offshore wind farm located approximately 40 kilometres north of the island of Juist in the German part of the North Sea. All 54 monopile foundations were also fitted with the associated transition pieces
E.ON has awarded Turbine Transfers with a contract for three vessels to be deployed at the Robin Rigg offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea. The UK wind farm service and support vessel operator has been working at the site for the previous few years, and was now chosen to continue the work for a furth
Frisia-Offshore GmbH has added another 22-metre catamaran – the Wind Force III – to its fleet of Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs). The Wind Force III is identical to the company’s 2009-built Wind Force I and the 2013-built Wind Force II. The new CTV will join the sister ships in transferring offshore te
The floating hotel Wind Ambition has set off on a new campaign to provide accommodation for crews working on four offshore wind farms in the German North Sea, C-bed, the owner and operator of the vessel said without specifying which farms the crews will be servicing. The project commenced in April 2
The Rhode Island-based Blount Boats has recently delivered the Atlantic Pioneer, America’s first U.S. Flagged Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV) for Atlantic Wind Transfers that will begin service for Deep Water Wind Block Island at the end of May. The 21 meter aluminum vessel, designed by South Boats IOW,
The offshore wind industry will have a new reference directory at Seawork International in June: the Offshore WIND Vessel Directory 2016. This third edition of the directory offers an updated overview of available vessels in the market, including a new category: the Multicat work boats. For this thi
Raytheon Anschütz, together with its exclusive Norwegian distributor Syberg AS, has won a contract for the delivery of a navigation system to the Havyard-designed wind farm service vessel being built for the Danish shipping company Esvagt. The 88-metre Havyard 931 CCV (Crew Change Vessel) is planned
Blue Water Shipping (BWS) has delivered all three transformer units built for Vattenfall’s 400MW Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm to the Port of Esbjerg. BWS is also in charge of storing the transformers, and their subsequent loading and transport to the installation site. Apart from taking care of th
DONG Energy has awarded a contract for offshore support during the construction of the 580MW Race Bank offshore wind farm to a joint venture between Inverlussa Marine Services and Mainprize Offshore Ltd. The two-and-a-half-year, multi-million-pound contract will see the Inverlussa team and vessel wo
Stokesley-based MPI Workboats has been awarded two long-term contracts with Statoil under which MPI Napoleon and MPI Snowball will be providing crew-transfer support on the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm. MPI Napoleon has already commenced her 18-month contract earlier this month, while MPI Snowba
Atlantic Pioneer, the first US-built offshore wind service vessel, was delivered to Atlantic Wind Transfers over the last weekend. The 21-meter crew transfer vessel was built by the Rhode Island-based Blount Boats to service a 20-year crew transfer contract with Deepwater Wind for its 30MW Block Isl
Bibby Line Group has appointed Stephen Bolton to the position of operations director for Bibby Marine Services Limited, a newly formed company serving the marine needs of the offshore renewables market. Bolton will oversee the build and ongoing operation of Bibby WaveMaster 1, the new walk to work (
