Last week, a vessel working on one of Centrica’s offshore wind farms off Grimsby helped bring a stranded fishing boat back to harbour, Centrica reported on its social media pages. After the fishing vessel Melanie S had run out of fuel in the waters off Grimsby, its crew broadcasted a radio message t
Sea Worker Runs Aground off Denmark, Crew Evacuated Offshore installation vessel Sea Worker ran aground south of Denmark’s Hvide Sande on the night between 26 and 27 January while under tow to Esbjerg, A2SEA said in a statement. Interview: Adwen’s 8 MW Turbine an Arrow to Hit 100€/MWh by 2020 Target
Scheveningen-based guard and seismic support vessel operator Rederij Groen has acquired a 50% stake in the compatriot offshore support vessel operator GloMar Group. GloMar Offshore, situated in Den Helder, comprises of four divisions providing offshore wind Service Operation Vessels (SOVs), emergenc
Windcat Workboats has won the Renewable Energy Health & Safety Award 2016 with its WindGrip system. The award winner was announced on 27 January in Birmingham, on the eve of the 12th annual RenewableUK Health & Safety Conference. This award scheme, devised by RenewableUK and the Crown Estate, aims t
Offshore installation vessel Sea Worker ran aground south of Denmark’s Hvide Sande on the night between 26 and 27 January while under tow to Esbjerg, A2SEA said in a statement. Sea Worker got into trouble after a tow line between the vessel and a tug boat broke, after which she started drifting towa
Bad weather has delayed the arrival of the world’s largest offshore wind farm installation vessel, the Seajacks Scylla, to the Port of Rotterdam, initially scheduled for the end of January, the Dutch port said in a release. In early December, Seajacks Scylla started her journey from a Samsung Heavy
RWE AG has shared a photo of the world’s biggest jack-up vessel in operation, Innovation, installing one of 54 foundations at the 332MW Nordsee One offshore wind farm in the German waters of the North Sea. The installation work is being carried out by GeoSea, part of DEME Group. The contract include
A conference on marine power and propulsion systems will be held in April in Southampton, UK, with an aim to identify a range of solutions for workboats, wind farm support vessels, survey vessels, etc. Next Generation Marine Power & Propulsion Conference, consisting of a two-day conference and one-d
Poland’s Nauta Shiprepair Yard today launched a partly outfitted offshore service vessel (OSV) – Esvagt Njord – destined to operate at the 400 MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm off Norfolk, UK , once completed. Nauta and Havyard Ship Technology of Norway, the designer of the vessel, signed a shipbuildin
ASV Pioneer, an accommodation barge managed by Dalby Offshore, is on its way to Northern Germany to carry out cable repair work for a major German client, the company reported, leaving the new client unnamed. The vessel has undergone refit in Gdansk in Poland at the end of 2015, after completing cab
The Acta Orion, the latest addition to Acta Marine’s fleet of Wind Farm Support Vessels (WFSVs), has started its work on the Gemini wind farm project, located in the Dutch part of the North Sea. The main role of the Acta Orion is to provide support during the construction phase of the offshore wind
Pacific Orca is about to complete the foundation installation at Vattenfall’s Sandbank offshore wind farm, Swire Blue Ocean reported on its social media pages. In 2014, the company was contracted by Bilfinger to provide a vessel for the installation of 72 foundations at the Sandbank wind farm site.
Gardline’s new vessel MV Bittern will be undergoing sea trials in Great Yarmouth this week prior to her launch. Once the sea trials are complete, the 23m vessel will be launched and delivered to Ramsgate and begin operational trials at the London Array offshore wind farm before heading back to Great
Defining “industrial personnel”, such as workers transported on offshore service vessels, is among the topics on the agenda of the currently ongoing International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Construction (SDC). People travelling on these vessels are likely to have
