Esvagt has taken delivery of the second of three Havyard 832 SOV windfarm service vessels from Havyard Ship Technology AS. The first, newbuild 118 ‘Esvagt Froude’ was delivered in the middle of February. The German company Siemens Wind Power has hired both vessels on long-term contracts to service t
As recently reported, Prysmian’s cable laying barge Cable Enterprise has been upgraded into a DP2 cable layer at the Viktor Lenac shipyard in Croatia. The upgraded vessel will operate autonomously without the need of tugs during cable laying and will have a total of 9.2 MW of power supplying 6 thrus
Last week, DBB Jack-Up’s new purpose-built vessel J/U WIND SERVER commenced a new contract. The vessel has been chartered by Siemens AG to perform offshore installation support and function as accommodation vessel for Siemens’ commissioning teams on the installation of the Borkum Riffgrund 1 project
Last week, Seajacks Hydra joined other installation vessels working on the Global Tech I site for Adwen GmbH to support the commissioning of the eighty 5MW turbines located at the offshore wind farm site. Hydra began supporting commissioning services on the 15th March and is expected to be onsite fo
Tidal Transit has recently received an extension of the contract for its vessel Ginny Louise from Statkraft, the Norwegian company that running the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm. This follows the current extension for its sister vessel, Tia Elizabeth. For almost three years one or more of Tida
Albwardy Marine Engineering/Damen Shipyards Sharjah has been certified by Lloyds Register Quality Assurance for aligning its safety and environment management system with internationally recognized standards. (ISO 14001:2004 AND OHSAS 18001:2007) A Lloyd’s audit team extensively audited the yards ma
Rix Sea Shuttle is to supply crew transfer vessel, Rix Panther, to carry personnel and equipment to and from a wind farm of the Humber coast. The Rix Panther has initially been contracted for six weeks but with an option to extend the work period should the development require it. James Doyle, manag
At 04.40 on Saturday morning, the first load-out of four anode cages and transition pieces (TPs) for Gode Wind Offshore Wind Farm was finished in record time of approximately 16 hours. This made Friday night full of heavy activity at Bladt’s site in Aalborg. Before its arrival in Aalborg, the STRALS
Barge Master has delivered its first Barge Master T40 (BM-T40) motion compensated knuckle boom crane. The BM-T40 is installed on the ‘Walk to Work’ vessel the Kroonborg of Wagenborg. The BM-T40 is designed for offshore support vessels that are used to transfer small loads and personnel to (unmanned)
Croatian Viktor Lenac Shipyard, specialised in ship repair and conversions, successfully completed the conversion of the cable laying barge Cable Enterprise and delivered it to Prysmian on March 13, 2015. Viktor Lenac Shipyard won the project worth more than EUR 22 million in February 2014. The conv
ANTS Offshore has started its new service for the supply of the North Sea offshore wind farms with the chartered DP II ship ABIS Dundee. It offers constant and unscheduled supply and waste disposal of the offshore stations, the wind parks of the different North Sea wind clusters and the offshore con
Vattenfall, the Swedish energy company, has hired Ramora UK for a job at its Kentish Flats Extension (KFE) project. Ramora will utilise Offshore Marine Solutions’ vessel, Terramare 1, to carry out a few days of potential UXO target investigation survey next week. The diving is programmed to start on
De Vries & Van de Wiel, part of the DEME, has commissioned Nauplius Workboats to convert a high-speed ship into a survey vessel for hydrographic research. Over the recent weeks, a Nauplius team has been working on converting a high-speed work ship into a survey vessel. “We have made a number of stru
Ad Hoc Marine Designs Ltd has signed a design contract for a 26m Typhoon Class SWATH Crew Transfer Vessel with Lung Teh Shipbuilding (LTS) in Taiwan. The 26m Typhoon Class SWATH has been ordered by Renewable Energy Support Ltd (RES Ltd) and will be operated by Maritime Craft Services (Clyde) Ltd (MC
