MFW Bałtyk II sp. z o.o. and MFW Bałtyk III sp. z o.o. special purpose companies have signed a total of four agreements for the charter of crew transfer vessels (CTVs) for the construction of the offshore wind farms in Poland. Polenergia and Equinor hold 50 per cent stakes each in MFW Bałtyk II Sp.
Van Oord’s new, next-generation cable-laying vessel (CLV) Calypso has begun installing cables at its first offshore wind project, marking its official debut. Calypso’s first project is RWE’s Sofia offshore wind farm, being constructed on Dogger Bank in the central North Sea, 195 kilometres from the
EnBW has awarded North Star a contract for a commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) to be deployed at the 960 MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in Germany. The award, which is the first for a North Star CSOV, for the newbuild Grampian Kestrel will precede the decade-long minimum charter contrac
Windcat’s first Commissioning Service Operation Vessel (CSOV) has been launched by Damen Shipyards at Ha Long Shipyard in Vietnam. The launch ceremony took place on 12 October in Vietnam, where Damen is constructing all six CSOVs. With this first CSOV in the water, Damen said it will continue with i
North Star, a service operations vessel (SOV) operator in the UK’s renewable industry, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with MO4, Principle Power, SMST, Vard, and Voith Group to form a working group aimed at developing a new SOV concept for floating offshore wind. The six organisations
Vard, a Norwegian subsidiary of the Fincantieri Group, has signed a contract for the design and construction of a commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) for Navigare Capital Partners. The new unit, based on the VARD 4 19 design, will be delivered in the second quarter of 2027 from Vard’s ship
Norway’s Edda Wind has signed charter contracts for two of its newbuilds, with commencement immediately following yard delivery in November 2024 and the second quarter of 2025 for C503 and NB967, respectively. The first contract is related to the vessel C503, to be named Vestri Enabler, which is exp
South Korean maritime service company MARCON has secured approval in principle (AiP) from the Korean Register (KR) for its hybrid crew transfer vessel (CTV), a passenger and cargo transport vessel dedicated to offshore wind farms. The CTV is expected to resolve environmental regulation issues by ado
Ørsted is expected to soon launch a tender for a walk-to-work (W2W) vessel for one of the offshore wind projects in Poland the company owns in partnership with PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna. According to a recently issued early notice, notifying about the qualification system that will be used for t
UK-headquartered BMT, in partnership with shipbuilder Strategic Marine, has unveiled a new hybrid crew transfer vessel (CTV) design, the StratCat35. The StratCat35, which made its debut at WindEnergy Hamburg, is 35 metres in length and offers an expansive deck area, significantly improving storage c
Cadeler has signed a Vessel Reservation Agreement (VRA) for a pipeline of offshore wind projects in the Asia-Pacific region. The VRA secures the availability of one of Cadeler’s two newbuild M-Class wind turbine installation vessels for two projects in the Asia-Pacific market. The aggregate potentia
Macquarie Asset Management is set to acquire 100 ownership of Ziton, a Denmark-based provider of operations and maintenance (O&M) services to the offshore wind industry. Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 7, advised by Macquarie Asset Management, has entered into a share purchase agreement with
Norwegian ship designer and shipbuilder VARD has held the keel laying ceremony for what is said to be a highly customized hybrid power cable lay and construction vessel that will serve the Japanese offshore wind market. VARD is building the vessel for Toyo Construction, a Japanese general constructi
Havfram has been awarded a contract by Vattenfall and BASF for their Nordlicht offshore wind farm cluster in the German North Sea. The Nordlicht wind farm zone, located 85 kilometres north of the island of Borkum, consists of two separate sites: Nordlicht I, with an expected capacity of 980 MW, and
