Dajin Heavy Industry has delivered King Two, the second vessel in its self-developed King series of heavy deck carriers purpose-built for the transport of offshore wind components. According to the company, the delivery of the second heavy deck carrier marks the start of standardised serial producti
North Star has secured a GBP 275 million (approximately EUR 321 million) debt financing package to support the expansion of its offshore wind fleet. The financing fully covers the company’s existing shipbuilding commitments and provides additional capital for future vessel acquisitions and newbuild
Japan’s first coastal deck carrier, purpose-built to transport offshore wind turbine foundation components, has been completed, with Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), MOL Drybulk and MOL Coastal Shipping holding a naming and completion ceremony for the vessel, named Wind Whale, on 29 July in Nagasaki. Wind
Boskalis’s new subsea rock installation (SRI) vessel Windpiper has departed the Port of Rotterdam to pick up its first load and sail to an offshore wind farm site in the Polish sector of the Baltic Sea. In an update posted on social media, Boskalis said the SRI vessel will load 45,500 tonnes of rock
Port of Tyne has launched what it says is a major recovery and clean-up operation after Cadeler’s wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Wind Orca allided with another vessel and a shoreside crane at the port, leaving one person injured. “The crane operator was injured and has been taken to hospita
Chinese cable manufacturer Far East Cable has started construction of a new large-capacity multipurpose cable-laying vessel (CLV) at ZPMC’s shipyard in Shanghai, with the vessel set to support offshore wind, subsea interconnectors, and telecommunication cable installation projects. According to ZPMC
Van Oord has wrapped up the rock installation works at the Hollandse Kust West VI offshore wind farm, owned and developed by Ecowende, a joint venture between Shell, Eneco, and Chubu Electric Power. Using its vessels Bravenes and Nordnes, Van Oord installed a total of 300,000 tonnes of rock that wil
Marco Polo Marine’s offshore wind subsidiary, PKR Offshore (PKRO), has signed a framework agreement with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy for the charter of two commissioning service operation vessels (CSOVs) to support offshore wind projects in Taiwan. The agreement will initially run for two years
NKT’s new cable-laying vessel (CLV) NKT Eleonora, which will be able to run on both methanol and HVO/marine diesel oil, is on its way from Romania to Norway to undergo the next phase of construction. The official keel laying for the vessel took place in January 2025, some two months after the first
DEME has been awarded a contract by the Zeevonk joint venture, comprising Vattenfall and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), to transport and install foundations for the first phase of the 2 GW Zeevonk offshore wind project in the Dutch North Sea. Under the contract, which remains subject to a
Cadeler has taken delivery of Wind Ace, the company’s eleventh wind installation vessel and second of three A-class newbuilds. Cadeler’s A-class vessels are capable of conversion from the installation of XXL foundations to the installation of wind turbine generators within a short period of time, th
South Korea’s Taihan Cable & Solution has completed the delivery of its second cable-laying vessel (CLV) ahead of the planned schedule, following the acquisition from Norwegian DOF Group. Taihan reported in May that it had acquired the 2016-built Skandi Connector from DOF, representing the second of
Windcat and Ørsted have signed contracts to supply long-term crew transfer vessel services to support Ørsted’s offshore wind farm operations based out of Grimsby. Ørsted’s Generation UK Hub operates and maintains six offshore wind farms from Grimsby’s Royal Docks, delivering green energy to millions
