Cadeler’s offshore wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), Wind Peak, has been launched at Cosco Shipyard in Qidong, China. According to the Danish company, the launching of Wind Peak is a critical milestone that marks the completion of the vessel’s hull. The construction of the vessel was a result
The joint venture between Ørsted and PGE has awarded Fred. Olsen Windcarrier a contract for the installation of wind turbines at the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm in Poland. “Installation of wind turbines for Baltica 2 has been divided into two stages, and a contractor for each stage is selected in a
South Korean Taihan Cable & Solution has acquired what is said to be Korea’s only cable-laying vessel (CLV) for the offshore wind market. Taihan, which announced the purchase on December 20, bought the vessel for approximately USD 38.4 million (EUR 34.7 million). The CLV, equipped with self-propulsi
GustoMSC, a subsidiary of U.S.-based NOV, has officially launched the Enhydra series of vessels tailored specifically for floating offshore wind farms. Alain Wassink, Commercial Director of GustoMSC, presented the new series at The Stage during the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) 2023
Italy-based Prysmian Group announced today, on 21 December, an investment of approximately EUR 350 million for two new cable-laying vessels (CLV) that the company says will reinforce Prysmian’s submarine project execution capabilities. “The market is tremendously growing, and we are facing an increa
Van Oord has completed the installation of all foundations and inter-array cables at Iberdrola’s Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in the German sector of the Baltic Sea. The heavy-lift installation vessel Svanen installed the final monopile in September and the company has now put all the transition
As new offshore wind markets keep emerging and targets in established markets keep increasing, questions on how much capacity can actually be installed, especially until 2030 which is just around the corner, have come to the sector’s foreground. The most vocal on the (un)likeliness of the national a
China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) has delivered the commissioning service operations vessel (CSOV) IWS Skywalker to IWS Fleet, a wholly owned subsidiary of Integrated Wind Solutions (IWS). The vessel has already been chartered for Dogger Bank Wind Farm and will start working there early next yea
Work on the installation of the two offshore substations (OSS) at the Moray West offshore wind farm site has started, with Boskalis’s DP installation vessel Bokalift 1 currently moored in the Port of Nigg with the components for the first OSS on board. The Moray West project team notified about the
Norway’s VARD has secured a contract worth over USD 200 million to deliver a highly customized hybrid power cable lay and construction vessel to what it says is a leading Japanese construction company. The contract was signed with Toyo Construction, a Japanese general construction company that opera
Van Oord’s heavy-lift installation vessel Svanen will undergo upgrades including the extension of the gantry by 25 metres, making the vessel ready to handle the next generation of monopile foundations for offshore wind projects. The extension of the gantry crane makes the Svanen one of the largest h
Dubai-based vessel equipment and service provider, APT Global Marine and Offshore Engineering UAE, has fitted Jan De Nul’s installation vessel Voltaire with sea fastening systems under one of its latest contracts in the offshore wind industry, which now account for the majority of the revenue for th
Norway’s Ulstein has added a new heavy transport vessel to its design portfolio to meet the increasing logistic requirements of the ever-growing offshore wind market. According to the Norwegian shipbuilder and designer, the current fleet of heavy transport vessels does not meet the future demand of
Damen Shipyards Group officially launched its fully electric Service Operations Vessel (SOV) with offshore charging capabilities on 28 November at the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2023 in Amsterdam. The company says that the new SOV 7017 E, said to be the world’s first vessel with offshor
