The offshore wind turbine installation vessel Aeolus has been fitted with a new, 133-metre-long crane boom at the Damen shipyard in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, after Van Oord last year sent the vessel for its second crane upgrade to enable Aeolus to handle wind turbines of up to 15 MW. Back in 2018,
Jan De Nul’s next-generation floating offshore installation vessel, Les Alizés, sailed out of the China Merchants Heavy Industry’s (CMHI) Haimen shipyard in China on 19 January and is now on its way to Europe, where it will debut on Ørsted’s offshore wind farms in Germany. The CMHI shipyard delivere
Fincantieri, through its US subsidiary Fincantieri Marine Group, has signed a contract with CREST Wind, a joint venture between Crowley and ESVAGT, to design and build a service operation vessel (SOV). The 88-metre vessel will be built by Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding at its shipyard in Sturgeon Bay,
The steel-cutting ceremony has kicked off for the construction of the first of two next-generation construction service operating vessels (CSOVs) for Acta Marine at Tersan Shipyard in Türkiye. The 89-metre-long vessels will be equipped with an SMST-provided motion-compensated crane and a motion-comp
Norway-based Rem Offshore has secured a long-term charter contract with RWE for its newbuild construction service operations vessel (CSOV) Rem Power. Under a two-year contract, with options to extend, the 85-metre long vessel will operate on the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK. The vessel
Florida-based shipping company Crowley and Denmark’s ESVAGT will jointly build and operate a service operations vessel (SOV) under a long-term charter with Siemens Gamesa which will be deployed on the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind off Virginia, USA. Under the new contract, Crowley will manage and c
Dutch offshore services provider Boskalis has won a contract with an undisclosed client to construct a large wind farm offshore the USA. Under the contract, Boskalis will transport and install the wind turbine foundations and power cables for which two crane vessels, and several transport and cable-
Danish offshore shipping company, World Marine Offshore (WMO), filed for bankruptcy with the Court in Esbjerg on 6 January. John Sommer Schmidt, a lawyer at the Gorrissen Federspiel firm, has been appointed to oversee the bankruptcy proceedings. Schmidt told Denmark’s Finans that WMO had filed for b
The Netherlands-headquartered Eneco has signed a five-year crew transfer vessel (CTV) charter and partnership agreement with offshore vessel owner Windcat. This long-term charter will allow the safe transport of technicians offshore and will also allow the companies to work together on decarbonisati
Singapore-based Marco Polo Marine has formed partnerships with Namsung Shipping and HA Energy to jointly pursue offshore wind vessel projects in South Korea. The parties will work together to own and operate suitable support vessels like CTVs, SOVs, and CSOVs to service the growing offshore wind mar
Vard has revealed that the first newbuild hull 949 for Norwind Offshore’s commissioning service operations vessel (CSOV) has arrived at Vard Brattvaag in Norway. The vessel was launched at Vard Braila in Romania and will now be finalised in Vard Brattvaag. Norwind Offshore signed a contract with Var
TSC Offshore Corporation, a subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based CMIC Ocean En-Tech Holding, and Offshoretronic have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop and commercialize a solution aimed at changing the traditional methods of installing monopiles on offshore wind farms. The next ge
Ulstein Verft has held a steel-cutting ceremony for the second Construction Service Operation Vessel (CSOV) that the company is building for the Norway-based shipowner Olympic Subsea ASA. The vessel, which carries yard number 319, is the second of two offshore wind newbuilds for which the shipowner
Edda Wind has revealed that it expects delays for its newbuild Commissioning Service Vessel (CSOV) Edda Breeze and Service Operation Vessels (SOVs) Edda Brint and Edda Goelo (C416). Edda Breeze and Edda Brint have both been delivered from the respective yards and are currently in the process of inst
