The installation of wind turbine foundations on the Seagreen offshore wind farm in Scotland is scheduled to begin on or around 1 October, according to the latest update on the project’s offshore works. The three-legged suction caisson foundations will be towed from the Port of Nigg, Cromarty Firth,
The load-out of the first monopiles for the Taranto offshore wind farm onto the MPI Resolution vessel has started, according to a social media update from MPI Offshore on 23 September. The first batch of monopiles for the 30 MW offshore wind farm in Italy arrived at the Port of Taranto last month, a
The installation of the Liebherr HLC15000 crane on board OHT’s new vessel Alfa Lift has been completed at the China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) shipyard in Jiangsu, China, the vessel owner reported via social media. Currently, the vessel is being fitted with monopile cradles in preparation for h
NED-Project, a Poland-headquartered naval architecture and ship design company with an office in the US, has developed a new wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), which features a hydrogen-ready set-up and has the capability to install 15-20 MW wind turbines as well as to load and transport monop
Scottish start-up Zelim, developing a lifesaving system for offshore energy, has partnered with naval architect Chartwell Marine to deliver a remotely operated unmanned rescue vessel. As the offshore energy sites present a challenging environment for personnel and vessel crews, with a huge risk of m
Esvagt has taken delivery of the third and final service operation vessel (SOV) ordered for Vestas and delivered by Havyard in Norway. Esvagt NHST 149, as the yet-to-be-named vessel is known, completes a series of three vessels delivered over the last nine months that Esvagt had ordered at Havyard L
GE Renewable Energy and Acta Marine have signed a charter contract for the Acta Auriga Service Operations Vessel (SOV), which will support the commissioning of 80 Haliade 6 MW turbines at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France. Operating out of the Port of Saint-Nazaire, the vessel will assi
Five UK projects revolving around decarbonisation of the maritime sector by using offshore wind solutions have won GBP 3.3 million (around EUR 3.9 million) through the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition, funded by the UK Department for Transport and delivered in partnership with Innovate UK. O
Ampelmann has signed its first contract for a motion-compensated gangway in China, where Guangdong Safety New Energy is set to fit the gangway onto its new Service Operations Vessel (SOV) which will be deployed on the Guangdong Yangjiang offshore wind farm, located some 74 kilometres off the coast o
Kongsberg Maritime has signed a contract with Vard shipyard to deliver a large package of permanent magnet (PM) thrusters for installation on two Construction Service Operations Vessels (CSOVs) to be built for Rem Offshore. Within the package, Kongsberg Maritime will deliver PM azimuth thrusters, to
High Tien Offshore Engineering (High Tien Offshore) – a company led by a former CSBC president and chairman of CSBC’s joint venture with DEME – is set to invest in a large cable laying vessel (CLV) which will serve the offshore wind market in Taiwan. “Following the investment by CDWE in a large floa
Awind, a subsidiary of Integrated Wind Solutions, has ordered equipment packages for two Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOVs) from MacGregor, part of Cargotec. MacGregor will deliver two equipment packages each consisting of a 3D motion compensated electrical gangway system, Colibri crane
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Bold Tern has arrived in Singapore, where it will be upgraded with a new 1600-tonne crane to enable the installation of next-generation wind turbines and foundations weighing up to 1,500 tonnes. The vessel will be fitted with Huisman’s 1600t LEC 65500 leg enc
Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel MPI Resolution has set sail to Italy to build the first wind farm in the Mediterranean Sea – the 30 MW Taranto offshore wind farm. The Taranto offshore wind farm, also known as Beleolico, is located near the Taranto harbour in Italy and consists of ten MySE 3.
