Ørsted has inaugurated the Ørsted Taiwan Offshore Wind Farms Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Hub in the Port of Taichung, Taiwan. The O&M hub is the first operations facility with green design and the largest in terms of size and offshore service capacity in the Asia-Pacific region, the world’s lea
The new RoRo (roll-on, roll-off) platform built on the Hermann du Pasquier quay in the Port of Le Havre came into operation on 26 July with the port call made by Rotra Vente vessel which is serving Siemens Gamesa’s offshore wind projects under a long-term charter. HAROPA – Port of Le Havre has upgra
Huisman has launched a 700mt Travelling Quayside Crane for the load-out of offshore wind turbine components. The development of the new crane comes as a result of rising demand for large, 2,600mt and 4,000mt Skyhook Cranes for the load-out of foundation pieces and installation of floating turbines,
Saitec Offshore Technologies and RWE have loaded out and launched the prototype DemoSATH floating wind turbine at Punta Sollana quay in the Port of Bilbao, Spain. The DemoSATH unit was loaded onto the semisubmersible barge’s deck by means of Self-Propelled Modular Transporters. The barge was then ba
Green energy infrastructure developer Cerulean Winds has revealed it will bid for four seabed lease sites with a combined capacity of 6 GW of floating wind to decarbonise the UK’s oil and gas sector under Crown Estate Scotland’s Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round. This scale w
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority’s Board (NJEDA) has approved the purchase of a 109.4-acre property which will enable the planned expansion of the New Jersey Wind Port in Lower Alloways Creek, Salem County. The New Jersey Wind Port is a first-in-the-nation infrastructure investment that
Danish Port of Esbjerg has ordered a second Liebherr LHM 800 crane capable of lifting next-generation offshore wind turbines. The Port of Esbjerg received the first LHM 800 crane in 2019, while the second one is expected to be delivered in 2023. The LHM 800 crane, which has a lifting capacity of 308
GeelongPort, located in Corio Bay, Victoria, Australia, has unveiled plans to develop up to 25 hectares of land for a wind farm hub to support Victoria’s renewables industry. Located at Oyster Cove near GeelongPort’s Lascelles Wharf, the precinct will provide facilities for the berthing, laydown, an
Quonset Development Corporation (QDC) has officially opened the modernised Pier 2 at the Port of Davisville in Rhode Island. Rhode Island Governor Dan Mckee joined the QDC, as well as other state and local officials, to cut the ribbon on Tuesday on the finished project, which expanded the pier by 23
Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, has been appointed by Údarás Na Gaeltachta to develop a masterplan for an offshore wind energy hub on the site of the existing Ros a Mhíl harbour centre in County Galway, Ireland. The hub would service the needs of both floating and fixed wind developments
Estonian renewable energy developer, Sunly, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Port of Tallinn on realising its offshore wind projects in the Baltic States by using Port of Tallinn-owned harbours to build and maintain its planned wind farms offshore Estonia, as well as Latvia and Lith
The Port of Nigg in Scotland, owned and operated by Global Energy Group (GEG), has unveiled its new East Quay, which increases the port facility’s deep water quayside to over 1,200 metres. The new quay will enable the port to service multiple large-scale energy sector projects simultaneously and ens
The first of 71 gravity-based foundations for the 500 MW Fécamp offshore wind farm has been placed on its transport barge at the Bougainville yard in the Grand Port Maritime of Le Havre, France, ahead of transport and installation at the project site off the coast of Normandy. The consortium of Bosk
Wind farm installation vessel Seajacks Zaratan has left Akita Port in Japan loaded with the first sets of wind turbine components to be installed on the 140 MW Akita Noshiro offshore wind farm. Akita Noshiro comprises two sites off Akita Port and Noshiro Port. In total, the two wind farms will featu
