The Triton Knoll Offshore Construction Services (OCS) team has moved into their new facilities at Grimsby’s Royal Dock, establishing an HQ for offshore construction next year. The OCS base will manage offshore technicians, crews, and specialist vessels, including service operations vessels and crew
Vineyard Wind is allocating two USD 50,000 grants to support the development of port facilities that would service the offshore wind industry in Massachusetts, U.S. The first grant is awarded to the New Bedford Port Authority for developing publicly-owned port facilities that could help support shor
The Port of Tyne, one of the two deep-sea ports in North East England, is investing in the third phase of clearance and remediation of Tyne Dock Enterprise Park to prepare the site for offshore wind manufacturers. The Port of Tyne, within 100 nautical miles of the Dogger Bank, Hornsea, Seagreen and
Van Oord has selected DHSS as its contractor for helicopter services during the construction phase of the Borssele III & IV offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. The 731.5MW Borssele III & IV offshore wind farm is located near the southern border of the Dutch Exclusive Economic zone (EEZ) and a
Mammoet has reached an agreement with Port of Coeymans Marine Terminal in Coeymans, New York which allows the heavy lift specialist access to the port’s 400-acre marine terminal facility. According to Mammoet, the State of New York is ramping up for upcoming offshore wind projects in the area and is
The Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée Region has awarded a contract for the port expansion of Port-La-Nouvelle in south-western France to the consortium of Bouygues Travaux Publics and Boskalis Nederland BV. The extension will enable the port to accommodate the construction and assembly of pilot float
Denmark’s Rønne Harbour on the Island of Bornholm is ready to receive the wind turbines for Vattenfall’s 605MW Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm after completing the necessary upgrades. The Rønne Harbour was selected as the departure point for the 72 Siemens Gamesa 8MW turbines in June 2018. To enabl
ScottishPower Renewables has opened the new operations and maintenance building for the 714MW East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm at the Port of Lowestoft, UK. Located at Associated British Port’s Hamilton Dock, the O&M building is part of a GBP 25 million investment made by ScottishPower Renewables
Vineyard Wind has revealed the plans to transform Bridgeport in Connecticut into an offshore wind hub as part of its proposed Park City Wind project. As reported earlier, Vineyard Wind submitted the proposal to develop the up to 1.2GW offshore wind project in response to Connecticut’s recent Request
SSE Renewables has selected Montrose Port as the preferred location for the O&M base for its Seagreen offshore wind farm in Scotland. To remind, SSE’s 454MW Seagreen Phase 1 project was recently selected in the UK’s Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round 3 with a strike price of GBP 41.61/M
New York State has launched a Request for Qualifications process to upgrade port infrastructure that will be used for the local offshore wind sector. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), Empire State Development (ESD), and New York Department of Transportation (DOT
The Belgian Port of Oostende is acquiring the shares of PMV, DEME Group and Artes-Group NV in REBO NV with an aim to stimulate the terminal’s further growth. The Port of Oostende said it wishes to focus as much as possible on the growth of the activities at the REBO terminal and has thus initiated t
Ideol’s concrete hulls for commercial-scale floating wind farms could be built and launched in at least five construction sites in California, with two being immediately suitable without any upgrades, the French company said. In addition, four sites were identified as suitable for wind turbine assem
The Port of Sunderland has declared itself “ready, willing and able to deliver” for the Dogger Bank offshore wind project selected in the UK Government’s third Contracts for Difference (CfD) allocation round. The port, owned and operated by Sunderland City Council, said it expects to see strong inte
