E.ON has selected the Port of Sassnitz in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as a logistics base for its Arkona Becken Südost, a wind farm it plans to build in the German Baltic Sea. The port would serve the wind farm during construction and then become its operations center. With Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s Energ
ORIX has agreed to participate in the joint development and construction of Kashima Port Large-Scale Offshore Wind Farm which is to be built offshore of Kashima Port in Kamisu City, Ibaraki Prefecture. The equity investment by ORIX into the project company was also completed today. The project invol
This morning, the jack-up vessel WIND arrived at the Port of Oostende for the first time, where it will pick up parts for the Belwind offshore wind farm. The vessel is carrying out maintenance work on Belwind. The Belwind offshore wind farm comprises fifty five Vestas’ V90-3.0MW (MHI Vestas Offshore
The Port of Oostende organised the BEPPo (Blue Energy Production in Ports) closing conference “Ports as hubs for marine renewable energy projects” at the Greenbridge Incubator centre. BEPPo is a transnational collaborative project between public and private organisations from Belgium, Denmark, Scotl
This week, the Port of Oostende welcomed the jack-up vessel Thor for the first time. For the next 3 months, Thor will conduct general maintenance on the C-Power (Thornton Bank) offshore wind farm from the Rebo terminal. A few weeks ago, the seasonal maintenance works started on three offshore wind f
The port of Cherbourg, France, now has a 680m linear wharf, accessible to vessels with a draught of up to 14m, as the extension of the “Quai de Flamands” was completed this March, after 2 years of construction works. The extension was built within the framework of a renewable marine energy project a
On March 2, Ports of Normandy Authority (PNA)’s elected representatives officially launched large- scale extension works of the port of Cherbourg’s main roadstead, which will be a milestone in the history of the port’s development. Due to the allocation of ALSTOM’s industrial unit for offshore wind
Today the crane vessel Rambiz, towed by the Multratug 4, arrived at the Dutch port of IJmuiden. Here it will pick up the OHVS for installation at the Eneco Luchterduinen offshore wind farm, some 23 kilometres off the coast. Installation will take place in the next few days depending on suitable weat
The extension to the port of Cherbourg, as part of the Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) deployment project, has been officially approved. The aim of this project is to capture the undersea turbine market while also taking up some activity in the manufacturing and logistics aspects of the offshore wind
The number of offshore-related sea ships mooring in the Port of Den Helder rose in 2014 to 2,776, representing a 7 % growth compared to 2013. These numbers were revealed in the annual report of the Port of Den Helder. “Thanks to sound agreements with the offshore companies, the fishery sector and th
In a letter marking the end of a successful year, Hans-Peter Zint, CEO of the Port of Cuxhaven, has highlighted the significant role that the offshore wind industry had at the port. As should be the case for a multipurpose port, different kinds of cargo played a key role in this success. In terms of
Great Britain is the world’s premier pioneer when it comes to offshore wind energy. In the North Sea, in the Irish Sea and in the English Channel there are several zones designated for the installation of offshore wind farms. In the third round of site allocations alone, so-called Round 3 of the UK’
The EU’s TEN-T Programme will co-fund two sustainable development initiatives totaling over €1 million in the Port of Civitavecchia in Italy: an innovative pilot energy production plant using sea waves, as well as a separate study on the development of rail and maritime transport connections to the
Reef Subsea and Port of Blyth have signed a service agreement, which will see Reef Subsea utilise the mobilisation and demobilisation facilities at the port. Reef Subsea has signed a service agreement with the Port of Blyth for a new storage, maintenance and mobilisation facility as part of the comp
