Havfram has been awarded a contract by Vattenfall and BASF for their Nordlicht offshore wind farm cluster in the German North Sea. The Nordlicht wind farm zone, located 85 kilometres north of the island of Borkum, consists of two separate sites: Nordlicht I, with an expected capacity of 980 MW, and
The Department of Energy of the Republic of the Philippines (DOE) and the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) have jointly announced the repurposing of three strategic ports to support the country’s growing offshore wind industry. These are the Port of Currimao in Ilocos Norte, Port of Batangas in Sta.
The Canadian Port of Argentia has secured a contract to receive and store wind turbine blades that eventually will be transported and installed at offshore wind farms along the eastern coast of the US. The arrangement with Scan Global Logistics, a global transportation and logistics company headquar
PGE and Ørsted have signed a lease agreement with Istrana sp.z o.o. for the future T5 terminal in the Port of Gdansk that will be used for the storage, pre-assembly, and offshore installation of turbine components for Baltica 2, the first stage of the Baltica Offshore Wind Farm in Poland. The lease
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Irish Department of Transport have established an advisory cooperation to assess capacity, demand and financing strategies for the development of port infrastructure for offshore wind projects in Irish waters. Signed by the Irish Minister for the Environmen
All the blades for the Les Eoliennes Flottantes du Golfe du Lion (EFGL) floating offshore wind farm have been delivered and unloaded at the port of Port-La Nouvelle wind terminal in France. Earlier this week, the FWN Arctic vessel, specially designed for the transport of wind components, delivered t
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) plans to expand and upgrade the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal, the state’s first terminal to serve the offshore wind industry. The terminal, spanning 30 acres (121,406 square metres), is built and operated by MassCEC and houses the construction, ass
Construction work on converting a former oil- and coal-fired power plant site in Salem, Massachusetts, into a terminal serving the offshore wind industry has started. On 15 August, Crowley Wind Services, the company managing the redevelopment and the new terminal’s operator, held a groundbreaking ce
The US Port San Luis Harbor District has entered into a project evaluation agreement with Clean Energy Terminals (CET), a developer of offshore wind port facilities across the US, to jointly evaluate the feasibility of an offshore wind operations and maintenance (O&M) port facility in California’s S
NIRAS has been selected by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to prepare pre-feasibility studies to assess the expansion of several ports for use as offshore wind ports. The Denmark-headquartered consultancy company has been commissioned by ADB on behalf of the Philippine government. Under the contrac
The Port of Gdańsk Authority has selected a company in charge of building and operating the offshore wind terminal that the Port and the Polish government announced in 2022. The company, called Istrana, is expected to soon complete its own tenders for engineering consultancy and terminal constructio
Denmark’s Port of Roenne has been selected as the installation port for the Baltic Power offshore wind project in the Polish Baltic Sea. Baltic Power will be one of the first European offshore wind projects to use Vestas’ new 15 MW wind turbine which until now has only been installed as a prototype
The Titan Group has made the final investment decision (FID) to build a production facility for XXXL monopiles in Cuxhaven, Northern Germany. Up to EUR 300 million will be invested in the company, with production to ramp up next year. Titan Group said that more than 600 jobs will be created by the p
Singapore-based Mooreast has revealed that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Mooreast Asia, intends to acquire a 98,919 square metres facility from a subsidiary of Seatrium, quadrupling its production capacity in Singapore to serve the floating offshore renewable sector. Mooreast expects to complete the
