Turkey’s Cemre Shipyard has delivered a service operation vessel (SOV) built for Esvagt and chartered by MHI Vestas Offshore Wind.
Ampelmann has been awarded a contract by Eidesvik to deliver an Ampelmann E-type for the Viking Neptun, currently serving as an accommodation and a crew transfer vessel (CTV) on the Wikinger offshore wind farm.
Offshore support vessel (OSV) Windea La Cour has completed repair and modification works at Niestern Sander Ship Repair in Delfzijl, the Netherlands, prior to returning to the Gemini offshore wind farm.
Construction companies are building offshore wind farms two to three times faster than in the past and are helping offshore wind developers bring down the amount of subsidies needed for the projects to materialize, Pieter van Oord, Chief Executive Officer of Van Oord, said on the sidelines of the Of
EMS Maritime Offshore (EMO) has signed a contract with Senvion to provide a crew transfer vessel (CTV) for the operational phase of the 332MW Nordsee One offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.
Zhongtian Technology (ZTT) has signed an agreement with China Merchants Heavy Industry for the construction of two wind turbine installation vessels (WTIVs) and one crane vessel, after the Chinese power cables manufacturer entered the offshore wind construction market this summer.
The Ulstein SX195 hull of Acta Marine’s new walk-to-work (W2W) vessel Acta Auriga has arrived from Crist shipyard in Poland to Ulstein Verft in Norway, where the vessel will be outfitted, commissioned and tested before joining Acta Marine’s fleet.
The introduction of innovations in the offshore wind operations and maintenance segment (O&M) is a constant balancing act and the companies must always have their finger on the trigger and evaluate every day when to pull it, Bent Thambo Jensen, Chief Commercial Officer of ZITON, said.
On the morning of 15 November, a fire broke out in the engine room of the crew transfer vessel (CTV) World Calima that was operating at the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm. Eight wind farm technicians and five crew members were aboard the CTV at the time and nobody was hurt during the incident.
A2Sea’s jack-up vessel Sea Challenger has started installing transition pieces at the 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm located off the coast of Germany.
Siem Offshore Contractors’ (SOC) accommodation and personnel transfer vessel Siem Moxie has been chartered by DEME Group’s company Tideway for the inner-array cable installation works at the Rentel offshore wind farm.
Japan’s Kokusai Cable Ship will add a new Vard-designed cable laying vessel to its fleet in 2019. The vessel, currently being built at Colombo Dockyard in Sri Lanka, will be capable of carrying out cable installation for future offshore wind projects in Asia.
OOS Energy has unveiled a new vessel design that will serve the offshore wind sector, in addition to oil & gas. The company will build two units of the vessel and is now in final talks with shipyards for the construction with an expected delivery in 2020/ 2021.
Seaway Heavy Lifting’s (SHL) vessel Oleg Strashnov will return to the Beatrice site on 16 November and will continue installing jacket foundations until mid-December, when it will leave the site once again and SHL’s vessel Stanislav Yudin will take over.
