The UK Home Secretary has introduced a concession to the Immigration Rules to allow the employment of non-European Economic Area nationals who are joining vessels engaged in the construction and maintenance of offshore wind projects in UK territorial waters.
The NKT Victoria cable-laying vessel has successfully laid the first HVDC cables in the Moray Firth as part of Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks’ GBP 1.1 billion Caithness-Moray transmission project.
Norfolk-based Tidal Transit has secured an extension of the charters for its two crew transfer vessels (CTVs), Tia Elizabeth and Kitty Petra, which will continue servicing the 576MW Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm.
Greater Gabbard Offshore Winds Ltd (GGOWL), a joint venture between SSE and Innogy, has awarded Seacat Services with a long-term contract to provide operations and maintenance support at the 140-turbine Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm.
The Offshore WIND Vessel Directory 2017 will be launched today at Seawork International in Southampton.
Danish operator of offshore wind Service Operation Vessels (SOV) Esvagt has added drone inspection to its list of offered services.
World Marine Offshore has been awarded management of Wavecraft high-performance crew transfer vessels (CTVs) Umoe Firmus and Umoe Rapid by Norwegian Umoe Wind.
DeepOcean has performed the first engineered grounding of the Maersk Connector during export cable pull-in operations on DONG Energy’s 660MW Walney Extension offshore wind farm.
Sweden’s NDE Offshore AB is carrying out inspection, maintenance and installation activities at the 400MW Bard Offshore 1 wind farm on behalf of Ocean Breeze Energy.
Jan De Nul has installed all ten gravity base foundations at the Tahkoluoto offshore wind farm off Pori, Finland, Suomen Hyötytuuli Oy, the developer of the 40MW project, told Offshore WIND.
MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has chartered United Wind Logistics’ specialized vessel Vestvind to transport the V164-8.0 MW turbine components. The Vestvind has already started delivering turbine components to Belfast for the Walney Extension wind farm in the Irish Sea. “This is yet another milestone for
MO4, Mainprize Offshore Ltd’s newest wind farm service vessel (WFSV), is ready to start an eight-year contract with Deutsche Windtechnik on the Nordergründe wind farm in the German North Sea.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has awarded Fred. Olsen Windcarrier with a contract to transport and install Siemens Gamesa 7MW turbines at EnBW’s Albatros offshore wind farm.
Strategic Marine and BMT Nigel Gee will be displaying two new crew transfer vessel (CTV) designs at Seawork International in Southampton, United Kingdom.
