Alewijnse Marine provided GeoSea with two QA Bolt Tension Logging systems during the recently completed installation of 56 foundations on the 336MW Galloper wind farm off Suffolk, UK.
Eneco Offshore Wind B.V. has invited tenders for offshore transport and lifting services during what the company described as ”major component replacements” at the 120MW Princess Amalia Wind Farm (Prinses Amaliawindpark).
Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) installed the first cluster of foundation piles at the Beatrice offshore wind farm site on 2 April, according to the Beatrice Offshore Wind Limited’s (BOWL) social media pages.
Jan De Nul’s heavy-lift jack up vessel Vole au vent will now be mobilised for work on the Tahkoluoto offshore wind farm in Finland, after completing turbine installation at the Nobelwind wind farm off the coast of Belgium.
Siem Offshore Contractors (SOC) has awarded Ampelmann with a contract extension for the E1000 motion compensated access system.
RNLI crews from Whitstable and Sheerness were called around 9.50am on 30 March to assist the Tempest crew transfer vessel (CTV), which had struck an unknown underwater object and was taking in water at the Kentish Flats offshore wind farm area.
The new and updated edition of the Offshore WIND Vessel Directory will be launched at Seawork International in June: the Offshore WIND Vessel Directory 2017.
Following the recent launch of a new drill ship Freja in Denmark, MacArtney informed that it had provided a turnkey solution for the vessel, enabling the execution of advanced geotechnical drilling techniques and site investigations in water depths of up to 60m.
The Danish Maritime Authority (DMA) has issued a report on safety analysis for high-speed offshore vessels carrying up to 60 persons, which can be used to harmonise safety on board offshore vessels carrying wind turbine technicians.
Bremen-based shipping company Harren & Partner is set to become technical manager of Wind Lift I. The company’s Offshore Department headed by Robert Fowler will be responsible for managing the jack-up vessel starting from April.
Some 90% of Norwegian shipowners find the offshore wind industry as interesting for their activities in the future, according to a diagram published by the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association.
Hamburg-based Opus Marine has won a contract to provide crew transfer services during the construction of the 385MW Arkona offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.
Fugro will start a geophysical survey in and around the 586MW Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm in early April, a notice to mariners reveals.
GeoSea’s jack-up vessel Innovation has installed all 56 turbine foundations at the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm two months ahead of schedule, Galloper Wind Farm Ltd. reports.
