Seajacks Scylla, deemed the world’s largest and most advanced offshore wind farm installation vessel, arrived at the Port of Great Yarmouth today. In early December, Seajacks Scylla started her journey from a Samsung Heavy Industries yard in South Korea to the Port of Rotterdam on-board the heavy lo
The WaveCraft Surface Effect Ship Umoe Firmus arrived in the river harbour at the Port of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk today. Following extensive upgrades and testing, the vessel was handed over to the Tidal Transit crew, who sailed directly from Mandal to Yarmouth. Statkraft has chartered Umoe Firmus
Tidal Transit Limited has shared a photo of two of its crew transfer vessels (CTVs), Ginny Louise and her sister Eden Rose, looking ‘‘clean and ready for a busy spring” the company said in an Instagram post. The sisters have been employed on the 317MW Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm on and off f
Gibdock, a shiprepair and conversion yard from Gibraltar, carried out the afloat mobilisation of Seajacks Scylla, after the vessel had been discharged to Gibraltar waters from the heavy-lift transporter Osprey. The vessel was towed to Gibdock for reactivation works at the yard’s South Mole. Richard
British and Danish authorities have started an investigation to determine the root cause of the accident in which a worker on board the jack up vessel Wind Pioneer was injured on Saturday, 20 February, while the vessel was carrying out maintenance work at the 172MW Gunfleet Sands offshore wind farm.
Singapore-based liftboats and service rigs provider Ezion Holdings Limited has entered into a joint venture agreement with an unnamed Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE) for the deployment of service rigs to support the offshore wind farm market in China. Ezion said that the SOE is one of the key s
Siemens has chosen the UK-based Specialist Marine Consultants Ltd (SMC) to provide offshore Marine Coordination for the 600MW Gemini offshore wind farm off The Nethelands. SMC started Marine Coordination for the 150 turbine site situated in the Dutch sector of the North Sea, the first of which was i
C-bed Floating Hotel’s advanced Service Operation Vessel (SOV), MS Wind Innovation, has successfully completed all offshore testing and is now ready to engage in the commissioning phase of the 600MW Gemini offshore wind farm off the coast of The Netherlands. The last stage of testing equipment and s
Seajacks has confirmed that Seajacks Scylla’s voyage recommenced. The vessel is scheduled to arrive in Great Yarmouth Port in time for her naming ceremony on Thursday, 3 March. In early December, Seajacks Scylla started her journey from a Samsung Heavy Industries yard in South Korea to the Port of R
IHC has secured an order for a cutting edge power cable plough system, destined for the recently launched cable installation vessel, Maersk Connector, chartered to DeepOcean. The equipment to be provided by IHC comprises a 3.3m trench depth power cable plough, a sea state 5 LARS and tow winch. The p
On 16 February, the first of the 150 wind turbines was erected at the Gemini offshore wind farm. The installation vessel Aeolus is packed with five more wind turbines, which are scheduled to go up this week. The Pacific Osprey will also arrive later this week with further 8 turbines. Gemini is expec
Fred. Olsen Ocean, the owner of Fred. Olsen Windcarrier AS and Universal Foundation Norway AS and part of Bonheur ASA, ended 2015 with NOK 105 million (EUR 10.9 million) net loss, as compared to NOK 10 million net loss recorded a year earlier, due largely to delays in construction of several offshor
The last of the 72 foundations for the 288MW Sandbank offshore wind farm was installed last Friday with the help of Bilfinger Marine & Offshore Systems, the company which was in charge of transporting and installing the monopile foundations and transition pieces. The foundation installation works st
Spanish company Offshoretronic has informed that it designed the first wind farm installation vessel (WTIV) concept based on the conversion of the Samsung 10.000 DP Deepwater Drillship. According to the company, the newly designed vessel, named Sustainable Installer I, and installation method will h
