Wind turbine installation at the Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm in Germany has been completed with the final Siemens Gamesa 11 MW turbine now installed. The final of the project’s 83 wind turbines was installed by Cadeler using its vessel Wind Osprey, which performed part of the installation
NOTE: This article was updated on 13 and 14 January to add further information shared by Vattenfall and Louis Dreyfus Armateurs. Vattenfall has awarded three contracts to Louis Dreyfus Armateurs for the provision of service operation vessels (SOVs) in Germany: one for the jointly operated DanTysk an
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has contracted the Dutch offshore construction company Van Oord and the joint venture between Belgian offshore construction specialist DEME and Taiwan’s largest shipbuilder CSBC for installation work at the Fengmiao 1 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Van Oord’s
German transmission system operator (TSO) has issued a call for tenders for a jack-up barge that would connect to an offshore substation and (separately) for air rescue services, both for offshore wind farm assets in the German Baltic Sea. The jack-up barge will be connected to an offshore substatio
The offshore installation vessel, Boreas, has been handed over to the Dutch company Van Oord during a ceremony at the Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore shipyard in China. Van Oord ordered a self-elevating offshore installation vessel at the Yantai CIMC Raffles shipyard in October 2021. The Boreas, launch
PaxOcean has unveiled an order for up to four methanol-ready offshore construction vessels (OCVs) from an unnamed European shipowner. PaxOcean announced it has signed shipbuilding contracts for two OCVs with a “renowned European shipowner” for delivery in 2027 and an option for two additional vessel
Heerema Marine Contractors has signed a contract with the German/Dutch transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT for the delivery of a float-over barge, designed to install 2 GW offshore substations weighing more than 30,000 tonnes. According to Heerema, the new float-over barge will be a vital asse
Denmark’s Ziton has expanded its fleet with the addition of another jack-up vessel to support its operations and maintenance (O&M) services in the offshore wind sector. The jack-up vessel WIND DISCOVERY, which was built in 2011, has been registered in the Danish International Register of Shipping. T
Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) has delivered a new piling vessel to China Communications Construction Corporation (CCCC), which plans to use it for deep-sea bridge and offshore wind farm construction. The vessel, named Erhang Changqing and delivered on 5 January, was developed by CCCC Seco
The offshore installation vessel Seaway Strashnov has installed all but two monopile foundations at the Dogger Bank B offshore wind site in the UK and will return in the second quarter of 2025 to complete the installation. Five more transition pieces (TPs) are also left to be installed, according to
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The developers behind the Baltic Power project have made the initial compensation payments to fishermen who conducted fishing activities in the wind farm area off the coast of Poland. The transitional compensation scheme is valid for the construction of the offshore wind farm or until ministerial re
ZTT’s flagship monopile installation vessel, Zhongtian 39, has received key upgrades to enhance its capabilities in offshore wind projects, according to a recent social media post from the China-based Tier 1 supplier. The vessel, launched in October 2023, now features a DP2 dynamic positioning syste
New wind turbine models, vessels and equipment, and project updates were the most read topics on offshoreWIND.biz in 2024. In this overview, we are bringing the ten most popular news in 2024. In January 2024, Siemens Gamesa received a EUR 30 million grant from the EU for a project called Highly Inno
