On 20 October, BigLift Shipping’s heavy-lift vessel Happy Star arrived in the Port of Rotterdam, bringing Damen’s largest transportation of stock vessels to date – a total of 22 vessels. Included in the Damen transport are two Fast Crew Suppliers 2610, one ASD Tug 2310, three ASD Tugs 2411 and three
Severn Offshore Services’ crew transfer vessel (CTV) Severn Provider is scheduled to complete work at the Meerwind offshore wind farm this month, but the owner already reported that the vessel had shown an exceptional performance at its first job. Severn Provider has been working in the German part
The boat building specialist Mainstay Marine Solutions has delivered the 20m vessel Porth Nefyn to transfer vessel operator Turbine Transfers. The Porth Nefyn will work principally on offshore European wind farm sites between the Baltic and Irish Seas. The vessel is an extended version of the existi
An offshore personnel transfer company, Reflex Marine, is developing a new personnel access concept for the offshore wind and traditional energy industries, the SEA-SPIDER. The innovation will utilise winch based access to offer an alternative to current access methods, such as butting a vessel agai
Ulstein has introduced its S182 design, a new dynamically positioned multipurpose construction vessel suitable for shallow water operations. The company said that the main design driver was to develop a very CAPEX friendly DP vessel with good capabilities to support various offshore operations, incl
GeoSea (DEME Group) has completed trials of a jack-up vessel in extreme current flows. The results of the trials confute industry reluctance to deploy jack-up vessels on tidal sites, GeoSea said. The demonstrated workability and reliability create confidence for tidal project developers and open the
Østensjø Rederi has been awarded a Service Operation Vessel (SOV) contract by DONG Energy. The contract will require a new build vessel for operations at Race Bank offshore wind farm in the UK. The contract has a five-year firm period with five optional years. Commencement date is set for 1 Septembe
Orkney Islands Council continued its work to install a new marine traffic system west of Orkney last Friday. A 16-foot long radar piece of a new VTS (vessel traffic system) was transferred by helicopter from EMEC’s Billia Croo wave test site to the Black Craig. The Black Craig, which EMEC uses as an
A2SEA has signed a contract to install two foundations and two Siemens 4MW turbines on the Taiwanese project Formosa 1, developed by Swancor/Formosa Wind Power CO., Ltd. The foundations and turbines will be installed from June 2016 by the vessel M/V TORBEN, formerly known as Friedrich Ernestine, own
EMS Maritime Offshore GmbH (EMO) opened its Offshore Wind Terminal on 26 September in Eemshaven, the Netherlands. As the first step, a non-tidal floating jetty has been inaugurated in the Beatrix Harbour, where soon up to ten Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs) may berth and can be supplied at the same tim
Dutch offshore accommodation specialist, C-bed, has presented a new tailor-made offshore wind hotel vessel, Wind Innovation. The vessel was built for optimising the installation and commissioning stages for offshore wind farm operators. “With her DP2 capacity and Comfort Class 3 certification, she i
Fugro Scout, the new 83-metre geotechnical drilling vessel, is on its way to The Netherlands to execute a geotechnical survey for an offshore wind farm in the Dutch sector of the North Sea, following the completion of its maiden project in the Middle East. The new vessel is specifically designed to
Dutch offshore operator Conquest Offshore has appointed the Port of Amsterdam as the home port for its heavy lift crane barge Conquest MB1. The barge, which has a lifting capacity of 1,400 tons, will settle today in the Cacaohaven. The crane is able to fully rotate 360 degrees. It has a free deck sp
The name giving ceremony of the offshore support vessel Acta Orion will take place on October 22th, when Mrs Didi te Gussinklo Ohmann will name the vessel. The vessel is named after one of the most recognizable constellations in the night sky. Govert Jan van Oord suggested Acta Orion’s name, as Orio
