Seaglaze Marine Windows recently responded to an emergency request for replacement of a smashed helm window of a wind farm transfer vessel. Thanks to its dedicated ‘in-house’ Glass Toughening Plant, the company received, manufactured and delivered to the client within a 24 hour period, avoiding the
Havyard Design & Solutions AS in Herøy has signed a contract with Astilleros Zamacona for the delivery of a design and equipment package for the building of a Havyard 931 CCV (Crew Change Vessel). This will be the fourth vessel Havyard Design & Solutions in Herøy has designed for ESVAGT. The first t
Norwegian supplier of modern offshore support vessels, Simon Møkster Shipping, has been awarded a contract with Acta Marine Offshore. According to the company, Stril Server was awarded a ten weeks contract with 5×1 weeks options. The vessel will start working in the Dutch sector in early August. Str
Yesterday, the Carbon Trust hosted the first UK demonstration of the Wave Craft vessel Umoe Ventus at Seawork International 2015 in Southampton. The new vessel, developed by Umoe Mandal with support from the Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), is a surface effect ship (SES), using an air
Longitude Engineering has won a major contract with A2SEA to deliver the transportation engineering package for the 67 Siemens 6MW turbines at Dudgeon offshore wind farm off the coast of Cromer in North Norfolk, UK. A2SEA will install the turbines using its purpose-built second generation installati
MMT has been contracted by ABB to perform a pre-lay and UXO survey for a cable laying project between Caithness and Moray in northern Scotland. ABB will provide the Caithness-Moray high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power transmission link, which will connect the electricity grid on either side of t
CTruk Boats formally handed over the first new craft built at its River Colne production facility in Colchester when the latest MPC22 offshore wind farm service vessel (WFSV) was officially named by owner CWind at the Seawork show in Southampton. Utilising the unique CTruk flexible pod system that a
Rix and Piriou have signed a letter of intent (LoI) for a 26m vessel at Seawork International in Southampton on Wednesday 17 June 2015. More information to follow.
At Seawork’s Network and Awards Evening, winners of the Innovations Showcase, the overall Sprit of Innovation Award, the Maritime Professional of the Year Award as well as the Seawork Lifetime Achievement Award were announced. Compere for the evening was Southampton’s power boat champion, and TV and
There is a new home for the annual Seawork International, which has been running this week in Southampton. Organisers, Mercator Media, has reached an agreement in principle with Southampton City Council to move Seawork to Mayflower Park, which will allow the exhibition to grow both on the water and
Today, the Carbon Trust hosted the first UK demonstration of a new vessel designed to reach offshore wind farms more cheaply and easily. The Wave Craft, developed by Norwegian shipbuilder Umoe Mandal with support from the Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), was put through its paces at S
CWind has won an eight months contract to provide crew transfer services to Fred Olsen at Walney 1 and 2 offshore wind farms. One of the more than 20 crew transfer vessels in the fleet operated by CWind, will assist with O&M activities at the two wind farms. Peter Jorgensen, Managing Director, CWind
Burgess Marine has completed a £3m contract for the first of a new generation of offshore support vessels. The company has built the craft for Mainprize Offshore at its shipyard at Trafalgar Wharf in Portchester, near Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK. The 25-metre boat, the MO2, was delivered at the Seawor
Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) has hired the Esvagt Connector and Esvagt Don to tow a floating barge that carries both an accommodation module and jacket from the port of Vlissingen in the Netherlands to the Gode Wind 1 and 2 offshore wind farm site in the German sector of the North Sea. Work star
