Europe’s largest commercial marine exhibition and conference, Seawork International 2015, has opened its doors again for the eighteenth year running. Over 600 exhibitors have filled the halls, quayside and marina to the gunnels at the ABP Port of Southampton, with over 10,000 products and more than
Seacat Services is showcasing its first vessel capable of carrying up to 24 industrial personnel at this year’s Seawork. Seacat Courageous, a 26m high speed catamaran launched in February this year, will be the first of the Seacat Services fleet to benefit from the ability to carry more than 12 pers
Nordsee One GmbH has invited tenders for the provision of guard vessel services, which include monitoring and safeguarding of its offshore wind farm construction area. The services are to be provided continuously over the entire installation phase on a 24/7 basis. The vessel will observe the surroun
The ASV Pioneer, an accommodation barge managed by Dalby Offshore, is assisting in cable works on the Baltic 2 offshore wind farm for the summer and is supported by a spread of two tugs and a number of specialist personnel. The vessel mobilised from the UK in February and is expected to remain in th
Acta Marine’s Coastal Chariot will soon install the floating BlueTec platform, south of the island of Texel in The Netherlands. Acta Marine has coincided the installation process with Van Oord Offshore. In June, the Coastal Chariot will tow and hook-up the platform. The DP1 Ultra Shallow Draft Multi
The 2015 edition of the Offshore WIND Vessel Directory will be launched on Tuesday 16th June during Seawork International in Southampton. The Vessel Directory is a new publication from the Offshore WIND group of products. This year’s edition builds upon the previous overview of operating wind farm s
ITW has completed the last grouting operation at Amrumbank West Offshore Wind Farm in Germany with a high speed efficiency rate. Connections between transition pieces and monopiles have been grouted with ITW’s cementitious material Ducorit® and the installation of the product has been performed by t
ASV in association with Planet Ocean will hold an Autonomous Surface Vehicle demonstration next week at Stokes Bay Sailing Club, Gosport. With the demonstration of two vehicles, the C-Worker and C-Enduro, they will showcase the potential uses of ASVs in offshore wind farm industry to reduce the cost
Tidal Transit’s windfarm service vessels, Eden Rose, has recently been chartered by Great Yarmouth based Dawson Energy, part of the 3Sun Group, to undertake the first 500 hour service of a number of Siemens wind turbines at the Westermost Rough Offshore Wind Farm. Situated 8km off the Yorkshire Coas
CT Offshore installed the first inter-array cable at Dong Energy’s Gode Wind 1 + 2 offshore sites yesterday. Crew on board cable laying vessel (CLV) SIA had been prepared since Thursday, waiting for good weather conditions to install the J01-I02 cable. The company is using its new trencher ROV, the
Eneco announced this morning that the last wind turbine had been installed at its Luchterduinen offshore wind farm. Van Oord’s Aeolus finished installing the 43rd turbine around 3 am this morning, only 2 months after the first one was erected at the offshore wind site located 23 kilometers off the c
Work on Kentish Flats Extension is at full power both offshore and onshore, accompanied with good weather conditions, Vattenfall reported. The INSTALLER is deploying pre-lay mattresses for cable crossing protection and the NOSTAG has already installed three inter-array cables. Work will start next w
Following a number of incidents involving small workboats operating in the wind farm sector during 2012 and 2013, a need was identified to set out the elements of competence required for crews operating and working on small workboats. ‘Guidance on Competence Assurance and Assessments: Marine Roles f
Manor Marine are taking their new vessel ‘London Titan’ to display at Seawork International in Southampton on June 16-18th in order to introduce the new multi-purpose ‘workhorse’ to other sectors including offshore wind. Portland based Manor Marine has recently completed the build of the new multi-p
