The last of the 35 turbines was lifted into position by A2SEA’s specialist jack-up vessel Sea Challenger at the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm on Friday, March 27. Westermost Rough, located off the UK’s East Coast, is the first offshore wind farm to make commercial use of the Siemens 6MW wind t
Strategic Marine has delivered StratCat, a multi-purpose service vessel to Njord Offshore, a European wind farm service sector operator. The StratCat, capable of transporting up to 24 crew, is first in its class in three particulars. “We are very pleased to have a supplied a ‘triple first’ to our cl
Damen held a naming ceremony for the two new SeaZip vessels SeaZip 3 and SeaZip 4 on Saturday. The vessels were named by Mrs Marie Le Roy a Councillor from the Harlingen Council (the town where SeaZip have their offices) and Mrs Mirna Robert – Du Ry van Beest Holle, the wife of Peter Robert [&hellip
Danish Yachts A/S have launched a new 27m Cat-SWATH crew transfer vessel at EWEA Offshore 2015. In 2013, the Skagen based shipyard at the northern most tip of Denmark delivered four revolutionary all-carbon-fibre 24m Cat-SWATH vessels to its client ‘Odfjell Wind’, which are currently operated by A2S
South Boats IOW has launched its second wind farm support vessel named ‘Iceni Vengence’ for Iceni Marine Services Ltd. The all new 23m South Catamaran design is a sister vessel to recently launched Iceni Venture. The two vessels, which will each carry 12 technicians alongside three crew members to a
Severn Offshore Services is holding a naming ceremony for its Damen 2610 twin axe “Severn Provider” today. It is company’s first vessels specifically designed to meet the needs of the offshore energy industry. The ceremony is being held at Damen Shipyards in Gorinchem. Ryan Hopkins Managing Director
Rotterdam-based law firm AKD says the lack of an unambiguous term to describe a ‘ship’ in several jurisdictions represents a potential threat to asset security for financiers, particularly in the offshore and renewable energy sectors. AKD partner Haco van der Houven van Oordt says: “In many jurisdic
SAL Heavy Lift completed the second phase of the Wikinger Pile Testing Campaign with DP II Class vessel MV Lone. The full test campaign comprised two phases with the tests being performed at three locations. During the first phase in November 2014 three sets of three piles each were driven at design
Esvagt has taken delivery of the second of three Havyard 832 SOV windfarm service vessels from Havyard Ship Technology AS. The first, newbuild 118 ‘Esvagt Froude’ was delivered in the middle of February. The German company Siemens Wind Power has hired both vessels on long-term contracts to service t
As recently reported, Prysmian’s cable laying barge Cable Enterprise has been upgraded into a DP2 cable layer at the Viktor Lenac shipyard in Croatia. The upgraded vessel will operate autonomously without the need of tugs during cable laying and will have a total of 9.2 MW of power supplying 6 thrus
Last week, DBB Jack-Up’s new purpose-built vessel J/U WIND SERVER commenced a new contract. The vessel has been chartered by Siemens AG to perform offshore installation support and function as accommodation vessel for Siemens’ commissioning teams on the installation of the Borkum Riffgrund 1 project
Last week, Seajacks Hydra joined other installation vessels working on the Global Tech I site for Adwen GmbH to support the commissioning of the eighty 5MW turbines located at the offshore wind farm site. Hydra began supporting commissioning services on the 15th March and is expected to be onsite fo
Tidal Transit has recently received an extension of the contract for its vessel Ginny Louise from Statkraft, the Norwegian company that running the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm. This follows the current extension for its sister vessel, Tia Elizabeth. For almost three years one or more of Tida
Albwardy Marine Engineering/Damen Shipyards Sharjah has been certified by Lloyds Register Quality Assurance for aligning its safety and environment management system with internationally recognized standards. (ISO 14001:2004 AND OHSAS 18001:2007) A Lloyd’s audit team extensively audited the yards ma
