Seatrium has revealed that its subsidiary has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with Penta-Ocean Construction (POC) to build a heavy lift vessel to serve the Japanese offshore wind market. Seatrium’s subsidiary signed a LoI with the Japanese company to carry out early engineering work for a 5,000-tonn
Netherlands-based Saltwater Engineering has announced the launch of its latest vessel design, Blue Quest, optimised for a wide range of offshore survey applications. Saltwater Engineering said that Blue Quest was crafted to embody multifunctionality within a streamlined and efficient design. The com
Vestas has awarded Dong Fang Offshore (DFO) a contract to provide a service operations vessel (SOV) for the Changfang-Xidao and Zhong Neng offshore wind projects in Taiwan. Under the twelve-year contract, Dong Fang Offshore will provide an SOV for supporting the operations and maintenance (O&M) phas
Germany’s MPC Capital and its compatriot O.S. Energy have partnered to build a fleet of next-generation service vessels that will be used primarily on offshore wind farms in the North and Baltic Seas. The joint venture commissioned the construction of a first vessel at the Danish Esbjerg Shipyard in
Cadeler has signed firm contracts for the transportation and installation of wind turbines as well as the foundations for ScottishPower Renewables’ East Anglia Two wind farm off the coast of the UK. Under the contract, Cadeler will be responsible for the transportation and installation of both the f
OEG Renewables has inked a contract with Strategic Marine for the order of a newbuild crew transfer vessel (CTV) that will support the company’s operations in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. The vessel, due to be named Wey Feng, is a BMT-designed aluminium catamaran and will be the fourth StratCat 2
Van Oord, using its jack-up vessel Aeolus, has installed 34 of the total 100 monopiles at the Sofia offshore wind farm site in the UK, according to a Notice to Mariners issued on 29 October. Aeolus installed the first monopile at the Sofia project site, located on Dogger Bank in the central North Se
Vestas has signed a multi-year service contract with Purus to utilise the company’s commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) newbuild which is currently under construction at Vard’s shipyard in Norway. The contract with the Danish wind turbine manufacturer will commence immediately after the ve
Patriot Offshore Maritime Services, a subsidiary of Liberty Green Logistics based in Lake Success, New York, has been awarded a ten-year crew transfer vessel (CTV) services contract for work on Equinor’s Empire Wind offshore wind farm in the US. The Jones Act-qualified CTV will be constructed in a U
MFW Bałtyk II sp. z o.o. and MFW Bałtyk III sp. z o.o. special purpose companies have signed a total of four agreements for the charter of crew transfer vessels (CTVs) for the construction of the offshore wind farms in Poland. Polenergia and Equinor hold 50 per cent stakes each in MFW Bałtyk II Sp.
Van Oord’s new, next-generation cable-laying vessel (CLV) Calypso has begun installing cables at its first offshore wind project, marking its official debut. Calypso’s first project is RWE’s Sofia offshore wind farm, being constructed on Dogger Bank in the central North Sea, 195 kilometres from the
EnBW has awarded North Star a contract for a commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) to be deployed at the 960 MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in Germany. The award, which is the first for a North Star CSOV, for the newbuild Grampian Kestrel will precede the decade-long minimum charter contrac
Windcat’s first Commissioning Service Operation Vessel (CSOV) has been launched by Damen Shipyards at Ha Long Shipyard in Vietnam. The launch ceremony took place on 12 October in Vietnam, where Damen is constructing all six CSOVs. With this first CSOV in the water, Damen said it will continue with i
North Star, a service operations vessel (SOV) operator in the UK’s renewable industry, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with MO4, Principle Power, SMST, Vard, and Voith Group to form a working group aimed at developing a new SOV concept for floating offshore wind. The six organisations
