Vard, a Norwegian subsidiary of the Fincantieri Group, has signed a contract for the design and construction of a commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) for Navigare Capital Partners. The new unit, based on the VARD 4 19 design, will be delivered in the second quarter of 2027 from Vard’s ship
Norway’s Edda Wind has signed charter contracts for two of its newbuilds, with commencement immediately following yard delivery in November 2024 and the second quarter of 2025 for C503 and NB967, respectively. The first contract is related to the vessel C503, to be named Vestri Enabler, which is exp
South Korean maritime service company MARCON has secured approval in principle (AiP) from the Korean Register (KR) for its hybrid crew transfer vessel (CTV), a passenger and cargo transport vessel dedicated to offshore wind farms. The CTV is expected to resolve environmental regulation issues by ado
Ørsted is expected to soon launch a tender for a walk-to-work (W2W) vessel for one of the offshore wind projects in Poland the company owns in partnership with PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna. According to a recently issued early notice, notifying about the qualification system that will be used for t
UK-headquartered BMT, in partnership with shipbuilder Strategic Marine, has unveiled a new hybrid crew transfer vessel (CTV) design, the StratCat35. The StratCat35, which made its debut at WindEnergy Hamburg, is 35 metres in length and offers an expansive deck area, significantly improving storage c
Cadeler has signed a Vessel Reservation Agreement (VRA) for a pipeline of offshore wind projects in the Asia-Pacific region. The VRA secures the availability of one of Cadeler’s two newbuild M-Class wind turbine installation vessels for two projects in the Asia-Pacific market. The aggregate potentia
Macquarie Asset Management is set to acquire 100 ownership of Ziton, a Denmark-based provider of operations and maintenance (O&M) services to the offshore wind industry. Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 7, advised by Macquarie Asset Management, has entered into a share purchase agreement with
Norwegian ship designer and shipbuilder VARD has held the keel laying ceremony for what is said to be a highly customized hybrid power cable lay and construction vessel that will serve the Japanese offshore wind market. VARD is building the vessel for Toyo Construction, a Japanese general constructi
Havfram has been awarded a contract by Vattenfall and BASF for their Nordlicht offshore wind farm cluster in the German North Sea. The Nordlicht wind farm zone, located 85 kilometres north of the island of Borkum, consists of two separate sites: Nordlicht I, with an expected capacity of 980 MW, and
Havfram has signed a contract with Luxcara, an independent German asset manager specialized in clean energy infrastructure projects, for the transport and installation support of wind turbines for the Waterkant offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The agreement covers the vessel charter for t
A joint venture (JV) between Schoeller Holdings and Deutsche Offshore Schifffahrt (DOS) has ordered four commissioning service operation vessels (C-CSOVs) for deployment in the offshore wind and other segments of the offshore energy sector, marking its entry into the market which is, according to Ph
The service operation vessel (SOV) Wind of Hope has allided with a wind turbine of the Hornsea One wind farm in the UK. According to a statement issued by Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA), the 26 crew members and 46 specialist personnel on board at the time of the accident suffered no injuries. There w
UK-based Tidal Transit has ordered two battery-ready crew transfer vessel (CTV) newbuilds from Singapore’s Penguin Shipyard, designed for the offshore wind sector. The CTVs will be fitted with Volvo Penta IPS30 propulsion – the same as is used in Tidal Transit’s eGinny 100 per cent electric retrofit
Van Oord’s new, next-generation cable-laying vessel (CLV) is getting ready for its first project with the pick up of inter-array cables destined for RWE’s largest offshore wind farm to date. Calypso, Van Oord’s second CLV which will mostly be used for installing inter-array and export cables for off
