Green Marine UK’s initiative aiming to retrofit CTVs with hydrogen, fuel cells and battery, to cut emissions while servicing offshore wind farms, has been granted AiP by RINA.
Ulstein Verft delivered the construction service operation vessel (CSOV) Olympic Boreas to Norwegian vessel owner Olympic on 25 July, two years after Olympic ordered two CSOVs from its compatriot shipbuilder. The second vessel is under construction which started at the beginning of 2023. The vessels
RWE and TotalEnergies have entered into an agreement under which TotalEnergies will acquire a 50 per cent stake in RWE’s OranjeWind offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. TotalEnergies said it would use its share of the electricity from the 795 MW OranjeWind to produce green hydrogen. The new partne
Norway’s Vard has signed a contract with its compatriot Rem Offshore to design and construct another commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV). The VARD 4 19 design CSOV, developed by Vard Design in Ålesund, will be the third vessel Vard delivers to Rem Offshore. The first two, REM Power and REM
Parkwind, a subsidiary of JERA Nex, has installed a vessel charging station system at its 165 MW Nobelwind offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea. At the Nobelwind wind farm, a newly operational system enables ships to connect to a charging cable and use locally generated renewable energy while
Dong Fang Offshore (DFO) has been awarded a charter for a newbuild Commissioning Service Operation Vessel (CSOV) by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) for the 500 MW Fengmiao 1 offshore wind project in Taiwan. Scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2027, the new CSOV will be used to su
The Netherlands’ Damen Shipyards has signed a contract with Ta San Shang Marine (TSSM) for the construction of another Damen Commissioning Service Operation Vessel (CSOV) 9020, that will deployed on offshore wind farms in Taiwan. The second CSOV will be built in Vietnam, with a delivery date planned
Denmark-headquartered Cadeler has signed a preferred supplier agreement to transport and install wind turbine generators (WTGs). An undisclosed client has signed an agreement with Cadeler to secure vessel capacity for a wind turbine installation campaign scheduled to start in 2029. According to the
Huisman has signed two contracts to provide cranes and installation equipment for Cadeler’s A-Class offshore wind farm installation vessels. The first contract, awarded by COSCO, is for a 3,000+-mt leg-encircling crane and a 40-mt pedestal-mounted crane for Cadeler’s latest A-Class vessel. The ship
Damen Shipyards has secured a contract to build the sixth hydrogen dual-fuel Commissioning Service Operation Vessel (CSOV) for the crew transfer vessel operator Windcat. Damen will build the sixth CSOV at Ha Long Shipyard in Vietnam, where construction of the first five newbuilds is currently underw
Louis Dreyfus Armateurs has placed an order with Strategic Marine for two new crew transfer vessels (CTVs) to expand its fleet from five to seven ships. The new vessels are expected to be delivered in early 2025. The two new CTVs will be built by Singapore’s Strategic Marine and are sisterships to t
WINDEA CTV, a partnership between Hornblower Group and MidOcean Wind, has completed the delivery of four US-built, hybrid-ready crew transfer vessels (CTVs) for operations supporting large-scale commercial offshore wind projects along the East Coast. The four CTVs include the previously delivered WI
Norwegian Vard has held the steel cutting ceremony for the highly customised hybrid power cable lay and construction vessel it is building for the Japanese offshore wind market. The steel-cutting ceremony for NB 980 was held on 1 July in Vard Shipyards Romania – Braila, marking a milestone in the co
Maersk Supply Service has launched Maersk Offshore Wind, a new company that will provide installation services to the offshore wind market based on a new offshore wind installation vessel (Maersk WIV) concept. The design and concept are estimated to reduce the installation time of offshore wind turb
