Dajin Heavy Industry has shipped first Hornsea 3 monopiles to the UK onboard its new ultra-large, heavy-cargo deck carrier, King One. The Chinese foundation manufacturer recently announced that it named the new vessel and sent off King One on its maiden voyage, not revealing the project the deck car
Heerema Marine Contractors has put its semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) Thialf, the second-largest SSCV in the world, through a lifetime extension programme, with the vessel currently undergoing the first stage of the work in Rotterdam, ahead of its mobilisation for a Polish offshore wind projec
Seatrium handed over the Maersk wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) to its owner on 26 February, the Singapore-based shipbuilder said. The new WTIV is scheduled to sail for its first assignment at the Empire Wind project offshore New York in March 2026. The WTIV recently completed sea trials in
A consortium of Boskalis and TKF has signed a contract with Skyborn Renewables for the supply and installation of inter-array cables for the Gennaker offshore wind farm in Germany. Under the contract, the consortium will deliver the complete inter-array cable system connecting the 63 Gennaker wind t
Norway’s Kongsberg Maritime has been appointed to deliver an integrated technology package for what is said to be South Korea’s first specialised HVDC installation vessel, being built in Türkiye. South Korean subsea cable installation company LS Marine Solution signed a contract with Türkiye’s Tersa
Allseas’ new cargo barge Braveheart, built by the CIMC Changhong Shipyard, which held a keel-laying ceremony for the new vessel in April 2025, has now departed China for the Netherlands. Braveheart was purpose-built to fit precisely within Pioneering Spirit‘s bow slot to enable seamless transfer of
The installation of the first wind turbine at Ørsted’s Sunrise Wind project site in the US is expected to start soon, as Cadeler’s vessel Wind Scylla, which was installing Revolution Wind turbines and is now in port, is planned to deploy to Sunrise Wind next. According to a Notice to Mariners issued
The newbuild vessel that Cadeler acquired from Shanghai Boqiang Heavy Industry Group last year is ready to start supporting wind turbine installation at EnBW’s He Dreiht offshore wind farm in Germany, after having completed a technical and visual upgrade. The Danish vessel owner announced in May 202
Dajin Heavy Industry has officially named the first of four 40,000 DWT deck carriers it is building at the Dajin Penglai Offshore facility, from where the vessel has set sail on its maiden voyage. The new vessel, named King One, was officially named and “embarked on its new global operational journe
SMST has been selected by Marco Polo Marine to deliver a mission equipment package for the commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) that the Singapore-based company is building to support both offshore wind and oil & gas operations. For the vessel, dubbed CSOV Plus, SMST will supply an access a
GustoMSC, through its parent company NOV, has been awarded contracts for the design and supply of equipment for Hanwha Ocean’s new wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), based on the GustoMSC NG-16000X design. Hanwha Ocean recently said it secured an order from its affiliate Ocean Wind Power 1 for
The UK’s first commercially ready biomethanol storage and supply service for shipping has been launched at the Port of Immingham, the largest port by cargo volume in the UK, as part of efforts to advance decarbonisation in maritime transport. The first company to use the new service will be the offs
Cadeler’s service and maintenance unit, Nexra, has signed a firm contract valued at more than EUR 20 million for the execution of an operations and maintenance (O&M) campaign in Taiwan, the company said on 9 February, leaving the client unnamed. The campaign, which will be performed across two offsh
Hanwha Ocean has secured an order from Ocean Wind Power 1 for a wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) worth KRW 768.7 billion (approximately EUR 444 million). Scheduled for delivery in the first half of 2028, the new vessel will be the first WTIV in Korea capable of installing 15 MW-class offshore
MacGregor will supply a 400-tonne active heave compensated (AHC) subsea crane for a new floating wind construction vessel (FWCV) that Jiangsu Dajin Heavy Industry is building in China for the South Korean company HANA Shipping. MacGregor is scheduled to deliver the crane at the end of 2027, with the
