SAL Heavy Lift and Jumbo Shipping have held a steel-cutting ceremony for two Orca-class heavy lift vessels at WuHu Shipyard in Wuhu, China. The two Orca newbuilds will be exclusively involved in the transportation of offshore wind turbine components in a long-term commitment with Siemens Gamesa Rene
CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE) has started installing pin piles at the Zhong Neng wind farm off Taiwan, marking the start of the offshore construction on the project. DEME’s Apollo loaded the first set of pin piles, produced locally by CTCI-Machinery, earlier this week. CDWE is in charge of trans
The second telescopic leg crane has been installed onboard Seaway 7’s next-generation wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), Seaway Ventus, which is under construction at China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) yard in Nantong, China. In the coming weeks, the mechanical crane assembly works and reev
Van Oord has selected the Tyne Clean Energy Park at the Port of Tyne as the storage and marshalling base for the foundations of the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm. The site will be occupied from the third quarter of 2023, with the base operational from the first quarter of 2024, as the business [&h
Scotland-based Utility ROV Services has won a contract to provide boulder and debris clearance services on the Moray West offshore wind farm. The manufacturer of the UTROV system plans to start offshore operations in the first quarter of the year. A turnkey contract was signed between the Moray Offs
Ørsted has selected Havfram Wind for the installation of wind turbines at its Hornsea Three offshore wind farm in the UK. The Norwegian company will be using one of its newly built jack-ups for the work, which is scheduled to start in autumn 2026. The 2,852 MW Hornsea Three – which, according to Ørs
The Japan Marine United (JMU) shipyard delivered the GustoMSC designed and equipped offshore wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) to Shimizu Corporation at the end of January. Shimizu unveiled plans to build a wind farm installation vessel back in 2019. The vessel, which is of GustoMSC SC-14000XL
Offshore wind service vessel company Edda Wind has signed contracts with the Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas for its commissioning service operation vessels (CSOVs) in 2024 and 2025. According to Edda Wind, the contracts total a minimum of 750 days of firm work with options for extension of
Denmark’s A.P. Møller Holding (A.P. Moller Holding) has entered into an agreement to acquire Maersk Supply Service from A.P Møller – Mærsk. The ambition is to establish a leading offshore marine company servicing the offshore wind industry by building on the solid and extensive capabilities and asse
Ulstein has held a keel-laying ceremony for the second of the two Construction Service Operation Vessels (CSOV) ordered by Olympic Subsea ASA at the Crist yard in Poland. The keel for Olympic Subsea’s first CSOV was laid on 31 January. The two vessels are designed for the offshore wind industry and
A new report by the Floating Wind Offshore Wind Taskforce says up to eleven ports around the UK will need to be transformed as fast as possible into new industrial hubs to enable the roll-out of floating offshore wind at scale. The report contains a series of recommendations which could see 34 GW of
MJR Power and Automation, together with Blackfish Engineering and Tidal Transit, have completed the harbour trials of the company’s platform-mounted automated offshore power and charging system. The harbor trials were carried out at the Port of Blyth in the UK using the Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV) Ti
SSE Renewables, Marubeni Corporation, and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), the consortium behind Ossian floating offshore wind farm in Scotland, have awarded the contract for geotechnical investigations to Fugro and Ocean Infinity. The Netherlands-based Fugro will focus on downhole geotechn
Van Oord has seen the demand in the offshore wind market increase exponentially in 2022, the Dutch marine contractor’s CEO Pieter van Oord said. Van Oord’s Offshore Wind business unit had what the company has described in its financial report for 2022 as a ”a busy year”, recording EUR 599 million re
