LD TravOcean, a subsidiary of Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LD Armateurs), has acquired the DP2 multipurpose support vessel SIDDIS Mariner, which will be renamed TVO Mariner and support the company’s operations across several sectors, including offshore wind. The vessel is already familiar to LD TravOcea
Norwegian energy data and intelligence company TGS has won another contract to deploy its seismic vessel Ramform Vanguard for an offshore wind site characterisation campaign in Europe. Under the contract that has a duration of approximately one and a half months, Ramform Vanguard will commence data
Eighty wind turbines have been installed at the Sofia offshore wind farm site, located on Dogger Bank in the central North Sea, where 100 units of the Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD model will be installed for a total capacity of 1.4 GW. The vessel deployed for the work, Cadeler’s Wind Peak, installed
China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) has held the keel laying ceremony for Asso.subsea’s new cable-laying vessel (CLV), marking the start of the vessel’s assembly. The keel-laying ceremony was held on 9 April at CMHI’s shipyard on Mazhou Island, Shenzhen, some five months after the start of constru
Cadeler’s second M-class vessel, Wind Mover, which was delivered by the South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean to Cadeler in November 2025, has been deployed on its first project, the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind farm in Poland. The new vessel, designed to install the next generation of offshore
Van Oord has completed the installation of monopiles at the Hollandse Kust West Site VI, developed by a joint venture between Shell, Eneco and Chubu Electric Power. The Dutch offshore contractor installed three of the project’s 52 monopiles using GBM Works’ VibroJet technology in combination with CA
Japanese shipping company Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (“K” Line) has acquired full ownership of “K” Line Wind Service (KWS), taking over all shares previously held by its wholly owned subsidiary Kawasaki Kinkai Kisen Kaisha. The transaction, completed on 31 March 2026, converts KWS from a joint venture in
Boskalis’s new subsea rock installation (SRI) vessel, described by the company as the largest in the industry, has arrived in the Netherlands for final outfitting and commissioning ahead of its first assignment later this year. Windpiper, whose purchase Boskalis announced in January 2025, was develo
DEME recently held a naming ceremony for its new offshore wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), Norse Wind, at the Port of Oslo, Norway. The new vessel was ordered from CIMC Raffles Shipyard in China by Norwegian offshore wind contractor Havfram, which DEME acquired in April 2025, and was deliver
The hull of NKT’s new cable-laying vessel (CLV) NKT Eleonora has been launched into the water at Vard’s shipyard in Tulcea, Romania. The official keel laying for the vessel took place in January 2025, some two months after the first steel was cut. NKT Eleonora will be able to run on both methanol an
Jan De Nul has launched William Thomson, the second of two identical subsea cable‑laying vessels currently under construction. Both vessels have a cargo capacity of 28,000 tonnes and a length of 215 metres. This makes them the largest of their kind, Jan De Nul said. Jan De Nul’s two new cable-laying
Maersk’s first next-generation wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), Maersk Viridis, has sailed out of Singapore and is on its way to the US, where it will install turbines on Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 offshore wind farm, under construction in the US federal waters off New York. According to Maersk
Installation of the first of 84 Siemens Gamesa 11 MW wind turbines is underway at the Sunrise Wind project site, located approximately 30 miles (around 48 kilometres) east of Montauk, New York. The installation vessel Wind Scylla, owned by Cadeler, arrived at the site on 25/26 March, according to th
The installation of wind turbine foundations at Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK is scheduled to start in April, with Cadeler’s vessels Wind Ally and Wind Orca, and the service operation vessel (SOV) Esvagt Froude set to mobilise for the work from Dutch and UK ports. Wind Ally will mo
