Singapore-based Marco Polo Marine has announced that it will build, own, and operate a Commissioning Service Operations Vessel (CSOV) to meet the rising demand for support vessels required to service the offshore wind farm industry in Asia. Once completed by the end of the first quarter of 2024, the
Netherlands-headquartered Damen Shipyards has revealed it is developing a new vessel class that will be capable of supporting the growing floating offshore wind industry. Damen has cited forecasts which indicate that by 2050 over 200 GW or around 13,500 units of new floating offshore wind turbines w
Seraya Partners, an investment management company based in Singapore, has launched a pure-play offshore wind farm vessel company named Cyan Renewables. The founding company says Cyan aims at accelerating the growth of the offshore wind sector through a dedicated fleet of wind farm support vessels fo
The Cosco Shipping Shipyard (Nantong) in China, where Jan De Nul’s jack-up installation vessel Voltaire is being built, was hit by typhoon Muifa on the night between 14 and 15 September. The eye of the typhoon passed over the shipyard, causing the vessel to come loose from its moorings, Jan De Nul s
Offshore wind service provider CBED has secured a new contract with the owner of the DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in the German North Sea which will see the company’s walk-to-work (W2W) service operation vessel (SOV), Wind Innovation, deployed at the two wind farms throughout 2023. Wind
Van Oord will deploy its heavy lift installation vessel Svanen for the installation of foundations at the Baltic Power offshore wind farm site in the Polish sector of the Baltic Sea. The Dutch offshore construction company has been selected as the preferred contractor by Baltic Power, a joint ventur
Seaway 7, part of the Subsea7 Group, plans to raise USD 650 million through the issuance of new equity and debt, primarily to finance its two newbuild vessels, Seaway Alfa Lift and Seaway Ventus. Both vessels are anticipated to be delivered during 2023 and to enter operations in the first half of 20
Germany-based SeaRenergy and its compatriot the Asian Spirit Steamship company (ASSC) have joined forces to offer cargo run services to the offshore wind supply chain in the German North Sea. The expansion of offshore energy projects together with the backlog of works due to the corona pandemic has
MacGregor has been chosen to supply two auxiliary telescopic cranes for a new generation wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) that is being built at Yantai CIMC Raffles Shipyard in China for Dutch contracting company Van Oord. MacGregor’s scope of supply consists of two auxiliary offshore telesco
Seaway Heavy Lifting and Sif have completed the installation of all 140 monopile foundations at the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid in the Dutch North Sea. The foundations were installed in two campaigns. The first campaign ended in December 2021 with 34 foundations installed. The remaining 106 foundatio
Norway’s H2Carrier and Statkraft have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding regarding a study for the possible use of H2Carrier’s green ammonia floating production vessel, the P2XFloater™, on certain offshore wind locations. The P2XFloater™ will utilize renewable power to produce green hydrogen
GE Power Conversion has partnered with Tersan Shipyard in Türkiye to deliver the power and propulsion, dynamic positioning (DP), and vessel control systems for two construction service operation vessels (CSOVs) for Dutch maritime support provider, Acta Marine. GE Power Conversion’s scope of supply f
Transmission system operator TenneT has installed the DolWin kappa offshore platform off the coast of Lower Saxony, Germany. DolWin kappa will be the centrepiece of the 900 MW DolWin6 direct current link, which will bring offshore wind power from the German North Sea to land. After three years of co
C-Job Naval Architects has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with US-based Bleutec Industries and the Netherlands-based Penthus for the design and verification of their Piling Installation Vessel (PIV). The vessel is part of Bleutec’s integrated Binary Marine Installation Solution (BMIS) wh
