Jan De Nul’s next-generation jack-up installation vessel, the Voltaire, has been fitted with the main crane of more than 3,000 tonnes – the largest Leg Encircling Crane ever built. Featuring a crane house weighing 1,800 tonnes, a boom length of 140 metres, and weighing 800 tonnes, the Huisman crane
Strategic Marine, a shipbuilding company based in Singapore, has delivered two crew transfer vessels (CTVs) to the UK-based offshore support vessel provider WEM Marine. The CTVs, powered by two Caterpillar C32 engines driving fixed pitch propellers, can accommodate 24 technicians and six crew member
[CORRECTION NOTE: This article was amended after offshoreWIND.biz received information that the installation of the monopile has been changed.] Seaway 7 has installed the first monopile at the Kaskasi offshore wind farm site in Germany, according to information on social media. The installation work
Tokyo-headquartered classification society ClassNK has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with PowerX, Inc. for a collaboration on the development of the Power Transfer Vessel – Power ARK. PowerX is carrying out a project of the first model of the Power ARK series, which is designed for tran
The Vard Vung Tau shipyard in Vietnam has delivered the first Taiwan-flagged service operation vessel (SOV), TSS Pioneer, to Ta San Shang Marine, a joint company owned by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Ta Tong Marine. The vessel will now be deployed on Ørsted’s 900 MW Greater Changhua 1 and 2a offsho
Reach Subsea has been awarded a contract for an offshore wind farm located in the North Sea, under which the Norwegian subsea services provider will deploy the vessel Olympic Challenger. The inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) and light construction subsea vessel, which has been on a charter wi
Holland Shipyards Group has completed the upgrades to the roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) vessel, Rotra Mare, extending it from 141.6 metres to 153.2 metres to make room for the ever-growing turbine parts. The manager of the vessel, Amasus Shipping, commissioned Holland Shipyards Group to extend the heavy
The 4,800-tonne offshore substation topside has been installed at the 1,075 GW Seagreen wind farm offshore Scotland. At 40 metres long, 45 metres wide, and 15 metres high, the topside will collect and manage the power generated by the 114 Vestas 10 MW wind turbines before transferring it ashore via
CWind Taiwan, a joint venture between CWind and International Ocean Vessel Technical Consultant (IOVTEC), has acquired a new crew transfer vessel (CTV) to support the offshore wind market in Taiwan. The vessel, named CWind Pesanach, has already joined CWind Taiwan’s fleet and will be supporting an o
Construction works on the 496 MW Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm are now resuming, the developer Ailes Marines informed on 7 March, saying the installation vessel Aeolus will be working at the site without interruption in 2022 and 2023. According to the vessel’s AIS data, Van Oord’s jack-up was at t
High Tien Offshore (HTO) has signed a Letter of Intent with Jong Shyn Shipbuilding (JSS) for the construction of crew transfer vessels (CTVs) for the Taiwanese offshore wind industry. The vessel owner/operator says the locally-built CTVs will support the developers bidding in Taiwan’s Round 3 offsho
DEME is currently mobilising its jack-up vessel Neptune as well as the Blue Tern jack-up, chartered from Fred. Olsen Windcarrier, for monopile installation that is set commence at the Kaskasi offshore wind farm site in Germany. The vessels will also be joined by Sea Challenger which will install the
DEME’s DP2 offshore installation vessel Sea Installer is getting ready to carry out works for the Fécamp offshore wind farm in France, the offshore construction company said in a social media update on 4 March. Sea Installer installed four foundation piles for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm’s
Ørsted and Eversource, together with Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO), have announced that construction of the first-ever US-flagged Jones Act-compliant Service Operations Vessel (SOV) has commenced. The vessel, which is being built at ECO in-house shipyards located in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Flori
