Edda Wind has ordered three more Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOV) in addition to the six vessels the company has under construction. The vessels are specially designed for service operations during the commissioning and operation of offshore wind farms. The three CSOVs will be prepared
Jan De Nul Group has launched the Voltaire, a next-generation offshore jack-up installation vessel for offshore renewables and decommissioning, at the COSCO Shipping Shipyard in Nantong, China. The Voltaire will be the second and the largest jack-up vessel in Jan De Nul’s fleet. The jack-up is due f
The jack-up vessel Seajacks Scylla has arrived in the Port of Taichung in Taiwan in preparation for the turbine installation work on the 900 MW Changhua 1 and 2a offshore wind farms. The installation work is expected to start as soon as a favourable window opens. Seajacks Scylla will transport and i
Ørsted and Eversource have selected two vessel operators in Northeast US that will partner with Rhode Island shipyards to build crew transfer vessels (CTVs) serving the two companies’ offshore wind farms in the region. Joint venture partners Ørsted and Eversource will charter five new offshore wind
ZPMC and Ulstein Design & Solutions have signed a ship design contract on two types of Service Operation Vessels (SOVs) for Shanghai Electric Windpower Group, the first purpose-made SOVs designed for the Chinese offshore wind industry, according to the Norwegian vessel designer. This contract marks
Danish wind farm installation vessel owner and operator Cadeler A/S has secured a contract with Vestas, and a reservation agreement with an undisclosed client. The contract with Vestas is said to have strengthened Cadeler’s order backlog and ensured optimal utilization of the company’s O-class vesse
The UK-based offshore energy support vessel (OESV) operator Seacat Services will soon add a new high-speed offshore wind support vessel to its fleet. Seacat Sceptre, built by Diverse Marine and currently undergoing sea trials, has been designed by Chartwell Marine and fitted with Foil Optimisation a
American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has granted Approval in Principle (AIP) to a coordinated design for a wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) in conjunction with the BargeRack feeder barge system by Friede and Goldman (F&G). The design is said to enable the Jones Act-compliant barge in a lifting s
SeaZip Offshore Service will transform its 12 PAX crew transfer vessels (CTVs) into 24 PAX over the upcoming winter break, the company said on 24 January. The vessels, with double the passenger capacity, will be operational again from March-April 2022. The major capacity expansion concerns four vess
Maersk Supply Service and Ørsted plan to launch the world’s first full-scale offshore charging station for vessels, at an offshore wind farm, in the third quarter of 2022. As part of the project, Maersk Supply Service has now launched its offshore vessel-charging venture, Stillstrom, to support the
Two Opus Marine’s crew transfer vessels (CTVs) chartered by Ørsted for its Greater Changhua offshore wind farms are now on their way to Taiwan after being sent of the Penguin shipyard in Singapore. The two vessels, named Valkyrie and Wotan, are currently being transported on a heavy lift carrier fro
Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has received its first order for newbuild methanol-fuelled engines. A new Offshore Wind Installation Vessel (WIV) being built for Dutch contracting company Van Oord at Yantai CIMC Raffles shipyard in China will be powered by five Wärtsilä 32 engines capable of opera
Norwegian shipowner Norside has bought a platform supply vessel (PSV) from Ulstein’s investment arm Blue Ship Invest and will convert it into a walk-to-work vessel for the offshore wind industry. The vessel, a PX121 design by Ulstein, was built by Ulstein Verft and delivered under the name Blue King
The first steel has been cut for the first Commissioning Service Operation Vessel (CSOV) ordered by IWS Fleet, a fully owned subsidiary of the Norwegian company Integrated Wind Solutions, at the China Merchants Heavy Industry facility in Jiangsu, China. The vessel, to be named IWS Skywalker, will c
