Van Oord has laid the keel for its new 130-metre hybrid cable-laying vessel, Calypso. The Dutch company held a ceremony at the Vard Tulcea shipyard in Romania to mark the milestone. Van Oord placed an order with VARD for Calypso in December last year as part of the company’s strategy to strengthen i
North Star Group has secured the service operations vessel (SOV) contract to support the third phase of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm off the coast of Yorkshire, UK. The UK firm has secured a long-term charter worth approximately GBP 90 million (around EUR 105 million) to deliver an additional sh
Major Japanese shipbuilding, marine engineering, and service company, Imabari Shipbuilding, has entered into a capital and business alliance with the compatriot startup, PowerX, to jointly develop a prototype automated Power Transfer Vessel. The Power Transfer Vessel, Power ARK 100, is a 100 TEU tri
Five France-based companies have formed the ZEST industrial consortium to produce zero-emission & safe transfer crew transfer vessels. (CTVs). Louis Dreyfus Armateurs, Mauric, Barillec Marine, SEAir, and ADV Propulse have been working for three months on the development of a prototype CTV which is s
Wärtsilä will supply seven thrusters for the wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) currently being built at the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) yard in South Korea for Eneti. The six WST-32 thrusters and one WTT-36 thruster are scheduled for delivery during the first quarter of 2
Vattenfall has selected Jan De Nul Group to transport and install the wind turbines at the Vesterhav Nord and Vesterhav Syd offshore wind farms in the Danish North Sea. Under the contract, Jan De Nul will transport and install 41 Siemens Gamesa 8.4 MW turbines at the two wind farms. Jan De Nul’s jac
Volvo Penta has signed a contract to provide its quad IPS propulsion systems for the four new offshore wind farm crew transfer vessels (CTVs) that Rhode Island-based Blount Boats will build to ABS Class for American Offshore Services (A-O-S), a newly established company between Sweden’s Northern Off
Eneti Inc. has entered into a binding agreement for the construction of the second next-generation wind turbine installation vessel with South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME). Eneti has exercised an option it held with DSME for the construction of the WTIV. The contract pri
Cadeler’s jack up Wind Osprey has arrived at Able Seaton Port in Hartlepool to load the first batch of Vestas V164-10.0 MW turbines to be installed at the 1.1 GW Seagreen wind farm offshore Scotland. Wind Osprey is expected to arrive at the installation site some 27 kilometres off the Angus coast wi
Cadeler A/S has signed a contract with Huisman to design and construct two >2,000 t Leg Encircling Cranes (LEC) for the two Cadeler X-class vessels scheduled to be ready by the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025, respectively. The identical Leg Encircling Cranes have a 155-metre long boom, capabl
Not even five years after their conversion from containerships to roll on/roll off (Ro-Ro) vessels customized to transport wind turbine components, Siemens’s Rotra Mare and Rotra Vente will undergo modifications in response to the increasing size of wind turbine components. The 141.6-metre Rotra Ven
Jan De Nul has awarded the ships agency contract to DHSS covering the installation of high voltage cables for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust (Noord) and (West Alpha) grid connection projects offshore the Netherlands. DHSS will assist Jan de Nul on this project from its support base in Port of IJmuiden and
Seaway 7, the main Seagreen contractor, has contracted Van Oord to install scour protection around the 114 wind turbine foundations at the Seagreen wind farm offshore Scotland. The wind turbines for this 1.1 GW offshore wind farm located 27 kilometres off the coast of Angus will be installed on thre
The first steel has been cut for Seaway 7’s next-generation wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) at the China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) facility in Jiangsu, China. The ceremony marks the first major milestone in bringing its GustoMSC NG-14000XL-G jack-up vessel to the market, Seaway 7 said.
