GE Renewable Energy and Acta Marine have signed a charter contract for the Acta Auriga Service Operations Vessel (SOV), which will support the commissioning of 80 Haliade 6 MW turbines at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France. Operating out of the Port of Saint-Nazaire, the vessel will assi
Five UK projects revolving around decarbonisation of the maritime sector by using offshore wind solutions have won GBP 3.3 million (around EUR 3.9 million) through the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition, funded by the UK Department for Transport and delivered in partnership with Innovate UK. O
Ampelmann has signed its first contract for a motion-compensated gangway in China, where Guangdong Safety New Energy is set to fit the gangway onto its new Service Operations Vessel (SOV) which will be deployed on the Guangdong Yangjiang offshore wind farm, located some 74 kilometres off the coast o
Kongsberg Maritime has signed a contract with Vard shipyard to deliver a large package of permanent magnet (PM) thrusters for installation on two Construction Service Operations Vessels (CSOVs) to be built for Rem Offshore. Within the package, Kongsberg Maritime will deliver PM azimuth thrusters, to
High Tien Offshore Engineering (High Tien Offshore) – a company led by a former CSBC president and chairman of CSBC’s joint venture with DEME – is set to invest in a large cable laying vessel (CLV) which will serve the offshore wind market in Taiwan. “Following the investment by CDWE in a large floa
Awind, a subsidiary of Integrated Wind Solutions, has ordered equipment packages for two Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOVs) from MacGregor, part of Cargotec. MacGregor will deliver two equipment packages each consisting of a 3D motion compensated electrical gangway system, Colibri crane
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Bold Tern has arrived in Singapore, where it will be upgraded with a new 1600-tonne crane to enable the installation of next-generation wind turbines and foundations weighing up to 1,500 tonnes. The vessel will be fitted with Huisman’s 1600t LEC 65500 leg enc
Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel MPI Resolution has set sail to Italy to build the first wind farm in the Mediterranean Sea – the 30 MW Taranto offshore wind farm. The Taranto offshore wind farm, also known as Beleolico, is located near the Taranto harbour in Italy and consists of ten MySE 3.
AFAI Southern Shipyard has delivered two 35m hybrid Incat Crowther crew transfer vessels (CTVs) to MHO-Co for the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm. The two CTVs, MHO Asgard and MHO Apollo, that were developed in collaboration with Danfoss and Volvo Penta, will be powered by an advanced propulsion sys
DEME Offshore’s DP2 jack-up installation vessel Sea Installer will undergo a crane replacement to increase the vessel’s lifting capacity from the current 900 tonnes to 1,600 tonnes. Being built by Huisman, the new crane will enable Sea Installer to handle the next generation of offshore wind turbine
North Star Renewables has secured a loan of GBP 96 million (approximately EUR 112 million) from Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) to build the three Service Operations Vessels (SOVs) that will serve the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm. The vessel owner said the loan added to its own balance sheet
Cadeler’s wind farm installation vessels Wind Orca and Wind Osprey have achieved 87 per cent utilisation, and at competitive market rates, in the first half of this year, bringing the company a 253 per cent increase in revenue compared to the same period in 2020. Last year, Cadeler reported a EUR 9
Cadeler and COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry have contracted NOV to supply the overall vessel design and jacking systems for the two X-Class wind turbine installation vessels Cadeler recently ordered at COSCO. Under the contract, NOV, the parent company of the vessel designer GustoMSC, will supply two
Japanese company PowerX plans to design and build an automated Power Transfer Vessel to carry electricity from offshore wind farms to shore. The Power ARK 100 is a 100 TEU trimaran specially designed for transferring renewable energy in Japan’s coastal waters. Upon its completion in 2025, Power ARK
