During an eight-month stay in Cadiz, Allseas has carried out a lifetime extension programme for its pipelay vessel Solitaire. The ship has been in operation since 1998 and is one of the largest pipelay vessels...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – Following the basic design contract in December 2020, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has now contracted Ulstein to continue the project with the integration engineering for their new dynamically positioned rock installation...Read more
At least one person has been killed and twelve others are missing after a ship capsized in a hurricane south of the port of Port Fouchon, in the US state of Louisiana on Tuesday. It...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – Jan De Nul Group is installing a total of 72 wind turbines of 8.4MW each for the largest offshore wind farm in Denmark, Kriegers Flak. This week, the company reached its halfway...Read more
In the accident with its 5,000-tonne crane in May last year, DEME’s new offshore installation vessel Orion and its crane suffered considerable damage. In September, Liebherr stated it would repair the crane. It has now...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – Heerema Marine Contractors will transport and install the Sofia Offshore Wind Farm HVDC Offshore Converter Platform for Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine. The platform’s fabrication will be executed at Sembcorp Marine’s yard, and offshore...Read more
The offshore wind market and Dutch business have kept Van Oord on track in 2020, delivering “solid results despite it being one of the most challenging years in our 150-year history”, says CEO Pieter van...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – Wagenborg is supporting Van Oord with the construction of Windpark Fryslân in the Dutch lake IJsselmeer. From March to June this year, Van Oord will be installing 89 turbines at the site....Read more
PRESS RELEASE – Bakker Sliedrecht and RH Marine will upgrade Roll Group’s vessel BigRoll Bering with a Dynamic Positioning 2 system (DP2). This allows the 173-metre long module carrier to better maintain its position during...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – Cadeler has secured the largest contract in its history. The company has been hired to transport and install Siemens Gamesa’s new 14 MW offshore wind turbines in a contract with a value...Read more
Boskalis has a record amount of work in the pipeline despite the impact of Covid-19. The value of the company’s order book stands at EUR 5.3 billion euros at the end of last year, reflecting...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – Offshore Heavy Transport’s (OHT) new heavy-lift vessel Alfa Lift has been launched at the China Merchants Heavy Industry shipyard in Jiangsu. The preparations to install the vessel’s 3,000-tonne main crane are now...Read more
Offshore installation vessels may soon be hard to come by. According to Alexander Fløtre, vice president Offshore Wind at Rystad Energy, both offshore wind activity and offshore wind components will continue to grow. Additional vessels...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – DEME Offshore has been awarded a contract for the transport and installation of the jackets and topsides for two Hollandse Kust offshore substations. The company will also supply and install scour protection...Read more
Approximately 15 kilometres off the coast of Aberdeen in Scotland, Grupo Cobra is working on the Kincardine project, one of the first commercial floating wind farms in the world. Being involved as the transport and...Read more
Less than three years after its previous moratorium, offshore drilling company Seadrill, owned by Norwegian shipping tycoon John Frederiksen, has again sought protection from its creditors. A Texas court has granted most of the group...Read more
Jumbo has completed the transport part of its largest transport and installation job to date. Using its heavy lift vessels as well as subcontracted deck carriers forty monopiles, 120 monopile sections and forty transition pieces...Read more
Rotterdam Offshore Group (ROG) has charted an independent future after reacquiring a controlling 75 per cent stake previously held by shipbuilder Royal IHC. The move marks an important development for ROG, which comprises two divisions...Read more
During last summer, Allseas sent its mega heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit into the Danish part of the North Sea for a processing and accommodation topsides and flare jackets removal campaign. In total, 27,000 tonnes...Read more
The pipe layer Amazon of offshore contractor McDermott has been undergoing an upgrade in the port of Rotterdam for several months now. This week, Heerema’s mega crane vessel Sleipnir was called in to install the...Read more
