Hywind Tampen: World’s largest OWF now operational
The 88 MW Hywind Tampen offshore wind farm is the world’s largest. It is also the first to power offshore oil and gas platforms. It produced power for the first time on Sunday, 13 November...Read more
Bolloré: first cargo customer to join Leave Less Travel program
Bolloré Logistics has become the fifth company, and first cargo customer, to join Air Canada’s Leave Less Travel Program.Read more
Superfast Levante delivers first shipment of wind turbine components to Cuxport
This shipment of 12 wind turbine blades, among other cargo, is the first of several, which will be arriving at the German port of Cuxhaven from Tuticorin in India, aboard the RoRo vessel Superfast Levante.Read more
Huisman receives Japan’s first Monopile Gripper order
TOA Corporation and Obayashi ordered a Huisman Monopile Gripper, which will be the first of its kind in Japan.Read more
SolarDuck and RWE to build largest Offshore Floating Solar plant
The Offshore Floating Solar power plant will be built at the offshore wind park Hollandse Kust West VII (HKW VII), in the Netherlands.Read more
DEME secures contracts representing 1 GW for Hai Long wind farms in Taiwan
DEME Group has secured contracts representing 1 GW for the Taiwanese Hai Long wind farms. The scope of their contract with CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE) and Hai Long Offshore Wind covers the transportation and installation...Read more
Port Esbjerg orders two new Liebherr cranes for record-breaking lift capacity
Port Esbjerg has ordered two new Liebherr cranes, an LHM 600 and an LHM 800. The cranes, which will be delivered next summer, will give the port a lifting capacity of 616 tonnes, which is...Read more
Wallenius Sol’s Baltic Enabler christened in Bruges
The world’s largest ice-rated ConRo vessel, the Baltic Enabler, was christened in the PSA Zeebrugge multipurpose terminal in Bruges, Belgium, on Wednesday, 2 November 2022.Read more
Mammoet pulls Saint-Brieuc OWF cables
Mammoet’s Offshore Services department carried out two offshore wind cable beach pulling campaigns at the St Brieuc offshore wind farm (OWF), off the coast of Brittany, in France.Read more
KVNR: ‘Greener will be rewarded with Fuel EU Maritime’
‘It is good that the polluter pays, but even better that greening will soon be rewarded,’ states Nick Lurkin of the Royal Association of Netherlands Shipowners (KVNR) in response to the European Parliament’s latest green...Read more
Martin Bencher Group Canada transports 90,6 ton turbine
The Canadian branch of the Danish trucking company, Martin Bencher Group, transported a 90,6 ton Francis runner hydropower turbine. It was shipped from Port Veracruz, in Mexico, to Goose Bay, in Newfoundland, Canada.Read more
Connecting the hinterlands: challenges faced by rail and barge
In addition to being crucial modes of freight transportation, connecting ports and the hinterlands, rail and barge have the lowest greenhouse gas emissions per kilometre and unit transported. Strengthening these industries will therefore be crucial...Read more
Mammoet performed load-out of Spain’s first grid-connected floating wind turbine
The load-out of the Saitec-manufactured DemoSATH floating unit took place in the Port of Bilbao, over the course of three hours. Mammoet was contracted by Noatum Logistics, Saitec’s subcontractor, to transport and load-out the ‘floater’...Read more
Van Oord to install 62 jacket foundations for Saint-Brieuc OWF
Van Oord will install 62 jacket foundations and foundation piles for the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm (OWF). 190 pin piles will be used at the 75 square kilometres site, 16,3 kilometres off the coast of...Read more
Port of Duluth receives record breaking shipment of wind turbine blades
Duluth Cargo Connect, the Duluth Seaway Port Authority’s project cargo entity, received a shipment of wind energy cargo from Europe, including the longest wind turbine blades ever handled by the Port of Duluth-Superior.Read more
Mammoet transports 390 tonne transformer on Swedish roads
Mammoet transported a 390 metric tonne, 750 MVA transformer 270 kilometres from the Hitachi Energy facility in Ludvika to an Ellevio wind farm in Tovåsen, Ljusdal municipality. This is the heaviest transport ever to take...Read more
Project Cargo Summit: Ports facilitating the energy transition
With the European Union looking to cut dependency on Russian fossil fuels and expediting its green energy agenda, European ports are preparing for an uptick in offshore wind project cargo as well as volumes related...Read more
Heerema’s Sleipnir installs Tyra II bridges and flare tower
Heerema Marine Contractors have finished their scope of work for the Tyra II gas field. Over the weekend, the company installed structures including two bridges and a flare tower, using the world’s largest semi-submersible crane...Read more