Jan De Nul’s jack-up installation vessel Voltaire, under construction in China, has felt the full brunt of nature’s forces as typhoon Muifa hit the shipyard. The eye of the typhoon passed over the yard during...Read more
Four 550-tonne transition pieces for the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm (OWF) were spotted on the Oude Maas. They were leaving the Smulders yard in Hoboken, for the SIF factory on the Maasvlakte 2, when...Read more
Jan De Nul Group has ordered a high-end crane simulator covering its two next-gen offshore installation soon-to-be-delivered newbuilds, Voltaire and Les Alizés. The simulator will enable Jan De Nul to train its crews as it...Read more
Jan De Nul’s jack-up installation vessel Voltaire is taking shape at the COSCO Shipping Shipyard in Nantong, China. The latest milestone in the construction has been the installation of the main crane with more than...Read more
Logistics services provider Van der Vlist has recently been tasked with transporting a 140 tonne and 14 meter high trencher Sunfish. Transporting the machine required a certain level of dismantling in order to keep it...Read more
Within a space of twenty days, Jan De Nul Group has splashed another vessel at the COSCO Shipping Shipyard in Nantong, China. Following the launch of Les Alizés, Jan De Nul’s next-gen offshore jack-up installation...Read more
Jan De Nul has reached a major milestone in the construction of its offshore installation vessel Les Alizés with the official launch at the CMHI Haimen shipyard in China. This vessel will be the largest heavy...Read more
Jan De Nul Group has been contracted to transport and install a total of 41 wind turbines of 8.4 MW each for the offshore wind farm Vesterhav Nord & Syd in Denmark for Vattenfall. All...Read more
Jan De Nul has reinstalled the second lock gate in the Pierre Vandamme Lock at the Port of Zeebrugge. The operation has been completed one and a half year after the heavy lift vessel Guliver...Read more
Jan De Nul Group has selected Remazel S.p.A. for the delivery of a set of cradles, a skidding system and an upending hinge for its new heavy lift floating installation vessel Les Alizés to handle...Read more
Jan De Nul Group has secured the final contract with Dogger Bank Wind Farm for the transport and installation of 87 GE Haliade-X 14 MW offshore wind turbines.Read more
Offshore windJan De Nul Group has completed the installation of all 21 offshore wind turbines for the 109.2 MW Taiwan Power Company Offshore Windfarm Phase 1 Demonstration Project, including the installation of all subsea cables. The...Read more
PRESS RELEASE – For the very first time in history, the island of Crete has been connected to the Greek mainland by means of a subsea electricity link. Jan De Nul Group installed the 135-km...Read more
The CMHI Haimen shipyard in China laid the keel for Les Alizés, Jan De Nul’s new heavy lift crane vessel, on 29 April. The ship will be ready in 2022 and is equipped with a...Read more
A Jan De Nul team has installed the central part of the new Suzan Daniel bridge over the Brussels-Scheldt Canal in the heart of Brussels. Once completed, this bridge will form an important link for...Read more
Offshore windPRESS 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
ShippingPRESS RELEASE – Rolldock is transporting Jan de Nul’s backhoe dredger Gian Lorenzo Bernini from Rhenus’ terminal in Cuxhaven to Mozambique. The dredger was floated into the hold of Rolldock’s semisubmersible vessel, Rolldock Sea. Read more
Offshore windPRESS RELEASE – Construction of Jan De Nul’s new 5,000-tonne crane vessel Les Alizés has begun. The steel cutting ceremony took place last week at shipyard China Merchants Heavy Industry. After thirteen months of preparation,...Read more
Offshore windPRESS RELEASE – Jan de Nul Group has installed its first jacket foundations in Taiwanese waters. The work was carried out for the Offshore Windfarm Phase 1 demonstration project of Taiwan Power Corporation (TPC), which...Read more
Offshore windJan de Nul Group has won the wind turbine transport and installation contract for the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the UK, which will be powered with GE’s 12 MW Haliade-X wind turbines....Read more
