Les Alizés will mainly be used for the construction of offshore wind farms but is also suitable for decommissioning offshore oil and gas platforms.

Schottel thrusters for giant crane ship are on their way to Chinese yard

The main propulsion package for Jan De Nul’s latest heavy-lift crane vessel Les Alizés has left the Schottel production plant in Wismar, Germany, on its way to the CMHI Haimen shipyard in

New Jersey makes two major offshore wind awards

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) today awarded a combined 2,658 MW of offshore wind capacity to EDF/Shell’s Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind and Ørsted’s Ocean Wind II, bringing the state’s

Two windturbine installation vessels

Cadeler places $651 million order for X-class WTIV duo

Copenhagen, Denmark, headquartered wind farm installation specialist Cadeler (OSE: CADLR) has signed a $651 million contract with Chinese shipbuilder COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. to build two new X-class wind turbine

BOEM director announces Gulf of Mexico Wind Energy Areas

BOEM starts Vineyard Wind South environmental review

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) said yesterday that it will begin conducting an environmental review of a Construction and Operations Plan (COP) submitted by Vineyard Wind LLC, for its Vineyard

A solution proposed by Friede & Goldman and Tetrahedron would use a small jack-up with a big crane fed with components by standard Jones Act barges.

Will California open up the Golden Gate for floaters?

U.S. offshore wind development is picking up pace, with the Biden administration doing everything open to it to remove kinks from the regulatory pipeline. With multiple Atlantic Coast projects moving along, the

Singapore: Keppel O&M and Sembcorp Marine merger talks to start

A Singapore maritime mega merger that has been the subject of speculation for years looks like it’s finally going to happen. Keppel Corporation Limited and Sembcorp Marine Ltd have entered today into

One Big Beautiful Bill

Senators seek to send more offshore wind revenues to coastal states

Current U.S. law requires all revenues generated from offshore wind leases and production beyond state waters be deposited in the U.S. Treasury. Now a bipartisan group of U.S. senators has introduced legislation

Jones Act WTIV concept

PODCAST: Designing a Jones Act compliant WTIV

As part of a joint development project with Lloyd’s Register North America, NETSCO engineers and naval architects are responsible for the concept design of a Jones Act compliant Wind Turbine Installation Vessel.

anchor handling tug supply vessel

Maersk Supply wins its largest project contract ever

The Libra Consortium has awarded Maersk Supply Service a major contract for for the pre-laying of anchors for a newbuild FPSO. The work consists of pre-laying 24 torpedo anchors, each weighing 120

Wind turbine installation vessel

Knud E. Hansen unveils new WTIV design

The latest addition to Danish naval architectural consultancy Knud E. Hansen’s Atlas series of wind turbine installation vessels (WTIV) designs, the Atlas A-class, is able to carry four new-generation 14 MW wind

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