Midi-SOV

Could Midi-SOV be an offshore wind game changer?

Southampton, U.K., based Chartwell Marine has partnered with Fincantieri’s Norwegian headquartered Vard subsidiary to introduce the Midi-SOV. The 55-meter offshore wind service vessel combines the two companies’ expertise in crew transfer vessels

Key Canadian shipyards are staying busy with new orders and repairs, while naval architects help take these projects to the next level. 

Canadian shipbuilding sees productive year 

Key Canadian shipyards are staying busy with new orders and repairs, while naval architects help take these projects to the next level.   The Royal Canadian Navy is at the center of shipbuilding news in

Gray vessel with Seaonics rane and gangway

Purus Wind CSOVs will have Seaonics gangway and crane packages

Ålesund, Norway, headquartered Seaonics has received an order to supply all-electric ECMC (electric-controlled, motion compensated) gangway and crane packages for the two new methanol-ready battery hybrid commissioning service operation vessels (CSOVs)  on

Brunvoll equipped CSOVs

Purus Wind CSOVs will feature Brunvoll propulsion packages

The methanol-ready battery hybrid commissioning service operation vessels (CSOVs) recently ordered at Vard by U.K. based Purus Wind will have Brunvoll propulsion and maneuvering packages. Each will be outfitted with two azimuth

Concept drawing of zero-emission cruise ship

VIDEO: Hurtigruten unveils plans for zero-emission cruise ship

Hurtigruten Norway used this week’s Nor Shipping event to unveiled early concept plans for its first zero-emission cruise ship. Initially announced in March 2022, under the project name Sea Zero, Hurtigruten has

Brunvoll equipped CSOVs

Vard wins contract for two battery-hybrid, methanol-ready CSOVs

Fincantieri’s Norwegian-based Vard subsidiary has booked an order from U.K. based Purus Wind for the design and construction of two battery-hybrid, methanol-ready CSOVs (commissioning service operation vessels). The agreement includes an option

Cable layer will have MAN 175D gensets

Vard books cable layer order

Denmark’s NCT Offshore has awarded Fincantieri’s Norwegian-headquartered Vard subsidiary a contract for a 95 meter long subsea cable laying vessel with a cable carousel capacity of 4,500 tonnes. The vessel is an

Edda Wind has got green term loan financing for four new CSOVs at Vard

Edda Wind orders CSOV quartet at Vard

Haugesund, Norway, headquartered Edda Wind ASA has agreed for contracts four newbuild commissioning service vessels) with Fincantieri’s Norwegian-based subsidiary Vard. The price is EUR 63 million (about $67 million) per ship, exclusive

Cable lay vessel after conversion

P&O Maritime and Logistics to convert MCV to cable lay vessel

With an eye on the offshore wind market, Dubai-based DP World company P&O Maritime Logistics plans to convert one of its Multi-Carrying Vessels (MCVs) into a cable lay vessel (CLV). Set to

CSOV Rem Power

Rem Offshore books straight-from-the-shipyard charter for newbuild CSOV

Fosnavåg, Norway, headquartered Rem Offshore has secured a charter contract, with options, from ASSO Subsea for its newbuild CSOV Rem Power. The vessel will support the construction phase of wind farms, providing

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