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
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
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.
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
Ørsted and Eversource have reached an agreement to charter Dominion Energy’s Charybdis, the first Jones Act-qualified offshore wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), for the construction of two offshore wind farms in the
Houston-headquartered Friede & Goldman Ltd (F&G), long a leader in jack-up technology, has partnered with Rotterdam-headquartered Tetrahedron B.V. to offer an interesting new wind turbine installation solution for the U.S. offshore wind
By Basil M. Karatzas, Founder, Karatzas Marine Advisors & Company Until recently, the offshore drilling market had the distinction of employing the most expensive assets in the maritime industry. A decade ago,
Eneti Inc. (NYSE: NETI), the former Scorpio Bulkers, has entered into a binding agreement for the construction of one Wind Turbine Installation Vessel (WTIV) at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in South
Schiedam, Netherlands, based Huisman Equipment B.V. is introducing a motion compensated platform to quickly and safely transfer wind turbine components from a Jones Act feeder vessel to an internationally flagged wind turbine
Rotterdam, Netherlands, headquartered motion compensation specialist Barge Master BV has developed a solution for Jones Act compliant feedering of Wind Turbine Installation Vessels (WTIVs). Barge Master’s BM-Feeder is a new motion compensated