The first of Austal’s revolutionary TRI SWATH wind farm support vessels has arrived in Europe. The 27 metre Cable Bay was built for Turbine Transfers at Austal’s shipyard in the Philippines. The vessel was offloaded in Southampton, with the process and handover to the owner overseen by technical staff from Austal’s UK office. Austal says [...]
Projects FPS – a division of FPS Sri Lanka, one of the country’s leading project forwarders – has handled the urgent shipment of six giant wind turbines from India, to a site 200km inland from the port of Colombo. The shipment – for Naladanavi Pvt Ltd, the largest private sector power supplier in Sri Lanka [...]
More favourable weather conditions and less waves have really jump-started the wind turbine installation in Anholt Offshore Wind Farm. At the end of April, a total of 97 wind turbines had been installed in the wind farm. Now, only 14 wind turbines need to be installed before all 111 wind turbines have been installed. Of [...]
The manufacturing work on a wind turbine service vessel for the Danish company DBB Jack-Up Services started on April 22 at Nordic Yards with the first steel cutting. The wind turbine service jack-up vessel is used for the maintenance of offshore wind turbines. With its novel jack-up system, it can be set up at sea [...]
As DEME is moving forward with the construction of two Belgian wind farms, GeoSea has secured two new contracts: Westermost Rough in the U.K. and Borkum Riffgrund 1 in Germany. In Belgium, the works on the NORTHWIND offshore wind farm have started while those from C-POWER’S third phase are continuing. The DEME Group is utilizing [...]
MPI Adventure is scheduled to commence the installation of forty Areva five Megawatt wind turbine generators during the second quarter of 2013. The Trianel Wind Farm Borkum is being built forty-five kilometres off Borkum Island in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the North Sea. The wind farm will generate 800 Gigawatt hours annually [...]
Chevalier Floatels, a company with expertise in developing new concepts for floating accommodation, has developed a wide range of floatels. From five star floating hotels, worker accommodation barges up to floating prisons for governments. The most recent activity of Chevalier Floatels is the conversion of two ships into DP2 accommodation vessels, which is being carried [...]
After months of careful planning and detailed engineering, the Seafox 5 installed the first offshore wind monopole on February 28th. These monopiles serve as the foundations of the DanTysk Offshore Wind Park. The main contractor for the foundations of this windfarm is Aarsleff Billfinger Berger Joint Venture (ABJV) that, with use of the Seafox 5, [...]
This video presents a wind propulsion system by SkySails GmbH with a towing kite measuring up to 320 metres, that provides additional thrust for the ship at sea, a sustainable solution for reducing fuel consumption, costs and emissions. Depending on wind conditions, fuel costs can be lowered between ten and 35 percent. A small, 87-metre-long [...]
When the three installation vessels are in simultaneous operation, approximately 300 people are working in the wind farm. Besides the people involved in the wind turbine installation, the wind turbines already installed are being commissioned and inspected, and the last interconnecting cables in the northern part of the wind farm are being flushed into the [...]
