Delivery and commissioning of the service operation vessel (SOV), Grampian Tweed, completes North Star’s fleet of support ships serving the Dogger Bank Wind Farm which, when completed, will be the world’s largest offshore wind facility. The naming…

Rotterdam-based Ulstein Design & Solutions BV, retained by Japanese engineering contractor, Penta-Ocean Construction, has designed a new heavy-lift vessel for offshore wind foundation installation. The Ulstein HX118 vessel, to be built at Seatrium in…

Rotterdam-based offshore construction company, Van Oord, has taken delivery of the offshore installation vessel, Boreas, at Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore in China. Named after the Greek God of the northern winds, the vessel has been designed to…

Royal Boskalis BV has announced the conversion of an existing vessel into the world’s largest subsea rock installation (SRI) vessel, with a capacity of 45,500dwt. The Windpiper, due for delivery in the first quarter of 2026, will double the capacity…