The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has approved €5.558.934 in subsidy for the Silent Installation of MonoPiLEs (SIMPLE) III project. The support provided by RVO and the project partners for SIMPLE III (total budget of €10.788.839) will be used to execute...
All 50 monopile foundations have been installed at Iberdrola’s Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. The installation was performed by Van Oord, using its 8,000-tonne heavy lift installation vessel, the Svanen, Van Oord won the contract...
On Friday, Van Oord celebrated the christening of two new vessels, the cable laying vessel Calypso and the hopper dredger Vox Alexia. Calypso will join Van Oord’s offshore wind fleet. The Calypso is equipped with the latest sustainable technologies and...
Ecowende, a joint venture of Shell and Eneco, and Van Oord will collaborate on the construction of the offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust (west) lot VI. The collaboration was announced today at the ‘Van Oord & Energy Transition’ masterclass, to...
Dutch engineering company KENC Engineering announced today it is starting the fabrication of a flange monopile upending tool (FMUT) for Van Oord. KENC had been awarded the contract by Van Oord earlier this year to design and build the FMUT....
Van Oord’s new cable-laying vessel Calypso arrived in the Netherlands early this morning and has now officially been handed over to the company. The vessel will be christened in September in Rotterdam. The Calypso is Van Oord’s second cable-laying vessel...
Van Oord has completed the installation and burial of the inter-array cables for CrossWind’s Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm. The company installed 69 inter-array cables with a total length of 140 km. Van Oord designed a 66kV inter-array grid...
Dutch marine contractor Van Oord reported at the end of last week that it has completed the installation of all foundations and inter-array cables for the 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm. According to the company, the offshore...
Van Oord has been selected as the preferred provider for the transport and installation of foundations for the 1.6 GW Nordseecluster wind project in Germany, a joint venture between RWE and Northland Power. As of 2029, the Nordseecluster is anticipated...
The first of 50 monopiles for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm has been placed by Van Oord’s heavy-lift installation vessel Svanen. Van Oord is in charge of providing, transporting, and installing about 70 kilometers of inter-array cables in addition...
