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WEEK 28

Maersk family buys into wind industry
A.P. Møller Holding will acquire the Danish KK Group which, through its subsidiary KK Wind Solutions, is a leading systems supplier of wind power electronics. KK Wind Solutions works with all the large wind OEM’s and its systems are used in 65% of the worldwide installed offshore capacity. KK Wind Solutions has been active in…
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Port of Antwerp sees decline in breakbulk stabilize The total freight volume handled by Port of Antwerp was up 0.7% in the first half of 2019. Strong cargo volumes in June boosted both the container and dry bulk throughput, while also stabilising the breakbulk volume. Although the growth of total volumes is only small, it represents another record halfyear, the port authority states….
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Heerema contracted for first commercial US wind farm
Dutch offshore contractor Heerema has been contracted to help build the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States. The Vineyard Wind project is the nation’s first utility-scale offshore wind energy project. Situated 14 miles off the coast of Massachusetts in the Northeast of the US near the island of Martha’s Vineyard, this project…
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Vattenfall wins second tender for subsidy-free offshore wind farms Vattenfall has won the tender to construct the second subsidy-free Dutch offshore wind farm, Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) 3 & 4. In September last year, the company also won the tender to build the first phase consisting of wind farms HKZ 1 & 2. The wind farms will have a combined capacity of approximately 1.5…
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Mammoet and ALE confirm advanced takeover talks
Mammoet and ALE today have announced that the two companies are negotiating a purchase agreement, under which Mammoet would acquire the British heavy lift and transport specialist. In a statement released today, the companies say that if the discussions will result in an agreement, the companies will seek approval from the relevant competition authorities. “In…
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Allseas enters renewables market with takeover of Bluerise
Dutch offshore contractor Allseas has entered the renewables market. It is not the offshore wind industry the company is targeting. Instead, Allseas has acquired Bluerise, a specialist developer of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) technology. Bluerise has been researching and developing OTEC technology for 9 years, designing systems that utilise the natural temperature difference in…
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Louis Dreyfus to equip ro/ro vessel with kite system
French shipping company Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) will equip one of its ro/ro vessels with a permanently installed kite system from Airseas to lower the greenhouse gas emissions of the ship. The decision of the shipping company, which operates a fleet of more than 100 vessels worldwide, follows a search for ways to significantly reduce…
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Seajacks wins Siemens contract for Taiwanese wind farm
Seajacks has conditionally been awarded a contract with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy for the transport and installation of 47 wind turbines at the Formosa 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Formosa 2, developed by Macquarie Capital and Swancor Renewable Energy, will consist of 47 8MW offshore wind turbines. The installation is scheduled for the summer…
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Van Oord and Mammoet team up with Verton for faster blade installation
Van Oord and Mammoet have teamed up with Verton, “a promising scale-up” which has developed a new lifting method for the installation of wind turbine blades. The company was scouted via the Rotterdam-based maritime innovation platform, PortXL. Verton has developed a remote rotating device that uses gyroscopic modules to rotate a suspended load. A new…
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