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Odfjell Oceanwind creates Windsteel Technologies

Wind Energy – Foundations for Floating Wind Turbines

Odfjell Oceanwind, together with the leading automation and manufacturing expert Prodtex, have established a joint venture to address what is expected to become one of the biggest bottlenecks in scaling the floating offshore wind industry: low cost and high-capacity manufacturing of foundations for floating wind turbines.

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Alliance of the Seas: Introducing the JSI Alliance

General – Maritime Transport

After three years in a successful joint venture, Dutch maritime heavy lift transport and engineering contractor Jumbo Shipping and German breakbulk and project cargo specialist SAL Heavy Lift are thrilled to welcome their American sister, multipurpose and liner operator Intermarine, to the group.

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RTS Wind extends blade maintenance contract for Thornton Bank

Wind Energy – Blades Maintenance

RTS Wind has secured a multi-year framework agreement with C-Power to continue blade maintenance at Thornton Bank wind farm in the Belgian North Sea.

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German maritime agency confirms 5.5 GW North Sea wind zones

Wind Energy – Germany

Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has issued the results of the preliminary investigation of three areas in the North Sea which are planned to accommodate 5.5 GW of wind capacity.

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MFSV design gets ClassNK Nod

General – Design Concept Approval

K Line Wind Service, together with Japan Marine United Corporation and Nihon Shipyard, has been jointly granted Approval in Principle (AiP) from Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) for the design concept of the multifunctional floating offshore wind farm support vessel (MFSV).

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Eolus files for 1-GW wind project off southern Sweden

Wind Energy – Blekinge Sweden

Swedish renewables developer Eolus Vind announced it has applied for the construction of a gigawatt-scale offshore wind farm with as many as 70 turbines off the coast of Blekinge in southern Sweden.

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