Jan De Nul Group has won the Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (EPCI) contract of both foundations and subsea cables for the Formosa 2 Offshore Wind Farm (OWF) in Taiwan. It is the third and largest Taiwanese OWF contract for the company.

The FlexFueler001 has performed its first official LNG bunkering. This took place on 14 June in the Port of Rotterdam with Norlines’ Kvitnos as the receiving vessel. It makes Titan LNG the first accredited LNG supplier able to deliver by inland water barge.

Jumbo will transport and install wind turbine generator (WTG) substructures for the Yunlin Offshore Wind Farm (OWF) in Taiwan. The scope comprises transportation of forty monopiles, 120 monopile sections and forty transition pieces (TPs), as well as the offshore installation of eighty TPs.

Maersk will probably be transporting cargo via the Northern Sea Route this summer. The company is discussing this with Atomflot, a Russian company that uses nuclear icebreakers to clear the route.

In no more than nine seconds, Allseas’ heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit lifted the Valhall QP accommodation platform topsides from its foundation. Weighing only 3800 t, the QP topsides is the lightest that the record-breaking vessel has lifted to date. The operation in the Norwegian part of the North Sea

Royal Boskalis Westminster has been appointed as the salvor for both tankers that were hit last week in the Gulf of Oman in a suspected attack. Shortly after, the incidents the insurers of both vessels appointed Boskalis subsidiary SMIT Salvage to salvage the vessels and their cargo.

A new independent CE Delft study is to fill important gaps in the scientific record of exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS, or “scrubbers”). Preliminary result of the study is that accumulated concentrations of scrubbers’ wash water components are at very low levels and well below applicable regulatory limits.

Damen Anchor & Chain Factory (AKF) has signed a joint partnership agreement with Fendercare. Under the agreement, the partnership will build up complementary stock of anchors, chains and chain fittings and conduct installation of anchors and chains.

Bakker Repair + Services has purchased a new vacuum drying oven that replaces the old small thermal drying oven. The new drying method’s main advantages are less aging of the insulation material, a cleaner dryer, a significant increase in throughput and a ninety per cent reduction in CO2 compared to the old drying oven.

SAL Heavy Lift has acquired a configurable crane boom extension. The so-called Fly-jib increases a crane’s lifting height and outreach. It has been designed for the cranes of SAL’s Type 183 vessels MV Lone and MV Svenja.