German transmission system operator in charge of grid connections in the Baltic Sea has issued a tender for routing services for the grid connection route OST-1-4. The work scope includes pre-route planning services and preparation of the necessary technical approval documents for the seaside sectio
Webtool has announced the CRT200 Cable Gripper Hire Fleet with an initial three CRT200 available for immediate hire. The DNV GL approved cable recovery tool, allows subsea recovery of damaged cable and umbilical up to 1500 metres depth. The CRT200 can recover large diameter cable up to 203 milimetre
The export cables for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust Zuid grid connection have been sent off from Greece to the Netherlands, according to the Dutch cable logistics company WIND, which handled the load-out. The company has been hired by Van Oord to provide subsea cable logistics for the grid connection proj
The installation of the new submarine fibre optic cable system from Montserrat, to the Branching Unit between Guadeloupe and Antigua, has been completed. The marine installation operations started following the arrival of the cable laying ship, the ‘IT Intrepid’. According to project manager, Denzil
Vattenfall has issued a tender seeking a manufacturer of inter-array cables for the Vesterhav Syd and Nord nearshore wind farms in Denmark. The selected party will be in charge of supplying all the required work for the inter-array cable manufacturing for the two wind farms. The contract would start
The termination and testing of the export and array cables at the Windfloat Atlantic project has been completed, JDR Cable Systems said via social media. The third and final floating wind turbine was towed to the project site at the end of May, with connection to mooring and electrical lines then le
Interxion, a European provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre solutions and a Digital Realty company, has opened the first phase of MRS3, its third data centre in Marseille. The Marseille campus sits at the heart of the global subsea cable industry, with 14 cables currently land
DEME’s cable laying vessel Living Stone has completed the cable burial activities at the SeaMade offshore wind farm site in the Belgian sector of the North Sea. The vessel started the inter-array cable laying works in April and connected the first cables to one of the project’s offshore substations
Works to install the Borssele Beta export cable in the Netherlands will set TenneT back an additional € 50 million after contractors discovered unstable soil along the cable route. Namely, the cable installation contract TenneT signed with NKT and VBMS (now Boskalis Subsea) in 2016/2017 will now be
Construction of the longest subsea power cable in the world has now passed the halfway point. The North Sea Link, a joint venture project between National Grid and Norwegian system operator Statnett, is a subsea electricity cable that will connect the UK and Norwegian electricity grids. Prior to cab
Tekmar Energy has secured a short turnaround contract to supply its TekDuct cable protection system to the Middle East. Tekmar’s Newton Aycliffe facility in the UK should manufacture and dispatch the product within 5 weeks. The company also recently supplied Seaway 7 with TekLink cable protection sy
Cabling specialist NKT is now powering its power cable manufacturing with electricity from renewable energy. This is reducing its CO2-emissions from energy consumption by 66 per cent. For NKT, the move to green electricity is a step in supporting the global transition to renewables by reducing the c
South Korean cable manufacturer LS Cable & System has shipped off the first batch of submarine power cables for the Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan. This is also the company’s first shipment of submarine cables for an offshore wind project in Taiwan. Last year, LS C&S won the right to supply all
Tekmar Group has appointed Steven Rossiter to the role of chief technology officer (CTO). Rossiter was the founder and managing director of Agiletek Engineering. The newly created position of CTO underlines Tekmar’s commitment to its technology-driven goals. It will draw on Rossiter’s skills in clou
