Van Oord

Van Oord is a Rotterdam-based international marine contractor.

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Van Oord completes ballasting and scour protection for offshore West White Rose project
Work started in 2024 with installation of a seabed preparation layer at the platform’s offshore location. Pipeline stabilization will begin shortly.
Aug. 29, 2025
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Illustration of two newbuild subsea rock installation vessels.
Shipbuilder Yantai CIMC Raffles in China is constructing two new vessels for Van Oord, with the first due to be ready for offshore operations in 2028, followed by the second in...
July 23, 2025
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Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has issued two of the main offshore construction contracts for the Fengmiao 1 wind farm project in Thailand.
Jan. 14, 2025
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Van Oord’s new offshore installation vessel, Boreas, is close to departing China for the Netherlands, following a handover ceremony at the Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore shipyard...
Jan. 10, 2025
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Ørsted and Van Oord have installed droppable oyster structures around the Borssele 1&2 offshore wind farm in the southern Dutch North Sea.
Nov. 5, 2024
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The MPI Resolution offshore installation vessel will be tasked with servicing Vattenfall turbines with a maximum power output of 5 MW across Northern Europe.
Vattenfall has signed a multi-year framework contract with Van Oord to charter the MPI Resolution jackup vessel for offshore wind servicing needs in northern Europe and the UK...
Oct. 7, 2024
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Van Oord was responsible for the procurement and construction of the FSRU jetty. In total, Van Oord installed 10 monopiles, including scour protection to prevent erosion. The foundations were then equipped with platforms, catwalks and furniture.
Van Oord has completed construction of the FSRU jetty at Wilhelmshaven, northern Germany.
Oct. 1, 2024

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CAPE Holland will supply a CAPE VLT-640 Quad lifting equipment spread to Van Oord’s new installation vessel Boreas.
June 14, 2024
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RWE has contracted Van Oord to transport and install (T&I) the monopile foundations for the 1.6-GW Nordseecluster wind cluster project offshore Germany.
May 28, 2024
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The Aeolus vessel is shown installing the first monopile foundation at the Sofia offshore wind farm.
Van Oord’s Aeolus vessel has installed the first of 100 monopile foundations at the RWE Sofia offshore wind farm development in the UK southern North Sea.
May 21, 2024
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The new Van Oord jackup vessel Boreas should be ready for commercial operations in 2025.
May 15, 2024
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Mammoet has installed a 1,200-metric-ton A-framed gantry extension on Van Oord’s Svanen heavy-lift installation vessel.
May 3, 2024
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Van Oord has been contracted by FSRU Wilhelmshaven to construct an FSRU jetty at Wilhelmshaven in Germany.
Jan. 18, 2024
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Van Oord will deploy its new offshore installation vessel Boreas (artist impression pictured) for the transport and installation of the foundations and turbines. The vessel is currently being built.
Ecowende plans to have the wind farm fully operational and commissioned in 2026.
Jan. 7, 2024
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The Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm is located in the German Baltic Sea, 30 km northeast of the island of Rügen.
Van Oord has installed all 50 foundations and inter-array cables for Iberdrola’s Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm.
Dec. 21, 2023
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Van Oord is upgrading its heavy-lift installation vessel Svanen to handle next-generation monopile foundations for offshore wind developments.
Dec. 11, 2023
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Govert Van Oord has been nominated by the supervisory board as the new CEO of Van Oord, effective April 2024.
Dec. 4, 2023

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Van Oord has completed installation of the Hollandse Kust Noord wind farm offshore the Netherlands.
Dec. 4, 2023
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Van Oord will deploy its cable-laying vessel Nexus and the trencher Dig-It for burial of the cables offshore Taiwan.
Van Oord has won contracts for offshore wind projects in Taiwan and the Baltic Sea, with a combined value of more than EUR500 million ($534 million).
Nov. 8, 2023
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Van Oord has installed all 62 jacket foundations for the Saint-Brieuc wind farm offshore France.
Oct. 16, 2023
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This week the inter-array cable loading onto Van Oord’s cable-laying vessel Nexus has commenced.
Van Oord has completed installation of all 50 monopiles for Iberdrola Deutschland’s Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm.
Oct. 4, 2023
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Van Oord and Ecowende will co-operate on construction of the offshore wind farm on Hollandse Kust (west) lot VI in the Dutch North Sea.
Sept. 11, 2023
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Van Oord has installed and buried inter-array cables at CrossWind’s Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind park in the Dutch North Sea, 18.5 km from Egmond aan Zee.
July 21, 2023
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Van Oord is claiming a new water depth record for subsea rock installation.
May 16, 2023