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The A2Sea wind turbine installation vessel Sea Installer arrived this afternoon at Port Oostende.

First in Europe: in the tidal port of Oostende mega turbines (400 tonnes) are unloaded on wheels On March 23th 2018 the largest and heaviest wind turbine of Siemens was unloaded at the Port of Oostende by roll-on-roll-off on a specially designed loading and unloading pontoon. After the first parts of the Rentel Windfarm arrived at the REBO terminal in Port of Ostend in mid-February, the technical team had to pull off a difficult feat. The heaviest part of the Siemens 7 MW turbine, the nacelle (20 m long, 9 m wide, 7 m deep, 400 tonnes), arrived 22 March from Cuxhaven (Germany) at the Port of...

The offshore wind market in Belgium has truly taken off. This was clearly visible at the fourth edition of ‘Belgian Offshore Days’ – the B2B fair organised by the Belgian Offshore Cluster (BOC), took place on 21 and 22 March at the Ostend Sea P’lace in Ostend. 45 companies active in every area of offshore wind development received more than 800 professionals from the wind-power industry over the two-day event. An extensive conference linked to diverse explanations from top experts was also present at the fair.