EnBW and Wallaby Boats have celebrated the christening of the Impulse offshore transfer vessel at the Port of Kappeln in the presence of German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs featuring a suspension system allowing technicians to access offshore wind turbines even in heavy seas EnBW has purchased the vessel for accessing its Baltic 2 offshore wind farm beginning next month.  we are setting new standards for safe and efficient operations at sea,” says Dr “The Impulse transfer vessel will help us to produce electricity even more reliably and cost-effectively using offshore wind energy in the future With the vessel having been developed and built in Schleswig-Holstein we are also pleased to have been able to capitalize on the technical expertise and quality standards of Germany as a business location.” North American Windpower serves decision-making professionals involved in all aspects of wind energy generation and distribution in the North American marketplace NAW highlights product markets and equipment advancements as well as topics related to the support services that help developers get projects up and running and keep them performing optimally © Copyright jQuery('#copyright').text(new Date().getFullYear()); Zackin Publications Inc Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors EnBW and Wallaby Boats have christened the offshore transfer vessel Impulse in the port of Kappeln as the vessel gets ready to service the Baltic 2 offshore wind farm starting in May The two companies have jointly launched the ship which is equipped with a new type of suspension system said to enable technicians to safely access offshore wind turbines even in high waves The vessel is also reportedly more economical compared to previous transfer ships we are setting new standards for safe and efficient deployment at sea The transfer vessel ‘Impulse’ will help us to produce even more reliable and cost-effective electricity with offshore wind energy in the future We are also pleased to be able to rely on the technical expertise and quality standards of Germany as a business location through the development and construction of the ship in Schleswig-Holstein,” EnBW’s CEO Impulse was built at Hitzler Werft GmbH in Lauenburg/Elbe and is the world’s first ship with a suspension system for commercial use Schleswig-Holstein’s State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Technology said: ”With the ‘Impulse’ Wallaby Boats GmbH as a start-up proves that young companies can bring innovative technologies to the market The new building not only brings added value to the country but also makes transport to offshore platforms much safer for personnel I am particularly pleased that this new hull technology was taken up in Schleswig-Holstein implemented by Wallaby Boats and the Hitzler shipyard and realized in Schleswig-Holstein with the help of a broad financial network.” developed by Australian inventor Nauti-Craft is said to enable the two hulls of the catamaran to independently balance and compensate for wave forces and the resulting movements can be kept relatively calm in the passive mode of the system and can dampen a considerable part of the accelerations during transit Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action said: ”The ship Impulse is a pioneering piece of German engineering Our goal is for offshore wind farms with a total capacity of 30 GW to produce electricity in Germany by 2030 we will need even more ships like this – an opportunity for industrial growth in our country and the decarbonisation of our energy system.” Wallaby Boats is a spin-off of OFFCON GmbH said: ”Together with all our sponsors and supporters we are delighted to have developed such an innovative ship as a family business from the small town of Kappeln and now to bring it to the world’s oceans in several Without the support of the state of Schleswig-Holstein the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and EnBW The ship’s most innovative features include an upper main deck structure and two separate hulls connected by an active or passive hydraulic suspension and damping system to compensate for wave motion The movement of the hulls caused by the swell is damped by the cylinders of this hydraulic system and also converted into pressure and heat energy in winter and the pressure will be converted back into electrical energy in future which can be used to support the entire power supply on the ship the deck superstructures are equipped with integrated photovoltaic elements in order to reduce resource requirements during operation Get in front of your target audience in one move OffshoreWIND.biz is read by thousands of offshore wind professionals daily Daily news and in-depth stories in your inbox Leveraging 20 years of experience with offshore windDecember 2023 will forever mark a milestone in our company history as we became part of the world-wide CS WIND group The acquisition goes beyond a mere change in ownership; it marks a leap into a future where our combined strengths will pave the way for optimized production […] to open the door to more than a million Syrian refugees and other migrants many of her supporters appear to have forgiven her “She’s done some things right and some things wrong,” Sigmar Holm told Marketplace at a pro-Merkel rally in northeastern Germany Not people who just talk nonsense,” he said Germany’s buoyant economy has helped Merkel’s political recovery exports are booming and the budget deficits which have plagued many of the southern countries in the Eurozone Merkel has kept her government’s budget in surplus for five years “As long as the Germans say: ‘the economy runs good my situation is good,’ the benefit goes to the governing party — Merkel and the ruling conservatives,” said Gero Neugebauer a political scientist at Berlin’s Free University And given the country’s ever-present Nazi past “Some people are still afraid that too much charisma could lead to too much leadership and the present leadership shown by Merkel is enough,” Neugebauer said That is not say that some Germans do not relish the fiery right-wing rhetoric of the Alternative for Deutschland Party and its radical policies AfD supporters — like Holger Klein — are still enraged about Merkel’s open door migration policy “Another four years of Merkel will be a disaster anti-euro AfD dropped from 15 percent last year to single figures but in the final weeks of the campaign — according to some opinion polls — it has rebounded How to explain the relative popularity of the AfD in a country which has such a powerful reaction against right-wing politics The lowest-paid 40 percent of German workers earn less in real terms than 20 years ago Germany has its own cohort of “left behind” citizens The AfD is still only a marginal force but opinion polls suggest it could become the first far-right party to get into the German parliament since World War II It’s a dark streak of populism and economic discontent to cloud Chancellor Merkel’s sunny horizon Sign up for the Marketplace newsletter to get the day’s biggest business stories straight to your inbox every weekday evening Germany is to build the first example of a crew transfer vessel (CTV) with a suspension system developed by Nauti-Craft in Australia is an 18-m vessel with a ‘WB wind-module’ installed that can be adapted to accommodate a variable number of offshore personnel The vessel will be owned by Wallaby Boats and under contract by Offcon Offcon secured exclusive rights to manufacture vessels incorporating Nauti-Craft technology in Germany with the right to sell them worldwide Australia-based Nauti-Craft has developed a range of multi-hulled craft using a hydraulic suspension system The system separates the hulls from the superstructure which reduces forces and accelerations experienced by those on board The suspension system provides increased levels of ride comfort control and stability whether the vessel is stationary or travelling at speed The company said this allows smaller vessels to provide seakeeping typically only found in larger vessels while having the lower operating costs of a smaller vessel The suspension-enabled design has attracted interest from The Carbon Trust in the UK and more recently from German developer EnBW which is to test the WB-18 demonstrator on the Baltic-1 and Baltic-2 offshore windfarms the demonstrator will also be tested in the North Sea EnBW senior business development consultant Dr-Ing Sven Unterberger said “EnBW is getting involved in this highly promising project to expedite an increase in safety and performance We are convinced the Wallaby Boats CTV with suspension technology can help reach this goal.” Simulations have demonstrated that the Wallaby Boats design can provide improved conditions on board for windfarm technicians as they are transported to and from an offshore windfarm Simulation has also shown that the CTV will be capable of transferring personnel to a turbine safely in a wave height of 2.1 m Hs when fully loaded The Wallaby Boats CTV is a catamaran with the hydraulic suspension system placed between the hulls and vessel’s ‘chassis.’ Propulsion and power generation is installed in the hulls Riviera Maritime Media’s Offshore Energy Webinar Week is being held 14 June 2021 – use this link for more details and to register there are few weeks in the calendar that we collectively look forward to more than Henley Royal Regatta the frivolity and festival unfolding on the banks alongside a pomp and circumstance that transports the punter back through the pages of time itself All of this is secondary though to the curvature of competition that angles upwards as the week unfolds From heats on the Tuesday to finals on the Sunday JRN will be with you every step of the way to provide the most comprehensive coverage of the Regatta available anywhere in the world – and we start with our exclusive set of event previews Total Entries: 30 (To be reduced to 16 by Qualifying Races) In the 15 times this trophy has been competed for at the Regatta, Leander Club have won on ten occasions This level of domination is unparalleled in any other event and reflects the control that the pink palace possess on the development sculling group in this country This year’s offering came together for the first time at Marlow Regatta and won the race by a length With previous Henley medalists and age-group internationals on board this crew lives up to the history of its predecessors Since making the decision to focus exclusively on sculling a decade or so ago, Reading University have come to dominate the university sculling ranks star Matt Long won the April trials in the single and followed that up by winning all three championship sculling golds at BUCS Regatta possibly the greatest achievement possible for a sculler representing their institution they have performed about as well as they could picking up two second places at the Metropolitan Regatta despite missing their young superstar they were able to challenge the force of Leander potentially foreshadowing a close race between the booms next weekend If Reading are the kings of university rowing in the UK, Queen’s University Belfast are the next in line to the throne Challenging the Reading dominance at all stages they have crossed the Irish sea only twice this season: for BUCS Head and then Regatta they were back in fifth place but returned with a vengeance at Holme Pierrepont picking up the silver medal in both the championship quad and the double while also putting up strong performances in the intermediate classes they would not have entered this event if they didn’t think they had a chance to make a very deep run next week The benefits of this sculling event being an intermediate category is that it allows composite entries to enter the event This offering contains two of London Rowing Club’s Wyfold-winning crew from 12 months ago who join up with Isaac Workman and stroke Louis Powell of Lea Rowing Club This crew has been racing together all summer and picked up the win on Saturday at the Metropolitan Regatta before finishing fifth at Marlow Regatta With experience of winning on the course coupled with a strong history together this crew could be racing deep into next week The Tideway Scullers’ School and Delftsche Studenten Roeivereeniging Proteus-Eretes A slightly unusual composite emerges from this combination of three clubs across two countries made up of elements from the Tideway Scullers School, Thames RC alongside Niek van der Grift from DSR Proteus-Eretes in the Netherlands This combination has brought a group of talented scullers together for a month as they seek to go on a run at Henley Royal Regatta The crew contains scholarship athletes from the US former Henley winners as well as van der Grift who placed tenth in the premier event at the Holland Beker Algemene Amsterdamsche Studenten Roeivereniging Skøll The most recent international crew to win this event was from AASR Skøll of the Netherlands and they would be the most likely of this year’s overseas contingent to make some noise this crew got the better of the nominated Dutch development crew and earned a spot to race in the final World Rowing Cup in Poznan all armed with impressive times on the RP3 have their eyes set firmly on the Los Angeles Olympics they will settle for an emulation of their 2018 forefathers Akademischer Ruderclub Würzburg and Rudergesellschaft Speyer 1883 e.V. likely to be selected as the lightweight quad at the world championships this summer in Canada contains athletes from a number of German clubs including Akademischer Ruderclub Würzburg and Rudergesellschaft Speyer 1883 e.V. who have won silver medals at previous championships represent a strong history of sculling at a high level Their form this year remains a mystery as no lightweight quad event has run at a World Rowing Cup but they may face some difficulties contending with the famous Henley headwind Rudergesellschaft “Hansa” Hamburg and Rudervereinigung Kappeln im Turn- und Sportverein Kappeln von 1876 e.V. this offering from Rudergesellschaft Hansa and Rudervereinigung Kappeln is made up entirely of first year U23 athletes Two members of the gold medalist quad at last year’s junior world championships are on-board and are joined by some of the top scullers from the junior domestic scene last season Two of this boat also finished fifth at the Ratzeburger Ruderregatta in June This crew is not one to be trifled with and will back themselves to shock even the best of the British entourage.  If a male athlete in the United States wants to develop their sculling with hopes of making an Olympic Team, Penn AC is the place he or she is likely to turn hosts a number of the national team and has many representatives in the US Rowing Development crews contesting the open events at this Regatta the secondary Head race in the United States reunited after aiming for selection and invitation to Olympic training camp in smaller boats will be looking to fly the flag for the red white and blue on the fabled stretch this week We have seen an emerging trend of Danish crews trying their arm in the intermediate quad category at Henley Royal Regatta and this outfit from Bagsværd Roklub stands as the latest offering from the Nordics This crew placed second at the Danish national championships back in September and finished seventh at the Ratzeburger Ruderregatta in early June Stroke Niclas Schmidt raced at the U23 world championships in 2017 in the lightweight men’s quad whilst Malthe Puro was a competitor at both the 2016 and 2017 editions of the same event With Oskar Gjerland in the bow seat – who won the ‘B’ final in the single at Holland Beker – this crew could be an interesting combination They were second at the Bled International Regatta 2024 and stroke Andreas Sørskaar has competed at three U23 world championships Utrechtsche Studenten Roeivereeniging Triton A boat club that always tend to fare well at Henley Royal Regatta including a Henley Royal Regatta semi-final appearance in the Temple Challenge Cup in 2021 this Triton boat raced on both the Saturday and Sunday of the Ghent International Regatta in May The Dutch don’t tend to come over unless they’re pretty confident they’ll be quick this Austrian entry looks pretty strong with a range of international representatives Wiener Ruder Club Donabund contains some of the top rowers in and around the Austrian system including both Thomas Lehner and Jörg Auerbach who raced in the men’s eight at World Rowing Cup I the European championships and the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta They’re joined by Armin Auerbach who raced alongside this duo in the Austrian men’s quad at the 2021 European championships Our CEO Tom Morgan calls this event the Leander Challenge Cup for good reason and there is nothing to suggest that there will be anyone taking their crown away from them Depending on which crews are selected by the stewards they could meet earlier in the competition but I would expect the crew from either Reading University or Algemene Amsterdamsche Studenten Roeivereniging Skøll Netherlands to make only the final in this event Fraser joined the JRN team in September 2022 and regularly writes about domestic and international rowing with particular specialisation on US Collegiate Rowing having launched JRN’s coverage and being a staple on the End of the Island’s series on the topic He has been involved with the sport since 2016 at George Heriot’s School and the Universities of Glasgow and Wisconsin Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email In preparation for their historic showdown on the tideway Oxford and Cambridge have been taking on top competition from across the country I was both excited and a little sad about her recent announcement to leave rowing behind Following a successful first series in 2024 JRN is delighted to announce the second season of Sharing the Podium About Contact