French-based offshore wind developer Oxan Energy has been revealed as the winner of the first Estonian floating offshore wind tender. The company and its partner SNOW, a financial advisor specialising in renewable power generation, will develop the Saare 1 project with a potential capacity of 900MW...
https://splash247.com/oxan-energy-wins-estonias-latest-offshore-wind-round/
In Asia and Europe, authorities are taking action, trying to crack down on ships taking out critical subsea infrastructure. NATO secretary-general, Mark Rutte co-hosted a summit of Baltic Sea allies yesterday launching new military activity in the region to protect critical infrastructure...
https://splash247.com/nato-baltic-states-and-taiwan-to-clamp-down-on-cable-cutters/
Finnish authorities have detained a tanker suspected of being involved in the damage of a subsea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia and disruptions of several data cables. The police and border guard boarded the Cook Islands-flagged LR1 tanker Eagle S carrying oil from Russia to Egypt after...
https://splash247.com/finland-detains-russia-linked-tanker-after-latest-baltic-sea-cables-incident/
The Estonian Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (CPTRA) has revealed that it would be relaunching a tender for an offshore wind project in the country’s sector of the Baltic Sea. The tender for the offshore wind project, which will have a capacity of up to 1.2GW, will be...
https://splash247.com/estonia-to-relaunch-1-2gw-offshore-wind-tender/
With the Baltic becoming one of the world’s most advanced regions for multiple alternative fuels, a country on its eastern flank is trying to position itself as the green bunker supplier of the future. State-run Port of Tallinn has announced Jetgas will construct a liquefied methane terminal with...
https://splash247.com/port-of-tallinn-positions-itself-as-a-green-fuels-provider/
By Kati Pohjanpalo (Bloomberg) Finland and Estonia agreed to boost cooperation in protecting underwater energy infrastructure roughly a year after a ship anchor ripped up a gas pipeline connecting the countries….
https://gcaptain.com/finland-and-estonia-agree-to-secure-broke-balticconnector-gas-pipeline/
Chinese authorities have stated that Newnew Shipping’s container ship Newnew Polar Bear was responsible, albeit by accident, for damaging the Balticconnector subsea gas pipeline between Estonia and Finland last year. According to a report by the South China Morning Post, Chinese authorities have...
https://splash247.com/china-admits-responsibility-for-last-years-european-pipeline-destruction/
Western Baltija Shipbuilding of Lithuania has laid the keel of a new hybrid hydrogen-electric workboat ordered by the country’s Klaipėda State Seaport Authority (KSSA). The vessel will be used primarily for the transport of collected waste from ships. According to current regulations, all ships...
Riigilaevastik, Estonia’s state-owned maritime company, has announced plans to launch a procurement tender in September for the construction of a new ferry for the Virtsu-Kuivastu route. The new ferry will incorporate advanced green technology, including hydrogen fuel cells and batteries, ensuring...
Estonian ferry operator Estonian State Fleet (ESF) will launch a tender for the construction of a new hybrid ferry for the Virtsu-Kuivastu route. The tender will be launched in September 2024 while the ferry is scheduled to be completed by the autumn of 2026. ESF said that, after an initial...