Taihan Cable signs HVDC cooperation agreements with Jan De Nul and Boskalis. June 11, 2026, by Adrijana Buljan South Korea's Taihan Cable & Solution has signed memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with Belgium's Jan De Nul and the Netherlands' Boskalis to cooperate on high-voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cable projects. The agreements were signed on June 10 during the Korea-EU Energy Transition Cooperation Forum in Brussels. According to Taihan, the partnerships will focus on HVDC submarine cables and related infrastructure, with the companies also exploring new business opportunities linked to the global energy transition and offshore power transmission market. Taihan said the agreements combine its cable manufacturing and project execution capabilities with the offshore wind, marine infrastructure, and submarine cable installation expertise of the two European companies, strengthening its position in the global HVDC cable market. Taihan has been expanding its presence in the subsea cable sector in recent years and is currently building a second submarine cable manufacturing facility in Dangjin, South Korea, which will be capable of producing 640 kV HVDC cables. The company has also strengthened its installation capabilities with the recent acquisition of the 10,000-ton-class cable-laying vessel (CLV) Skandi Connector, having been operating the CLV Palos, which Taihan says is South Korea's only dedicated cable-laying vessel. Taihan said these investments are intended to support its strategy of providing integrated manufacturing, transportation and installation services for offshore power transmission projects worldwide. Power your brand with offshore energy. Take the spotlight and anchor your brand in the heart of the offshore world! Join Offshore Energy International for a bigger impact and amplify your presence at the core hub of the offshore energy community!

Jan De Nul launches second cable laying giant. April 7, 2026, by Adnan Durakovic Jan De Nul has launched William Thomson, the second of two identical subsea cable-laying vessels (CLVs) currently under construction. Both vessels have a cargo capacity of 28,000 tons and a length of 215 meters. This makes them the largest of their kind, Jan De Nul said. Jan De Nul's two new CLVs have been specially built to install subsea cables, both in shallow and ultra-deep waters down to 4,000 meters. Thanks to their large loading capacity, they can take longer cables on board in a single piece and bridge longer distances with as few subsea cable connections as possible. Compared to other cable-laying vessels on the market, they therefore also need to make fewer return trips to load cables. This reduces costs, minimises the environmental footprint and enhances cable quality, Jan De Nul said. William Thomson's sister vessel, Fleeming Jenkin, was launched in October 2025 and its delivery is scheduled for the last quarter of 2026. William Thomson will follow shortly and will be operational in the first half of 2027. Both vessels and the technologies on board have been designed by Jan De Nul's in-house experts. Wouter Vermeersch, Director Subsea Cables Offshore Energy at Jan De Nul, said: "The William Thomson and its identical sister, the Fleeming Jenkin, bring together all the expertise in cable installation that we have built up over the past fifteen years. They are the highest-performing and most efficient cable-laying vessels on the market." First stop: TenneT offshore grid. Once operational, Fleeming Jenkin and William Thomson can immediately get to work on their first assignments. Their first project is the 2 GW program by TenneT, the grid operator for the Netherlands and large parts of Germany. This introduces a new generation of grid connections for offshore wind farms, each capable of transporting up to 2 GW. That is more than double the capacity of current connections, which typically range between 700 and 900 MW, making offshore wind energy more efficient and affordable. By way of comparison, an average nuclear power station typically generates between 1 and 1.6 GW. For this program, Fleeming Jenkin and William Thomson will install more than 2,800 kilometers of 525 kV DC cables for four different grid connections. In 2028, Jan De Nul will also deploy one of these new cable-laying vessels to install three 220 kV DC cables that will connect the Princess Elisabeth Island to shore. This energy island, which Jan De Nul is building in a joint venture for grid operator Elia, will bundle the cables from Belgium's second offshore wind zone (Princess Elisabeth Zone) and enable a stronger interconnection between the North Sea countries. Power your brand with Offshore Energy. Take the spotlight and anchor your brand in the heart of the offshore world! Join Offshore Energy International for a bigger impact and amplify your presence at the core hub of the offshore energy community!

Jan De Nul orders Nordlicht I cable protection systems at CRP Subsea. March 30, 2026, by Adrijana Buljan Jan De Nul has contracted CRP Subsea to supply protection systems for inter-array cables at Vattenfall's Nordlicht I offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. CRP Subsea will deliver 141 NjordGuard cable protection systems (CPS), with three NjordGuard CPS designs to be engineered to meet the specific installation requirements for both monopile and J-tube interfaces at the 980 MW offshore wind farm. The company, which will produce the NjordGuard systems at its facility in the North West of England, has already started the engineering work for the project, with CPS delivery scheduled for December 2026. Vattenfall made the final investment decision (FID) for the Nordlicht I project in 2025 and for the second Nordlicht phase, Nordlicht II, at the beginning of this year. The developer has contracted Jan De Nul to install the inter-array cables, which will be supplied by TKF to connect the 68 Vestas V236-15.0 MW wind turbines at Nordlicht I to the offshore substation. Nordlicht I will link to TenneT's BorWin kappa platform, part of the BorWin6 offshore grid connection. Offshore construction of Nordlicht I is scheduled to begin in 2026 and Nordlicht II one year later, with the wind farms due to go into operation in 2028. Once built, the 980 MW Nordlicht I will become Germany's largest offshore wind farm, and with a total capacity of 1.6 GW, the Nordlicht project will become the world's second largest offshore wind farm, according to Vattenfall. Reach the offshore wind industry in one go! offshoreWIND.biz is read by thousands of offshore wind professionals every day. Increase your visibility with banners, tell your story with a branded article, and showcase your expertise with a full-page company profile in its offshore wind business directory. Follow offshoreWIND.biz on: