en.Wedoany.com Reported - Belgian offshore engineering leader DEME has recently been awarded a formal contract by the Zeevonk joint venture, formed by Vattenfall and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), to handle the transport and installation of foundations for the first phase of the 2 GW Zeevonk offshore wind project in the Dutch North Sea. The contract is still subject to a final investment decision.

Under the contract terms, DEME will provide intermediate transport of monopiles, marshalling services for primary and secondary steel, transport and installation of 69 monopile foundations, and installation of scour protection filter layers. DEME will deploy multiple vessels from its fleet for the relevant operations, including the offshore installation vessel Orion for monopile installation, a jack-up vessel for secondary steel installation, and a fallpipe vessel for scour protection.

The Zeevonk project is located 63 to 84 kilometers off the Dutch coast near Bergen aan Zee. The joint venture between Vattenfall and CIP secured the development rights for the 2 GW Zeevonk site (IJmuiden Ver Beta) through a tender in 2024. In line with Dutch requirements for offshore areas, the project will integrate multiple technologies. In 2025, the partners announced that the project would be built in two phases. Phase one is scheduled to deliver 1 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2029, while phase two aims for completion in 2032, adding another 1 GW of offshore wind and 500 MW of system integration capacity, including the construction of electrolyzers at the Port of Rotterdam to support green hydrogen production. In 2024, Google signed a power purchase agreement with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners to purchase 250 MW of energy capacity from Zeevonk.