Cemre Shipyard

Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) has secured a contract for up to three service operation vessels that will be deployed on offshore wind sites in the German North Sea.

The French family-owned shipowner has emerged as a winner of an SOV tender issued by Sweden’s biggest utility, Vattenfall, for the wind farms DanTysk and Sandbank and the Nordlicht wind farm zone, plus an option for a third vessel.

Vattenfall said it had received six bids or requests to participate in the tender worth €563m ($575m).

The operational wind farms DanTysk and Sandbank, of 288 MW each, share an offshore accommodation platform, located in the midst of DanTysk, and together with the Horns Rev wind farm, ach…