- WINDEA can already look back on 10 years of success
- WINDEA bundles numerous services for the offshore wind industry from one source
Hamburg, 11 May 2021. WINDEA Offshore GmbH & Co. KG from Hamburg celebrates its 10th company anniversary on 11 May 2021. Under the WINDEA brand, the companies Bernhard Schulte Offshore GmbH, Buss Offshore Solutions GmbH & Co. KG and Ems Maritime Offshore GmbH bundle their know-how and a wide range of services for the construction and operation of offshore wind farms. Since 2011, the joint venture has been offering holistic logistics and supply solutions for the offshore wind industry as a shared sales and product development company. WINDEA’s numerous well-known customers include Siemens Gamesa Renewables, GE Renewable Energy, Northland Power, EnBW, and DEME.
After three offshore pilot projects near the coast, Germany’s first offshore wind farm, the alpha ventus offshore test field, went into operation in 2010, providing further momentum for the founding of the company. The founding shareholders in 2011 were the shipping company Bernhard Schulte, the maritime service provider Ems Maritime Offshore and the wind energy service provider SSC Wind. At the beginning of 2018, the Buss Group joined as a fourth shareholder and added heavy lift terminal logistics to the service portfolio, among other things. Since the acquisition of SSC Wind in July 2019, Buss additionally represents their services within the WINDEA family. “We now bundle such a wide range of services that we are not only able to serve almost all of our customers’ enquiries as a single point of contact but are able to use the diverse and excellent know-how within the WINDEA family to continually develop new innovative approaches to solving the challenges of the industry,” says Caspar Spreter, Managing Director WINDEA Offshore.
The development of a WINDEA fleet of vessels reached its first highlight in 2013 with the commissioning of the Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV) “WINDEA one”. Further five CTVs followed by 2018, along with three Service Operation Vessels (SOV) with the WINDEA La Cour in 2016, the WINDEA Leibniz in 2017 and the WINDEA Jules Verne last year. Another milestone in the company’s history, also in 2013, is the establishment of an exclusive partnership for the development of the WINDEAcare product. Together with the current partner companies Northern Helicopter, Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe, Klinikum Oldenburg and Falck Fire Service, WINDEA is successfully implementing the practice-oriented and holistic concept for medical care in the offshore wind farms in the North Sea and Baltic Sea. The service modules include offshore air rescue (HEMS), emergency paramedics on vessels and platforms, offshore medical rescue training, material concepts, telemedicine services for paramedics and first-aiders, and offshore fire-fighting and fire protection concepts.
In recent years, WINDEA Offshore has faced the further development and the constantly new challenges of the still relatively young offshore wind industry with further innovative product developments such as “WINDEA Blade Services”, “WINDEA Balance of Plant (BoP)” as well as innovative vessel, terminal, and logistics concepts. The constant focus on the offshore wind markets outside Germany and Europe, which are also developing, has led to the progressive internationalisation of the company. In April 2019, the company successfully entered the US offshore wind market by founding the joint venture WINDEA USA together with MidOcean Wind.
