North Star and its shipbuilding partner, Cochin Shipyard Ltd, cut first steel on the new hybrid-electric SOV for German energy firm EnBW on Tuesday, February 25.

The milestone was marked with a ceremony at Cochin Shipyard in India, where the planning, engineering design and construction work are being carried out.

It was attended by James Bradford, chief technology officer for North Star, which has bases in Lowestoft, Aberdeen, Newcastle and Hamburg.

The new SOV is on schedule to commence a decade-long minimum charter to service the He Dreiht wind farm off the coast of........

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