Fugro awarded multi-annual marine site characterisation project off the German coast

Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (Das Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH)) has awarded Fugro a multi-annual geotechnical site investigation contract in the German North Sea and Baltic Sea. The programme will be completed in three phases over the next three years and comprises geotechnical investigations at potential offshore wind farm development areas. Fugro’s sitecharacterisation services will provide geotechnical data acquisition from multiple geotechnical drilling vessels, and geotechnical laboratory testing and reporting by the company’s German and UK laboratories. The total contract value is approximately EUR 25 million. www.fugro.com