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the North Sea

Progress reports, precedents, and perspectives from the project to rebuild Doggerland, collected here as the vision moves from map to water.

Aerial view of DEME's offshore installation vessel Orion in a calm sea, five rust-brown monopile foundations stacked on deck beneath the towering crane

14 August 2026Industry News

The Builders Are Booked

Vattenfall and CIP have handed DEME up to €300 million to plant 69 monopile foundations at Zeevonk, for offshore work that starts in 2028. The fleet Nieuw Doggerland needs exists, and it is winning work years ahead; the constraint is not capability but the queue.

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A concrete caisson under tow towards the part-built perimeter wall of Princess Elisabeth Island in the open North Sea, tugs and crew alongside the standing caissons

7 August 2026Industry News

An Island Arrives in Boxes

Seventeen of the 23 concrete caissons that will form Princess Elisabeth Island now stand in the North Sea, 45 km off the Belgian coast. The world's first artificial energy island is a wall in the water; it is also the closest working precedent for our central hub.

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Freshly harvested sugar kelp lifted from a cultivation line at sea, with buoys and open water behind

4 August 2026Industry News

A Harvest Between the Turbines

Danish researchers have grown and landed a commercial-grade sugar kelp crop inside the Vesterhav Syd offshore wind farm. Wind farms that also feed people: that is multi-use of the sea, and it is the working assumption behind every hectare of Nieuw Doggerland.

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Aerial view of the Roberts Bank causeway: road and rail lines loaded with container trains crossing open water to the man-made terminal island on the horizon

4 August 2026Industry News

Canada Orders an Island

Vancouver's port authority has picked a Van Oord consortium to build Roberts Bank Terminal 2: 130 hectares of new land in the sea, a 1,300-metre wharf, and a widened causeway. Every element of that scope is in the Nieuw Doggerland construction plan.

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The Dutch frigate Zr.Ms. Tromp under way in open water as two F-35 fighters pass low overhead

4 August 2026Industry News

The Seabed Gets a Sentry

NATO now runs a dedicated command for the pipes and cables under the North Sea, and its patrols have made their first arrest. The age of unguarded seabed infrastructure is over; the case for a permanent presence on the Dogger Bank just got stronger.

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Aerial view of the Q13a-A platform in the Dutch North Sea, with the green containerised PosHYdon hydrogen plant visible on its topsides

28 July 2026Industry News

Seawater In, Hydrogen Out

PosHYdon has produced the first green hydrogen on a working North Sea platform: offshore wind, seawater, and electrolysis, 13 km off Scheveningen. The energy model Nieuw Doggerland is built around just moved from paper to salt water.

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