Dispatches from the Nieuw Doggerland project: progress, precedents, and the people building new land in the North Sea.https://www.nieuwdoggerland.orgen-gbhttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/highland-port-dogger-bank-jobshttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/highland-port-dogger-bank-jobsUp to 180 skilled jobs are being created at a Highland port to pre-assemble turbines for the Dogger Bank Wind Farm. The bank has been an employer for years; the work is just landing 500 km from the bank itself, and only until the last turbine goes up.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/three-ingots-in-the-hornsea-fieldhttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/three-ingots-in-the-hornsea-fieldA bomb survey for Ørsted's Hornsea 3 wind farm found an unrecorded 17th-century wreck 120 km off Norfolk, carrying English lead for the Netherlands. Offshore construction is now this sea's most productive archaeology, and it is next door to us.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/second-lives-for-the-rigshttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/second-lives-for-the-rigsA Highland firth has become the waiting room of the North Sea oil industry: drilling rigs parked between jobs, or parked forever. The steel is superb marine habitat and ready-made offshore accommodation, and Nieuw Doggerland has a use for both.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/the-frontier-next-doorhttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/the-frontier-next-doorMars gets called the next frontier. Meanwhile the capital, the fleets, the treaties and the first artificial island have all arrived in the shallow sea between Britain and the Netherlands. What makes a frontier real, and why the North Sea qualifies.Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/the-builders-are-bookedhttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/the-builders-are-bookedVattenfall 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.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/a-case-for-a-haven-in-the-north-seahttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/a-case-for-a-haven-in-the-north-seaBefore the energy, before the land, before the science: Nieuw Haven opens as a working harbour in the emptiest stretch of the North Sea. Why port dues are the project's first revenue, and why that changes the financing story.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/an-island-arrives-in-boxeshttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/an-island-arrives-in-boxesSeventeen 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.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/a-harvest-between-the-turbineshttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/a-harvest-between-the-turbinesDanish 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.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/canada-orders-an-islandhttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/canada-orders-an-islandVancouver'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.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/the-seabed-gets-a-sentryhttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/the-seabed-gets-a-sentryNATO 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.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/the-colinda-pointhttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/the-colinda-pointIn 1931 a Norfolk trawler hauled up a Mesolithic harpoon from the open sea. Archaeology magazine's letter from Doggerland traces how that find became a mapped, 44,000 km² drowned world: the landscape our islands will stand on.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/poshydon-first-offshore-hydrogenhttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/poshydon-first-offshore-hydrogenPosHYdon 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.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/seaway-mega-hopper-dredgerhttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/seaway-mega-hopper-dredgerBoskalis has taken delivery of the Seaway, a 178-metre mega hopper dredger built by Royal IHC; the largest ever built in the Netherlands. Ships in this class are how islands actually get made.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/the-north-sea-learns-to-launchhttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/the-north-sea-learns-to-launchAn ESA-backed floating platform off Esbjerg expects its first rocket in the second half of this year. The North Sea is becoming a launch coast before we have laid a single stone; that is precisely the precedent our spaceport needs.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/restoration-goes-industrialhttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/restoration-goes-industrialTwo announcements, one message: rebuilding marine life in UK and North Sea waters is no longer a pilot activity. It is becoming infrastructure, and that is exactly what Nieuw Doggerland's ecology programme needs it to be.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/orkney-oyster-restorationhttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/orkney-oyster-restorationThe UK's largest marine rewilding project is releasing 15 million native oysters around Orkney. Nieuw Doggerland's 50-million target suddenly looks less like a dream and more like a scaling problem.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/windpiper-rock-installation-vesselhttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/windpiper-rock-installation-vesselBoskalis has christened the world's largest subsea rock installation vessel. It is exactly the class of ship Nieuw Doggerland will need to armour its first safe harbours and islands.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/who-governs-the-dogger-bankhttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/who-governs-the-dogger-bankFour nations hold overlapping rights over the shallows; none holds sovereignty. Why that legal vacuum is Nieuw Doggerland's opportunity, not its obstacle.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/interactive-map-launchhttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/interactive-map-launchOur new North Sea map plots the real infrastructure already standing on the Dogger Bank alongside the islands and causeways we intend to add to it.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/announcing-nieuw-doggerlandhttps://www.nieuwdoggerland.org/news/announcing-nieuw-doggerlandThe public launch of a giga-project to rebuild the ancient North Sea land bridge: an energy super-hub, marine sanctuary, and transport corridor between Britain and the Netherlands.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT