Norway’s Vard has won an order to build an energy construction vessel.

Norwind Offshore-linked company Wind Energy Construction ordered the Vard 3 11-design ship at the shipbuilder’s yard in Vietnam.

“We are pleased to have, together with Vard, developed a new vessel category which will enable the development of renewable energy to an even greater extent,” said Norwind Offshore and Wind Energy Construction chief executive Svein Leon Aure.