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 3 years and comprises geotechnical investigations at potential offshore wind farm development areas. The site characterisation services will provide geotechnical data acquisition from multiple geotechnical drilling vessels, and geotechnical laboratory testing and reporting by Fugro’s German and UK laboratories. The total contract value is approximately € 25 million and the target start date is mid-September 2019.