Uxo Survey Start

A 31 March 2025 ruling by the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement (Klagenævnet for Udbud, case JD-Contractor A/S vs Energinet Eltransmission A/S) reproduces Energinet’s November 2023 tender for "protection of submarine cables under the project KBH05". The tender scope explicitly includes "investigation of potential unexploded ordnances (referred to as UXOs) and objects of potential archaeological interest in and close to the cable routes." The same document states that the protection works are scheduled for execution in Q4 2024 and in 2025. A later Energinet press release (7 July 2025) notes that the seabed trench for the KBH05 subsea cables had already been prepared earlier in 2025, which presupposes that UXO investigations have been carried out beforehand. Together this indicates that UXO survey activities started broadly as scheduled in Q4 2024. As no exact start date is published, I use quarter-level precision (Q4 2024, represented by 2024-10-01).