Industry News – Page 87
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Port of London trade highest this decade
Trade in the Port of London in 2016 reached the highest this decade, rising 10% to top 50 million tonnes for the first time since 2008.
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NewsPoole party
Preparations for the UK’s Poole Maritime Festival and European Maritime Day, Poole 2017 are nearing completion.
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NewsCut and paste davits
Norwegian boat lifting specialist Vestdavit’s digital library of 2D and 3D davit drawings has now been made available to naval architects and shipyards via the web, allowing them to download davit CAD files to include in their vessel conceptualisation files on a ‘cut and paste’ basis.
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NewsEU co-funded LNG dredger trial
S/F SamueLNG Project, lead by France’s Dragages Ports started in mid December, in the Port of Gijon, Spain and is the first phase of the Global Project ‘Towards a Blue Atlantic Arch by 2025’.
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NewsIreland to lead MaRINET2
An investment of €10.5 million in EU funding for marine renewable test facilities was recently announced in Dublin by University College Cork.
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Ukrainian seaports increase cargo turnover
According to the online data of the Ukrainian Seaports Authority, in January 2017 the volume of cargo handling in Ukrainian seaports reached over 10 million tons, which is 14.6% more than in the similar period of 2016.
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Anders Invest acquires Lagersmit
Netherlands shaft seal specialist Lagersmit Sealing Solutions B.V. has become fully owned by Anders Invest Co-Invest Fund 1, a fund which bundles the investment power of Anders Invest, De Hoge Dennen and 11 other coinvestors.
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NewsThe Switch sets its sights on the marine market
Finland-headquartered permanent magnet power generation specialist The Switch is targeting growth of 200% within the marine segment in the next five years.
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News‘MPI Adventure’ ahead of schedule on Sandbank turbines
Netherlands-owned MPI Offshore’s jack-up ‘MPI Adventure’ has installed its 72 SWT-4.0-130 turbines on the Sandbank offshore wind farm three months ahead of schedule, as the vessel has erected six complete offshore wind turbines per cycle.
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News‘Seajacks Scylla’ mooring system upgrade
The world’s largest jack-up vessel ‘Seajacks Scylla’, recently visited the Rotterdam Offshore Group (ROG) terminal in the Waalhaven, after her first successful assignment on phase 1 of the Veja Mate Offshore Windpark project.
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Euromaritime 2017 exhibition
The Euromaritime event will take place from 31 January to 2 February 2017 at the Paris Porte de Versailles.
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NewsOffshore windfarm cable contract
DeepOcean 1 UK has been awarded a contract by Nexans for the cable installation at ScottishPower Renewable’s East Anglia ONE offshore windfarm in the North Sea.
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NewsRotterdam Offshore Group to expand its capabilities
Rotterdam Offshore Group (ROG) has acquired the neighbouring land and buildings next to its existing premises in the Waalhaven, Rotterdam, to allow for significant expansion of its quayside, storage and office capabilities.
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Port of Antwerp grows in 2016
The Port of Antwerp achieved a total freight volume of 214,057,529 tonnes in 2016, a 2.7% growth, with container volume up by 4.1%.
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NewsPropulsion experts celebrate
French marine propulsion manufacturer France Helices is celebrating its 40th anniversary in business this year.
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NewsRoyal IHC sees order surge
In the last two months of 2016, Royal IHC saw a substantial increase in the sale of its vessels, equipment and engineering packages, securing almost half of its total order intake for the year.
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NewsVeja Mate plugged in
Prysmian Group, the Italian energy and telecom cable systems specialist, has announced that the interconnection between the Veja Mate offshore wind farm and the offshore grid connection system BorWin2 in the German North Sea has been successfully connected.
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New report on potential for wind propulsion
A new study on the potential market for wind propulsion technologies has identified a multitude of barriers that are preventing its development.
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NewsMarielle Gehlert: Ahrenkiel Steamship Company
“Sometimes I miss the physical work of refitting vessels,” Marielle Gehlert of German vessel managers and owners Ahrenkiel Steamship Company told Maritime Journal. "At least that was relatively straightforward.
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NewsEU grant for MeyGen tidal array
Shares in Atlantis Resources Ltd (ARL), the tidal power expert, have increased following the news that the firm has been granted a €20.3m Horizon 2020 grant from the European Commission for the MeyGen project.
