Latest News – Page 420
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NewsMore cyber awareness training needed to curb attacks
More understanding of cyber threats and recognition that they are increasing is needed, a security expert has declared.
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NewsNew CEO at Alphatron
Mr. Bart Brom 55 will be appointed as the CEO of integrated vessel bridge specialist company Alphatron Marine Group in Rotterdam in January 2018.
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Carbon monoxide tragedy is bitter lesson for commercial vessel owners and operators
Mark Arries, 26, and Edward Ide, 21 died in their bunks on the scalloper ‘Eshcol’ in Whitby Harbour, UK in January 2014. The men died from carbon monoxide poisoning after leaving a gas cooker burning as they slept.
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NewsIceni vessels chartered to support gravity foundation demonstrator
UK vessel operator Iceni Marine Services is supporting Strukton Immersion Projects B.V over the summer at the Blyth Demonstrator project with two of their most experienced vessels, Iceni Spirit and Iceni Courage.
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NewsPull-in contract
CWind, a UK-headquartered provider of services to the offshore wind industry, has announced that it has been successfully awarded a contract to deliver all cable pull-in services for 66 offshore wind turbines and one offshore substation at Merkur Offshore Wind Farm, which is currently being constructed 45km from the island ...
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NewsOffshore wind dispute could change marine construction contracts forever
In early August, the UK Supreme Court published its judgment in the long-running MT Højgaard v E.ON dispute regarding the failed grouted connections on the foundations at the Robin Rigg offshore wind farm. The Supreme Court overturned the Court of Appeal, and held in favour of E.ON.
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Time Zero vessel surveillance for El Salvador
Spanish marine software company MaxSea is providing a TimeZero Coastal Monitoring system for the port of Acajutla, El Salvador.
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NewsRecycling plant will tackle high energy costs
A UK naval port will benefit from reduced carbon footprint and energy costs following work to install a specialist recycling plant.
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NewsRBS funding package enables Mainprize expansion
Mainprize Offshore Limited, a family-run workboat charter business operating multi-purpose vessels based in Scarborough, UK has expanded its fleet after receiving a funding package of almost £2m from the Royal Bank of Scotland.
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NewsDevelopments in maritime mass rescue
One of the key drivers behind the development in maritime mass rescue operations over the last 30 years has been the ''MS Estonia'' disaster in 1994.
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NewsThames Tideway Tunnel progress continues
It’s been 18 months since ‘Maritime Journal’ visited the various sites of London’s new so called ‘Super Sewer’, so we took the opportunity in August 2017 to see how the marine civil engineering side of the project has been developing.
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NewsPowerful low weight fish farm cleaning vessel launched
Aquaculture workers will be aided by the launch of a 15m high-pressure cleaning boat for fish farm operations in Norway.
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NewsFirst Seacat charter for UK windfarm
A highly versatile catamaran has been chartered by Galloper Wind Farm Ltd to help the operator meet the logistical requirements for its new UK windfarm.
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NewsPaul Hickinbotham appointed Dometic product manager
Paul Hickinbotham will drive product innovation and customer responsiveness as marine HVAC specialist Dometic’s EMEA Marine product manager.
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NewsGB£1.5m OWA drives offshore wind cost reduction
A GB£1.5m investment by the Scottish Government into an offshore wind programme will help to reduce the cost of wind energy.
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NewsEurope adds 6.1 GW of wind energy capacity
Europe has added 6.1 GW of extra wind energy capacity in the first half of 2017 putting it on course for a bumper year for installations, albeit mainly in Germany, the UK and France.
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NewsPioneering projects to deepen understanding of human and wildlife impacts of offshore developments
The Swedish wind energy company Vattenfall has announced plans to jointly fund pioneering research to explore how bottlenose dolphins, sea trout, salmon, sea birds and humans are affected by offshore wind developments.
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NewsOffshore wind energy - a continuing European success story
Thirty years ago, the European wind energy sector was nothing more than a nice idea - however, since then it has mushroomed into an international business employing many thousands of people and generating ever greater amounts of renewable energy.
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NewsTri-party design WFSV
Mainprize Offshore is working hard to attract even more business from the still growing market for offshore wind, so it has built its cleverest windfarm service vessel yet, the MO4.
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NewsWärtsilä seals first order for HY Hybrid system tug
Technology group Wärtsilä has secured the first order for a tug featuring its recently introduced HY hybrid power module from Italian tug owner Rimorchiatori Riuniti.
