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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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NewsUlstein SX195 for Acta Marine
Norwegian shipbuilder and designer Ulstein Verft AS has signed a contract for the building of a DP2 Construction Support Vessel (CSV) for the Netherlands based Acta Marine B.V.
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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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NewsLow wash on-demand ferries
Tasmanian boatbuilder Incat Crowther has recently announced the launch of ‘Cockle Bay’ and ‘Blackwattle Bay’, a pair of 12m ferries for Sydney’s Bays Precinct area that fill a role somewhere between that of a ferry and a water taxi.
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NewsOcean Business 2017
A record attendance of over 5,000 visitors from more than 60 countries is expected at this year’s biennial Ocean Business event at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Southampton from 4-6 April, say organisers Diversified Communications UK.
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EU BASE-Platform project
Organisers of BASE-Platform, a two-year EU-funded research project aimed at establishing a new and easily accessible internet platform for provision of bathymetric data products derived from current and upcoming Copernicus and other satellite missions, are now seeking considered user views at www.base-platform .com.
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NewsSeawork anniversary
Seawork International, Europe’s largest commercial marine and workboat exhibition, will celebrate its 20th anniversary when it takes place from 13-15 June 2017 at Mayflower Park, Southampton, UK.
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NewsNew Coda Octopus wide-angle development
Edinburgh, UK-based Coda Octopus, the underwater systems specialist with subsidiary bases in Australia, Norway and the US, has extended its patented series of real-time Echoscope 3D sonars with development of a wide-angle 90 x 40-degree 240kHz XD model.
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13-year Finnish bathymetric agreement
The Finnish Transport Agency Liikennevirasto (FTA) in Helsinki, which is responsible for Hydrography in Finland, has appointed Teledyne Caris for provision of a new bathymetric data management system as part of a continuous 13-year support agreement.
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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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NewsDover joint venture
VSBW, a joint venture between VolkerStevin and Boskalis Westminster, has been appointed as the main contractor for the marine civil engineering stage of the Port of Dover, UK’s flagship Dover Western Docks Revival (DWDR) development.
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News14m aquaculture workboat
Scotland’s Macduff Shipyards Limited has recently signed over its latest new build, ‘Lily Mae’, to Scottish Sea Farms Limited, Shetland Division.
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Lloyds Register Marine Type Approval for Firetrace
The innovative E4 fire suppression system by US-headquartered global manufacturer Firetrace International has obtained Lloyds Register Marine Type Approval.
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NewsSTR enters the inspection market
UK subsea technology company STR has released its new SeaGamma Flooded Member Detection System at Subsea Expo Exhibition 2017.
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NewsNational hyperbaric appointment
JFD, a UK-headquartered subsea operations and manufacturing company and a part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has welcomed Graeme M Mackie as Diving Technical Authority at its National Hyperbaric Centre in Aberdeen.
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NewsDeath knell for hydraulics on ROVs?
UK-headquartered ROV manufacturer Saab Seaeye claims that electric robotic systems will perform all tasks in the underwater domain, including those now undertaken by hydraulic systems.
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NewsCabin RIB for Solent Rescue
UK independent Lifeboat station, Solent Rescue based in Lymington, Hampshire has recently ordered a 9-metre-long Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) with an enclosed cabin from South African inflatable boatbuilder Gemini Marine.
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NewsFast small ship simulator prototype nearing delivery
The world’s first realistic fast small ship simulator, a prototype of which will be delivered next month to the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN), could revolutionise the training of fast-boat crews and influence the design of the boats themselves.
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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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NewsAXYS buoy to support offshore wind development
AXYS Technologies Inc (AXYS) has deployed its meteorological and oceanographic data buoy at an offshore wind development on the Northern coast of Poland.
