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Scottish technology collaboration
Nine major energy companies and the Scottish Government have announced a £7.9 million collaboration on technology innovation to slash the cost of offshore wind, via the Carbon Trust''s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme.
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NewsMorecambe flood protection project
Work on the first phase of a multi-million pound project to replace Morecambe, UK’s wave reflection wall being carried out by VBA joint venture, is progressing well.
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NewsDiversification at Alicat Workboats
More often reported on in these pages for its windfarm support vessels, Great Yarmouth, UK-based Alicat Workboats has recently won a contract with Stewart Marine to build a 57 x 11FT Wide-beam Canal Barge.
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NewsMagnetic Sledge from Miko
Oslo-based Miko Marine has unveiled a magnetic sledge that is capable of retrieving small ferrous objects from underwater.
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European expertise for US offshore wind
Norway-headquarterd Global Maritime Consultancy & Engineering, a provider of marine warranty, dynamic positioning and engineering services to the offshore sector, has signed a contract with leading offshore wind developer Deepwater Wind to provide marine warranty services for the Block Island Wind Farm, America’s first offshore wind farm.
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NewsNew Senior Associate at RCG
The UK-based Renewables Consulting Group (RCG) has announced the addition of Julie Drew-Murphy as Senior Associate to the team, bringing valuable offshore wind development, compliance and due diligence skills.
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NewsJFC awarded
Irish navaids manufacturer, JFC, has been awarded the ‘Excellence in Marine Technology’ award.
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NewsDelivery of Texelstroom ferry
A new hybrid RoPax-ferry has been delivered to Koninklijke N.V. Texels Eigen Stoomboot Onderneming (Royal TESO).
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NewsMetal Shark ferries
Louisiana, USA-based shipbuilder Metal Shark has been selected by HNY Ferry Fleet, LLC,operator of New York City’s Citywide Ferry Service, to build 26-metre, 149-passenger aluminium high-speed ferries.
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NewsIncat Crowther cats for Royal Thai Police
Australian vessel designer and builder Incat Crowther has announced the delivery of ‘Ratayapibanbancha’ and ‘Arcarachwaratorn’, a pair of 24m Catamaran Patrol Boats.
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News‘MPI Discovery’ back on Rampion
MPI Offshore has announced that its wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), ‘MPI Discovery’, has recommenced work at the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm off the south coast of England.
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NewsPalfinger acquisition
At the end of June 2016, the Austria-headquarterd Palfinger Group closed the acquisition of 100 per cent of the shares in Herkules Harding Holding AS, and thus the globally operating Harding Safety.
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Tideway ‘Best Employer’
The National Business Success Award Institute in Belgium has selected Tideway BV (a subsidiary of the Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering group, DEME) as Best Performing Employer 2016 in the marine engineering sector.
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NewsMOB strobe
The new Firefly PRO rescue lights by US-owned ACR Electronics are extremely bright, reliable LED strobe lights which, claims ACR, ensure the best chance of visually alerting rescue services for accurate location in an emergency.
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NewsHow will Brexit impact the renewables sector?
The UK’s vote in favour of leaving the European Union is expected to have a far reaching impact on the renewables sector in terms of investment and legislation.
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NewsGas delivering diesel-type performance
The new MTU gas marine engine, the first from Rolls-Royce, has just completed 3,000 successful hours on the test bench at Friedrichshafen, Germany. As of 2018, Rolls-Royce will deliver the first certified series production gas engines for commercial vessels.
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Royal IHC obtains majority stake in Tompkins
Netherlands-headquartered Royal IHC and Tompkins UK Ltd have increased their strategic cooperation with IHC acquiring a majority stake in Tompkins.
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DONG wins Dutch wind farm tender
The Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs has awarded the concession to build and operate the Borssele 1 and 2 offshore wind farms.
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News“World first” wind and tidal power output combination
Atlantis Resources, the Singapore-headquartered tidal power developer, has announced that an agreement has been reached between the company’s majority owned MeyGen project (offshore Scotland) and a nearby wind farm development to facilitate access to the distribution grid for other renewable energy projects.
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NewsPier hydrodemolition
Skanska AS Norway has used a robotic water cutter from Swedish company Aquajet in renovating structural parts underneath a pier in Oslo harbour; an operation that because of the tidal flow and an inaccessible subsurface working area would have been both difficult and dangerous to undertake by manual means.
