Latest News – Page 536
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NewsNew Tuco SAR vessels
Danish boatbuilder Tuco Marine has launched two new search and rescue (SAR) vessel designs at Europort in Rotterdam.
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Promarine focuses on internet connectivity
UK based electrical mechanical marine engineering firm, Promarine''s, main focus at this year’s METSTRADE exhibition will be internet connectivity and in particular, 4G and LTE antenna solutions.
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NewsConstruction of Fehmarnbelt tunnel
Denmark is set to start work on an 18km-long undersea tunnel to Germany that will aim to be the world’s largest road and rail tunnel.
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Wärtsilä launches innovation competition
Finnish marine equipment manufacturing company, Wärtsilä, in connection with start-up event Slush, has launched an innovation contest, aimed at start-up companies and entrepreneurs.
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ESCGS warns of black market weapons
ESC Global Security (ESCGS) has welcomed the decision by the Contact Group for Piracy off the Coast of Somalia to reduce the size of the Indian Ocean’s high risk area.
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NewsNew to you for Seacontractors
Netherlands-based Seacontractors are completing the acquisition of six B-Class tug/workboats, swapping the grey hull colours of previous owner Smit to the black hull of Seacontractors.
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NewsDamen pairs for different continents
Two separate pairs of Damen ASD tugs have entered service for different owners on different continents to operate in Lithuania and in the Bahamas, 8,300km apart.
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NewsSanmar continues to deliver
Rarely a month passes without news from Sanmar Shipyards and in this edition we report on an ASD tug for UK’s SMS Towage, two ASDs for a new container terminal in Turkey and details of Jordan’s latest line-handling tug.
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NewsDamen’s Russian and Baltic connections
Recent items of news from Damen Shipyards Group and the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping highlight the former’s involvement with products destined for Russia and the northern Baltic states.
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NewsUnmanned tugs – the ultimate crew protection?
Canadian naval architects Robert Allan Ltd have unveiled a revolutionary concept with their vision of an autonomous unmanned tug, named RAmora and the flagship of their TOWBoT (Tele-operated Workboat or Tug) series.
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NewsJetty removal at Portsmouth
A specialist heavy lifting barge has begun removing large sections of a redundant 110-year-old jetty from Portsmouth International Port, UK.
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NewsCavotec wins Vacuum Innovation Award
Cavotec Specimas SpA has won the Busch Vacuum Innovation Award 2015 for its mooring technology, MoorMaster.
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NewsNew ABB R&D lab
Switzerland-based ABB has opened a new laboratory in Helsinki dedicated to research and development in the marine sector.
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NewsRescue boat transport
Two high-speed boats from Sweden have been sent by the not-for-profit NGO, the Swedish Sea Rescue Society (SSRS), to join the sea rescue effort in the Eastern Aegean. The SSRS approached GAC Sweden to coordinate the transportation of the two 12-metre boats each weighing 12 tonnes to Greece, as a ...
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NewsFCS for Nigerian patrol duties
Netherlands-headquartered shipbuilder Damen has delivered its second Fast Crew Supplier 3307 Patrol to Homeland Integrated Offshore Services Limited (HIOSL) of Nigeria just 18 months after a sister vessel entered service.
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NewsSubmarine lift becomes repair yard
Shipbuilder De Haas Maassluis and the Rotterdam linesmen association KRVE are starting a new repair yard for tugs, yachts and work boats in the heart of Rotterdam. The companies are teaming up to re-open the ship lift of the former Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij, which in its glory days was used ...
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NewsKotug and Becker Marine develop LNG Hybrid Barge for Rotterdam
Kotug and Becker Marine Systems are developing a LNG Hybrid Barge for the port of Rotterdam. The barge acts as a power station driven by gas and is to supply relatively clean power to moored cruise ships, industrial users and even the city of Rotterdam itself.
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NewsPort radiation detection
UK security specialist Symetrica has launched a new radiation detection and identification technique at the World Customs Organization Technology & Innovation Forum in Rotterdam. The company claims the technique will reduce the incidence of nuisance alarms from radiation portal monitors (RPMs) used to screen vehicles and cargo at ports and ...
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NewsSonardyne positioning for MBARI expedition
ROV tracking technology supplied by Sonardyne Inc. in Houston, USA to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has been successfully used during an expedition to study recently discovered deep sea hydrothermal vents in the Gulf of California.
