All News articles – Page 418
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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.
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NewsKotug Smit and Mitsui O.S.K Lines seal a smart deal
Consolidation in the towage industry features regularly of late and the recent merger of some of the operations of Smit and Kotug has been followed with an agreement with a major shipping line.
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NewsBoluda introduces its silent tugs to Bureau Veritas
Boluda Corporación Maritima has presented a state-of-the-art silent tug to the technical committee of classification society Bureau Veritas (BV).
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NewsNotable orders for Svitzer and Kotug Smit.
A flurry of orders and deliveries have been reported lately, to be gathered up for the ‘delivery round-up’ next month but important orders for two of the world’s leading towing providers are worthy of mention here.
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NewsTugs & Towing, the last and next 30 years
Evolution or revolution? A fair question reviewing the past and looking to the future as Tugs & Towing considers the towage industry in ‘MJ’s’ 30th year.
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NewsReflecting on 30 years of the salvage industry
Thirty years is but a blip in the history of marine salvage but an industry worth reflecting on as ‘MJ’ celebrates its 30th anniversary.
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NewsFrance’s first floating turbine mooring installation
Paris-headquartered Bourbon has completed the mooring installation of the first floating wind turbine in France, at the SEM-REV experimental test site off Le Croisic.
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NewsEsbjerg: Ahead of the times
“Generally, I’d say wind port operations should be so smooth their contribution goes almost unnoticed. Helping cargo to run through, just like water,” said Jesper Bank of the port of Esbjerg.
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NewsThe future of WFSVs
What will the wind support vessels of the future look like? Stevie Knight finds out that it’s all surprisingly close.
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NewsHydrogen is the faster answer
While Norway’s standard ferry routes have come under scrutiny, cleaning up the fast ferries has been thought of as an ‘intractable’ problem. At least so far.
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NewsJayesh Vir: SAFT battery systems
Over the last couple of years French specialist company SAFT has supplied battery systems for a number of hybrids, including, notably, the ''Sir David Attenborough'' research ship, CalMac’s ro-ro ferries and even megayachts “where you can’t ask for a couple of centimetres more space without ending the discussion” Jayesh Vir ...
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NewsHarren & Partner acquires SAL Heavy Lift
Germany-based Harren & Partner has acquired German carrier SAL Heavy Lift from Japanese-owned “K” Line.
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NewsAlphatron Marine renews ECDIS lab
Alphatron Marine has upgraded its ECDIS training facility at its headquarters in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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NewsMH370 search could benefit scientific community
While the Indian Ocean search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 unfortunately has not shed light on what happened to the airliner, some good has come out of the process in that the scope and resolution of the data could be of great value to the scientific community.
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NewsSub-IMO vessel workshops
A series of three one day NEXT GENERATION Workshops covering safety, fast vessel procurement and shock mitigation related subjects are being held back to back at the Grand Harbour Southampton, UK on 24, 25, 26 October 2017.
