All News articles – Page 472
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NewsSeatools awarded pile template contract
Seaway Heavy Lifting has awarded Dutch company Seatools a contract for the design and delivery of a piling template instrumentation and control system.
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NewsCarbon Trust accelerates offshore wind ambitions
The UK''s Carbon Trust has collaborated with US-based Business Network for Offshore Wind to support the development of the offshore wind sector in North America.
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NewsFinancial close for offshore wind project
Rentel NV has reached financial close for the construction of a new 309MW offshore windfarm off the Belgian coast.
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NewsVenice port system design awarded
The final design of the new Venice Offshore-Onshore Port System (VOOPS) has been awarded to Italian-Chinese consortium 4C3, led by the China Communication Constructions Company Group (CCCC Group).
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NewsConcrete drilling the E-Z way
Part of the recent Maasvlakte 2 project at Rotterdam involved a contractor drilling some 180,000 holes in concrete. It is clear that this part of the project would benefit from some level of automation.
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NewsKongsberg wins Cammell Laird contract
Cammell Laird has awarded Kongsberg Maritime a contract to be the primary supplier of the scientific research and mapping equipment for the British Antarctic Survey’s new polar research vessel.
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NewsHandling pollution in a small port or harbour
According to Capt. Brian McJury, a Master Mariner at London Offshore Consultants, Paris, the response can be very enthusiastic in a small ports when a pollution incident occurs.
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NewsShemara Refit acquires SMS
The UK luxury motor yacht specialist, Shemara Refit LLP, has acquired the boatbuild and vessel repair expert, Southampton Marine Services (SMS).
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Telenor acquires SatPoint AB
Norway-headquartered Telenor Maritime has acquired SatPoint AB to strengthen its focus on the Nordic market.
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NewsBig solution for small vessels
A number of demonstrations have shown how DESMI’s antipollution devices can deal effectively with a number of perplexing problems – including a dearth of vessels on hand to help deal with a spill.
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NewsInformation overload
Retrieving information is becoming like finding a needle in a haystack - during a hay delivery. It’s an issue for harbour authorities because bathymetry, soil analysis, siltation data is really expensive. However, there may now be an answer.
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NewsThe shape of things to come
Robots are being designed to go where no human can, and this includes the depths. But what will they look like?
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NewsTime for change: a view from Lord Jeffrey Mountevans
While Jeffrey, Lord Mountevans, described the initial City of London reaction to Brexit as “shock”, as Lord Mayor he was on the spot to evaluate the fallout.
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NewsWave piercing pilot boats
In recent years, various boatbuilders have begun to offer pilot boat designs with wave piercing bows, under a variety of names and often different marketing back-stories, but are they actually much different in their seakeeping abilities to their more traditionally hulled alternatives? We travelled to Baltic Workboats in Estonia to ...
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NewsTitan LNG pontoon
Several Eastern European builders have been asked to quote for the fabrication of a pontoon that will form the basis of a new LNG bunkering facility in Amsterdam.
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Luerssen acquires Blohm+Voss
Bremen-based shipyard Luerssen has acquired Blohm+Voss shipyard to strengthen its portfolio in the repair and refit activities for vessels.
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NewsCarousels galore
The various offshore transmission developments underway in northern European waters, primarily related to wind farms, have led to the recent announcement of new onshore cable storage carousels on both the Northeast and South coasts of the UK.
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NewsInsight for ship designers
The Nautical Institute has launched a second edition of its popular ''Improving Ship Operating Design'' book.
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NewsAXYS Italian distribution
AXYS Technologies, a Canadian manufacturer of surface condition monitoring buoys popular in the offshore renewables industry, has announced the appointment of Geomarine as its new Value Added Reseller in Italy.
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NewsLarger aluminium panels
Norway-headquartered aluminium specialist Sapa announced at SMM 2016 its launch of super-large and light friction stir welded panels extruded with marine-dedicated 5083 aluminium alloy.
