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NewsMarine Energy Park for Scotland
It was announced recently by the Department for Energy and Climate Change in the UK that Scotland’s Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters have been designated as Scotland’s first Marine Energy Park.
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NewsNew wave device creates ‘lift’
Tests are taking place at Texas A&M University on a wave power prototype which takes advantage of blades that, like modern aircraft or wind turbines, create lift rather than drag.
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News25th SMM expands with Offshore Dialogue
The 25th Shipbuilding, Machinery & Marine Technology International Trade Fair Hamburg, better known as SMM, takes place at the Hamburg Fair site from 4 to 7 September.
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New boat on job for German cable project
Braveheart Shipping baptised its Javelin 22.22 Guardian last month and straight after the ceremony the vessel was en route to its first job on the TenneT export cable project.
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NewsChallenging design for new Antwerp HQ
Construction work on Antwerp Port Authority’s new headquarters, which will start in September, will be kept on a tight rein.
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Offshore Survey 13 Call for Papers
Three-hundred word abstracts of papers for the fourth Offshore Survey conference at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton on 10 and 11 April 2013 are now invited.
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NewsUK doubles subsidies for tidal and wave energy
UK changes to subsidies for renewable electricity could incentivise between £20 billion and £25 billion of new investment in the economy between 2013 and 2017.
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NewsGL provides classification for WFSVs
Germanischer Lloyd is moving into the offshore windfarm support vessel market by providing classification services for the first newbuildings to an innovative design from Norwegain shipyard Fjellstarnd AS.
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NewsRhine-Danube Canal heads for 20th anniversary
Germany’s historic Rhine-Main-Danube (RMD) Canal, which links two of Europe’s mightiest river complexes and two halves of the European continent, celebrates its 20th anniversary in September.
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NewsIHC launches Iraqi dredging duo
Dutch specialist shipbuilder IHC Merwede has launched the 500 m3 grab hopper dredger Dohuk and the 3,500 m3 trailing suction hopper dredger Karbala in two ceremonies at the company’s Krimpen aan den Ijssel yard.
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Rope trio merge for rigging supergroup
Hendrik Veder, RopeQuip, and European Rope Services will merge on 1 September 2012, founding the Hendrik Veder Group.
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NewsNice splice lines up a Seatrade award
The Lankhorst Ropes A3 splice has gained the Seatrade Innovation in Ship Operations award.
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NewsScreens all round optimise efficiency
The attitude to screening ship’s navigation bridges from the sun has changed a lot in two decades.
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NewsCall for material tech papers
A conference on recent and future material technologies used in the marine and offshore industry is being organised by RINA.
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NewsP&O receives Marine Software
UK based company Marine Software LTD recently delivered the Marine Project Manager Software (MPJ) to P&O Maritime Services.
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NewsFerry death
A man has died after falling overboard from a Scottish ferry 30 miles off Fraserburgh in Scotland.
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NewsLifting operations survey training course
The wide range of operational equipment both on board a vessel and dockside can make the job of a surveyor, and indeed anyone responsible for examining equipment, challenging and fraught with pitfalls.
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NewsPowerful thruster for Savannah River ‘Belle’
Savannah, Georgia’s newest passenger ferry will be equipped with Washington USA based Wesmar’s model V2 18 inch all stainless steel dual prop, counter rotating bow thruster for docking and positioning.
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NewsThe answer to ‘expanding environmental windows’
It started when the US Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation asked the National Academies what were the most important factors in research vessel design.
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NewsBig Blue lifts output at ancient Rye
Situated in the ancient port of Rye UK, Rastrum Ltd has been a major force in the re-development of Rye wharf, with the company now occupying almost 24,000 m2 of storage and office space at the facility.
