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SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Royal IHC has secured an order from the Engineering Authority at the Egyptian Ministry of Defence. The contract comprises the construction of ten IHC Beaver Cutter Suction Dredgers (CSDs) and five Delta…

16th April 2018

Ten dredgers and five workboats for Egyptian MOD

16th April 2018

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The Rogers 10t Twin Lift Carbon Davits are thought to be the world’s largest carbon fibre davits ever built and its makers claim weigh 75% less than traditional solutions.

16th April 2018

Class approval for lightweight carbon davit

16th April 2018

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Yaskawa Corporation is making a multimillion-euro investment to strengthen the R&D capabilities of The Switch and purchase new equipment at the company’s factory in Lappeenranta, Finland. The investment will enable drive train…

16th April 2018

Investment means drive train testing up to 15MW for The Switch

16th April 2018

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

The IMO has set an absolute target for emissions reduction across the entire maritime industry for the first time in history.

16th April 2018

IMO sets first industry wide emissions strategy

16th April 2018

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

Sea Traffic Management (STM), and Port of Rotterdam have established electronic exchange of arrival times between ships and the port. 300 ships in the STM Validation Project are now able to share…

16th April 2018

Direct sharing of voyage plan schedules

16th April 2018

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

The world’s most powerful single turbine has been successfully installed at Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC).

13th April 2018

EOWDC 8.8MW turbine installation

13th April 2018

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

UK manufacturer of marine windscreen wiper systems B Hepworth & Co Ltd is celebrating its 150 years anniversary in 2018.

13th April 2018

B Hepworth celebrates 150th anniversary

13th April 2018

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Trials are underway in the UK’s Port of Southampton as part of a pilot scheme to launch the HullWiper water jet hull cleaning technology at the port. HullWiper is working to test…

13th April 2018

HullWiper pilot scheme at Southampton

13th April 2018

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Marine electrical system integrator Alewijnse Marine has developed a new service that the company claims is already delivering higher cost-savings and less downtime via proactive preventive maintenance to vessels’ electrical systems.

13th April 2018

Health Check approach for on board preventative maintenance

13th April 2018

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

A new option has been added to the Teledyne PDS applications to enable Side Scan Sonar Backscatter Mosaicking, ensuring that the PDS offering remains at the forefront of sonar processing software.

13th April 2018

Backscatter Mosaicking for Teledyne PDS

13th April 2018