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Despite more than €4 billion in losses and issues such as supply chain delays and turbine quality problems, Siemens Energy has insisted its wind power arm, Siemens Gamesa, will continue for the…

24th November 2023

Siemens vows to continue in wind despite €billions losses

24th November 2023

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A member of crew died when a tug manoeuvre was carried out under supervision of a captain who was still in training himself, an investigation has found.

21st November 2023

Lack of training led to crew death, probe finds

21st November 2023

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Bangladesh will get its first offshore wind farm Courtesy of Denmark’s Copenhagen infrastructure partners (CIP), offshore wind consultancy 4C Offshore has reported.

20th November 2023

SE Asia lures European offshore businesses

20th November 2023

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Offshore wind energy giant Ørsted has sacked its CFO and COO amid what it calls a ’challenging and volatile environment’.

14th November 2023

Ørsted culls management in ‘challenging environment’

14th November 2023

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More than 25,000 visitors walked through the Rotterdam Ahoy doors last week for Europort 2023, where 1,000 booths from 70 countries had products, deals, innovations and expertise on display. During the event Maritime…

13th November 2023

Europort 2023: A sample of the booths

13th November 2023

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Scientists at a European Tugowners Association seminar told delegates that nuclear propulsion on tugs and smaller vessels was a very real possibility.

10th November 2023

Nuclear tugs: a future reality?

10th November 2023

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Navigation firm Navtor and maritime tech provider Voyager Worldwide are merging in what is being hailed as a ‘landmark industry combination’.

9th November 2023

Navtor and Voyager merge in ‘landmark combination’

9th November 2023

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The 41st Europort shipping exhibition and conference was opened with a sign of the times – a keynote speech that had been created entirely by artificial intelligence.

7th November 2023

Europort opens with AI-written keynote speech

7th November 2023

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€billions in losses due to supply chain bottlenecks and inflation have prompted Ørstedto shut the door on two offshore wind projects in the US.

7th November 2023

Ørsted slams the door on New Jersey offshore wind

7th November 2023

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Kongsberg Maritime and Solstad Offshore have teamed up to trial decarbonisation technologies across Solstad’s fleet.

2nd November 2023

Solstad brings Kongsberg on board

2nd November 2023

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Ports are coming under more and more pressure to keep their carbon obligations, both by using battery-powered machinery such as cranes in port, and accommodating electrically propelled vessels at berth.

2nd November 2023

Port power: which option to choose?

2nd November 2023

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As the so-called Storm Ciarán lashed southern England and northern France on November 1, Greenpeace said thousands of flood defences were woefully inadequate.

2nd November 2023

Flood defences inadequate to cope with Storm Ciarán

2nd November 2023

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Two crew have been fined for negligence after a passenger ferry ran aground off the coast of Sweden, the Swedish Coast Guard told Maritime Journal.

1st November 2023

Crew negligence caused Swedish ferry grounding

1st November 2023

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Cocaine hidden deep within a container ship at Sheerness Port in Kent has been seized as part of a UK National Crime Agency investigation involving police officers and Border Force.

1st November 2023

Cocaine worth €11.5m seized from sea chest

1st November 2023

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The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has updated its UK inland waterways and categorisation of waterways guidance, intended for owners, operators and masters of vessels on inland waters including how to apply,…

1st November 2023

Inland waterways guidance updated for UK

1st November 2023

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Norcom Technology has won a contract for its AIS package as a direct result of the Seawork commercial marine event in Southampton in June.

26th October 2023

Seawork meeting results in contract win

26th October 2023

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The search has been called off for four crew members who are missing after the cargo ship Verity crashed into another cargo ship and sank in the early hours of Tuesday.

24th October 2023

One dead, four missing after cargo ships collide

24th October 2023

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Almost half of the ship owners surveyed by Hamburg shipping trade fair organiser SMM did not think IMO emissions targets could be hit.

20th October 2023

IMO targets cannot be hit, say 46% of ship owners

20th October 2023

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The International Salvage Union (ISU) has appointed John Witte Jr. as ISU president, succeeding Captain Nicholas Sloane, who will continue as a member of ISU’s Executive Committee.

16th October 2023

ISU appoints new president

16th October 2023

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Scottish engineering firm Ocean Kinetics has bought a 25% stake in Irish coded welding and marine fabricator MMG Ocean (formerly MMG Welding).

10th October 2023

Ocean Kinetics buys 25% of MMG Ocean

10th October 2023