News

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Three EU-funded R&D projects have been selected to complete their designs and fabricate prototypes for a one-year demonstration aiming to assess the feasibility of different ideas to generate electricity from wave power.

7th September 2023

3 wave projects win share of €13.4m budget

7th September 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

A substation installed 30km off the German island of Nordeney is the next step to connecting 253MW of offshore wind-generated electricity to the German grid.

7th September 2023

Ørsted moves 2 offshore projects ahead

7th September 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

More than just a tug: Peter Barker has a look at what Damen’s Shoalbuster can offer aside from its traditional work.

7th September 2023

Spotlight on diversity of Damen’s Shoalbuster

7th September 2023

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

German engineering firm Applied New Technologies (ANT AG) has produced an abrasive waterjet suspension system for cutting steel on obsolete ships.

7th September 2023

Waterjet technology cleans up ship recycling

7th September 2023

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Marine safety equipment firm Survitec has launched a life jacket that it says is comfortable enough to be worn all day when technicians are out on the wind turbines.

6th September 2023

Survitec launches ‘wear all day’ life jacket

6th September 2023

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Technology firm Applied Satellite Technology has launched a new-look software solution that it says offers a new approach to monitoring and managing remote maritime assets.

6th September 2023

AST launches remote asset management system

6th September 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Two container ships have run aground in recent days in separate incidents, one off the coast of Finland when the captain fell asleep, reports say.

6th September 2023

Two container ships run aground in separate incidents

6th September 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Offshore wind firm OEG Renewables (OEGR) has bought marine surveying company Geosight to strengthen what it can offer in offshore renewable energy, subsea cables and marine civils, it says.

6th September 2023

OEG Renewables buys marine surveyor

6th September 2023

MCJ CONTRACTS & TENDERS

MCJ CONTRACTS & TENDERS

Three fast passenger ships in Croatia.

6th September 2023

€18.3 million for fast passenger catamarans

6th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

CorPower Ocean has successfully installed its first commercial-scale wave energy converter in northern Portugal.

6th September 2023

CorPower installs first commercial-scale WEC

6th September 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A new merger has been formed between a German and Scottish firm to accelerate the move into floating renewables.

5th September 2023

UK/German merger forms to focus on floating renewables

5th September 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Researchers have been awarded funding to create an offshore wind cyber security research and development facility that will protect the technology against cyber-attacks.

5th September 2023

Ensuring offshore wind technology remains cyber secure

5th September 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Artemis Technologies has revealed another crew transfer vessel design, this one 100% battery powered.

5th September 2023

Artemis Technologies reveals 100% electric CTV

5th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Offshore wind capacity around the world is exploding in size as different territories set stringent renewable energy goals. 

5th September 2023

Decarbonisation: How far have we got?

5th September 2023

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Maritime Journal editor Debbie Mason talks to North Star chief technology officer James Bradford about offshore charging plans, vessel building, the exorbitant and potentially prohibitive cost of batteries, and other challenges facing…

5th September 2023

PODCAST: Interview with North Star CTO James Bradford

5th September 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Turkish tug builder Sanmar has launched the first in a series of multipurpose tugs designed by Robert Allan.

4th September 2023

New generation of multi-purpose tugs launched

4th September 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

A new collaboration between Ultimate Boats and hydrogen specialist RONN is set to bring emissions-free propulsion to high performance watercraft.

4th September 2023

Partnership to bring H2 propulsion to workboats

4th September 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Dutch firm FibreMax has signed an MoU with Entrion, a Texas-based manufacturer of FRP monopile designs, to increase the depths in which offshore monopiles can be installed. 

4th September 2023

MoU pledges to deepen waters for offshore wind

4th September 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Prysmian Group has laid the world’s longest interconnector both subsea and on land between the UK and Denmark to power 1.4 million households with clean energy.

4th September 2023

World’s longest subsea interconnector completed

4th September 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Anna Müller has been appointed president of Volvo Penta and a member of the Volvo Group management.

1st September 2023

Volvo Penta appoints new president

1st September 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Danish shipping firm ESVAGT and the Hvide Sande Shipyard have agreed to build ‘the transfer boat for the wind sector of the future’ – a bigger, stronger vessel with more room for…

1st September 2023

Danish firms to build ‘transfer boat of the future’

1st September 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

A 215m floating dock has successfully been towed across the Atlantic from Germany to Jamaica by deep sea tug Titan.

1st September 2023

German floating dock arrives in Jamaica

1st September 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The US’s plans to expand offshore wind have fallen flat with the first lease sale for projects in the Gulf of Mexico receiving just one winning bid.

1st September 2023

Bidders take wind out of US offshore sales

1st September 2023