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MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Major marine civil engineering works will be carried out by the consortium made up of Van Oord, Hakkers and De Klerk  to allow even bigger vessels to use Rotterdam

7th July 2023

Rotterdam hires consortium for 500m quay construction

7th July 2023

MCJ CONTRACTS & TENDERS

MCJ CONTRACTS & TENDERS

Wedtlenstedt ship lock system, replacement construction of lock at the Salzgitter branch canal, “excavation pits and solid construction”. 

7th July 2023

Construction works tender, Germany

7th July 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Another £43 million (€39.8 million) has been made available by the UK government for winners of its fourth Clean Maritimes Demonstration Competition, which was launched today.

7th July 2023

UK launches 4th round of innovation funding

7th July 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Damen unveiled its new electric Multi Cat at the recent Seawork exhibition and conference - Peter Barker has the lowdown on this new vessel and its potential.

7th July 2023

Damen’s new all-electric Multi Cat – the details

7th July 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

A hybrid-propulsion service operation vessel (SOV) for what will be the world’s biggest wind farm has been delivered three months early by North Star, the company has revealed.

6th July 2023

North Star early SOV delivery for Dogger Bank

6th July 2023

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Decom Engineering has developed its largest Chopsaw to date in response to increased demand for larger sized subsea pipe cutting.

6th July 2023

Decom deploys largest yet Chopsaw

6th July 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Kotug Canada Inc has ordered two high-spec escort tugs as part of its involvement in the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMEP) on Canada’s west coast.

6th July 2023

New escort tugs for Kotug’s Canadian operation

6th July 2023

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Floating wind company BW Ideol has signed an agreement with state-owned financier ADEME Investissement in which they will each invest €40 million to develop offshore wind floating technology.

6th July 2023

BW Ideol secures €40m for new floating wind company

6th July 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Danish firms Ørsted and ESVAGT have agreed to build a second methanol-powered offshore service operation vessel (SOV) for offshore wind farms off the UK east coast, where Ørsted has a 10-year contract to…

6th July 2023

Ørsted announces second methanol-powered SOV

6th July 2023

OTHER NEWS

OTHER NEWS

The UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) has awarded a five-year contract for operation of the Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV) covering the north and west coast of Scotland.

6th July 2023

UK Coastguard tug to fly the Red Ensign

6th July 2023

MCJ CONTRACTS & TENDERS

MCJ CONTRACTS & TENDERS

Replacement tugs for one harbour/seagoing tug and two smaller tugs in and out of Dutch naval base.

5th July 2023

Early information on 3 replacement tugs

5th July 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Netherlands-based Marine Masters has revealed details of the salvage work it has completed to clear a collapsed 1,200 tonne coal transfer crane and jetty in Israel.

5th July 2023

Masters Marine salvages collapsed crane and jetty

5th July 2023

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

The largest programme in history dedicated to ocean species discovery has been launched by The Nippon Foundation with the aim of strengthening marine conservation.

5th July 2023

Largest ever ocean species discovery programme launched

5th July 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Fischer Panda UK has supplied power and climate control solutions for a £25m Japanese Griffon Hovercraft project.

5th July 2023

Fischer Panda power for Japanese hovercraft project

5th July 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Cadeler will transport and install 76 Vestas 15MW offshore wind turbines in the Polish Baltic Sea, the company confirmed – as a further sign of Poland’s keenness to embrace offshore wind.

5th July 2023

Cadeler to boost Polish offshore wind capacity

5th July 2023

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has revised its guidance on the safe and effective management of Dynamic Positioning (DP) diving operations.

4th July 2023

Safety first for dynamically positioned diving operations

4th July 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Growing murmurs on how the rapidly increasing size of offshore wind turbines is not sustainable do not appear to have been heard by the Chinese.

4th July 2023

China develops world’s biggest offshore turbine

4th July 2023

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Jan De Nul will roll out its 2015-built cable-laying vessel Isaac Newton to connect offshore wind farms to the German grid.

4th July 2023

‘Isaac Newton’ redeployed for cable-laying project

4th July 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Kongsberg Maritime has secured a contract to provide the design and equipment package for two powerful salvage tugs for the Suez Canal Authority (SCA).

4th July 2023

Kongsberg’s UT722 design lives on in 2 newbuilds

4th July 2023

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

The “Channelling the Green Deal for Venice” project seeks to address the problem of limited nautical accessibility to the ports of Venice and Chioggia.

3rd July 2023

Works needed to keep Venice ports accessible

3rd July 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

Seacat Services has brought Mainstay Marine Solutions on board to build the 20th vessel in its fleet.

30th June 2023

Mainstay Marine to build Seacat’s 20th vessel

30th June 2023

MCJ CONTRACTS & TENDERS

MCJ CONTRACTS & TENDERS

Integrated complex contract for final design, executive design and execution of electrification works of the docks of the port of Catania.

30th June 2023

€35 million dock construction, Sicily

30th June 2023

VESSELS

VESSELS

RS Marine CEO Jon Partridge talks to MJ about the voyage to electric RIBs – and how Cheetah Marine’s latest RIB is targeted at people who are environmentally conscious but not ready to go…

30th June 2023

Cheetah Marine launches ‘EV-ready’ RIB

30th June 2023