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KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Ocean Signal, UK manufacturer of communications and safety at sea equipment, has appointed MS Service, based in St Petersburg, as its Russian distributor. The announcement follows the Ocean Signal range of SafeSea…

2nd October 2012

Russian appointment at SMM

2nd October 2012

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

America’s SeaRobotics Corporation has teamed with a private equity group led by Ocean Investments Capital to fund the expansion of the company’s core business, including the production of Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs),…

2nd October 2012

Funding boost for USVs

2nd October 2012

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Essex UK based construction contractor S Walsh & Sons Ltd (SWS) has recently been expanding its marine management division, buying new and adapted vessels to serve on a variety of projects on…

2nd October 2012

Expanding tug fleet for River Thames work

2nd October 2012

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Dutch offshore cranes company Kenz Cranes has delivered a new 400 tonne boom hoist offshore pedestal crane to the jack-up vessel Seajacks Leviathan in Amsterdam.

1st October 2012

Successful delivery from Kenz cranes

1st October 2012

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Captain Peter Meyer, a well known and respected figure in the towage and salvage industry, has retired after 40 years with Hamburg based Bugsier Reederei. Peter started with the company as a…

1st October 2012

TOWLINES

1st October 2012

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Isle of Wight UK based South Boats Special Projects, which has built some 100 WFSVs since 2005 for a variety of operators, has recently completed a £1m research project comparing hull form…

1st October 2012

The future of WFSV hull design

1st October 2012

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The new AAW-150 anchor winch has been specially designed by Hercules Hydraulics for offshore wind farm vessels and is built almost entirely from non-ferrous materials, keeping the weight down to less than…

1st October 2012

Lightweight winch for windfarm workboats

1st October 2012

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Fugro Renewable Services launched the ‘Inclinocam’, a real-time inclination monitoring service supporting smart, safe offshore pile installations at the Husum Windenergy Exhibition.

1st October 2012

Inclination monitoring launched at Husum

1st October 2012

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Gurit and HAWART Sondermaschinenbau GmbH have agreed to closely cooperate in the areas of mould and transport systems production for wind energy rotor blades to leverage the strengths of both companies to…

1st October 2012

Turbine blades coooperation in Germany

1st October 2012

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Tognum, the specialist for propulsion and power solutions, has equipped its subsidiary SKL Motor GmbH in Magdeburg for standardized reconditioning of MTU engines and components and is thus renaming the company MTU…

1st October 2012

Tognum reconditions MTUs

1st October 2012