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KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Tests are taking place at Texas A&M University on a wave power prototype which takes advantage of blades that, like modern aircraft or wind turbines, create lift rather than drag.

10th August 2012

New wave device creates ‘lift’

10th August 2012

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The 25th Shipbuilding, Machinery & Marine Technology International Trade Fair Hamburg, better known as SMM, takes place at the Hamburg Fair site from 4 to 7 September.

10th August 2012

25th SMM expands with Offshore Dialogue

10th August 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Braveheart Shipping baptised its Javelin 22.22 Guardian last month and straight after the ceremony the vessel was en route to its first job on the TenneT export cable project.

10th August 2012

New boat on job for German cable project

10th August 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Construction work on Antwerp Port Authority’s new headquarters, which will start in September, will be kept on a tight rein.

10th August 2012

Challenging design for new Antwerp HQ

10th August 2012

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Three-hundred word abstracts of papers for the fourth Offshore Survey conference at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton on 10 and 11 April 2013 are now invited.

10th August 2012

Offshore Survey 13 Call for Papers

10th August 2012

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

UK changes to subsidies for renewable electricity could incentivise between £20 billion and £25 billion of new investment in the economy between 2013 and 2017.

9th August 2012

UK doubles subsidies for tidal and wave energy

9th August 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Germany’s historic Rhine-Main-Danube (RMD) Canal, which links two of Europe’s mightiest river complexes and two halves of the European continent, celebrates its 20th anniversary in September.

9th August 2012

Rhine-Danube Canal heads for 20th anniversary

9th August 2012

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Germanischer Lloyd is moving into the offshore windfarm support vessel market by providing classification services for the first newbuildings to an innovative design from Norwegain shipyard Fjellstarnd AS.

9th August 2012

GL provides classification for WFSVs

9th August 2012

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Dutch specialist shipbuilder IHC Merwede has launched the 500 m3 grab hopper dredger Dohuk and the 3,500 m3 trailing suction hopper dredger Karbala in two ceremonies at the company’s Krimpen aan den…

9th August 2012

IHC launches Iraqi dredging duo

9th August 2012

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The attitude to screening ship’s navigation bridges from the sun has changed a lot in two decades.

9th August 2012

Screens all round optimise efficiency

9th August 2012