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TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Continuing expansion of its activities in northwest Europe, Boluda Towage has commenced towage operations in the German port of Rostock.

27th October 2021

Boluda expands into Rostock

27th October 2021

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Corvus Energy and Sanmar Shipyards have announced a newly signed Memorandum of Understanding to develop a new range of zero-emission and hybrid tugs.

27th October 2021

Corvus Energy, Sanmar and hybrid tugs

27th October 2021

OTHER NEWS

OTHER NEWS

The European Tugowners Association’s (ETA) annual meeting has reflected on the industry’s ability to adapt to sudden changes and how to adapt to the next normal.

27th October 2021

European tug owners consider the next normal

27th October 2021

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

News that Sea Machines is supplying its autonomous command and control system for Foss Maritime’s tug Rachael Allen reveals some of the logic behind autonomous tug operations.

27th October 2021

Sea Machines equips Foss autonomous tug

27th October 2021

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Svitzer’s marking of ten years of operation in Angola reveals the valuable methods the Denmark-based towage company employed to train local tug crews.

27th October 2021

Svitzer celebrates ten years in Angola

27th October 2021

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The Turkish Directorate General of Coastal Safety has taken delivery of the second of its latest emergency response, escort and assistance tugs from Sanmar Shipyards.

27th October 2021

Turkey receives its latest escort tug

27th October 2021

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Brazilian towage group Starnav has selected Schottel RudderPropellers for a quartet of escort tugs to be built in Brazil.

27th October 2021

Schottel thrusters for Starnav quartet

27th October 2021

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Lloyds has expressed its commitment to Lloyd’s Salvage Arbitration Branch (LSAB) and to oversee Lloyd’s Open Form contracts (LOF) after earlier suggesting LSAB services could be stopped.

27th October 2021

Lloyds commits to support LOF contracts

27th October 2021

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

A company with an innovative wind propulsion solution that has big decarbonisation potential has joined the International Windship Association (IWSA).

26th October 2021

IWSA backs project

26th October 2021

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Boluda Towage has provided berthing services to the world’s largest container ship making the first call in Europe on its maiden voyage.

26th October 2021

TOWLINES

26th October 2021

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Inland shipping authorities in Germany are reportedly very satisfied with an unusual new €2.1 million workboat.

26th October 2021

New German workboat garners praise

26th October 2021

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Receivers were still seeking new investors for insolvent Hamburg Shipyard Pella Sietas late October but there appears little chance that Germany’s oldest shipyard will survive in its current form.

26th October 2021

Hopes fade for Pella Sietas survival

26th October 2021

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Plans for another two German survey, wreck location and research ships are expected to be completed soon with tender invitations tipped for next year.

25th October 2021

Plans firm up for more German special ships

25th October 2021

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

A state-of-the-art trenching vehicle has been modified to enable a tricky intertidal live export cable re-burial.

22nd October 2021

Cable reburial required ‘out of the box’ thinking

22nd October 2021

VESSELS

VESSELS

The Nautical Institute and the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) have launched a second module for their Dynamic Positioning continuing professional development (CPD) app.

22nd October 2021

DP training app expands to include all personnel

22nd October 2021

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

One of the world’s most advanced facilities for ocean research and education, the Ocean Space Centre will be built in Trondheim, Norway.

22nd October 2021

Ocean Space Centre

22nd October 2021

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The founder and chair of French ocean protection organisation, Fondation de la Mer, Sabine Roux de Bézieux, has been named as the 2021 Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association’s Personality of the…

21st October 2021

Founder of ocean society honoured by WISTA

21st October 2021

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

In an industry first, floating scaffolding has been used to complete a specialist contract lift on the river Severn.

21st October 2021

Floating scaffold completes 3t contract lift

21st October 2021

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Ørsted Wind Power and Jan De Nul Group have signed the final contract for the transport and installation of 107 monopile foundations and one offshore substation topside at Gode Wind 3 and…

20th October 2021

Ørsted and Jan De Nul sign offshore wind farm deal

20th October 2021

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

An OCEA OPV 150, specifically designed for sustainable and responsible navigation, has just been launched by the OCEA shipyard.

20th October 2021

Sustainable offshore patrol vessel delivered

20th October 2021