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TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has issued a General Exemption to remedy an ‘administrative irregularity’ concerning certification of workboats.

2nd February 2021

MCA corrects irregularity in workboat rules

2nd February 2021

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Following Sanmar’s discontinuation of the tug marque bearing the same name Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) has described further the replacement in its RApport 1900SX harbour tug.

2nd February 2021

Keeping faith with Sanmar class replacement

2nd February 2021

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Forth Ports Ltd and Targe Towing Ltd have jointly announced that Forth Ports has acquired the entire share capital of Targe Towing.

2nd February 2021

Forth Ports acquires Targe Towing

2nd February 2021

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The port of Zeebrugge has welcomed two new tugs with arrival of VB Bolero and VB Rumba for Boluda Towage Europe.

2nd February 2021

TOWLINES

2nd February 2021

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

UK-based specialist galley company GN Espace has introduced its most advanced onboard cooker to date for boat owners looking to go fully electric onboard.

1st February 2021

Quality electric cooker launches

1st February 2021

MONITORING & CONTROL

MONITORING & CONTROL

Tallink Grupp has improved its fuel efficiency and cut emissions with a voyage optimisation tool that manages the entire voyage by calculating an optimum power plan and executing it automatically, with little…

1st February 2021

Tallink improves fuel efficiency

1st February 2021

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The annual Salvage and Wreck Removal Conference has taken place with salvage, insurance and legal communities reported to be ‘focused together on this important industry’.

1st February 2021

Salvage and Wreck Removal conference

1st February 2021

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Third-phase expansion of the giant Skandinavienkai in the German Baltic port of Lübeck will pave the way for the arrival of a new generation of Finnish RoRo ships, writes Tom Todd.

1st February 2021

Lübeck RoRo terminal expands again

1st February 2021

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

The keel has been laid in Rostock for the first of two unique, ground-breaking patrol boats for coastal and shallow water service with German Customs, writes Tom Todd.

1st February 2021

Fast delivery for unique Customs newbuilds

1st February 2021

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Lindley has designed, fabricated, supplied and installed pontoons, access bridges and piles for a fishing and tourist municipality in the south of Portugal.

29th January 2021

Lindley delivers Portugal pontoons project

29th January 2021

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Powering ships with hydrogen, electrolysed at floating solar islands, could become a reality says Dutch firm SolarDuck.

29th January 2021

Refuelling with hydrogen at a floating solar island

29th January 2021

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

According to Andrew Calderbank-Link, Operations Director, Seacat Services, balancing offshore energy support vessel market dynamics is crucial to maintaining offshore wind growth.

29th January 2021

Market dynamics of offshore support vessels

29th January 2021

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

At Dunmore East in the Republic of Ireland, the RNLI’s all-weather Trent class lifeboat has a new berth from Inland and Coastal Marina Systems.

29th January 2021

New shared berth for Trent class lifeboat

29th January 2021

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

A major voice of the European shipbuilding industry has proposed to set-up a dedicated EU Maritime Fund – as an opt-out alternative to an inclusion of shipping into the EU Emission Trading…

28th January 2021

EU Maritime Fund could be ETS alternative

28th January 2021

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

In the UK’s 2020 budget, the government announced that many sectors will lose their entitlement to use red diesel from April 2022.

28th January 2021

Maintaining critical assets as legislation changes loom

28th January 2021

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

A platform to enable hybridization of ocean based renewable energy production by combining wave, wind and PV is now available for project developers around the world.

27th January 2021

Renewable energy hybridization platform

27th January 2021

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) technology has been used to gather bathymetry data in inland waters in Canada for the first time.

27th January 2021

Pioneering bathymetry data gathering by USVs

27th January 2021

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

The South Wales Port of Newport, owned and operated by Associated British Ports, has celebrated the renewal of its lease and commercial agreement with leading building materials company, CEMEX.

27th January 2021

Shipping cement

27th January 2021

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Navigation services provider Novaco Limited has developed a new all-in-one navigation data and tracking product for commercial and leisure vessels.

27th January 2021

Tracking and navigation from one unit

27th January 2021

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Despite strict social distancing measures, the launch ceremony for the latest 44-metre fast patrol vessel for Guardia di Finanza, the Italian finance police, recently went ahead in Viareggio.

27th January 2021

Socially distanced launch for fast patrol boat

27th January 2021