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ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

A cable production and distribution company has supplied two lengths of double-armoured CTD (Conductivity, Temperature and Depth) cable for polar research vessels.

14th January 2020

CTD cable supports polar research vessels

14th January 2020

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) has announced four winners of a competition designed to accelerate the development of technologies that will enable a reduction in emissions and fuel consumption for…

14th January 2020

Reducing CTV emissions in the offshore wind industry

14th January 2020

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

A UK workboat builder is celebrating a decade of work in the innovative multirole vessel build concept.

14th January 2020

Multirole vessel anniversary

14th January 2020

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Following very encouraging initial results communicated last July, the 2MW Floatgen floating wind turbine, equipped with Ideol’s patented floating foundation and installed on the Sem-Rev test site (Atlantic Coast of France), exceeded…

14th January 2020

Floatgen output increases

14th January 2020

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Iridium Communications Inc. has announced that on December 19, 2019 a Letter of Compliance was signed by the International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO), stating it has positively verified the operational and technical…

14th January 2020

Iridium GMDSS authorisation

14th January 2020

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

James Fisher Offshore has strengthened its position as a global life of field support provider of specialist offshore engineering solutions, consolidating its services with those of its sister company, James Fisher Subsea…

14th January 2020

Offshore excavation consolidation

14th January 2020

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Subsea technology firm, Rovco, has announced a £3.9 million Series A investment from Foresight group via the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund and Foresight VCTs.

14th January 2020

Substantial investment for subsea robotics company

14th January 2020

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Trelleborg has, through its Industrial Solutions business area, acquired engineering group Signum Technology Ltd and its subsidiary companies Gall Thomson, KLAW LNG, KLAW Products, and Vee Bee Filtration.

14th January 2020

LNG transfer acquisition

14th January 2020

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

A Netherlands subsea technology company has secured a contract from an undisclosed EPC player for the design and delivery of a piling template hydraulic and instrumentation system.

14th January 2020

Piling template system contract

14th January 2020

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

The maritime infrastructure works on and around the weir lock complex along the Lys in Harelbeke in Belgium have been officially delivered.

14th January 2020

5-year infrastructure joint venture completed

14th January 2020

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

A rare opportunity has arisen for the offshore wind industry to charter one of Tidal Transits purpose-designed crew transfer vessels (CTVs).

13th January 2020

Rare opportunity for Tidal Transit CTV charter

13th January 2020

MONITORING & CONTROL

MONITORING & CONTROL

Companies and organisations are being asked to test a prototype data platform which could help work underway in autonomous vessel development.

12th January 2020

Data platform testing aids autonomous vessel

12th January 2020

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

Researchers from The Netherlands are using drifter buoys fitted with satellite trackers from Globalstar Europe Satellite Services to help understand the dramatic increase of Sargassum seaweed across the North Atlantic.

10th January 2020

Satellite trackers shed light on seaweed

10th January 2020

MONITORING & CONTROL

MONITORING & CONTROL

A classification society has released its Guidelines for Automated/Autonomous Operation of ships.

9th January 2020

New autonomous ship operation guidelines

9th January 2020

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

SMS Southampton has completed a major dredger refit in ABPs Port of Southampton in the UK.

8th January 2020

SMS completes major dredger refit

8th January 2020

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

A new European tidal energy joint venture (JV) aims to provide an end to end service for developers and customers.

8th January 2020

JV offers complete tidal package

8th January 2020

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Transfluid has announced that it is the first company in the world to have obtained two DNV-GL Type approvals for its hybrid technology.

8th January 2020

Type approval for marine hybrid modules and batteries

8th January 2020

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Following the delivery of Europe’s most modern fireboat, the ‘Branddirektor Westphal’, the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) has ordered two more fire-fighting vessels with the same propulsion packages.

8th January 2020

Propulsion solution for groundbreaking electric fireboats

8th January 2020

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

A heavy lift shipping operator has just announced the addition of another module carrier into its fleet following purchase of a pre-owned 2015-built vessel.

8th January 2020

Module carrier investment for heavy lift operator

8th January 2020

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

A recent merger has created industry’s largest global provider of engineered heavy lifting and transport services.

8th January 2020

Merger creates heavy lift giant

8th January 2020

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

UK marine construction contractor Red7Marine has partnered with Engineering for Industry, offering students pre-employment support and training through its consortium with Colchester Institute.

7th January 2020

Supporting future marine construction talent

7th January 2020

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

A manufacturer of marine aids to navigation will spend this year focusing on enabling the connection of all its devices to its cloud platform to support low-cost and reliable global asset management…

7th January 2020

Cloud dreams for navigation aids manufacturer

7th January 2020

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

WorkFloat, a self-propelled floating work platform that folds up to tow behind a 4x4 on the road or slides into a standard shipping container, has just confirmed dates for a Grand Demo…

7th January 2020

WorkFloat goes on tour

7th January 2020