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SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Vessel owner Yara has signed a deal with Norwegian shipyard Vard worth appr NOK 250 million to build the world’s first autonomous electric container ship.

16th August 2018

Vard to build zero emission trendsetter

16th August 2018

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Major Spanish shipyard group Navantia has started the construction of the floating foundation for the first full scale floating wind turbine that will be installed at the Portuguese WindFloat Atlantic project.

16th August 2018

Navantia floating turbine progress

16th August 2018

MONITORING & CONTROL

MONITORING & CONTROL

The UK’s Solent has hosted a pioneering autonomous surveying event reports Dag Pike.

16th August 2018

First fully autonomous hydrographic survey

16th August 2018

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

One Germany based marine satellite information company has launched a commercial online store for global shallow-water bathymetry to better serve its customers.

16th August 2018

Rapid access to shallow-water bathymetry data

16th August 2018

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

The UK Shipping Minister has paid a visit to The Northern Lighthouse Board’s (NLB) Oban base to experience first hand the vital work it does to keep mariners safe.

16th August 2018

Minister visit for Northern Lighthouse Board

16th August 2018

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Meyer is boosting the outfitting design and construction of its cruise vessels by expanding the use of Cadmatic software at its shipyards in Finland and introducing it into Germany.

15th August 2018

Cadmatic design advantage for Meyer Shipyards

15th August 2018

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Associated British Ports says it has partnered up with Rolls-Royce and Svitzer to develop the next generation of sustainable port technologies.

15th August 2018

ABP partners up with Rolls-Royce and Svitzer

15th August 2018

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

C-Job Naval Architects is proud to announce its partnership with The Ocean Cleanup a not-for-profit that is dedicated towards ridding the world’s oceans of plastic.

14th August 2018

C-Job partners with The Ocean Cleanup project

14th August 2018

MONITORING & CONTROL

MONITORING & CONTROL

Maritime data can be used to prosper, create value and safeguard our oceans, or can be kept to ourselves and slowly stagnate, both commercially and environmentally.

14th August 2018

How Open Data can be used to save the oceans

14th August 2018

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

A Netherlands based naval architect is responding to continued growth by moving into larger premises and creating several new job positions.

13th August 2018

Naval architect responds to continued growth

13th August 2018

MONITORING & CONTROL

MONITORING & CONTROL

A US based developer of autonomous vessel technology has quadrupled in size in the past 18 months mainly as a result of a growing demand for the technology.

13th August 2018

Autonomous vessel company quadruples in size

13th August 2018

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Regulations set down by IMO came into action at the beginning of this July this year. These regulations involved fire fighters’ radios used aboard vessels.

13th August 2018

New IMO radio regulations

13th August 2018

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Hagenuk Marinekommunikation a subsidiary of Atlas Elektronik, has been commissioned to supply integrated communication systems for units 6 to 10 of the Type K130 corvettes for the German Navy.

13th August 2018

Major comms order for Hagenuk

13th August 2018

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

KVH Industries has announced that it recently shipped its 8,000th mini-VSAT Broadband system.

13th August 2018

KVH’s 8,000th VSAT system shipped

13th August 2018

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Moteurs Baudouin will be showing its innovative Selective Catalyst Reduction (SCR) system on its range of engines at SMM 2018.

10th August 2018

Light and flexible SCR system

10th August 2018

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Marine electronics brand Actisense in Poole, UK have formed a new product partnership with Navinord, a specialist marine electronics integration company based in Poland.

10th August 2018

Actisense Polish partnership

10th August 2018

SECURITY

SECURITY

Oil industry forum OCIMF has released a new information paper that recommends a layered defence methodology for hardening vessels to help prevent unauthorised boarding.

10th August 2018

OCIMF Guidelines to Harden Vessels

10th August 2018

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

As previously reported in brief in ‘MJ’, Irish boatbuilder Safehaven Marine recently delivered a Wildcat 60 catamaran ‘HMS Magpie’ to Atlas Elektronik UK for use by the Royal Navy.

10th August 2018

First ‘HMS’ vessel from Safehaven

10th August 2018

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

The GRP Division of the Spanish shipyard Astilleros Gondan has just signed a contract to build a new fast ferry that it claims will be the fastest GRP passenger catamaran built in…

10th August 2018

Fastest GRP ferry built in Spain

10th August 2018

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

Busy East German seaport, Rostock, has launched a two year project to rebuild a quayside, writes Tom Todd.

9th August 2018

Rostock quay project gets underway

9th August 2018

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Sea rescue services along Germany’s North Sea and Baltic coasts are to be bolstered writes Tom Todd.

9th August 2018

More boats for German sea rescue

9th August 2018

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Two very different workboats have begun operation with coastal and sea protection authorities in north Germany, reports Tom Todd.

9th August 2018

New workboat duo protects German coasts

9th August 2018

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

Fresh out of university, one UK university graduate has landed his dream job on the Port of Dovers flagship Dover Western Docks Revival (DWDR) development.

9th August 2018

Graduate skills bring civils project success

9th August 2018