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MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

Netherlands-headquartered Vryhof Anchors has launched a revolutionary new heavyweight anchor around the OTC 2017 event in Houston. Stevshark Rex is claimed to deliver holding power in extreme conditions unmatched by any other…

27th April 2017

Innovative anchor launch

27th April 2017

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

East Riding of Yorkshire Council and Bridlington Harbour Commissioners, UK have appointed internationally-renowned professional services firm Arup to undertake project design and pre-construction work for the Yorkshire Harbour and Marina Project at…

27th April 2017

Arup wins Bridlington design contract

27th April 2017

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The UK’s Bridlington Harbour Commissioners have taken delivery of a new dredger that will be employed on maintenance dredging in the harbour.

27th April 2017

Bridlington dredger

27th April 2017

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

With the offshore wind market entering maturity the focus for renewables is turning further towards tidal and wave energy with tidal energy attracting a lot of attention.

26th April 2017

Dutch tidal development centre

26th April 2017

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

UK’s MPI Offshore and its parent company, Vroon Offshore Services (Netherlands) recently collaborated to provide offshore services for the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm off the south coast of England.

26th April 2017

Rampion collaboration

26th April 2017

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Nautilus ECDIS Kernel from German navigation software specialist company SevenCs is described as the next generation software development kit (SDK) for maritime applications.

26th April 2017

Nautilus ECDIS Kernel

26th April 2017

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

Scotland’s Kishorn Dry Dock will come out of a 23 year long hibernation after an agreement was signed to use the site during the construction of the world’s largest floating wind farm.

26th April 2017

Kishorn revival

26th April 2017

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Recently unveilled at the Sea Asia exhibition in Singapore, the LT-3100 Iridium Communications System from Denmark-based Lars Thrane A/S is a maritime satellite communication product, designed for the professional market (deep sea,…

25th April 2017

Satellite communication terminal

25th April 2017

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Mark Garnier MP, UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, has opened a state-of-the-art Mission Control Centre developed by autonomous vessel technology developer, ASV Global, at its headquarters in Portchester, UK.

25th April 2017

Autonomous mission control

25th April 2017

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

Damen is celebrating nine decades of operations in the shipbuilding industry in 2017. From its humble beginnings in the 1920s, the company has grown into a renowned maritime service provider that employs…

25th April 2017

Happy 90th birthday to Damen

25th April 2017

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The debate about the composition of Emergency Towing Vessels (ETV) around the Scottish coast is continuing with the report of a local MP calling for a record to be kept of all…

24th April 2017

Scottish ETV debate rumbles on

24th April 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Mapping Our Seas, Oceans & Waterways - More Important Than Ever is the theme of this year’s UN-sponsored World Hydrography Day due to be marked worldwide on and around 21 June.

24th April 2017

World Hydrography Day

24th April 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Hamburg Port Authority (HPA), one of Germany’s leading terminals accustomed to conducting around 900 surveys per year, has acquired a third dual head multibeam echosounder for installation aboard its smallest of three…

24th April 2017

Third multibeam assembly for Hamburg Port

24th April 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Norway’s iSurvey group is to carry out survey and positioning operations under a four-year contract with Maersk Oil in support of rig move operations in the Danish sector of the North Sea.

24th April 2017

Danish venture for iSurvey

24th April 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Sweden’s MMT UK subsidiary in Banbury, Oxford reports two current major surveys in the Shetlands on behalf of the Maritime & Coastguard Agency. The first involves a 45-day undertaking from Yell to…

24th April 2017

MMT Shetland surveys

24th April 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

One such key contract disclosed at Southampton concerned award of two multi-million Euro undertakings to the Anglo-Italian geoscience and engineering group Next Geosolutions for work on the North Sea Link (NSL) project,…

24th April 2017

Multi-Million euro contract for Next Geosolutions

24th April 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Despite present offshore concerns, the Paris-based semi-autonomous OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) reckons the global ocean economy will double from $1.5 trillion to $3 trillion by 2030, so few were…

24th April 2017

Record Ocean Business ‘17

24th April 2017

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

JFD, the subsea operations and manufacturing company and part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has been awarded a four year framework contract, worth up to £10 million, by the UK MOD…

24th April 2017

James Fisher secures MOD subsea contract

24th April 2017

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

Seawork 2017 exhibitor Dynamic Load Monitoring (UK) Ltd has launched a new product for measuring and data logging the Tensile load on subsea applications.

24th April 2017

DLM launches subsea data logging tensile link

24th April 2017

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

The UK’s Port of London Authority has reported a successful take-up of its ‘Green Discount’ incentive scheme.

24th April 2017

Green discount

24th April 2017

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

The German electricity grid regulator has approved bids to build what will be the first offshore wind farms that depend entirely on market prices for viability rather than government support and subsidies.

24th April 2017

German offshore wind reaches subsidy free milestone

24th April 2017

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Norwegian boatbuilder Maritime Partner has signed a contract with Geiranger Fjordservice (GFS) to deliver an Alusafe Cat 24 developed for sightseeing in the Geiranger fjord.

24th April 2017

Maritime Partner enters tour boat market

24th April 2017

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

The Articulated Wind Column (AWC) from UK-based ODE is a crossover technology with 40 years of use in the oil and gas industry re-engineered for offshore wind in mid to deep water…

21st April 2017

Crossover foundation

21st April 2017