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Over 100 delegates attended Plymouth’s first ever Mayflower 400 Marine Tech Trade Expo, including experts in marine research and technology from across the globe.

13th October 2016

Success at Marine Tech Expo 2016

13th October 2016

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Atlas Elektronik Finland (AEFI) has finished work on the fully refitted minelayer Pansio which has now been handed over to the Finnish Navy.

13th October 2016

Upgraded Pansio handed to Finnish Navy

13th October 2016

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

A Surveyor Interceptor ROV from Sweden’s MMT has set new underwater records while being used for geophysical surveys to detect former land surfaces buried below the current seabed as part of the…

11th October 2016

Setting records in the Black Sea

11th October 2016

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The UK-based sacrificial anode manufacturer, MG Duff, was started in 1956 as a partnership by Merlin Graham “Chunky” Duff, a yacht surveyor and naval architect, and Ivan Graham, a Royal Navy Engineer…

11th October 2016

MG Duff celebrates its 60th

11th October 2016

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

German offshore services specialists SeaRenergy and Fichtner have been awarded with the revision and development of all risk assessments for TenneT´s offshore and onshore converter stations, the converter stations being essential elements…

11th October 2016

Converter station risk assessments

11th October 2016

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

Transport Malta has improved its marine aids to navigation with twenty new buoys, supplied by Spain-headquartered AtoN specialist Almarin, in collaboration with the local partner, Boat Maintenance.

11th October 2016

Maltese order

11th October 2016

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ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Personal Locator Beacons are a major contribution to safety at sea, and UK-based Global Telesat Communications (GTC) has made it easy to rent one for less than £5 a day (including VAT).

11th October 2016

PLB rental

11th October 2016

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The Finnish Transport Agency will begin testing intelligent fairways at the start of 2017, using several fairways along its Finnish coast as test platforms.

11th October 2016

Testing of intelligent fairways to begin in 2017

11th October 2016

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Located in Turkey in the Antalya Free Zone, Ares Shipyard has been focussing its new construction work mainly in the military sector with designs up to 100 metres in length. Now the…

10th October 2016

Ares shipyard expands commercial offerings

10th October 2016

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UK-based DeepOcean has mobilised its T3200 subsea trencher onto the trenching support vessel, Havila Phoenix.

10th October 2016

Subsea trencher mobilised by DeepOcean

10th October 2016

SHIPYARD NEWS

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The largest fast passenger ferry order for a UK shipyard in over 25 years has been confirmed by London operator MBNA Thames Clippers.

10th October 2016

Double order for rebranded shipyard

10th October 2016

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Birkenhead, UK-based marine specialist V&A Hydraulics has completed maintenance work on the Liverpool Pilotage Service vessels. V&A Hydraulics secured the work with marine contractors and environmental services firm Briggs Marine, of Fife,…

10th October 2016

Liverpool pilot vessel hydraulic repairs

10th October 2016

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Scotland, UKs Peterhead Port Authority has awarded the contract for the Peterhead Scheme 2 project to a joint venture partnership between contractors McLaughin & Harvey and Boskalis Westminster.

10th October 2016

Peterhead development

10th October 2016

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

The New Zealand amphibious RIB builder Sealegs has launched a larger 9m version of its distinctive amphibious RIB, and the first example is en-route to the UK distributor.

10th October 2016

9m Sealegs amphibian comes to Europe

10th October 2016

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Following the 2014 Marine Accident Investigation Branch report into two amphibious DUKW accidents in the UK, the business model of using these 1940s military vehicles for city tours has taken a further…

7th October 2016

Duck tour woes

7th October 2016

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ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

German wind energy service company SeaRenergy/ SMC recently successfully ran a charity game on their stand at WindEnergy Hamburg, raising 3,500 EUR for the DGzRS (German Maritime Search and Rescue Association).

7th October 2016

SeaRenergy/ SMC donation

7th October 2016

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The International Maritime Rescue Federation has announced the fourth in its ‘Gothenburg’ series of conferences on maritime mass rescue operations, to be held in Sweden next June. The theme of the conference…

7th October 2016

Mass Rescue Conference 4

7th October 2016

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Lamda Development is ready to begin work on its landmark project at Hellenikon in Greece. Located on the site of a disused airport on the waterfront at Athens, this project incorporates major…

7th October 2016

Work ready to start at Hellenikon

7th October 2016

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The distinctive X-Stern, devised by Norwegian ship designers and builders Ulstein, is now providing feedback in commercial use as the ‘Windea La Cour’ has entered service at the Gemini offshore wind farm.

7th October 2016

First X-Stern goes to work

7th October 2016

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Seaway Heavy Lifting has awarded Dutch company Seatools a contract for the design and delivery of a piling template instrumentation and control system.

7th October 2016

Seatools awarded pile template contract

7th October 2016

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The UKs Carbon Trust has collaborated with US-based Business Network for Offshore Wind to support the development of the offshore wind sector in North America.

6th October 2016

Carbon Trust accelerates offshore wind ambitions

6th October 2016

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Rentel NV has reached financial close for the construction of a new 309MW offshore windfarm off the Belgian coast.

6th October 2016

Financial close for offshore wind project

6th October 2016

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The final design of the new Venice Offshore-Onshore Port System (VOOPS) has been awarded to Italian-Chinese consortium 4C3, led by the China Communication Constructions Company Group (CCCC Group).

5th October 2016

Venice port system design awarded

5th October 2016