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MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

Femern A/S updated application for planning permission for the Fehmarnbelt tunnel linking Germany and Denmark was submitted for public consultation in Germany between 12 July and 26 August 2016. The process is…

26th August 2016

German Fehmarnbelt link consultation concluded

26th August 2016

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Magnomatics, a specialist in magnetic gear technologies formed in 2006 as a spin out from the UK’s University of Sheffield has announced that it is currently working to develop a marine current…

25th August 2016

Magnetic gear turbine project

25th August 2016

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

Netherlands-headquartered lifting concern Huisman, has secured new crane contracts with a total value of around 300 million Euro and representing a lifting capacity of over 20,000 tonnes from various major offshore, shipping…

25th August 2016

20,000 tonnes worth of orders for Huisman

25th August 2016

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The Offshore Energy Exhibition and Conference (OEEC) is set to take place in Amsterdam from on the 25 and 26 October 2016.

24th August 2016

Offshore Energy 2016 preview

24th August 2016

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Norsepower, a Norway-headquartered provider of low maintenance, software operated, and data verified auxiliary wind propulsion systems based on the Flettner rotor principle, has announced that it has been selected to receive €2.6M…

24th August 2016

Commercial wind propulsion funding

24th August 2016

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Over 350 world delegates are expected at the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies’ 24th symposium and exhibition in Rostock-Warnemunde from 8-10 November.

24th August 2016

Hydro 2016

24th August 2016

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

UK-headquartered Bibby HydroMap has completed major geophysical, geotechnical, benthic and land survey operations along the route from mainland Scotland to the Isle of Lewis on behalf of SHE Transmission.

24th August 2016

Bibby HydroMap completes Western Isles surveys

24th August 2016

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Dr Parry Oei, Chief Hydrographer and Director of Port Services of the Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) who is also Chairman of the International Hydrographic Organization’s Inter-Regional Coordination Committee, is this year’s…

24th August 2016

UKHO award for Singapore hydrographer

24th August 2016

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The tenth Annual International Tidal Energy Summit (ITES) will focus on how international project developers plan to reduce cost and still deploy reliable turbines in the future.

24th August 2016

Tidal energy summit

24th August 2016

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

The 108 year old passenger steamer Alexandra, billed as the oldest operational ship of its type in Germany, is undergoing boiler replacement this autumn in the wake of repair and maintenance that…

23rd August 2016

Revamp for oldest passenger steamship

23rd August 2016

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Repair and maintenance work on a wide range of workboats into the autumn has pointed up the continuing extensive capability of Germany’s versatile Schiffswerft Diedrich.

23rd August 2016

Specialist repair spread at Diedrich

23rd August 2016

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

German diesel engine manufacturer MAN, which has been field trialling engines aboard a Lake Constance catamaran has recently published the project’s first results regarding consumption and reliability.

23rd August 2016

Catamaran field trials

23rd August 2016

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

A new passenger ferry launched in Naples, Italy is claimed to be the first boat of its kind in the region to be installed with Volvo Pentas IPS drives. The new ferry,…

23rd August 2016

IPS ferry

23rd August 2016

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen, Holland has recently completed maintenance and repair works on the Van Oord-owned Split Hopper Barges ‘Jan Blanken’ and ‘Jan Leeghwater’.

23rd August 2016

Van Oord barge repairs

23rd August 2016

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

‘HMS Brocklesby’, one of the UK Royal Navy’s eight Hunt Class minehunters, has had her engines renewed after 33 years of service.

23rd August 2016

Minehunter maintenance

23rd August 2016

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

The power transmission technology category of the Hanns Voith Foundation prize this year went to Sören Schenke from the Hamburg-Harburg University of Technology for his master’s thesis on the ‘Assessment of Propulsion…

22nd August 2016

Propulsion efficiency for hull propeller systems

22nd August 2016

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Portchester, UK-based Meercat Workboats has sold a third vessel to Dawnfresh, a large player in the Scottish aquaculture business.

19th August 2016

Third aquaculture Meercat for Dawnfresh

19th August 2016

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The Hornsea Two offshore wind farm from DONG Energy, located off the coast of Yorkshire, UK has recently gained planning consent from the Business and Energy Secretary, Greg Clark.

19th August 2016

Hornsea Two go-ahead

19th August 2016

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

France-headquartered Leroy-Somer and UK-headquartered Control Techniques and Mayday Electronics have joined forces to offer a hybrid propulsion system for a new Corsican excursion vessel.

19th August 2016

Hybrid partnership proven

19th August 2016

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

Work on new lights that will guide the Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers safely into Portsmouth harbour, UK is nearing completion as the top sections of the structures are put in place.

18th August 2016

Portsmouth navaids for new carriers

18th August 2016

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Parkol Marine Engineering, based in Whitby, UK has recently applied a thermal sprayed zinc coating to a new whitefish trawler, the ‘Resilient LK195’, to protect it from corrosion.

18th August 2016

Metallisation protecting marine investments

18th August 2016

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

Danish marine engineering consultancy Ramboll has been appointed as Technical Advisor for British Antarctic Survey (BAS), to support projects in the Antarctic region and in the UK.

18th August 2016

Ramboll to help berth ‘Sir David’

18th August 2016

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

Finland-based Lamor Corporation Ab and the Norway-based Markleen Group recently signed a cooperation agreement that is claimed will form the most comprehensive and highest quality Oil Spill Response (OSR) solution network on…

18th August 2016

Scandinavian pollution partnership

18th August 2016