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PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The design and development of a new container terminal in the port of Naples in Italy has posed considerable challenges because it has been heavily polluted in the past.

23rd December 2015

Container dock developments at Naples

23rd December 2015

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Uljanik Brodogradiliste, in Pula, Croatia, has officially handed over the new cable laying vessel, Issac Newton, to the Belgian Jan De Nul Group.

23rd December 2015

New cable laying vessel Isaac Newton on the way to its first job

23rd December 2015

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

The St. Petersburg based shipyard Sredne-Nevsky which is part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation has delivered the R1650 which is the first of the Rondo class fast patrol boats built to a…

23rd December 2015

Rondo class patrol

23rd December 2015

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The deepwater Port of Bronka on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, Russia is nearing completion. With the Liebherr LHM 800 mobile port crane installed at the end of September, technical plant and…

23rd December 2015

Port of Bronka progressing well

23rd December 2015

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Global tidal power expert, Atlantis Resources, has appointed a new director of power generation in order to help drive the construction stage of the MeyGen project and increase the company’s wider project…

23rd December 2015

Atlantis Resources appointment

23rd December 2015

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The French based recycled marine fuel expert, Ecoslops, has commenced industrial production and delivered the first volume of marine fuel products out of its refinery in the Portugese Port of Sinès.

23rd December 2015

Recycled marine fuel production

23rd December 2015

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An EU funded project, Exposures, has been formed to establish a new marine information data collection system.

23rd December 2015

New interest group for seabed scour technology

23rd December 2015

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Dutch Special Marine Group has designed a small range of Fast Daughter Craft (FDC). A FDC’s function is to operate away from the mother ship or offshore installations for extended periods of…

23rd December 2015

Fast daughtercraft design

23rd December 2015

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MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has won an order for substructure connection mooring systems for the worlds first floating offshore windfarm at Statoils Hywind pilot park in Scotland.

23rd December 2015

MacGregor wins breakthrough windfarm order

23rd December 2015

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

Irish company JFC Manufacturing has announced details of a new range of polyethylene buoys, at the ‘Innovating the future of Marine Navigation Safety’ conference in Galway in October. The buoys are being…

23rd December 2015

Navaids-driven boost for Irish manufacturing

23rd December 2015

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

The Port of Milford Haven’s three new pilot boats will be named ‘St Brides’, ‘St Govans’ and ‘St Davids’ following a public competition which attracted almost one hundred entries.

23rd December 2015

Three Saints for Milford Haven

23rd December 2015

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

A Canadian company has developed a safety and security system that allows a shore station to closely monitor the machinery and operation of fast rescue boats in any part of the World.

23rd December 2015

Fast rescue monitoring

23rd December 2015

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

International marine construction specialist Bisso Marine, headquartered in Mississippi, USA has announced its acquisition of the offshore pipelay industrys stalwart derrick/pipelay barge ‘Global Iroquois’. The 400 foot x 100 foot x 30…

22nd December 2015

Pipelayer purchase

22nd December 2015

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Rope has to deal with a lot of harsh realities: both heat and ultraviolet do their level best to degrade the fibres.

22nd December 2015

Samson’s rope on the hotplate

22nd December 2015

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Netherlands-based Mastervolt has announced the launch of its MLS series of high performance 12 V Lithium Ion batteries.

22nd December 2015

Mastervolt introduces new lithium ion batteries

22nd December 2015

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

UK-based bespoke marine engineering company Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL) has announced the release of an innovative new camera system designed to be mounted to deep sea sediment corers.

22nd December 2015

Coring Camera

22nd December 2015

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Norway’s Kongsberg Maritime has signed a contract to buy the Trondheim-based ship simulation and consultancy company, Ship Modelling & Simulation Centre AS (SMSC). The acquisition, which is expected to be completed January…

22nd December 2015

Simulator acquisition

22nd December 2015

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Alphatron Marine, the supplier of integrated bridge solutions, has announced the signing of a 3-year global maintenance agreement with Netherlands-headquartered dredging major Van Oord.

22nd December 2015

Dutch Nav/ comms agreement

22nd December 2015

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The Renewable Energy Hamburg Cluster has presented the German Renewables Awards for innovations and pioneering achievements in the wind energy industry.

21st December 2015

Renewable Energy Hamburg awards

21st December 2015

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Incat Tasmania Pty Shipyard in Hobart, Australia has specified Wärtsilä waterjets and controls for a new fast ferry, the KatExpress 3, being built for Danish operator Mols-Linien.

21st December 2015

Wärtsilä waterjets for newbuild fast ferry

21st December 2015

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

What is billed as Europe’s first ferry with LNG propulsion capability has started service in Germany after delays which officials acknowledged were expected and the result of a pioneering LNG technology mix.

21st December 2015

LNG ferry Helgoland in service at last

21st December 2015

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

The Central Coastal Command for Maritime Emergencies (CCME) in Germany has put a shallow-water oil skimming system into service on a flotilla of multi-purpose boats and will equip more.

21st December 2015

Mini-skimmer for shallow water oil spills

21st December 2015

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Germany’s sea rescue service DGzRS has ordered three new 10.1m boats for delivery from 2017 as part of a modernisation programme to replace old units - some of which have been in…

21st December 2015

German rescue service gets punchy new trio

21st December 2015