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Frank Coles has been announced as the new chief executive officer and member of the board of directors for Transas Marine.

6th October 2015

New CEO for Transas

6th October 2015

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Denmark-based Tuco Marine is expanding its range of ProZero workboats and daughter crafts with two new dive support and ROV support vessels.

6th October 2015

Tuco Marine unveils new dive support boats

6th October 2015

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KEY DEALS

Scotland-based Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) is to carry out pre-cut seabed trenching prior to Prysmian Group’s cable laying on the Wikinger offshore windfarm – the second Baltic Sea renewables project for ESS.

5th October 2015

Renewables trenching contract for ESS

5th October 2015

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

With the Prop.act clutch system, German marine transmission specialist Ortlinghaus has launched a system on the market that it claims offers new deployment opportunities, particularly in the main drive train of harbour…

5th October 2015

Plug and play tug transmission

5th October 2015

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

The hybrid car market has taken off, so why not workboats? It’s not down to lack of interest Dennis Doerffel of UK-based REAP Systems told MJ; instead the issue centres on the…

5th October 2015

Hybrid ‘cookbook’ for smaller yards

5th October 2015

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

A new training establishment has opened its doors in East Sussex, UK. Seahaven Maritime Academy, based in Newhaven docks, is a privately owned and run business with the emphasis on personal service.…

5th October 2015

Seahaven Maritime Academy launched

5th October 2015

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

Australia-headquartered AtoN specialist Sealite has introduced a new high intensity LED Range Light, which provides over 420,000cd and, the company claims, has a visible range of over 23NM.

5th October 2015

LED Range Light

5th October 2015

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Norwegian operator, Umoe Mandal, has purchased six External Panorama Pantograph heavy duty windscreen wipers from UK based DuroWipers to equip a newbuild Surface Effect Ship (SES).

2nd October 2015

Exceptional vision for a fast vessel

2nd October 2015

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

It might sound simple: having one capable, well-worked vessel, Netherlands-based DUC Marine went about designing another. However, the ‘Solution’ has had to resolve some conflicting demands.

2nd October 2015

Many questions, one Solution

2nd October 2015

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During August, Swedish renewable energy company Vattenfall announced that it has produced the first power to the National Grid from the Kentish Flats Extension (KFE) offshore wind farm in the UK North…

2nd October 2015

Kentish Flats connects to grid

2nd October 2015

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Hot on the heels of the recent news that Swedish tidal energy outfit Minesto has received an additional €3.5M from KIC InnoEnergy, late last month the companys board has also revealed that…

2nd October 2015

Minesto Deep Green technology rides the waves of progress

2nd October 2015

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Among a string of exports this summer, UK catamaran workboat builder Cheetah Marine reports that it has delivered two 7.9m hydrographic survey vessels.

2nd October 2015

Cheetah exporting

2nd October 2015

INSURANCE, LEGAL & FINANCE

INSURANCE, LEGAL & FINANCE

According to Andrew Oldland QC, partner at UK-based Michelmores Solicitors, recent changes to legislation have made it possible for Statutory Harbour Authorities (SHA) to apply for Harbour Closure Orders (HCO).

2nd October 2015

Harbour Closure Orders

2nd October 2015

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The UK Hydrographic Office and the Maritime Coastguard Agency, joint organisers of the 7th biennial shallow water survey conference involving detailed assessments of a common dataset derived from testing of individual multibeam…

1st October 2015

Shallow Survey 2015

1st October 2015

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Developing sustainable hydrography in Africa and elsewhere is one of the principal themes of the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies 23rd Hydro conference at Cape Towns International Convention Centre from 23-25 November.

1st October 2015

Hydro 2015

1st October 2015

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Bibby HydroMap, the UK-based hydrographic and land survey organisation, reports successful completion of major surveys for the €30m Swedish-owned Deep Green tidal current marine energy project offshore Holyhead, west of Anglesey, UK.

1st October 2015

UK west coast offshore surveys

1st October 2015

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute, the Helmholtz Centre for Polar & Marine Research (AWI) and Dresden Technical University’s Instititute for Cartography have jointly produced a 3D map of the Antarctic continent and the…

1st October 2015

3D map of Antarctica

1st October 2015

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

DeepOcean, the Norwegian offshore services organisation with subsidiary concerns in Brazil, Holland, Mexico, Singapore and the UK, has been commissioned by Shell for provision of ROV-based survey services in the North Sea…

1st October 2015

Shell commissions DeepOcean ROV services

1st October 2015

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Gardline CGG, the Anglo-French specialist survey organisation based in Singapore, has been awarded a contract by Oman’s Foreign Affairs Ministry for studies of a proposed extension to its continental shelf limits in…

1st October 2015

Omani continental shelf contract for Gardline CGG

1st October 2015

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Teledyne Reson has extended its range of SeaBat sounders with introduction of a miniature high-resolution forward-looking sonar system, SeaBat 7130. The American-owned Danish company says it is primarily intended for use on…

1st October 2015

Teledyne Reson extends SeaBat range

1st October 2015

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The Offshore Survey Division of the International Marine Contractors Asssociation, the UK-based trade organisation representing over 1,000 companies in more than 60 countries, has revised its Guidelines for Use of Multibeam Echosounders…

1st October 2015

IMCA revises offshore multibeam guidelines

1st October 2015

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Dutch heavy winch specialist Huisman has seen its Zhangzhou facility deliver its hundredth crane, which belies the usual idea about Chinese manufacturing quality being an issue.

1st October 2015

Surprisingly Chinese

1st October 2015

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

When it comes to deck gear, “big and heavy does not necessarily mean good and safe”, Andy Ash-Vie of Harken told MJ. Further, while there’s some recent moves to reduce its weight…

1st October 2015

Big doesn’t always mean safe

1st October 2015