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OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

The UK’s Perpetuus Tidal Energy Centre (PTEC) has applied to the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) and Isle of Wight Council (as Local Planning Authority) for permission to construct and operate a tidal…

27th January 2015

Perpetuus plans

27th January 2015

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Training and mentoring of coastguards in Africa, Middle East, and South East Asia is essential if coastal nations are to have effective control over their Territorial Waters and Economic Zones, says leading…

26th January 2015

Coastguard training key to defeating piracy

26th January 2015

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Seagull Maritime has reported that it has become the first overseas company to secure training centre approval from the Panama Maritime Authority following the PMA’s 2014 change of leadership.

26th January 2015

Seagull secures approval from Panama flag

26th January 2015

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Seafarers Awareness Week, taking place from 20 to 28 June 2015, will look to raise awareness of Britain’s dependence on seafarers and highlight career opportunities for young people.

26th January 2015

Seafarers Awareness Week

26th January 2015

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

Interspill 2015 will be held at Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre, the Netherlands, on 24-26 March 2015, co-organised by Reed Exhibitions and Interspill Ltd. and hosted by the Spill Response Group Holland (SRGH).…

26th January 2015

Interspill 2015

26th January 2015

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KEY DEALS

Inmarsat, the global provider of mobile satellite communications services, will complete another significant milestone in the delivery of its Global Xpress (GX) service with the scheduled launch of the Inmarsat-5 F2 satellite…

23rd January 2015

Superfast broadband at sea

23rd January 2015

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KEY DEALS

Tek-Tanks, a Hampshire, UK based designer and manufacturer of high density polyethylene, water, waste and diesel tanks, has just appointed their first distributor in the USA.

23rd January 2015

Tanks cross the border

23rd January 2015

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Swiss-based Allseas Group’s Pieter Schelte, at 382 metres long and 124 metres wide the world’s largest offshore pipelay and platform installation vessel, has been equipped with a Sonardyne Ranger 2 USBL acoustic…

23rd January 2015

Sonardyne equips World’s largest offshore construction vessel

23rd January 2015

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Applied Acoustics of Great Yarmouth, UK has recorded the 400th sale of its Ultra Short Baseline Systems (USBL) with delivery of a Spread Spectrum rack-mounted EasyTrak Nexus unit to the Canadian Department…

23rd January 2015

Applied Acoustics 400th USBL sale

23rd January 2015

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Fugro has provided a third company vessel, ‘Fugro Supporter’, to carry out underwater search operations in the southern Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft which disappeared last March with the…

23rd January 2015

Third Fugro Vessel Joins MH370 Search

23rd January 2015

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KEY DEALS

Damen Shipyards Group has been voted ‘Best Overall Builder of the Year’ for the second year running by ‘Work Boat World’.

23rd January 2015

Damen designs a winner

23rd January 2015

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

South Boats IOW, a UK-based manufacturer of Wind Farm Service Vessels (WFSV), has launched its first of class South Cat 22m named ‘Iceni Venture’ for Iceni Marine Services Ltd.

23rd January 2015

South Boats 22m crew transfer vessel

23rd January 2015

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

German terminal operator Eurogate recently started up its second wind Turbine at Bremerhaven. The device at the Bremerhaven site is the second the company has put into operation after Hamburg. The ‘green…

23rd January 2015

Green energy in Bremerhaven

23rd January 2015

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KEY DEALS

After an initial four months working at the Westermost Rough Offshore Wind Farm, Siemens has extended its charter contract for Tidal Transits ‘Kitty Petra’ passenger transfer vessel (PTV) from the end of…

23rd January 2015

Rough extension

23rd January 2015

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

For many years, near shore and inland search and rescue (SAR) services worldwide have used adapted leisure personal watercraft (PWCs). They are useful due to their shallow water abilities and ease of…

23rd January 2015

Sea-Doo for SAR

23rd January 2015

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc. and the University of Hawaii (UH) have jointly developed a novel autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that can effectively deploy seafloor sensing equipment by combining features of a free-swimming…

23rd January 2015

New ‘hybrid’ underwater vehicle prototype

23rd January 2015

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

The German company Neander Shark, which has spent the last three years developing a diesel outboard, has now announced that it will start production and sales in January 2016.

23rd January 2015

Neander ramps up for production

23rd January 2015

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KEY DEALS

US-based marine gyro stabilisation provider, Seakeeper, reported record growth in 2014.

22nd January 2015

Seakeeper stays strong

22nd January 2015

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

BMT Argoss a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, the international design, engineering and risk management consultancy, has developed a new version of its ‘Rembrandt’ simulation and training tool specifically for use in…

22nd January 2015

Rembrandt paints a clearer picture

22nd January 2015

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KEY DEALS

Marine Automation specialist Servowatch Systems’ Head of R&D Stafford Williams recently received a special thank you for his “exceptional” work on KNRM’s new, award-winning lifeboat, Nh 1816.

22nd January 2015

KNRM says ‘thank you’

22nd January 2015