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ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Brittany Ferries and STX St Nazaire shipyard are working together to build what they say will be the world’s largest LNG-fuelled ferry for a total cost of €270m.

15th January 2014

Largest LNG ferry for France

15th January 2014

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Two important contracts have been awarded for supply and installation of turbines for the Kentish Flats windfarm extension in the Thames Estuary which will see its capacity increase by over fifty percent.

15th January 2014

Contracts awarded for Kentish Flats extension

15th January 2014

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Dredging International Asia Pacific Pte Ltd (DIAP), in a joint venture with Starhigh Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, has been awarded a design and build contract for 148ha of land reclamation.

15th January 2014

New contract for Jurong Island extension

15th January 2014

MONITORING & CONTROL

MONITORING & CONTROL

Sustainable Expansion of the Applied Coastal and Marine Sectors (SEACAMS) is an ambitious project to support a whole range of coastal and marine related industries.

15th January 2014

SEACAMS is what’s app in Welsh waters

15th January 2014

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Dutch specialist in crew transfer vessel services to the offshore wind industry, Offshore Wind Services (OWS), is the first to order the next generation Damen Twin Axe Fast Crew Supplier 2610.

14th January 2014

Offshore Wind Services chooses Damen

14th January 2014

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

An MJ contributor has come up with the idea for The Pirate Radio Rhythm ‘n’ Blues & Beat Boat Cruise, which will sail from the Port of Tilbury on 6 August 2014…

14th January 2014

Pirate Radio 50th

14th January 2014

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Damen Dredging Equipment has delivered a complete trailing pipe including submersed dredge pump to a Russian pontoon.

14th January 2014

‘Plug and play’ dredging for Russian pontoon

14th January 2014

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

IHC Merwede has been awarded the contract for the design, construction and delivery of a 23,684kW self-propelled cutter suction dredger (CSD) from Royal Boskalis Westminster (Boskalis).

14th January 2014

IHC to build mega-CSD for Boskalis

14th January 2014

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The German windfarm developer and operator wpd has acquired a further partner for the development of the Butendiek offshore windfarm.

13th January 2014

New Butendiek windfarm partner

13th January 2014

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Adler and Allan’s salvage team has helped in the recovery of the luxury motor yacht, Kahu, from the seabed at East Cowes Marina on the Medina Estuary in the UK.

13th January 2014

Environment protected by thoughtful salvage

13th January 2014

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Iskes Towage & Salvage has signed an agreement with VSTEP for the delivery of two NAUTIS Tug and Offshore Supply Vessel (OSV) simulators.

13th January 2014

Simulators for new tug training centre

13th January 2014

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is encouraging people and organisations carrying out navigational dredging in England to prepare for changes affecting the activity from April 2014.

13th January 2014

Licensing changes for dredging in England

13th January 2014

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Fairmount Marine’s tug Fairmount Summit delivered the rig Ocean Valiantsafely to the port of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, following a tow of some 3,000 from offshore Cameroon.

10th January 2014

Fairmount Summit tows rig to Canaries

10th January 2014

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The Costa Concordia salvage mission has been one of the largest and most complex operations of its kind, with around 500 people working together over the past year to bring the cruise…

10th January 2014

Accommodation support for Costa Concordia salvage

10th January 2014

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Danish salvage company J.A. Rederiet salvaged the grounded Swedish trawler Solvag at Skaw last month.

10th January 2014

Salvage success with Swedish trawler

10th January 2014

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is experiencing rapid population growth which is placing ever greater demands on the country’s limited water resources due to increasing needs for crop irrigation, drinking water…

9th January 2014

New CSD to maintain vital depth on Lake Tana

9th January 2014

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Offshore wind transfer vessel operator Seacat Services and South Boats Isle of Wight launched the latest of a series of wind farm service vessels on Monday.

9th January 2014

Fine tune focus delivers fitter ‘Volunteer’

9th January 2014

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Germany’s booming Schiffswerft Diedrich has been busy with ferry ship conversion and modernisation designed to extend operation for old boats after new safety regulations come into force.

9th January 2014

Ferries converted to meet new rules

9th January 2014

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Wärtsilä Corporation acknowledged recent speculation about a potential transaction between Rolls-Royce Plc and Wärtsilä in a statement issued yesterday by the Wärtsilä Board of Directors.

9th January 2014

Wärtsilä confirms approach by Rolls-Royce

9th January 2014

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The French Research Institute for Exploration of the Sea (Ifremer) has acquired a Simrad multibeam echosounder from Kongsberg Maritime to help strengthen its research work in the Mediterranean Sea.

9th January 2014

Multibeam system for Ifremer

9th January 2014