Industry News – Page 212

  • A research project in Turkey has come up with a new rational decision making process for evaluating the optimum, environmental friendly locations for new or relocated ship recycling yards.
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    Investment guidance for green recycling yards

    2011-06-25T09:45:00Z

    Increasing thought is going into the optimization of what happens to today’s gleaming newbuilds at the other end of their lifecycle.

  • One of two Local Operative Centres for the new system is located in Galata (Varna).
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    SIGNALIS signs on with surveillance system

    2011-06-24T15:00:00Z

    Bremen based ATLAS ELEKTRONIK has completed the delivery of the coastal surveillance system which was ordered by the Bulgarian Ministry of Finance.

  • The MMO has also launched an online map of British waters which details a wide range of uses that are currently underway and future developments.
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    Interactive marine planning map at MMO

    2011-06-23T16:48:00Z

    The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) in the UK is reminding developers of the need to obtain a licence before carrying out removals from the seabed including benthic grab sampling and vibrocore surveys.

  • Concrete foundations may replace steel monopiles as offshore wind farms move into deeper waters. Photo by Peter Barker
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    Gravitational pull towards concrete foundations

    2011-06-23T16:48:00Z

    With 20 to 25% of an offshore wind farm’s capital expenditure sunk into its foundations, offshore wind foundation costs threaten to explode as offshore wind farms move into deeper waters, further from shore.

  • Lembit was hauled to dry land on special air cushions in one of the most complicated water engineering operations ever to be carried out in Estonia.
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    Historic submarine lifted for new museum

    2011-06-23T10:25:00Z

    Preparations for the opening of North Europe’s biggest new maritime museum are well underway in Estonia with the world’s oldest in the water submarine having been lifted to land.

  • One of the project work packages in which BMT will participate involves research into technologies for low carbon shipping, including innovation in retrofit solutions.
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    Low carbon shipping research underway

    2011-06-23T10:25:00Z

    A new three year research project, ‘Low carbon shipping – a systems approach’, has been launched to help the shipping industry reduce levels of emissions in order to comply with new legislation and mitigate global warming.

  • Rotterdam prepares for World Port Days. Photo by Peter Barker
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    Rotterdam gears up for growth

    2011-06-13T12:49:00Z

    Rotterdam Port Authority (RPA) has given an upbeat assessment of future prospects with the publication of its long term strategy.

  • The Erika sinking is one of many recent incidents emphasising the need for the UK to retain an effective marine emergency response capability.
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    Marine policy warning to UK Government

    2011-06-13T12:48:00Z

    The UK is on a “dangerous course” said Mark Dickinson, general secretary of Nautilus International in a talk at the Houses of Parliament last month.

  • Andrew Jackson partner Andrew Oliver has been appointed Head of Off-Shore Renewables.
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    Specialist renewables law unit at Seawork

    2011-06-10T13:45:00Z

    A Hull UK based law firm whose long involvement with the local maritime industry has evolved to now include services for the offshore wind farm industry is exhibiting at Seawork 2011.

  • Microbiological contamination (MBC) growing on the discharge side of a fuel strainer. Photo courtesy of Eurotank Ltd, supplied by Conidia Bioscience Ltd.
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    New diesel fuel standards discussed at Seawork

    2011-06-09T09:54:00Z

    Changes to the standards for marine diesel fuels have been causing anxiety and some confusion throughout the industry.

  • Russian submariners listen as a NATO rescue vehicle connects with a Russian submarine for the first time ever.
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    Submarine rescue training underway in Spain

    2011-06-09T09:53:00Z

    Submarine rescue specialists and other experts are in Spain last month to prove rescue systems and procedures developed to rescue submariners from worst case scenarios.

  • Cargotec has envisaged the way the port of the future might look in 2060, when mega-ports are artificial islands and containers are organised in underground silos.
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    Vision of ‘Port 2060’ in Antwerp

    2011-06-09T09:53:00Z

    More than 50 years after the start of containerisation, Cargotec has envisaged the way the port of the future might look against a possible backdrop of game-change technology and innovation.

  • Harland & Wolff was the largest shipyard in the world when Titanic was launched exactly 100 years ago on Tuesday.
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    Belfast marks centenary of Titanic launch

    2011-06-02T10:18:00Z

    Belfast marked the 100th anniversary of the launch of one of the city''s most famous creations, RMS Titanic, on 31st May 2011.

  • KD’s two Rhine event vessels are seen side by side in Cologne.
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    Impressive RheinFantasie enters service

    2011-06-02T10:15:00Z

    Big demand for special functions on the Rhine motivated the building of the €10m multi-function event ship RheinFantasie, whose owners have this time plumped for a monohull newbuild instead of a second catamaran.

  • Seaweed may possess a number of properties useful to the life-sciences sector. Photo: A Price
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    Seaweed may become a marine industry

    2011-06-02T09:30:00Z

    Seaweeds and micro-algae have been receiving increasing interest and investment over recent years, and may at some point become one of the UK’s established marine industries.

  • To date, no vessel has been hijacked while carrying armed guards.
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    Piracy and what SAMI is doing about it

    2011-05-18T20:55:00Z

    The numbers of reported maritime security incidents off Somalia and in the Indian Ocean continue to grow, writes Steven Jones of the newly formed Security Association for the Marine Industry (SAMI).

  • Green Port Hull is a £100m redevelopment of Alexandra Dock.
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    Deputy PM backs Green Port Hull

    2011-05-14T11:00:00Z

    Nick Clegg, UK Deputy Prime Minister and Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam, visited Associated British Ports’ (ABP) Port of Hull late last month to see for himself the proposed Green Port Hull site.

  • ACES in place on the full size air chamber test vessel Kraichgau.
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    ACES high with a green trump card

    2011-05-12T11:59:00Z

    Bodewes Binnenvaart bv (part of the Damen Shipyards Group) has pioneered a unique way of meeting increasingly strict environmental standards while simultaneously saving on fuel costs - ACES.

  • The acquisition promises improved integration possibilities of vessels and diving equipment.
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    Hytech acquisition strengthens IHC Merwede

    2011-05-05T10:40:00Z

    Netherlands based specialist vessel builder IHC Merwede acquired vessel equipment supplier Hytech on Tuesday, further securing its position in the offshore market.

  • Thousands of sunken warships, such as this Japanese vessel in the Marshall Islands, have the potential to cause pollution incidents across the globe.
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    Conference on underwater pollution threats

    2011-04-28T12:36:00Z

    An international conference, Wrecks of the World II: Evaluating and Addressing Potential Underwater Threats, will take place on 6 and 7 June in Maryland USA to investigate global pollution concerns.