Industry News – Page 77

  • The CWind CTV fleet now totals 18
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    ‘CWind Phantom’

    2017-04-10T16:14:00Z

    Last week, at Meridian Quay in Grimsby, UK offshore wind service company CWind officially named its new vessel, the ‘CWind Phantom’.

  • Venice’s cruise passenger terminal has been acquitted in a passenger bridge design lawsuit Photo: VTP
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    VTP acquitted in design plagiarism lawsuit

    2017-04-10T13:50:00Z

    Venezia Terminal Passeggeri (VTP), Venice’s cruise passenger terminal, has been acquitted in a passenger bridge design lawsuit.

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    IUMI reports continued increase in frequency of major vessel casualties

    2017-04-10T10:20:00Z

    Statistics released at the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) Annual Spring meeting in Hamburg have raised a series of issues that will continue to challenge marine underwriters for the foreseeable future.

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    MaRINET call

    2017-04-10T08:38:00Z

    The MaRINET2 project has invited offshore energy technology developers, including wind, wave and tidal energy at system and component level, to apply for research support until 20th May 2017.

  • The potential to bring the tanks back into use has been looked at on a number of occasions over the years
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    New life for underground storage tanks

    2017-04-07T08:24:00Z

    Orkney Islands Council and Scapa Flow Asset Management Limited have signed an agreement providing access to the wartime oil tanks at Lyness, off the North coast of Scotland.

  • Netwave’s latest model VDR, the NW-6000, offers vessel owners and operators advanced features for remote monitoring and optimisation of ship performance
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    Monitoring and safety acquisition

    2017-04-05T12:06:00Z

    French navigation and positioning expert, Orolia has entered into an agreement to acquire the Dutch monitoring and safety specialist, Netwave Systems.

  • Armitt project managed the operational communication, vessel agency and chartering
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    Armitt heavy lift project

    2017-04-04T16:41:00Z

    The Armitt Group has removed two 1050 metric tonne ship un-loaders from the former Tilbury power station located on the Thames in the UK.

  • HRH The Duke of Kent boarding the Falmouth Lifeboat at Falmouth Wharves
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    Cornish visit

    2017-04-04T12:55:00Z

    A visit to Cornwall, UK by HRH The Duke of Kent focused on the county''s marine industries and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, the UK’s volunteer sea rescue charity.

  • Offshore wind installation jack-up vessel 'Wind Lift I' (Photo: GustoMSC)
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    New management for ‘Wind Lift I’

    2017-03-30T10:03:00Z

    Bremen-based shipping company Harren & Partner is proud to become technical manager of ‘Wind Lift I’. Harren & Partner’s Offshore Department headed by Robert Fowler will be responsible for managing the offshore wind installation jack-up vessel starting in April.

  • 'MV Forth Hope' is now ready for duties as a hospital ship
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    Finning chipping in

    2017-03-28T16:43:00Z

    Caterpillar Marine distributor, Finning UK and Ireland has donated parts and engineering expertise to oversee and commission the installation of Cat engines and marine gensets on the ‘MV Forth Hope’; a brand new charity ship that will enable more than two million people in the developing World to receive medical ...

  • Kognifai is is an all-encompassing and open digital ecosystem
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    Kongsberg Kognifai

    2017-03-28T11:50:00Z

    Marine technology company Kongsberg has launched Kognifai, an open and collaborative digital platform that focuses on optimizing data access and analysis for customers across maritime and energy industries, and also provides an integrated development and distribution platform for efficiency enhancing applications.

  • The Switch is well-known for its low voltage drives for the marine industry
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    Growth at The Switch

    2017-03-28T09:41:00Z

    The Switch, a Finnish specialist in advanced drive train technology, has seen a sharp jump in growth over last year. The company increased its net sales by 80% from EUR 40 million to more than EUR 72 million. Moreover, profitability also returned after a few previous years of losses.

  • In 2016, Rolls-Royce invested £1.3 billion on research and development
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    Autonomous systems partnership

    2017-03-27T12:21:00Z

    Rolls-Royce and Tampere University of Technology, Finland, have announced a strategic partnership to develop and test the technology to support systems necessary for autonomous navigation, enabling the first generation of autonomous ships.

  • Customs delays at Dover, for example, could gridlock a large proportion of the UK supply chain
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    Brexit: Hitting home

    2017-03-24T09:46:00Z

    While some maritime businesses may have initially been confused about what Brexit would mean to them, others felt it immediately.

  • The protestors argue that the beaches have become memorials
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    Protestors petition against French windfarm

    2017-03-23T18:21:00Z

    Protestors are up in arms about the plan to construct an offshore windfarm off the coast of Normandy in France which they say will ruin the view from the D-Day landing beaches.

  • Marcel Roelofs: “Although it was a costly business, it was going to be even more costly to get wrong.”
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    Marcel Roelofs: Chevalier Floatels

    2017-03-23T11:05:00Z

    “In the beginning, installing permanent ‘walk-to-work’ access on a vessel was a very expensive gamble,” said Marcel Roelofs, CEO and founder of Chevalier Floatels

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    Maritime Study – A call to action

    2017-03-22T17:02:00Z

    The deadline to take part in a UK maritime growth study has been extended in order to better inform the Government and the industry’s plan to tackle pressing issues such as Brexit.

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    NWA analyses accountability for maritime accidents

    2017-03-14T08:47:00Z

    Existing procedural approaches to safety management and incident analysis may be failing to enable effective handling of risk, and hindering efforts both to establish accountability for, and to learn from, maritime accidents, says the UK’s National Workboat Association.

  • This year’s event will take place on 4-6 April
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    Industry gears up for Ocean Business 2017

    2017-03-13T15:01:00Z

    Ocean Business 2017 is set to take place in Southampton at the National Oceanography Centre from 4 to 6 April.

  • Frank Coles, Transas CEO
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    The perfect storm

    2017-03-10T13:52:00Z

    Frank Coles, CEO of Transas, spoke about the perfect storm of digitalisation and commoditisation which is emerging in the shipping industry which is creating a new world for maritime.