Industry News – Page 138
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NewsFratelli Neri orders first Damen ASD 3212 Tug
Italian tug owner, Fratelli Neri S.p.A, has ordered its first Damen tug, an ASD 3212, the first ASD tug in the Mediterranean region equipped with a Damen Render Recovery Escort winch.
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NewsDolWin1 offshore wind energy link hand over
Leading power and automation group, ABB, has successfully commissioned and handed over the DolWin1 offshore wind grid connection to the Dutch-German transmission system operator, TenneT.
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NewsValmet and SeaKing join forces
Finnish oil technology company Valmet is joining forces with SeaKing Electrical – a move that will bring the company’s automation services overseas.
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NewsRNLI lifeboat centre due to open
The UK''s RNLI will open its All-weather Lifeboat Centre (ALC) on Friday 21 August to take over production, maintenance and refit of the charity’s all-weather lifeboat fleet in-house for the first time in the charity’s 191-year history.
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NewsUSA set for first windfarm
Construction of the USA’s first windfarm has begun, seven years after Rhode Island-based Deepwater Wind’s first proposal for the 30MW Block Island pilot windfarm.
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Monopile anticorrosion
Netherlands-based construction and engineering company Ballast Nedam is using CWind, a leading provider of integrated services to the wind industry, to provide corrosion protection services to its Butendiek Offshore Wind Farm monopiles.
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NewsChris Feibusch: Drew Marine Signal & Safety
When Chris Feibusch of Drew Marine Signal & Safety moved across from his largely leisure marine background in 2010, he found himself in a world that matched time-sensitive logistics with the demands of Class 1 explosives.
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NewsFirst of ten for Dutch yard
In 2013 Esnaad awarded Shipyard De Hoop with an order for ten state-of-the-art Platform Supply Vessels. Despite the vigorous international competition, Dutch designer and builder of custom-built vessels; De Hoop, won the contract.
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EIVA looks east
Danish marine survey hardware and software specialist EIVA has opened a Singapore office as a result of increasing activities in the Asia-Pacific region, thereby offering customers and partners a local point of contact.
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European navcomms acquisition
Australia''s SpeedCast International Limited, global satellite telecommunications expert, has signed an agreement to acquire SAIT Communications, a fast-growing European maritime communications service provider.
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NewsJan De Nul progresses with Egypt dredging
Jan De Nul is making progress with its dredging work on the New Suez Canal Project in Egypt, with a total of 200,000,000m³ of soil dredged so far.
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Manuplas doubles manufacturing capacity
Since the acquisition of Plymouth, UK-based Manuplas by Advanced Insulation in April 2014, the company claims it has seen significant growth in demand for its products and as a result has made the decision to purchase a neighbouring facility.
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NewsDeepOcean nets Belgian offshore contract
DeepOcean 1 UK Ltd, a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV, has won an inter array cable installation contract for the Blight Bank Phase II offshore windfarm in Belgium.
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Shipping industry migrant guidelines
The global shipping industry has updated its Guidelines on Large Scale Rescue Operations at Sea in response to the continuing crisis in the Mediterranean.
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Euro Innovation Fund
A new European Innovation Fund provided for in a reformed Emissions Trading Scheme must take into account the specific finance needs of the emerging technologies for which it was created, says Europe’s ocean energy industry.
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NewsHybrid and electric partnership
German headquartered MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of large diesel engines and complete propulsion systems has formed a close development partnership with Akasol GmbH.
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Dredging expert appointment
The UK’s MDL Marina Consultancy, a division of MDL Marinas, has appointed a new assistant project manager in charge of all matters relating to dredging, dredge licensing and general marine licensing.
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NewsA decade of X-BOW
In 2005, Bourbon became the first offshore operator to adopt an inverted bow vessel, the ‘Bourbon Orca’.
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NewsWärtsilä dredger contract
Wärtsilä has signed a contract with the Tianjin Dredging Company, part of the China Communication Construction Company (CCCC), to supply engines and essential ancillaries for a new self-propelled cutter dredger.
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NewsFinnish workboats stay popular with Germans
A punchy new Finnish-built patrol and supervision launch which is twice as fast as its 20 year old predecessor has gone into service with fisheries authorities on the German Baltic.
