News 2-10 – Page 75
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NewsCornish visit
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.
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NewsNew management for ‘Wind Lift I’
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.
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NewsFinning chipping in
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 ...
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NewsKongsberg Kognifai
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.
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NewsGrowth at The Switch
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.
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NewsAutonomous systems partnership
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.
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NewsBrexit: Hitting home
While some maritime businesses may have initially been confused about what Brexit would mean to them, others felt it immediately.
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NewsProtestors petition against French windfarm
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.
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NewsMarcel Roelofs: Chevalier Floatels
“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
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
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.
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NewsIndustry gears up for Ocean Business 2017
Ocean Business 2017 is set to take place in Southampton at the National Oceanography Centre from 4 to 6 April.
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NewsThe perfect storm
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.
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NewsDEME continues German successes
The GeoSea division of the DEME Group’s offshore marine engineering division and Siemens have concluded an EPCI foundation contract for the Hohe See offshore wind farm.
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NewsElectric cranes for LNG ops
Liebherr is delivering efficient electric cranes to Puerto Rico which will be used to load and discharge containerised cargo aboard Crowley’s two new LNG powered Con-Ro ships.
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European Shipping Week success
European Shipping Week (ESW) saw leaders of the shipping industry and regulators from the European Union discuss issues of mutual concern.
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NewsRace related reshuffle
Netherlands-headquartered commercial marine naval architects C-Job is reorganising its management team to allow Managing Director Job Volwater to move into the position of Commercial Director as Mr Volwater has accepted the position of Team Akzo Nobel Sailing Director for the duration of the upcoming Volvo Ocean Race.
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NewsPeter Robinson: MPI Workboats
“Back in wind’s early days we’d go merrily putting the jackup’s feet down with just a few borehole samples taken here and there to tell us what we were standing on - like a farmer tramping round a cow-field, lucky to avoid the obvious hazards,” said Peter Robinson of MPI.
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EU shipping policy gaps need tackling
EU shipping policy is solid but there are policy gaps which need addressing to sustain further growth, that is according to a new study presented at European Shipping Week.
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NewsOffshore installation vessel for DEME
DEME has ordered a next generation offshore installation vessel which will be built at COSCO in China.
