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  • The Netherlands: Developments at SMIT Pension Fund

    28 October 2010
    Business & Finance

    Further to earlier reports concerning the financial position of the SMIT pension fund, Boskalis announces that the board of the SMIT Pension fund Foundation (Stichting Pensioenfonds SMIT) has informed the Board of Directors of SMIT that it intends to reduce the pension entitlements by 13.2% from 1 January 2011 in order to strengthen the fund’s […]

  • Belgium: Deurganck Lock Construction Moves Forward

    5 December 2012

    Hilde Crevits, Flemish minister of Transport & Public Works, has given the official order to begin actual construction of the Deurganck lock. The initial excavation work has been carried out in the past year, but now work has begun on the physical structure of what will be the largest lock in the world. During the […]

  • New contract to bring Solstad PSV a battery-hybrid system

    8 December 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Vessels

    Norwegian shipping company Solstad Offshore has won five-year contracts with Equinor UK for two of its platform supply vessels (PSVs), with one vessel set to be upgraded with a battery-hybrid system and shore power. The contracts were signed for PSVs Normand Naley and Sea Frost and both will run for five years starting from January 2023, […]

  • Indofin Group Acquires Majority Stake in IHC Merwede (The Netherlands)

    1 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Indofin Group, the investment company, owned by the De Bruin family, has acquired a majority shareholding of 62% In IHC Merwede. Rabo Capital (10%) and IHC Merwede management and staff (28%) are the other principal shareholders. Indofin has obtained this significant stake in IHC Merwede by partially taking out each of its coshareholders. Indofin’s Chairman, […]

  • Santos to sell Barossa stake to Jera

    16 April 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Australia’s Santos said Thursday it had signed a letter of intent to sell a 12.5 per cent stake in the Barossa project to Japan’s LNG trading giant JERA. The Barossa gas field in northern Australia is being developed to secure feed gas for the Darwin LNG plant in which JERA already has a 6.1 per […]

  • Oceaneering’s hybrid AUV achieves technology readiness

    31 August 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Innovation, Technology

    Oceaneering’s hybrid AUV/ROV system Freedom has achieved Technology Readiness Level 6 on a 1-9 scale, following an extensive testing and qualification program. Freedom is the result of a long-term collaboration between Oceaneering, TotalEnergies, and Chevron dating back to 2014, with Equinor joining in 2019, as part of efforts to optimize the delivery of a pipeline […]

  • Boskalis 2011-2013 Strategy: Optimize, Reinforce and Expand

    5 April 2011
    Business & Finance

    Structural growth in the markets where Boskalis is active continues to be driven by long-term global economic and geographic trends. For the purpose of our new Business Plan we carried out a global review of the relevant trends and developments in our markets. We also visited dozens of clients and end-users around the world to sound them out about their vision on […]

  • ANL conducts first-ever container shipping biofuel trial in Oceania

    14 April 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Environment, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    ANL, a subsidiary of French container and logistics shipping giant CMA CGM Group, has completed the first biofuel trial on a containerised shipping vessel within Oceania.

  • Up to 800,000 seafarers due for carbon upskilling by mid-2030

    9 November 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Green Marine, Human Capital, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Vessels

    As many as 800,000 seafarers will require additional training by the mid-2030s to enable the shipping industry to transition towards alternative low- and zero-carbon fuels and technologies with the aim of keeping global warming to 1.5C or less by 2050, a DNV study shows. Findings also suggest that a lack of certainty on alternative fuel […]

  • Workers ramp up industrial action at Victoria International Container Terminal in Melbourne

    15 February 2021
    Automation, Human Capital, Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics

    Workers at the Victoria International Container Terminal in Melbourne, Australia, are expanding legally protected industrial action later this week, undertaking a series of stoppages and bans as they fight for a new workplace agreement. The Maritime Union of Australia said the workers have proposed to ensure any containers that contain medicines, medical supplies, or urgent medical equipment […]

  • Port of Rotterdam ups its CO2 emissions reduction game

    3 June 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Transition

    The Dutch Port of Rotterdam Authority aims to accelerate the reduction of its own carbon emissions and eventually become an entirely emission-free port.

  • Lithuanian oil & LNG company entering offshore wind market

    8 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Lithuanian operator of oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, KN (Klaipėdos Nafta AB), has signed a letter of intent with two companies in the Polish Orlen group, Orlen Neptun I and Energa Wytwarzanie, on cooperation in providing operation and maintenance (O&M) services for offshore wind farms in Lihtuania. “The letter of intent sets out […]

  • Ocean DEMO sets up virtual workshop

    26 June 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Research & Development, Technology

    The Ocean DEMO project recently opened its third call for application and will hold a virtual user workshop on 30 June. The workshop will present the application system as well as the available support packages. It will also highlight common themes and challenges that technology developers address during their testing period. Successful applicants will receive […]

  • IWSA: Momentum continues to grow for wind-installed vessels

    13 February 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition, Vessels

    The number of wind-installed vessels is set to double in the next twelve months, according to estimates from the International Windship Association (IWSA). At the moment, the wind-assisted cargo capacity is standing at 1.4 million dwt with 22 large ships installed, 2 wind-ready ships, and a further 5/6 ships being delivered in the coming weeks. […]

  • EPA Proposes Lower Duwamish Waterway Cleanup Plan (USA)

    1 March 2013

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a proposed plan to clean up the Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund Site, the city’s chief industrial waterway located on the south end of Elliott Bay. The release of the sediment cleanup plan marks the beginning of a public comment period. “The Duwamish is Seattle’s river. This plan is the […]

  • Ohio Files Lawsuit Against USACE

    8 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    Ohio has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for their plan to place dredge material from Cleveland Harbor, which includes six miles of the Cuyahoga River, in Lake Erie or not dredge the entire navigation channel unless a non-federal partner pays to place it in confined disposal facilities. This year, as they […]

  • DNV: Hydrogen likely to have limited uptake in deep-sea shipping

    12 September 2022
    Green Marine, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    The adoption of hydrogen as marine fuel for deep sea-going vessels seems to be lagging behind its counterparts such as methanol and ammonia. Hydrogen is an attractive fuel for internal combustion engines and its combustion produces no greenhouse gas emissions. However, hydrogen needs to be compressed (700 bar) or liquified (-253 °C), which requires substantial […]

  • DNV GL: We haven’t seen any serious incidents involving scrubbers

    27 May 2020
    Equipment, Rules & Regulation, Vessels

    Exhaust gas cleaning systems, better known as scrubbers, have been under the spotlight in the shipping industry for a few years now, as owners debated the pros and cons of their installation. One of the most compelling drivers behind the installation of the technology as a means of cutting sulphur emissions was a quick return […]

  • Medmerry Sea Defence Project Nears End (UK)

    26 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Environment Agency has announced that an ambitious project to construct 7km of new sea defences inland from the coast together with a wildlife haven at Medmerry in West Sussex is nearing completion. Construction of this £28 million project is progressing well and the flood defences are now complete. Work is nearing completion to carefully […]

  • Total discusses oilfield investment expansion in Libya

    20 November 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure

    French oil major Total has discussed increasing energy investment in Libya where oil output has surged in the past two months following a truce in the country’s civil war.

  • Petrofac wins ‘major’ FPSO decommissioning gig in Australia

    1 April 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety, Transition, Vessels

    Petrofac has been awarded a Floating Production, Storage and Offtake (FPSO) decommissioning deal by the Australian government.

  • ITF: 600,000 seafarers impacted by crew change crisis

    17 July 2020
    Human Capital

    The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) estimates that there are now approximately 300,000 seafarers trapped working aboard ships due to the crew change crisis caused Covid-19 border and travel restrictions, and an equal number of unemployed seafarers waiting to join them who are ashore. Explaning the figure, the union said there are over 9,500 ships […]

  • Oceanbird tests its wing model in KTH wind tunnel

    21 February 2023
    Collaboration, Green Marine, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Transition, Vessels, Vision

    Oceanbird, a JV backed by Alfa Laval and Wallenius, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology are performing extensive tests on the Oceanbird wing model in the KTH L2000 wind tunnel. The team is testing the aerodynamics of the wings while exposing them to different wind conditions. This series of tests is about finding the best […]

  • PacWave wave energy site wraps HDD phase of construction works

    16 March 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Infrastructure, Technology

    The developers of the PacWave South wave energy test center have completed the horizontal directional drilling (HDD) phase of construction works at a project site located in Oregon.

  • ENGIE and EDPR hear the call of Ocean Winds

    21 July 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Human Capital, Outlook & Strategy

    ENGIE and EDP Renováveis have announced the creation of Ocean Winds (OW), a joint venture equally controlled by both companies in the floating and fixed offshore wind energy sector. Headquartered in Madrid, Spain, the new company will act as the exclusive investment vehicle in offshore wind for both parent companies and is expected to become […]