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  • Shell Rethinks Project Which Could Harm GBR

    21 January 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Global energy giant Shell’s rethink of a planned fourth LNG plant at Curtis Island makes it the latest organisation to acknowledge projects contributing to the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef are a bad investment, according to the Australian Marine Conservation Society. AMCS Great Barrier Reef campaign director Felicity Wishart said a changing global marketplace […]

  • HD Hyundai arms clinch ‘world’s first’ technology validation for brand-new electric propulsion system

    8 August 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Certification & Classification, Collaboration, Innovation, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Technology, Vessels

    HD Hyundai affiliates, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE) and HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), have secured the ‘world’s first’ New Technology Qualification (NTQ) from classification society American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) for its ‘next-generation’ electric propulsion solution. Per ABS, the solution in question is a breakerless medium-voltage direct current (MVDC) power system […]

  • Product piracy in the European wind business (Denmark)

    20 September 2010
    Business & Finance

    Svendborg Brakes wins Unfair Competition and Copyright Infringement Law Suit concerning the protection of original Svendborg brakes The Bielefeld District Court in Germany ruled in favour of Svendborg Brakes A/S in a copyright infringement and unfair competition law suit filed against a competitor concerning the protection of the original Svendborg brakes. Alleging that the competitor […]

  • Seawork International 2014 Bigger than Ever (UK)

    8 October 2013

    Following its strongest performance to date in its 16-­year history, Seawork International, the commercial marine exhibition and conference, will encompass more stands, more facilities and more opportunities than ever before, when it opens for its three-­day run on Tuesday 10 June, 2014. With year-­on-­year reservations showing positive growth, exhibition organisers Mercator Media, have taken the […]

  • Seawork International 2014 Bigger than Ever

    8 October 2013

    Following its strongest performance to date in its 16-­year history, Seawork International, the commercial marine exhibition and conference, will encompass more stands, more facilities and more opportunities than ever before, when it opens for its three-­day run on Tuesday 10 June, 2014. With year-­on-­year reservations showing positive growth, exhibition organisers Mercator Media, have taken the […]

  • Numbers for Seawork 2014 Increase (UK)

    8 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Following its strongest performance to date in its 16-year history, Seawork International, the commercial marine exhibition and conference, will encompass more stands, more facilities and more opportunities than ever before, when it opens for its three -­ day run on Tuesday 10 June, 2014. With year-on-­year reservations showing positive growth, exhibition organisers Mercator Media, have […]

  • Research Project Unveils Secrets of Changing UK Winters

    24 March 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    A groundbreaking project to observe and analyse regular data about ocean circulation and how it impacts on Britain’s climate has reached a ten-year milestone, giving valuable new insights into how ocean currents can affect global warming. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a major system of currents in the North Atlantic, and monitoring changes […]

  • China: Tianjin Xingang Completes Repair Works on MV “TIAN REN”

    12 September 2012

    Tianjin Xingang Shipbuilding Heavy Industry CO workers have recently reconditioned M/E defects of M/V “TIAN REN”. Each one fastening bolt of 2# cylinder head of M/E (P)（9PC-40L） and 3# cylinder head of M/E (S) were respectively broken, and the Shiprepair Yard got the task on 9th June. In order to ensure M/V “TIAN REN” sailing on […]

  • Norwegian oil output in June drops below expected levels

    12 July 2019

    Norwegian oil production during June 2019 dropped below expected levels due to technical problems and maintenance on some fields, according to Friday’s report by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD).

  • Malaysia: MISC Q1 Net Profit Slips

    18 August 2011

    MISC Berhad (MISC) announced its Group financial results for the first quarter ended 30 June 2011. For the current quarter ended 30 June 2011, the Group recorded an 8.0% reduction in its revenue from RM3,270.5 million in the corresponding quarter to RM3,009.3 million, mainly due to lower revenue from Heavy Engineering and Liner businesses. However, […]

  • UK: Uncertainty Reigns in Newbuilding Sector, Says Braemar Seascope

    29 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    Uncertainty still reigns true in the global shipbuilding sector with many factors influencing either a return to ordering activity or a continuation of the reduction in interest in newbuildings. “The best case scenario for shipbuilders is for ship finance liquidity to return and for a cut in Chinese overcapacity. There needs to be renewed interest […]

  • GDF Suez Awards Austen Field Concept Study Contracts (UK)

    5 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd has awarded a £1.4 million joint study to Xodus Group and Atkins for Concept Select work for the Austen (formerly Jacqui) field in the Central North Sea, with a further option to proceed into the Concept Definition phase. The studies will identify development and export options for the field. Aberdeen-based […]

  • UK: CTruk Bags Order for Five Vessels at Seawork 2012

    25 May 2012

    CTruk Boats, innovative UK shipyard on the east coast, has secured five new orders at Seawork 2012. The company will build the first CVenture40, which offers year-round utilisation for owner-operators, and four 19m multi-purpose catamarans (MPC). Andy White, Chairman of CTruk Boats, said, “These orders establish CTruk Boats as the leading, innovative UK shipyard and […]

  • CGG starts its largest multi-client survey in Norway

    8 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    CGG has started acquiring a large BroadSeisTM/BroadSourceTM 3D multi-client survey in the Northern North Sea offshore Norway. The Horda survey will be the largest broadband multi-client program CGG has acquired in NW Europe as well as the largest multi-client 3D survey ever shot by any company in Norway. Extending from the Horda platform in the […]

  • Italdraghe Delivers New-Build SGT 250 Dredger to Local Town in Italy

    24 May 2011

      Italdraghe has just delivered a new-build SGT 250 cutter suction dredger to the local Town Council of Pollica, in the Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park in Southern Italy. The economy of this beautiful resort is heavily reliant on its seasonal tourist industry, which in turn depends to a large degree upon its […]

  • Circle Oil: New CEO steps in

    29 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    Circle Oil Plc, the international oil and gas exploration, development and production company, has announced the appointment of Mitchell Robert Flegg as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and a director of the company with effect from June 1, 2015. Circle Oil previous Director and CEO, Professor Chris Green, resigned in March 2015. According to the company, Flegg […]

  • Marine Benchmark: Shipping’s CO2 emissions to rise despite efficiency gains

    19 November 2020
    Environment, Infrastructure, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Vessels

    Global CO2 emissions will continue to rise and track fleet growth, a new analysis by Swedish big data firm Marine Benchmark shows.

  • OceanGate Titan Takes Four Crewmen on Record-Breaking Dive

    26 April 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    OceanGate said it has broken yet another deep-sea diving record, by transporting a crew of four on an abyssal descent of nearly 4,000 meters. With only a handful of submersibles in the world that can reach these depths, OceanGate’s Titan is said to be the only submersible capable of carrying five people beyond a depth […]

  • France: Damen Appoints New Managing Director for DSB

    2 July 2012

    As of mid July 2012, Mr Jos Goris will actively take up the post of managing director for Damen Shiprepair Brest (DSB). Mr Goris succeeds Mr André Hollander, who managed the yard (formerly known as Sobrena) from the moment Damen Shipyards Group took over its operations three months ago. He will remain at DSB as […]

  • SME unveils PLAT-I ‘game changer’ for inshore tidal

    7 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) has presented the design of its new floating tidal energy platform, the PLAT-I, which will shortly be making its way out to the Philippines for real-sea deployment.

  • Awilco LNG’s Q1 net loss grows, freight income down

    5 May 2017

    Oslo-based Awilco LNG, the owner of two 156,000-cbm LNG carriers, widened its net loss in the first quarter of this year due to low activity of its vessels and lower spot rates. Awilco LNG’s net loss rose to $10.4 million in the first quarter, as compared to $4.6 million in the same quarter last year and $2.5 […]

  • Charity: Grounded CSCL Jupiter Became a Mini ‘Tourist Attraction’

    23 August 2017

    The ultra large boxship CSCL Jupiter that ran aground in the River Scheldt on August 14 had become a mini ‘tourist attraction’, Fr Jos Vanhoof, Apostleship of the Sea (AoS) port chaplain in Antwerp, Belgium said citing local press reports. Namely, onlookers were reported to have climbed onto the sand bank the bow of the ship was stuck on. […]

  • Wind Powers More than Quarter of UK Homes

    5 January 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment

    RenewableUK has highlighted new official statistics from National Grid which show that record amounts of clean electricity were generated by wind power in 2014. Wind generated enough electricity to supply the needs of more than 6.7 million UK households last year; a 15% increase on the amount generated in 2013 (up from 24.5 terawatt hours to […]

  • Methanol-ready ECOaster vessel design wins DNV’s green light

    5 December 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    A methanol-ready ship concept developed in Oldenburg, Germany, has received Approval in Principle (AIP) from the international classification society DNV. The project is supported by the companies claus rodenberg waldkontor, Fehn Ship Management, Reederei Rörd Braren, and HB Hunte Engineering, which developed the concept for the ECOaster. The AIP was preceded by an intensive approval […]

  • MIT Enterprise Forum Hosts ‘Offshore Wind in New England: Lessons Learned, the Way Forward’ (USA)

    24 May 2011

    On June 1, the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge will present an Innovation Series event: “Offshore Wind in New England: Lessons Learned, the Way Forward,” which will feature an illustrious panel moderated by Ian Bowles, the former Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs. The Northeast coast of the United States is one of the […]