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  • Havyard to Build Iceland’s First Platform Supply Vessel

    21 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    Yesterday at the Fosnavåg Shippingklubb Cod Dinner the Foreign Minister of Iceland, Dr. Össur Skarphéðinsson announced that Fafnir Offshore, an Icelandic oil service company, had contracted HAVYARD GROUP to build and deliver Iceland’s first platform supply vessel. The Foreign Minister stated that Iceland is ready to embrace the opportunities and meet the challenges being brought […]

  • Iceland’s Whale Meat Heading for Northern Sea Route?

    17 June 2015

    A freighter carrying 1,800 tonnes of fin whale meat arrived in Tromso, Norway late last week, non-governmental environmental organization Greenpeace said. Fin whales are an endangered species, listed on CITES Appendix one which forbids all international commercial trade. The ship, known as Winter Bay, is expected to transport the meat originating from Iceland to Japan through the […]

  • Iceland: Energy Authority Sends Exploration Licences Drafts

    5 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    The National Energy Authority has nearly finished processing the applications received in the second licensing round for exploration and production of hydrocarbons on the Icelandic continental shelf.

  • €10M SHINES project to advance tidal energy in North-West Europe

    14 March 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    The SHINES project (Showcasing Hydrokinetic energy Innovations for Northwest European Energy Sovereignty) has launched, bringing together 14 partners from France, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Germany to scale up tidal and river energy deployment. With €10 million in funding, 60% covered by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the project will run from January […]

  • ABB to Supply Subsea High-Voltage Link to Icelandic Island

    28 February 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has received an order worth around $10 million, from Landsnet, the Icelandic transmission system operator, to supply a high-voltage submarine and underground power-cable system that will transport electricity from the mainland to the volcanic island of Heimaey. Heimaey is the only inhabited island of the Vestmannaeyiar archipelago […]

  • Icelandic maritime start-up secures fresh funding

    3 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Technology

    Icelandic maritime start-up Hefring ehf. has successfully closed a financing round led by the New Business Venture Fund with the participation of Innoport and TechNexus.

  • Jan de Nul to Repair Subsea Cable in Iceland

    13 June 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    Jan De Nul Group has been contracted by the Icelandic electrical transmission company Landsnet for an urgent cable repair between Westman Island and the main land of Iceland. The repair is planned to be undertaken in June using the cable installation vessel Isaac Newton, which was mobilized from Canada to Europe, Jan de Nul informed. Full […]

  • BBC ICELAND Helps in Syrian Refugees Rescue Operation

    17 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    The global provider of multipurpose and heavy lift shipping services, German based BBC Chartering reports its vessel BBC ICELAND assisted a rescue operation where more than 300 Syrian refugees were found floating in fishing boats off the Italian-Sicilian coast on September 13. Due to its proximity to the scene, the BBC ICELAND’s master reported the […]

  • GTT Acquires Icelandic Smart Shipping Solutions Provider

    24 February 2020
    Business & Finance

    GTT acquires 100% of the share capital of Marorka, an Iceland-based company specializing in smart shipping.

  • Luxcara taps TKF for Waterkant inter-array cables

    9 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Luxcara has signed an inter-array cable contract with Twentsche Kabelfabriek BV (TKF) for the Waterkant offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Under this contract, TKF will be responsible for the 66 kV inter-array aluminum core cables and accessories, totaling 130 kilometers.  The supply scope includes the engineering, manufacturing, testing, and delivery of the […]

  • Iceland Underwater Robots to Join Russian Navy Fleet

    28 February 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Russian Navy will receive stand-alone unmanned submersibles made in Iceland. Russian defense ministry plans to spend RUR 744.244 mln on eight autonomous unmanned submersibles produced by Teledyne Gavia (Iceland), reports Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspsper. Three underwater robots are expected to join Russian Navy in the current year, other five – in 2013-2014. According to Teledyne Gavia, […]

  • Seabed Constructor Suspected of Illegal Activities Off Iceland

    12 April 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    A subsea support and construction vessel Seabed Constructor was at the weekend called back to port by the Icelandic Coast Guard under suspicion it had engaged in illegal research in the Icelandic exclusive economic zone. The Coast Guard spotted the vessel after it had been stationary for some time ​​about 120 nautical miles southeast of the country claimed […]

  • Iceland: PSW’s solution to enable fossil-free berthing for cruise ships

    11 April 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Faxagardur port area in Reykjavik has hired Norwegian power systems provider PSW Power & Automation to deliver shore power solution for cruise vessels visiting Iceland.

  • Icelandic Competition Authority Okays Eimskip-Royal Arctic Line Cooperation

    18 April 2019
    Business & Finance

    Iceland approves cooperation between Eimskip and Royal Arctic Line.

  • Vessel Allision Causes “Considerable Damage” to Iceland’s Sundahöfn Port

    28 May 2019

    Repairs are estimated to take between six and eight weeks.

  • GTT acquires Icelandic smart ship specialist Marorka

    21 February 2020

    French LNG containment specialist GTT has acquired 100 percent of the share capital of the Icelandic smart shipping specialist Marorka.

  • Iceland’s Plans for World’s Longest Subsea Cable Moving Ahead

    28 March 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Iceland is moving forward with plans to construct what would be the world’s longest undersea electricity cable, albeit at glacial pace… (icis) [mappress] Source: icis, March 28, 2011

  • NEA Announces Second Exploration Licensing Round Offshore Iceland

    4 October 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

      The National Energy Authority of Iceland (NEA), has , announced the second Licensing Round for hydrocarbon exploration and production licences on the Icelandic Continental Shelf. The offer will be open from October 3, 2011 until April 2, 2011. The blocks on offer in the Second Licensing Round are located in the Dreki Area, northeast […]

  • Spectrum Releases Detailed Datasets for Licensing Round Offshore Iceland

    21 October 2011

    Multi-Client seismic specialists, Spectrum, have released details of over 10,000 km of 2D Multi-Client seismic data located over the Dreki/Jan Mayen Ridge (JMR) area offshore the north-eastern coast of Iceland. These datasets are situated within the acreage being offered by the National Energy Authority of Iceland as part of the Second Licensing Round for hydrocarbon […]

  • New project for turning CO2 from smelters into renewable marine fuel launched in Iceland

    4 November 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Collaboration, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    Supported by technology and engineering companies Siemens Energy and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, a new project seeking to capture more than one million tons per year of CO2 that will be used to produce renewable fuel for the maritime industry has been launched in Iceland. The so-called Carbon Iceland project, which officially kicked off in October […]

  • Sea Shepherd Says Endangered Blue Whale Killed in Iceland

    13 July 2018
    Rules & Regulation

    An endangered Blue whale has been killed by an Icelandic whaling company Hvalur hf to be sold for export to Japan.

  • Nexans to start repairing damaged Finland-Estonia subsea link next month

    17 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    Nexans has been tasked to carry out subsea cable repair on the electricity transmission link between Finland and Estonia that was damaged at the end of December 2024, with the activities set to begin in May and the link expected to start operating again in July. To remind, Finnish transmission system operator (TSO) Fingrid reported […]

  • High Air Pollution Levels Found in Iceland’s Reykjavik Port

    30 August 2017
    Business & Finance

    Environmentalists are calling for a ban of heavy fuel oil in arctic shipping after air samples taken in Iceland’s port of Reykjavik showed high concentrations of ultrafine particles (UFPs). Germany’s Nature and Biodiversity Union (NABU), in cooperation with Iceland Nature Conservation Association, found that air pollution levels in the wind direction from arriving or departing vessels […]

  • Reykjavik Iceland Builds World’s Longest Subsea Electric Cable

    9 March 2011
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

      Reykjavik Iceland is considering building the world’s longest sub-sea electric cable to allow it to sell its geothermal and volcanic energy to Europe, the country’s largest energy company said. “This project started last year and the current phase of research should be finished by the end of the year … We will have clearer […]

  • Shipping green hydrogen from Iceland to Rotterdam feasible by 2030

    24 June 2021
    Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics

    A project to produce green hydrogen from renewables in Iceland and export it to the Port of Rotterdam could be technically feasible by 2030, a new study finds.