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  • Huge threat to Scottish mackerel industry from irresponsible Iceland and Faroe quotas

    25 June 2010

    Faroe and Iceland have sparked major uncertainties surrounding management of the key North East Atlantic mackerel fishery, a leading industry group has underlined. In their report to the North East Scotland Fisheries Development Partnership meeting in Aberdeen on Monday, the Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association (SFPA) say the actions of both countries represent a “huge threat” […]

  • Flight Ban Impacts Iceland’s Fishing Industry

    19 April 2010

    The flight ban that was established due to ash fall from the volcanic eruption in south Iceland has caused extensive financial losses to the Icelandic fishing industry. “I estimate that our loss is three to four million króna per day,” said Birgir Kristinsson, managing director of fishing company Nýfiskur in Sandgerdi.

  • Emerald Networks Plans to Install Submarine Cable Between USA and Europe

    2 December 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Emerald Networks, Inc., a subsea cable system owner/operator that provides low latency transatlantic capacity to the wholesale market, announces that the Group is to install, for completion by the Spring of 2013, the highest capacity, low latency, transatlantic submarine cable system in order to meet the ever increasing high density data requirements between the U.S. […]

  • BSEE takes part in Arctic oil pollution prevention task force (Iceland)

    25 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Alaska Region Director Mark Fesmire traveled to Reykjavik, Iceland for a meeting of the Arctic Council’s Task Force for Oil Pollution Prevention on March 18 and 19, 2014. Fesmire, who is the Task Force Co-Chair, is working with other representatives from Arctic Council members to identify how best the […]

  • ‘Short-sighted’ fish quotas under fire

    11 August 2010

    Ministers have condemned the governments of Iceland and the Faroe Islands for ignoring agreed fishing quotas for mackerel. The decisions were described as “short-sighted and selfish,” by Richard Lochhead, the Scottish Fisheries Secretary. The Faroe Islands announced last month that they had set their own quota for the fish, three times higher than that internationally […]

  • Emerald Atlantis Limited and TE SubCom to Lay Trans-Atlantic Cable System (USA)

    22 July 2011
    Business & Finance

    Emerald Atlantis Limited and TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology announced the finalization of an Instruction to Proceed to build the Emerald Express Trans-Atlantic Cable System. The first phase will provide both low-latency and ultra-high bandwidth capacity between the US, Canada, UK and Iceland, requiring 5,200km […]

  • UK fishing industry set for fish price slump

    30 August 2010

    Scottish fishing communities can expect more hardship this autumn when Iceland increases its cod quota and floods the market, pushing down the price of fish, industry leaders have warned. With the fishing industry in the midst of a so-called “mackerel war” that has seen Icelandic fishermen compared to marauding Vikings over foreign fish landings, Scots […]

  • Sea Ice Melting Opens New Options for Shipping in Arctic Ocean

    18 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    Rising temperatures in the Arctic and melting sea ice are revealing new options for shipping in the Arctic Ocean. The littoral states will consequently be adapting the plans for their ports in the near future. In Iceland, the changes focus on a new location in the north-east of the island. Planning experts and engineers from […]

  • Finnafjord Port Plans Take Shape

    11 April 2019
    Business & Finance

    The development activities for the Finnafjord Port Project in the north-east of Iceland are taking shape, bremenports said in its latest release.  The initial idea for this project dates back to the year 2007, when the Icelandic central government, together with the municipalities of Langanesbyggð and Vopnafjarðarhreppur, commissioned EFLA, an Icelandic consultant company, to investigate the […]

  • Emerald Atlantis Limited and TE SubCom to Lay Trans-Atlantic Cable System (USA)

    22 July 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Emerald Atlantis Limited and TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology announced the finalization of an Instruction to Proceed to build the Emerald Express Trans-Atlantic Cable System. The first phase will provide both low-latency and ultra-high bandwidth capacity between the US, Canada, UK and Iceland, requiring 5,200km […]

  • Landsvirkjun teams up with Linde on clean hydrogen and e-fuel projects

    12 April 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Transition, Vision

    Icelandic energy company Landsvirkjun and global industrial gases and engineering company Linde have signed a collaboration agreement that is expected to facilitate energy transition in Iceland through the development of clean hydrogen and e-fuel projects. Landsvirkjun said the partnership will combine Landsvirkjun’s renewable power expertise with Linde’s chemical industry knowledge to accelerate the development of […]

  • Anger at decision by the Faroes to massively increase mackerel quota

    17 March 2011

    Scottish fishermen have expressed their anger at the decision by the Faroe Islands to unilaterally set itself a massively increased quota for mackerel this year of 150,000 tonnes. The move follows the breakdown of talks in Oslo last week in which the Faroes and Iceland refused to accept a compromise deal on catching opportunity from […]

  • Samherji Ups Stake in Eimskip

    12 March 2020
    Business & Finance

    Samherji Holding has expanded its holding in Icelandic shipping company Eimskip.

  • Another Partner Joins Finnafjord Port Project

    25 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    Bremen’s Senate has given the go-ahead for the port management company bremenports to become a member of the development company for the Finnafjord port construction project. The City of Bremen and the Republic of Iceland already agreed some time ago to cooperate closely in the planning and execution of this flagship project. In May 2016, the […]

  • USA: Emerald Networks Names New Board Member

    12 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    Emerald Networks, a new-build network submarine cable system that will connect North America to Europe and Iceland with extraordinary new capacity, announced and welcomed Dr. Gisli Hjalmtysson, CEO of Thule Investments, as the newest member of its Board of Directors. Dr. Hjalmtysson brings with him over 25 years of experience as an innovator, entrepreneur and […]

  • Eimskip, Union Reach Deal on Wages, Strike Called off

    11 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    Icelandic shipping company Eimskip has prevented an industrial action as it reached an agreement on wages for members of the Iceland Seaman’s Union working on the company’s container vessels in liner services to and from Iceland. The wage agreement between the parties was signed on January 10 and is valid until year-end 2020, according to Eimskip. […]

  • AIDA Cruises Adds Bremerhaven to Its Port Calls

    16 July 2019
    Business & Finance

    AIDAcara made a maiden call in Bremerhaven, thereby marking the addition of the port to the company’s program.

  • Cemre Shipyard Splashes Newbuild PSV Polarsyssel

    6 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    Cemre Shipyard launched a new ship built for Norwegian Havyard Group based on the order of Icelandic oil service company Fafnir Offshore on 1 March 2014. The vessel, Polarsyssel,  is a state-of-the-art platform supply vessel (PSV) of Havyard 832L L WE design, specially built for operations under extremely harsh conditions in the North Atlantic. She […]

  • Iceland: Seigla Ehf Hands Over World’s Largest Vacuum Infused Fishing Vessel

    22 December 2011

    The largest vacuum infused fishing vessel in the world, named the S-70 Saga K, has been unveiled in Norway. The vessel, which accounts for the largest new build so far, has been delivered on December 16, 2011 by the boatbuilder Seigla Ehf to Eskøy AS in Tromsø. The S-70 Saga K, 14.98 meters long and […]

  • HS Orka, H2V team up on green hydrogen and methanol project

    9 August 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Icelandic power company HS Orka and UK-based joint venture Hydrogen Ventures Limited (H2V) have revealed plans to develop a production plant for green methanol using green hydrogen to power the marine sector.

  • Missing vessel located off Orkney

    22 September 2007

    A Polish yacht which went missing on its way to Aberdeen carrying seven crew has been found off the Orkney islands. A search was launched for the Syrenka, when it failed to arrive in Aberdeen on Saturday after leaving Iceland.

  • Carnegie Clean Energy locks in €600K contract for CETO wave tech deployment in Spain

    4 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology

    Australia’s wave energy developer Carnegie Clean Energy has secured a contract with the Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BiMEP) to install and test its CETO wave energy technology in Spain. The agreement, signed by Carnegie’s subsidiaries CETO Wave Energy Ireland and Carnegie Technologies Spain, finalises terms for installing, operating, and decommissioning CETO under the EU-backed ACHIEVE […]

  • Eimskip: It was not our decision to send ships to Indian scrapyard

    28 September 2020
    Regulation & Policy, Safety, Vessels

    Iceland-based shipping company Eimskip has denied involvement in the sale of its two former containerships to an unapproved scrapyard in India.

  • Eimskip, Royal Arctic Line Enter Capacity Sharing Deal

    23 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    Iceland’s Eimskip and Greenland-based Royal Arctic Line signed a letter of intent to connect Greenland into Eimskip’s international sailing system through a capacity sharing agreement involving larger vessels. Under the agreement, the companies plan to invest in and operate three approximately 2,000 TEU container vessels which will be designed and built for the special weather conditions […]

  • Subsea cable deal in Iceland enables Chinese firm to widen its grasp over Europe’s energy market

    29 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Hengtong Submarine Power Cable has secured a new submarine power cable project in Iceland.