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  • ProtoAtlantic Selects 10 Developers for Tech Testing

    27 May 2019
    Research & Development

    The ProtoAtlantic project has selected 10 international start-ups to test their maritime technologies at a number of test facilities as part of the Fast Tracked Product Development phase of the project, which is being led by the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), in Orkney. The successful projects have been selected due to the standard of […]

  • Orkney Islands-based firm gets seven-figure boost for new subsea services department

    3 March 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Technology, Vision

    Green Marine UK, founded in 2012 in the Scottish Orkney Islands, has made a seven-figure capital investment in a new subsea services department targeting the offshore wind sector in the UK. The expansion, supported by £218,750 financial backing from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), includes the purchase of Rovtech’s VALOR remotely operated vehicle (ROV), recently […]

  • Swift action needed to bring autonomous inland shipping closer to reality, German insurers say

    10 January 2025
    Infrastructure, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety, Vessels

    From a purely technical perspective, it would be already possible today to allow inland waterway vessels to travel across rivers unmanned and remotely controlled. However, as there are still many legal hurdles standing in the way of the everyday use of such ships, German insurers have called on the government to solve them.

  • New 45-Foot RB-M Boat Joins Long Island Coast Guard (USA)

    23 October 2012

    Coast Guard Station Eaton’s Neck, N.Y., received a new 45-foot Response Boat-Medium (RB-M) rescue boat. The new boat, a 45-foot Response Boat-Medium (RB-M), was issued to replace one of two aging 41-foot utility boats at the station. The RB-M is an aluminum, self-righting, high-speed, multi-mission capable boat, able to respond rapidly to Coast Guard missions, […]

  • Sumitomo and J-Power Systems to Install Submarine Power Cables Between Taiwan and Penghu Islands

    23 December 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Sumitomo Corporation and J-Power Systems Corporation have won a joint contract to install submarine power cables between the main island of Taiwan and the Penghu Islands, located about 60 km west off the southwestern coast of the main island. This is a full turnkey project worth about 32 billion yen and involves the installation of […]

  • Revamped PEWEC wave device shaping up as ‘the clean power solution’ for small Mediterranean islands

    14 January 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology, Transition

    The new and improved version of PEWEC (Pendulum Wave Energy Converter), being developed by Italy’s national agency ENEA and Polytechnic University of Turin, could prove to be an ideal solution for small and medium-sized islands across the Mediterranean as they transition to net-zero future.

  • China: CMHI’s Mazhou Island Yard Delivers Heavy Lift Semi-Submersible Vessel Huahailong

    10 January 2012

    On January 9th 2012, China Merchants Heavy Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. held the Delivery Ceremony of Huahailong 30,000 dwt Semi-submersible Heavy Lift Vessel which is built for Guangzhou Salvage Bureau of the Ministry of Communications on the Mazhou Island yard. Emceed by Mr. Wang Cuijun, the General Manager of China Merchants Industry Holdings Co., Ltd. […]

  • UK: BP Draws Up Contingency Plan to Tackle Oil Spill Off Shetland Islands

    13 October 2011
    Project & Tenders

    BP has drawn up a contingency plan to tackle an oil spill off the coast Shetland Isalnds, which has the potential to be bigger than its … By Ewan Palmer (ibtimes) [mappress] Source: ibtimes, October 13 , 2011;

  • Australia: Gorgon Project Safety Under Fire After Near Sinking off Barrow Island

    10 February 2011

    On Sunday, February 6, the multi-cat vessel Boskalis BKM 102 was working on the Gorgon Project off Barrow Island at 9.30pm when it ran over… [mappress] Source: mua, February 10, 2011

  • Revolution Wind Team Sets Aside USD 4.5 Million for Rhode Island Offshore Wind

    23 April 2019
    Human Capital

    Ørsted US Offshore Wind and Eversource, owners of the Revolution Wind project, have pledged USD 4.5 million to support offshore wind education and supply chain development in Rhode Island. The funding will be invested locally, with USD 3 million dedicated for higher education around offshore wind programs led by the University of Rhode Island (URI), which […]

  • Conservation Groups Say Work on Curtis Island Projects Threatens Great Barrier Reef, Australia

    8 October 2013

    Conservation groups amended an existing lawsuit to challenge U.S. funding for a second fossil fuel production and transport facility located inside Australia’s Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. The U.S. Export-Import Bank has now committed nearly $5 billion in loans to support construction and operation of the two massive liquefied natural gas facilities. Located next […]

  • Deepwater Wind Wants 1GW Offshore Wind Farm off Rhode Island Coast (USA)

    4 January 2011

    Deepwater Wind is proposing a new design for a massive 1000 MG offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island.   (sustainablebusiness) [mappress] Source: sustainablebusiness, January 04, 2011

  • House of Representatives Approves Legislation Requiring Peace Officers on LNG Carriers in Rhode Island Waters

    10 June 2010

    The R.I. House of Representatives approved a bill this week to require any company shipping liquefied natural gas through Rhode Island water… [mappress] Source: jamestownpress, June 10, 2010;

  • Australia: Gorgon Project Safety Under Fire After Near Sinking Off Barrow Island

    10 February 2011

      Unions are up in arms after yet another safety incident on the $43billion dollar Gorgon project, which could well have ended in tragedy. On Sunday, February 6, the multi-cat vessel Boskalis BKM 102 was working on the Gorgon Project off Barrow Island at 9.30pm when it ran over the dredge anchor, ripping open its […]

  • Norway: A/S Norske Shell Gets Go-Ahead for Use of Island Constructor on Draugen Field

    4 October 2010
    Business & Finance

    A/S Norske Shell has received consent for use of the mobile well intervention facility Island Constructor in the Norwegian Sea. The consent applies to workover of the wells A-55H and B-2H on Draugen. The Island Constructor is a well intervention facility operated by Island Offshore Management AS (Island Offshore). The installation received the Petroleum Safety […]

  • Fremantle Highway fire rages on near UNESCO heritage site

    27 July 2023
    Green Marine, Vessels

    A fire that erupted on Tuesday aboard Fremantle Highway, a pure car and truck carrier, continues burning, according to the latest update from the Dutch Coast Guard, which has been responding to the incident ever since. The fire was reported to the coast guard on Tuesday evening, July 25, shortly before midnight, as the car […]

  • Element Power Takes Over Irish Offshore Wind Project

    18 April 2018
    Business & Finance

    Independent renewable energy developer Element Power has entered the offshore wind market by taking over the development of the North Irish Sea Array (NISA) offshore wind site in the Irish Sea from Gaelectric.

  • SmartBay Subsea Observatory Launched

    1 July 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    SmartBay Subsea Observatory offshore Galway, Ireland has started feeding live data from the seabed to businesses, researchers, scientists and policy makers. The SmartBay Subsea Observatory, supported by the Marine Institute, Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland, will be used to collect valuable data from the ocean and will be a critical component of a […]

  • Floating LiDAR needed for Hesselø offshore wind site in Denmark

    6 July 2020
    Project & Tenders

    Danish transmission system operator Energinet has issued a call for tenders for LiDAR measurements at the Hesselø offshore wind project area in Kattegatt, 30 kilometres north of the coast of the island of Seeland (Zealand). The tender call states that a floating LiDAR buoy will be deployed at the project site for twelve months to […]

  • European Commission Invests in Celtic Interconnector

    7 October 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    European Commission has invested €530 million in the Celtic Interconnector, a link between Ireland and the Europe’s energy grid. An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar and Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Richard Bruton have confirmed the investment on Wednesday. The €1 billion Celtic Interconnector will connect Ireland’s electricity network to France via an underwater connection. […]

  • SmartBay’s HSEQ Management System Internationally Accredited

    22 February 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development

    SmartBay Ireland Ltd. has recently achieved international accreditation for its integrated health, safety, environment and quality (HSEQ) management system used at the Galway Bay Marine and Renewable Energy Test Site. The bespoke integrated management system achieved accreditation under OHSAS 18001:2007 Occupational Health and Safety, ISO 14001:2004 Environment and ISO 9001:2008 Quality standard. The system was developed in-house over […]

  • Geophysical surveys starting at Irish 1 GW floating offshore wind project

    29 August 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    A geophysical site survey campaign is set to begin in September at the proposed Inis Ealga Marine Energy Park floating offshore wind project in Ireland. DP Energy Ireland plans to kick off the geophysical surveys on 2 September at the site located off counties Cork and Waterford. The works will be carried out by ILV […]

  • Aqua Comms Boosts Executive Team

    12 May 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Aqua Comms, the operator of Ireland’s first dedicated subsea fibre-optic network interconnecting New York, Dublin and London, has appointed two new members to its executive leadership team. Andy Hudson has been named chief networks officer and Kevin Foley has been named chief financial officer. Hudson, most recently, was the COO of the Bermuda Telephone Company (wholly owned […]

  • Royal Caribbean Mobilizes Ships to Support Hurricane Irma Relief

    11 September 2017

    Cruise line company Royal Carribean International has sent one of its cruise ships to Sint Maarten port, the Caribbean to take evacuees as part of the Hurricane Irma relief efforts, the US Government said. “In coordination with the US and local governments we are dispatching ships to St. Thomas and St. Maarten and stand ready […]

  • Wartsila to Supply Propulsion System for New Danish Ferry

    21 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    Wärtsilä, is to supply the main propulsion generating sets for a new, environmentally sound, double ended ferry. The ship, which is the first gas fuelled ferry for a domestic route in Denmark, will operate between Jutland and the island of Samsø and will carry passengers, cars and trucks. The vessel, designed by the Danish OSK-ShipTech […]