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  • CorPower Ocean scores funding to advance wave energy tech

    26 January 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology

    CorPower Ocean and OPS Composite Solutions have received close to €500,000 from EEA Grants for a collaborative project looking to boost the performance and slash costs for wave energy technology.

  • DNV Takes Delivery of MacArtney’s LISST

    20 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Det Norske Veritas (DNV) has recently taken delivery of a LISST-Deep laser particle sizer to be applied for oil, gas and mining industry related monitoring. This unique in-situ capable instrument was procured through MacArtney Underwater Technology and marks the first LISST sale by the company in its newly minted role as exclusive representative of Sequoia […]

  • Ireland Hosts Seminar on International Fisheries Protection

    31 May 2011
    Business & Finance

      The Irish Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) facilitated a seminar from the Community Fisheries Control Agency (CFCA) at the National Maritime College of Ireland (NMCI) last week at Ringaskiddy, Co Cork on Monitoring, Control and Enforcement in the North East Atlantic Fisheries area. This was attended by staff of the SFPA and the Irish Naval […]

  • EIA calls for new approach: Throwing carbon prices into the mix to unveil fossil fuel subsidies

    1 March 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Environment, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    The International Energy Agency (IEA) has outlined a new price gap-plus approach that could bring carbon prices and environmental costs into the equation.

  • AMC Enhaces Its UBC-Gavia

    13 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    A $260,000 upgrade to the autonomous underwater vehicle UBC-Gavia has opened up a host of potential research and commercial work for the Australian Maritime College. The research platform now has an inertial navigation system (INS) that was custom-made by manufacturer Teledyne Gavia and commissioned at their Iceland headquarters. The INS uses a computer, motion sensors […]

  • RV Petrel Team Discovers Wreck of USS Wasp

    14 March 2019
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The expedition crew aboard the late Paul G. Allen’s research vessel RV Petrel discovered wreckage from USS Wasp (CV 7), which was sunk in 1942. Wasp, found Jan. 14, was sunk September 15, 1942, by four Japanese torpedoes from the Japanese submarine I-19 while escorting transports carrying the Seventh Marine Regiment to Guadalcanal as reinforcements. […]

  • WWF: More Countries Join Public Movement Away from Coal to Support Renewables

    6 September 2013
    Environment

    The announcement today that five Nordic countries will stand with the US in ending public finance for new coal-fired power plants overseas, except in rare circumstances, is significant and builds on the growing movement away from coal, the most polluting energy source, says WWF. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have joined the US in […]

  • Seadrill positions for future with key executive changes

    27 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill Limited has elected a new CFO and a new COO as well as a new director to its board.

  • Canadian firm reveals itself as buyer of new Havyard platform supplier

    17 June 2019

    Havyard recently shared the PSV sale news without disclosing who the client was.

  • Is North Atlantic the next emission control area for shipping?

    14 November 2024
    Environment, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition, Vision

    Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), Germany’s ‘oldest and largest’ environmental association, is urging the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to establish an emission control area in the North Atlantic.

  • IMO Member States Back HFO Risk Mitigation Measures in Arctic

    7 July 2017

    International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Member States have supported a proposal to identify measures aimed at mitigating the risks posed by the use of heavy fuel oil (HFO) in Arctic waters, and called on the IMO to work towards a swift conclusion of the work. The support was voiced during the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 71) […]

  • HB Grandi’s New Fishing Vessels to Feature Wartsila NOx Reducer

    23 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    The new Wärtsilä NOx Reducer will be fitted to two new fishing vessels under construction at the Celiktrans yard in Turkey. The ships are owned by HB Grandi, one of Iceland’s largest fishing vessel operators. Delivery of the equipment is scheduled for the second and fourth quarter of 2014. The Wärtsilä NOx Reducer (NOR), an […]

  • New tech from two Scandinavian firms to cut wave energy converter cost and mass

    6 February 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Technology, Vision

    Swedish company CorPower Ocean and Norway-based OPS Solutions have developed a pre-tension cylinder (PTC) prototype, marking a step toward reducing the cost and mass of wave energy converters (WECs).  The two companies teamed up through the COMPACT project, combining expertise in wave energy and offshore fabrication. CorPower Ocean said the project focused on developing a […]

  • EU on Track to Meet Climate and Energy Targets for 2020

    9 October 2013
    Authorities & Government

    European Union Member States are showing mixed progress towards three climate and energy targets for 2020, even though the EU as a whole could reduce greenhouse gases emissions by 21% in 2020 with the set of national measures already adopted. These findings come from new European Environment Agency (EEA) assessments. EEA’s report ‘Trends and projections […]

  • EU on Track to Meet Climate and Energy Targets for 2020

    9 October 2013
    Authorities & Government

    European Union Member States are showing mixed progress towards three climate and energy targets for 2020, even though the EU as a whole could reduce greenhouse gases emissions by 21% in 2020 with the set of national measures already adopted. These findings come from new European Environment Agency (EEA) assessments. EEA’s report ‘Trends and projections […]

  • German, US Scientists Study Seawater Along Greenland’s West Coast

    14 August 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    This year Greenland is experiencing one of the warmest summers in its recent history. This heat wave has meant that an international research team is in the unique position of being able to collect important climate data from the changing Arctic. Until today German and US scientists on board the research ship MARIA S. MERIAN […]

  • Scotland’s giant tidal array project pencils in subsea works for next month

    28 November 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    A project, which is described as the world’s largest tidal stream energy development, has put subsea activities on the agenda for December 2025 in Scotland’s Pentland Firth.

  • In focus: Energy transition steadily gaining pace across the globe

    13 August 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy

    The offshore energy sector has this week witnessed the unwavering nature of energy transition which is bound to continue – hopefully at an accelerated pace – as the nature itself steps up its cries for protection by employing the ‘shock and awe’ tactics which set many areas of the world ablaze due to overwhelming heat caused by the climate change – which evidently is progressing at an accelerated rate.

  • Sweden moves to widen dragnet on Russia’s shadow fleet

    2 June 2025
    Authorities & Government, Environment, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety, Vessels

    The Swedish government has decided to draw the net tighter around vessels sailing under international flags as part of its action targeting Russia’s so-called ‘shadow fleet’. As disclosed, the measures, set to enter force from July 1, 2025, tighten control of foreign ships by requiring them to provide insurance information as a way to counter […]

  • The Dutch Moving Most Maritime Cargo in EU

    26 February 2015

    The Netherlands remained the largest maritime freight transport country in Europe in 2013, while Rotterdam, Antwerpen and Hamburg maintained their positions as the three largest ports, according to figures from Eurostat released by the EU Commission. The compilation covers the latest statistical data on freight handling and passenger traffic in ports in the European Union (EU), […]

  • TGS’ multi-client 2D-cubed project set to enhance drilling outcomes offshore India

    24 November 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian energy data and intelligence company TGS has revealed a new multi-client 2D-cubed project off the coast of India’s Andaman region.

  • NASA Kicks Off Phytoplankton Study

    18 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    NASA has embarked on a coordinated ship and aircraft observation campaign off the Atlantic coast of the United States, an effort to advance space-based capabilities for monitoring microscopic plants that form the base of the marine food chain.   Phytoplankton, tiny ocean plants that absorb carbon dioxide and deliver oxygen to Earth’s atmosphere, play a […]

  • Clean Arctic Alliance calls for ‘rapid’ creation of Arctic green shipping corridors

    30 August 2022
    Authorities & Government, Regulation & Policy

    The Clean Arctic Alliance, a global campaign made up of 20 international non-for-profit organisations, has written to the ministers from Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands to propose a number of domestic and international actions which would help to rapidly kick-start the establishment of green shipping corridors in Arctic waters.

  • Queen Mary 2 Celebrates 200th Transatlantic Crossing

    9 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    Cunard Line’s flagship Queen Mary 2 is making her historic 200th Transatlantic Crossing, having sailed from New York on Saturday 6 July en route to her homeport of Southampton, England, arriving 13 July. To mark the beginning of the historic voyage from New York, Queen Mary 2 performed a sail-by of the world’s most iconic […]

  • Lloyd’s Register to class North Star’s two VARD-built methanol-ready CSOVs

    26 October 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Certification & Classification, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Vessels

    Lloyd’s Register (LR), the UK’s classification society, has been awarded a contract to class two methanol-ready commissioning service operations vessels (CSOVs) being built by VARD, a global designer and shipbuilder of specialized vessels, for North Star, the UK’s offshore infrastructure support vessel operator. The classification society will conduct the design appraisal and survey of the […]