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  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • CMAL picks builder of seven new electric ferries under fleet modernization plan

    18 March 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Scotland’s state-owned Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL) has officially handpicked the shipbuilder that will construct seven new Loch-class electric ferries envisioned under its “Small Vessel Replacement Program (SVRP)” aimed at slashing emissions and improving connectivity. As disclosed, CMAL has decided to award the contract to Remontowa Shipbuilding, the headquarters of which are in Gdansk, Poland. […]

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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), […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • Stena Line picks Norsepower rotor sails for brand new methanol-ready NewMax ferry

    19 March 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Technology, Vessels

    Swedish ferry company Stena Line has decided to equip its methanol hybrid newbuild roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) vessel with a wind propulsion solution to be provided by Finish cleantech company Norsepower.

  • 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 […]

  • Nine Countries Share Experiences during IMRF European Lifeboat Crew Exchange Programme

    27 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    Rescue volunteers from across nine European nations are to participate next week in a seven day Lifeboat Crew Exchange Programme sharing experiences and knowledge, to improve Maritime Search and Rescue (SAR) responses and help to prevent loss of life in Europe’s waters. The volunteer crews involved, collectively commit thousands of hours of their time every […]

  • Western nations decide to make things harder for Russian ‘shadow’ fleet

    24 December 2024
    Authorities & Government, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Vessels

    Twelve European countries agreed measures targeting Russia’s ‘shadow’ fleet at a recent summit in Tallinn, Estonia.

  • Minesto targets Asian market with Swedish Energy Agency funded program 

    10 March 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology, Vision

    Swedish tidal energy developer Minesto has been selected to participate in the Global Innovation Accelerator (GIA), a program funded by the Swedish Energy Agency and operated with Business Sweden.  According to Minesto, the initiative supports companies with an international market strategy that contribute to a sustainable energy transition. Minesto said that its participation will focus […]

  • EU-backed project to convert bulk carrier to sail on climate-neutral fuels

    1 February 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Green Marine, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology, Transition, Vessels

    A new e-fuels project has kicked off aiming to develop and convert a bulk carrier to run on climate-neutral fuels. Led by Icelandic engineering company Verkís, the European GAMMA project, initiated in January 2024, involves retrofitting a TOPIC Fleet bulk carrier with innovative technologies to demonstrate the feasibility of using e-fuels as an alternative to […]