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  • UK: Highland Ports Prepare to Attract GBP 100 Million Investments with HIE’s Support

    29 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has signed joint working agreements with four of the region’s leading ports to support the development of the offshore wind sector. The partnership aims to help the Ports attract a potential £100m of investment to the Highlands. The First Minister Alex Salmond, announced the Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) in his […]

  • LIPA Puts Deepwater One Decision On Hold

    21 July 2016

    The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) has postponed the meeting on Deepwater Wind’s 90MW Deepwater ONE – South Fork project, after receiving a request by its partner agency NYSERDA (New York State Energy and Research Development Authority) to do so. At the meeting, which was scheduled for 20 July, LIPA was expected to approve the 90MW wind […]

  • Norfolk Dredging Scores Another Deal

    26 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Norfolk Dredging Co., Chesapeake, Virginia, has won an $11.8 million firm-fixed-price contract for maintenance dredging of the inland waterway Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay. Work will be performed in Maryland with an estimated completion date of Feb. 10, 2015. According to the defense.gov, this was a competitive acquisition, and three offers were received. The U.S. […]

  • Launch of 29-metre ‘Freedom Monarch’

    9 April 2010

    Incat Crowther, Australia, has launched its latest vessel, a 29-metre ferry, ‘Freedom Monarch’. Built by Aluminium Marine/Reefmaster Boats, ‘Freedom Monarch’ will be operated out of Rosslyn Bay in Queensland, Australia, by Freedom Fast Cats, servicing the Keppel Islands. ‘Freedom Monarch’ is a low fuel consumption, a reliable and robust craft providing high passenger comfort and […]

  • Car ferry overturned in Japan, at least 1 dead–report

    18 September 2006

    Strong winds brought by typhoon Shanshan overturned a car ferry in southwestern Japan, leaving at least one person dead as the storm battered the region, a news report said Monday. The automobile ferry, which was being tugged by a cargo ship for delivery to the Maldive Islands, overturned Sunday evening in waters near the southewestern […]

  • Marienborg Declarations: Independence from Russian fossil fuels drives new offshore wind, LNG plans in the Baltics

    31 August 2022

    Eight Baltic Sea countries that yesterday agreed to build sevenfold the offshore wind capacity currently installed in the Baltic Sea by 2030 have outlined their joint path to minimising the reliance on Russian fossil fuels. Along with the offshore wind buildout, the leaders of the eight countries will also cooperate on grid interconnections and LNG […]

  • Scotland – World Leader in Offshore Renewables Development

    23 May 2012

    Scotland is leading the world in the development of offshore renewables – according to two senior figures from development agency Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). HIE Chief Executive, Alex Paterson and Director of Energy and Low Carbon, Calum Davidson are both presenting at the All-Energy exhibition and conference in Aberdeen tomorrow [Thursday 24 May]. Mr […]

  • VIDEO: Armada Intrepid Loaded onto Dockwise Vanguard

    11 May 2015

    The following video shows loading of the first ship-shaped Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) – the Armada Intrepid – onto Dockwise Vanguard. The loading took place on Friday, May 8th, at the Caland canal, Port of Rotterdam. Dockwise Vanguard is currently the largest semi-submersible heavy transport vessel in the world. Read our article about […]

  • U.K. North Sea: Total announces the Launch of the Development of the Jura Field

    27 March 2007

    Total announces that development of the Jura gas and condensate field has been launched, just four months after it was discovered. The Jura discovery represents more than 170 million barrels of oil equivalent of proved and probable reserves and is located in the Alwyn Area (100% owned and operated by Total) in the UK sector […]

  • Dutch cargo shipping affected as canal freezes

    8 January 2010

    The Dutch Transport Ministry has ordered an icebreaker to clear the Twente shipping canal between the cities of Zutphen and Enschede. The harbours of Almelo and Enschede, both frequently used by local industries, also need to be freed of ice. The canal is gradually freezing over as the severe winter weather continues to hold the […]

  • Minesto: Functionality of Dragon 12 megawatt-scale tidal energy kite verified

    22 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Technology, Transition, Vision

    Minesto’s 1.2 MW Dragon 12 tidal powerplant has delivered as expected during its first phase of operation at its grid-connected monopile seabed foundation in Vestmannasund, Faroe Islands, the Swedish company reported. The 25-ton Dragon 12 tidal energy kite was commissioned in the early morning of February 9, delivering the first electricity to the national grid in the […]

  • Minesto grows half-year loss

    19 August 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Technology

    Swedish marine energy company Minesto has recorded a wider net loss for the first six months of 2022, as opposed to the same period a year earlier.

  • Prysmian Secures Two Contracts for New Submarine Link in UK Channel

    20 February 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded two new contracts worth in total approximately €45 million by Jersey Electricity plc (UK), for the “Normandie 3” project to provide electricity to Jersey in the Channel Islands from the French mainland. This is the third such interconnector to be […]

  • Norway: Statoil Increases Recovery Through Light Well Intervention

    15 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    Statoil is cutting the costs of increased recovery from fields in operation by hiring in light well intervention vessels. As of December Statoil has three light well intervention vessels in operation. Statoil awarded Island Offshore a framework agreement earlier this year for light well intervention (LWI) services from their Island Constructor vessel. The new vessel […]

  • Minesto widens first quarter loss

    22 April 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Swedish marine energy developer Minesto has recorded an increase in net loss for the first quarter of 2021, when compared to the financial results for the same period posted a year before.

  • Washington Trust Finances Quonset Dredging Project (USA)

    1 November 2012
    Business & Finance

    Washington Trust’s Commercial & Industrial Lending Group has provided $7.5 million in both short- term and permanent financing to Quonset Development Corporation of North Kingstown, RI for a dredging project to increase the channel depth and expand shipping capabilities at the Port of Davisville in Quonset Business Park. Approximately 260,000 cubic yards of sediment will […]

  • Plan Revealed for Port of the Americas

    17 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Puerto Rico Government is looking for a major international port operator to partner with on the development of the Port of the Americas, located in Ponce, on the southern coast of the island. The Port of the Americas site sits on over 300 acres, located just 5 miles from Mercedita Airport, representing a tremendous opportunity for […]

  • Brownsville Channel Dredging Delayed (USA)

    19 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, announced yesterday it will solicit a rapid response maintenance dredging contract, with the bid opening the week of March 3, to address critical shoaling and perform maintenance dredging within the Brazos Island Harbor (Brownsville Harbor) jetty channel. Unexpected shoaling (sandy elevation of the bottom of a body […]

  • USA: Senator Applauds Hiring at Davisville Port

    14 September 2012

    Sen. William A. Walaska yesterday offered his congratulations and compliments on the hiring by the Quonset Development Corporation of a Rhode Island firm to run the new container operation at the Port of Davisville. The QDC announced the hiring of R.I. Port Services to handle the planned expansion of short-sea shipping at the port. Under […]

  • Energy minister: Kashagan to start production later this year

    8 June 2016
    Business & Finance

    Kazakhstan’s troubled oil field Kashagan is expected to start production in late 2016, the country’s energy minister Kanat Bozumbayev said. According to the info shared by the energy ministry earlier this week, Bozumbayev said Kashagan is expected to produce 35.000 tons in December. To remind, Kashagan,named after a 19th century Kazakh poet from Mangistau, had […]

  • MAST: Maritime Industry Faced with Myriad of Security Threats

    22 March 2016

    Conflicts and tensions in the Middle East, Far East and North and sub-Saharan Africa pose a real threat to the maritime environment and some of the world’s most important shipping lanes, maritime security company MAST warns. “Concern over the decision to reduce the High Risk Area (HRA) in the western Indian Ocean, conflicts in Yemen […]

  • Offshore Companies Order Unitor XFlow from Wilhelmsen Technical Solutions

    9 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    Wilhelmsen Technical Solutions has been awarded contracts to supply its patented Unitor XFlow ® low pressure water mist fire fighting systems on newbuildings under construction for two leading Norwegian shipowners. Ulsteinvik-based Island Offshore has specified Unitor XFlow ® for two vessels under construction by Vard at its Brevik facility. The scope of the contract includes […]

  • APM Terminals Hosts Indian Shipping Minister

    30 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    APM Terminals hosted Indian Shipping Minister Milind Murli Deora while he was in The Netherlands July 23rd on an official government visit. The Minister and a delegation including the Shipping Ministry Joint Secretary Shri N. Muruganandam, India’s Deputy Chief of Mission to the Netherlands R.K. Singh, and Chairman and Managing Director of the Shipping Corporation […]

  • SSEN Completes Bute-Cumbrae Subsea Cable Replacement

    15 August 2019
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has completed project to replace one of the two electricity subsea cables connecting Bute and Cumbrae, with new additional fault detection technology set to be installed in the coming months. Cumbrae receives its power from the mainland by two subsea cables, one of which was approaching the end of […]

  • NOAA Releases Updated Cobscook Bay Area Chart

    4 September 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Northern Maine fishing vessels will be able to navigate more safely around the dangerous Cobscook Bay thanks to an updated version of the area’s nautical chart issued by NOAA. The latest chart includes a new detailed illustration — called a “chart inset” — of the waters around Falls Island, providing safer passage for mariners who […]