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  • Maritime Connectivity Platform Consortium Officially Launches

    11 February 2019

    The goal of MCC will be to bring common internet standards to maritime navigation and transportation systems.

  • P&O Ferries Carries One Millionth Freight Unit from Tilbury

    23 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    UK-based pan-European ferry operator P&O Ferries has carried its one millionth freight unit out of the British port of Tilbury, after an increase in volumes of almost 300 per cent since it launched the North Sea route to the UK eight years ago. The ferry company is on course to carry a record 210,000 units of freight […]

  • Ofgem Shortlists Five Interconnector Projects

    17 October 2014
    Authorities & Government, Storage

    Ofgem announced the names of five new interconnector projects that could be built in the future. Together with the ElecLink and Nemo projects that Ofgem has already assessed, these seven projects could lead to investment of up to £6bn and provide up to 7.5GW of additional electricity capacity in GB. Ofgem has decided that all […]

  • Safety Technology Accredited to Deliver GWO Training in Germany

    19 August 2014
    Human Capital

    Leading safety training provider Safety Technology has announced this week that they are now fully accredited to deliver Global Wind Organisation (GWO) Basic Safety Training from the OffTEC training facility in Enge-Sande, Germany. Already offering RenewableUK and Global Wind Organisation (GWO) training from their locations across the UK, Ireland and the USA, Safety Technology has […]

  • Harland and Wolff Appoints New CEO as Cooper Steps Down

    1 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Human Capital

    Chief Executive Officer of Harland and Wolff Group PLC and Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries Limited, Robert J Cooper, retired from the position on 30 April.

  • Crown Estate Taps ABPmer for Marine Data Handling

    18 June 2019
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Marine consultancy ABPmer has been commissioned by The Crown Estate for data handling tasks critical to the effective management of Marine Data Exchange (MDE). MDE supports the marine renewables industry with shared offshore survey data to inform future development projects. Supporting seabed management around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, The Crown Estate awards seabed rights […]

  • Wild Well Control Boosts Subsea Containment Portfolio

    22 August 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Wild Well Control, a Superior Energy Services company, has added a new 10,000 psi-rated capping stack to its WellCONTAINED group of subsea containment equipment. The 10,000 psi-rated (10K) stack is rated to water depths of 10,000 ft, and should play a vital role in supporting quick and effective service for subsea well control events in […]

  • SuperNode, MaREI developing superconductor for offshore renewables

    17 December 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Research & Development

    SuperNode and MaREI have launched a project that revolves around SuperNode’s concept of a single subsea superconductor connection for offshore renewable energy sources. According to MaREI, the technology would facilitate up to ten times faster development of offshore renewable energy projects globally. Through the project, the performance of SuperNode’s Subsea Superconducting Cable System design will […]

  • CSL, Windsor Salt join forces to build eco-friendly self-unloader

    15 February 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Regulation & Policy, Vessels

    Canadian shipping company Canada Steam Ship Lines (CSL) and compatriot salt manufacturer K+S Windsor Salt Ltd. (Windsor Salt) have entered into a strategic partnership to build a new, eco-friendly self-unloading ship.

  • BC Ferries Intends to Buy LNG-Fuelled Vessels

    24 July 2013

    The BC Ferries Commissioner has approved BC Ferries’ application to construct three new intermediate class vessels to replace the 48-year old Queen of Burnaby and the 49- year old Queen of Nanaimo. Both of these vessels are nearing the end of their service lives and are scheduled for retirement in 2016. BC Ferries intends to build two vessels […]

  • Energy XII to buy EPL for $2.3B

    12 March 2014

    As a result of the merger, Energy XXI will become the largest public independent producer on the Gulf of Mexico shelf,

  • EST-Floattech to speed up electrification of shipping with new financial boost

    20 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Dutch energy storage systems provider EST-Floattech has received an investment of €4 million from Energy Transition Fund Rotterdam and existing shareholders to advance the electrification of the shipping industry.

  • NOAA: Warm Temperatures of Ocean Could Lead to Coral Bleaching

    18 February 2015
    Research & Development

    NOAA scientists are warning that warm ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans could set the stage for major coral bleaching events across the globe in 2015. Their warnings follow severe bleaching in 2014, and come with the release of the most recent outlook from NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch, a weekly product that […]

  • Rosneft restores system of meteorological observation in Kara Sea

    28 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Russia’s Rosneft has reported that as part of a large-scale summer Arctic research expedition “Kara-Summer – 2014” a meteorological station was installed on the island of Uedinenie. Thus, the expedition organized by the “Arctic Research and Development Center” (a joint venture of “Rosneft” and ExxonMobil), with the support of the specialists from the FGBI “Arctic […]

  • Greece: Atlantic Bulk Carriers Management Takes Delivery of Its New Bulk Carrier

    6 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    Atlantic Bulk Carriers Management Ltd, a Marshall Islands Company, announced that it has take delivery of new addition in its fleet. The very first delivery for 2012 took place on January 5, 2012. 58,000 DWT Class Bulk Carrier M/V Desert Spring was christened day later during a special ceremony at HMD Shipyard. [mappress] World Maritime News Staff, January 6, 2012; […]

  • Australian Navy Intercepts Boat with Suspected Asylum Seekers

    28 December 2011

      A boat with 116 suspected asylum seekers and two crew members was intercepted north of Christmas Island by Australian Navy. HMAS Maryborough provided assistance to the vessel following a request by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. Michael Keenan, opposition border protection spokesman, stated that this incident proves that Labor government has been avoiding to […]

  • Damaged Endurance set for repairs

    10 April 2009

    The flood-damaged Royal Navy ice patrol ship HMS Endurance has arrived off the coast of Portsmouth after being transported home from the Falklands. Ten passengers were rescued when HMS Endurance lost power as the engine room flooded off Chile in December. Fears had been raised the ship could be scrapped after she was towed to […]

  • Migrants prompt tourism fears

    9 September 2006

    The Canary Islands are at bursting point. Not the beaches and hotels that cater for millions of tourists each year, but the police stations, courts and detention centres being used to house the boatloads of illegal immigrants risking the ocean crossing from west Africa. It has reached the point where some local authorities are publicly […]

  • Cruise ship horror

    29 May 2006

    A cruise ship passenger jumped into the pitch-black ocean off the British Virgin Islands, prompting a futile 12-hour search that bogged down thousands of vacationers yesterday, officials said. The unidentified man went overboard from the Carnival Legend vessel just after 1 a.m. on Saturday, the cruise line said. The liner was about 650 miles offshore […]

  • Welcon to Build 80 Borssele 1+2 Turbine Towers

    26 April 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Siemens Gamesa has selected Denmark’s Welcon to manufacture 80 turbine towers for the Borssele 1+2 offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. The towers are scheduled for delivery from mid-November 2019 to mid-June 2020. This order brings Welcon’s order backlog for turbine towers to more than DKK 1 billion, the largest order backlog in the […]

  • Halcrow Prize for XBEACH Gravel Model

    18 June 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Robert McCall (coastal morphology expert), Pieter van Geer (coastal engineering expert) of Deltares, Gerd Masselink and Timothy Poate of the University of Plymouth will be awarded the Halcrow Prize for their scientific publication about the XBEACH gravel model. The new numerical XBEACH gravel model will help agencies working with gravel beaches to improve coastal safety […]

  • Millar and Spud Gun dominate Whitsunday SC racing

    23 October 2007

    Peter Millar and his exciting speed sailing catamaran Spud Gun continues to dominate the Whitsunday Sailing Club trophy racing on Pioneer Bay. Millar and his long term sailing mate David Chittleborough recently showed their class to win the Hog’s Breath Queensland championship trophy and record their third consecutive win in the Hot FM Great Whitsunday […]

  • Vopak plans strategic joint venture with First Reserve for a 3 million cubic meter terminal in the Bahamas

    12 February 2008

    Vopak has reached agreement in principal with First Reserve Corporation to form a strategic joint venture company for the Freeport oil terminal facility, known as Borco oil terminal, on the Grand Bahama Island (Bahamas). Vopak and First Reserve agreed that the terminal will be operated by Vopak and according to Vopak’s global operating standards and […]

  • Moving Seawolf out of the question, city says

    28 August 2007

    City officials told port managers Monday to strike or alter language in an agreement with the port of Houston that calls for moving Seawolf Park should development of a Pelican Island container terminal warrant it. Port leaders agreed to retool the language, but noted also that the city alone had the authority to decide whether […]

  • Germany’s first offshore wind farm celebrates 10th birthday

    27 April 2020
    Project & Tenders

    Alpha Ventus, the first German offshore wind farm, is marking 10 years of operations. Commissioned on 27 April 2010, Alpha Ventus is Germany’s first and oldest operating offshore wind farm.  The project comprises six Adwen M5000 turbines and six Senvion 5M turbines located 45km north of the island of Borkum in the North Sea. The […]