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  • UK: PD Ports Targets Further Business Growth

    16 December 2011

    PD Ports has recently made two new appointments to help drive business growth. Rob Brewster has been appointed as Development Director Logistics and Andrew Lowdon has joined the Company as Commercial Analyst. These new roles are designed to further emphasise PD Ports’ growth strategy and to continuously reinvigorate the business’ commercial activities and seek new […]

  • RIEGL: Geospatial World Innovation Award (The Netherlands)

    17 May 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    On May 15th, RIEGL won the Geospatial World Award in the category Geospatial Technology Innovation Surveying at the Geospatial World Forum Conference in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, for the RIEGL VQ-820-G. The RIEGL VQ-820-G introduced the world’s first “tightly coupled”, shallow water, land and smart echo waveform LIDAR sensor. The topo-hydrographic scanner demonstrated its innovative ability […]

  • Basque Government grant backs project to optimize O&M in floating wind

    14 February 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology

    The Basque Government has allocated a grant to a project dedicated to developing floating wind operation and maintenance technologies, including underwater image recognition technology for subsea asset integrity. The Integrated solutions for Floating Wind O&M through the development of new technologies (FLOAT&M) is being funded by the Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and Environment of […]

  • AI-driven robot ship Mayflower prepares to sail again

    26 July 2021
    Automation, Infrastructure, IT & Software, Vessels

    Marine research organization ProMare has performed repairs and improvements on the Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS400) that was forced to stop its transatlantic voyage due to “a small mechanical problem.”

  • Kraken joins mooring chain inspection project

    28 May 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Kraken Robotics has come on board the LifeMoor project, an industry collaboration initiative that aims to extend the lifetime of subsea mooring chains.

  • Tulane University Opens ByWater Institute

    16 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    Tulane University has opened the ByWater Institute and a new riverfront campus in downtown New Orleans dedicated to studying and protecting Louisiana’s vital waterways and coast. The Institute will bring scholars from across disciplines together to find innovative solutions to one of the biggest challenges facing Louisiana and vulnerable communities worldwide — how to manage […]

  • New Tool-Kit for Coastal Managers in Australia

    24 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Researchers from Geoscience Australia have developed a new tool-kit that is helping coastal managers to better understand how beaches are impacted by storm events. The Australian coast is dynamic with an ever changing shoreline shaped by the normal action of tides, waves and storms. However, some storms cause significant erosion, causing an ongoing problem for […]

  • EC Officials Visit Dutch Maritime Technology Sector

    20 July 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    A delegation of the European Commission (EC) from DG RTD and DG GROW yesterday visited the Dutch Maritime Technology sector. The sector demonstrated the importance of Research, Development & Innovation for its global competitiveness and underlined the importance of the financial support from the EU H2020 Research & Innovation Program. The visit was a combined […]

  • Clarksons: Greece Owns the World’s Largest Fleet

    12 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    With the latest turn of the tide, Greek owners have placed themselves at the top with 210.1 millon gross tons, representing the world’s largest fleet, according to Clarksons Research. This change is the latest in a recent set of switches in the leadership of ownership of the global orderbook. Although the Japanese now own the world’s […]

  • Carnegie: Australian Science Agency Reports Significance of Wave Energy

    26 July 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited announces a new report from Australia’s national science agency highlighting the significant role that wave energy can play in Australia’s future energy mix. The study, carried out by the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), concluded that the total near shore wave energy between Geraldton and Tasmania […]

  • JAMSTEC’s Chikyu Starts Drilling for JFAST Project (Japan)

    17 May 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The Deep-Sea Scientific Drilling Vessel “Chikyu”, operated by the Japan Agency for Marin-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), is drilling for Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 343 Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST) for two months period starting from 1 April with the purpose of monitoring the frictional heat changes along the plate boundary fault […]

  • NOAA Unveils Its Arctic Action Plan

    24 April 2014

    In keeping with the goals and tenets of the U.S. President Barack Obama’s strategy regarding the Arctic, released earlier this year, NOAA unveiled its Arctic Action Plan—a document that provides NOAA scientists, stakeholders and partners a roadmap to make shared progress in monitoring, understanding, and protecting this vast, valuable, and vulnerable region. Climate change is […]

  • Europe’s Major Ports Opposing Mediterranean Switch

    17 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    Europe’s major port operators have shot down the latest EU proposal to shift investments to peripheral ports in the Mediterranean, saying that the allocation of EUR 12 billion (USD 15.3bn) funds should not be motivated by geopolitics and cohesion policies. European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion (ESPON) proposed an European investment policy to interlink second-tier cities […]

  • Sailors’ Society to Aid Seafarers Affected by Piracy in Africa

    3 July 2015

    Southampton-based seafarer support charity Sailors’ Society has launched a Crisis Response Centre in Durban, South Africa, to support seafarers affected by piracy. Durban-based facility will provide 24-hour response and trauma counselling for survivors of piracy attacks and other disasters at sea throughout South Africa, Ghana, Madagascar, Mozambique and Reunion. The recent Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP) report on the State of […]

  • ASN Sets Higher Standards in Subsea Fiber-Optic Technology

    13 July 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN), the undersea cables subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent, has achieved a breakthrough record of data transmission over a distance of 10,000 kilometers. The record was achieved using a real-time processing prototypes of a 300 gigabits-per-second new modulation technology that will, according to ASN, optimize the performance of submarine cable systems. The trial has […]

  • GBI: Yearly Offshore Drilling Investment in Africa and Middle East to Exceed $17 Bln by 2016

    12 March 2013

    An increase in offshore discoveries is prompting a surge in exploration activity across the Middle East and Africa and driving up the amount spent on drilling, states the latest report form business intelligence firm GBI Research. The company’s latest oil and gas report forecasts offshore drilling expenditure across the region to climb steadily from US$13.56 […]

  • Apache’s executive VP to retire. Replacement named

    25 April 2018
    Business & Finance

    Apache Corporation’s executive vice president of corporate reservoir engineering has decided to retire.

  • ÉireComposites boosts equipment for tidal energy services

    8 December 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    ÉireComposites has secured a little over €250,000 from the Marine Institute of Ireland for the provision of new specialist marine equipment that will enhance its services for tidal energy sector.

  • Cape Sharp Tidal delays second turbine deployment

    2 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Cape Sharp Tidal has delayed the deployment of the second tidal turbine in the Bay of Fundy for the first half of 2018.

  • Scientists investigate Falmouth seas noise pollution

    8 July 2016
    Environment, Research & Development

    A long-term plan for managing noise in shallow parts of the ocean such as Falmouth Bay is needed to protect the environment, scientists from the Universities of Exeter and Bath have said.

  • IEA, UfM join forces for climate action

    18 February 2016
    Environment, Research & Development, Technology

    The International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) setting out the outlines of closer co-operation between the two organisations on projects of mutual interest in the energy field. The two parties share similar goals and have together identified a number of potential areas of co-operation, […]

  • NOAA Buys Two WINDCUBE Lidars

    29 April 2015
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development, Technology

    Renewable NRG Systems has sold two WINDCUBE 200S 3D Scanning Doppler Lidars to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The two machines will be utilized by NOAA’s Chemical Sciences Division for a variety of measurement purposes, starting with the XPIA experiment at the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory (BAO) taking place in April 2015. The XPIA Experiment […]

  • Wave and tidal challenges a chance for subsea supply chain

    24 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    National Subsea Research Initiative (NSRI) has set up a workshop for next month to explore new market opportunities for the subsea supply chain arising from technical challenges in tidal and wave energy industries.

  • Norway: DNV GL Names New Group Chief Technology Officer

    23 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    Lutz Wittenberg has been appointed the new Group Chief Technology Officer at DNV GL. In his new role, Lutz Wittenberg will be responsible for group-wide technology developments and report directly to Group CEO Henrik Madsen. In addition, he has become a member of the DNV GL executive committee. “I am very pleased that Lutz has […]

  • Damen Shipyards Galati Delivers Third PSV to World Wide Supply

    29 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Damen Shipyards Galati has handed over the third Platform Supply Vessel in a series of six to World Wide Supply of Norway. World Pearl is built to Damen’s entirely new PSV 3300 design. The first of the Class PSV 3300, World Diamond, was delivered in July to the Norwegian company. “Delivery of the first PSV […]