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  • More Money for Alabama and Mississippi Coasts Protection Programs

    2 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Government agencies, research institutions, and conservation groups are another step closer to creating a streamlined process for Alabama and Mississippi residents and contractors looking to protect against shoreline erosion without the use of harmful bulkheads and sea walls. The Dauphin Island Sea Lab, University of South Alabama, Weeks Bay Reserve, Alabama Department of Conservation and […]

  • WAMSI: Avoiding or Reducing Dredging During Sensitive Periods

    10 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    The Western Australian Marine Science Institution (WAMSI) has just announced an article named ‘Can Environmental Windows be effective in managing effects of dredging?’.  An examination of whether dredging operations suspended during generic windows of environmental sensitivity could reduce the impacts on marine life has found the marine invertebrates, seagrasses and macroalgae too diverse to be covered […]

  • ASV Growth Continues with USA Campaign

    6 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV) Ltd has announced the company’s plans to break into the North American Unmanned Marine Systems industry.  The move comes as the result of unprecedented success in the European and Asian markets where ASV has established itself as the lead Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) supplier. Equipped with the latest advancements in autonomous […]

  • Kongsberg: Survey Suite for German Universities’ New Survey Vessel

    17 December 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Kongsberg Maritime has been awarded the contract to supply a sophisticated survey suite to a vessel currently under construction and for use by a consortium of German universities. The universities are the first to specify the high-end 0.5º x 1º configuration of the EM 122 multibeam echo sounder system. The contract, an open tender won […]

  • Canada: Nova Scotia Seeks Feedback on Tidal Energy Regulations

    22 August 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The province is asking Nova Scotians for their thoughts on a discussion paper about the approval process for larger-scale tidal devices. This fulfills another commitment of the province’s Marine Renewable Energy Strategy. “The Marine Renewable Energy Strategy outlines how we plan to work together for research, development and regulation to guide tidal development in the […]

  • Destruction of Coral Reefs Increases (Indonesia)

    18 July 2012
    Research & Development

      Overfishing, ocean acidification and pollution are pushing coral reefs into oblivion, an ecologist Roger Bradbury writes in the New York Times Opinion Pages. It is about time to stop turning a blind eye to the fact that the consequences of unbalanced fishing and negligence when it comes to damage-mitigation of pollution frenzy, are about […]

  • Skipsteknisk Makes Breakthrough in the Chinese Offshore Sector

    24 June 2013

    Skipsteknisk was recently awarded the design contracts for 4 newbuildings by China Oilfield Services Limited (COSL) making the breakthrough in the Chinese Offshore market. Skipsteknisk started to work on the Chinese market in 2007 and signed the first contract for design of a large seismic research vessel of ST-327L design with COSL in 2008. The […]

  • Kongsberg Maritime to Supply Survey Suite for German Universities’ New Survey Vessel

    17 December 2012

    Kongsberg Maritime has been awarded the contract to supply a sophisticated survey suite to a vessel currently under construction and for use by a consortium of German universities. The universities are the first to specify the high-end 0.5º x 1º configuration of the EM 122 multibeam echo sounder system. The contract, an open tender won […]

  • UK: Hydro Group Gets Funding for Product Development

    24 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    Aberdeen-based Hydro Group, a designer and manufacturer of underwater cables and connectors for global subsea, topside and onshore applications, has been awarded £1million in financial support from the European Commission’s Research Executive Agency (REA). The company predicts a 20% increase in turnover in the next five years as a result winning this funding. The funding, […]

  • Europe needs to solve problem of toxic gases in cargo

    24 September 2010

    A new platform is trying to find solutions: TGAV. Research suggests that some 10 to 15 percent of all import containers may have too high a concentration of hazardous gases or vapours. This could for example be due to pest control-related fumigation, but increasingly it turns out that the gases and fumes in question were […]

  • ClassNK, USMRC Join Forces

    10 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    The United States Maritime Resource Center (USMRC) in Middletown, Rhode Island and Japan’s classification society ClassNK, have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on joint research and development activities for the maritime industry. The initial joint project will focus on the development of practical LNG bunkering simulation tools to further enhance USMRC’s existing niche portfolio of LNG […]

  • Ramp RFID and Woodside test first LNG Smart Tag

    4 July 2014
    Equipment

    Ramp RFID & Woodside have trialled the first Woodside LNG Smart Tag (or W-Tag). Testing of the W-Tag was a collaboration between Woodside’s Martijn Truijens and RAMP’s Alastair McArthur. The W-Tag is an IECEX certified dual technology, smart tag, suitable for the oil and gas industry. The ability to read and write to the tag […]

  • Robert Allan Makes Major Investment in CFD Resources

    31 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    Robert Allan Ltd. naval architects will soon multiply its CFD computing power by a factor of six with the purchase of a new dedicated High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster. “Needless to say, this represents a major advancement in our processing capability,” says Bart Stockdill who heads the CFD group at Robert Allan Ltd. “To keep […]

  • UK: Caley Upgrades RV Atlantis’ A-frame Handling System

    12 March 2012

    Caley Ocean Systems is upgrading the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s (WHOI) R/V Atlantis research vessel’s A-frame handling system, to handle the new ‘Alvin’ deep submergence vehicle. The Caley A-frame handling system was originally designed and installed in 1983 to launch and recover the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute’s submersible ‘Alvin’ from the RV Atlantis II. It […]

  • DNV GL Names New Chief Technology Officer

    23 January 2014

    Lutz Wittenberg has been appointed the new Group Chief Technology Officer at DNV GL and he 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 accepted this position. He brings […]

  • FORCE goes FAST for fish monitoring

    9 February 2017
    Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE) has deployed a new underwater monitoring platform designed to capture environmental data from the Bay of Fundy, Canada.

  • US wave energy state up for review at California conference

    22 September 2016
    Authorities & Government, Environment, Technology

    The upcoming California Ocean Renewable Energy Conference will provide a forum for sharing information about regulatory frameworks, resources, technologies, and environmental research relating to wave and wind energy technologies off California.

  • Samsung Heavy and DNV GL to develop new LNG carrier design

    2 June 2017

    Classification society DNV GL and South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries signed a joint development project agreement focused on the development of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier designs. The project aims to develop two 30K LNG carrier designs, one with membrane type LNG tanks and one with type-C (pressurized) LNG tanks. The scope of […]

  • UL to Acquire German DEWI

    3 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    UL, a world leader in advancing safety, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire DEWI GmbH, a world leader in wind energy measurement and testing services, from the German state of Lower Saxony. Additionally, UL has agreed to acquire a 50.8 percent stake in DEWI GmbH, an accredited DAP (German accreditation) certifier of onshore […]

  • Wales benefits from marine renewables activities

    9 April 2015
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The study conducted by Marine Energy Pembrokeshire (MEP) states that wave and tidal developers have so far spent GBP 34.5 mln in Wales. The report ‘Marine Energy in Wales: Investment, Jobs, Supply Chain‘ states that the sector has created over 99 person years of employment, rising to 174 person years when Welsh academic research is […]

  • UMass Dartmouth to Measure US Offshore Wind Economics

    12 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The UMass Dartmouth Public Policy Center (PPC) has launched a new project which will monitor the offshore wind industry in the United States and analyze its economic development and workforce implications.

  • Innogy and TenneT Blaze North Sea Offshore Wind Hub Trail

    13 June 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Storage, Technology

    International energy company innogy and Dutch transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT have signed a Letter of Intent to jointly investigate the opportunities and challenges of offshore wind cross-border interconnectors across a North Sea Wind Power Hub system. Sea.

  • Study: No Master Key for Offshore Wind O&M

    13 July 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Although Europe has experience and knowledge in O&M of offshore wind farms, the O&M strategies employed in Europe cannot be copied one-on-one in the U.S. or Asia, a recent study carried out by the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) shows.

  • Two companies join Aquarius Innovation Forum

    16 August 2023
    Automation, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Green Marine, Innovation, IT & Software, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology, Vessels

    Japanese companies NittoSeiko and Sunflame have joined the Aquarius Innovation Forum, a dynamic and collaborative platform that emerged from Eco Marine Power’s research project collaboration initiatives. Eco Marine Power, an internationally focused technology company based in Fukuoka, Japan, develops renewable energy-based fuel-saving and emission-reduction solutions for ships. The company is developing various solutions to help […]

  • Wavepiston and university partners get €2M grant for wave energy project

    30 June 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Technology

    Danish company Wavepiston and its two university partners have secured a government grant of over €2 million for a wave energy research project.