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  • DIMECC: New Program Paves Way for Remote Pilotage, Safer Fairway Navigation

    1 April 2020
    Business & Finance

    The program provides blueprints for digitalization, service innovation and information flows in maritime transport.

  • USA: Drilling Moratorium to Triger a Loss of More than 8000 Jobs

    21 July 2010

    Louisiana State University Endowed Chair of Banking and nationally-renowned economist Dr. Joseph R. Mason estimates that the first six months of the Obama administration’s moratorium on oil and natural gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico will trigger a loss of more than 8,000 jobs, nearly $500 million in wages, and over $2.1 billion in […]

  • UK: Rising Acid in Oceans is Worsening Industry Toxins

    10 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    Acidification of UK waters may make industrially-contaminated sediments more toxic over time, say scientists. The study looked at crustaceans that feed on the surface of sediments from dredged ports and estuaries. It found that ocean acidification, caused by climate change, causes sediments contaminated with metal to become more toxic. This can result in significant DNA […]

  • DNV GL Wins Environment Protection Award

    14 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    DNV GL won the “Environment Protection Award” at the 2014 Seatrade Asia Awards held on 7 April. “We are honored to have received this award, which reflects the industry’s recognition of DNV GL’s environmental best practices,” said Steen Lund, Regional Manager for DNV GL Maritime South East Asia & Pacific. – DNV GL won the […]

  • Denmark: MAN Order Begins a New Era of Propulsion

    6 December 2012

    MAN Diesel & Turbo has confirmed the first order for its low-speed, dual-fuel ME-GI engine. American shipping company, TOTE, has signed a contract with its compatriot shipyard NASSCO in San Diego for the construction of two new state-of-the-art containerships with an option for three more vessels for primarily domestic services. The vessels will each be […]

  • SCI Report – The Psychological Impact of Piracy on Seafarers (USA)

    4 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    While incidents of piracy decline off the Horn of Africa, an inestimable number of seafarers continue to bear the psychological impact of captivity by pirates. To describe their condition and to advise the maritime industry on how to care for affected individuals, the Seamen’s Church Institute (SCI), in collaboration with New York’s Mount Sinai School […]

  • First Chemical Tanker Featuring Duplex Steels Delivered

    17 November 2014
    Business & Finance

    The world’s first chemical tanker to use a combination of duplex stainless steel and stainless clad steel in the construction of its cargo tanks was successfully delivered to Oita-based Hiro Naviera S.A. on 15 November 2014 by Usuki Shipyard Co., Ltd, ClassNK said. The application of the duplex steels in the vessel’s cargo tanks was […]

  • Report: Highlands and Islands in Marine Potential Spotlight

    11 March 2019
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development

    The Highlands and Islands is said to have an enormous potential in developing the marine economy according to a new study. The ‘Maximising the Marine Economy in the Highlands and Islands’ (MAXiMAR) study focuses on supporting the growth of aquaculture, wave and tidal energy and marine biotechnology which are the most highly innovative sectors. Highlands […]

  • The Netherlands, China to Jointly Develop Large Tidal Power Scheme

    3 October 2012

    In an agreement between China and the Netherlands signed in Beijing on September 27, both countries have agreed on the joint development of an entirely new method to generate energy from the tides. The method, known as Dynamic Tidal Power (DTP), can potentially deliver clean and predictable energy for millions of homes. DTP involves construction […]

  • InfinityWEC ready to materialize in Sweden

    19 March 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Swedish wave energy developer Ocean Harvesting Technologies has completed the system design for a full-scale device named InfinityWEC ahead of planned two-year test and demonstration project.

  • Study Demonstrates Mid-Atlantic’s Offshore Wind Power Capacity (USA)

    29 January 2012
    Research & Development

    Offshore wind farms could generate more than enough energy to meet Maryland’s annual electricity consumption, according to a just-published study by researchers at the University of Delaware. The potential power output is nearly double current energy demands for the state, even when taking into account various limitations on where to place equipment in the Atlantic. […]

  • Eneco Selects Dutch Contractors for New Wind Farm at North Sea

    8 June 2012

    The development of Eneco Luchterduinen Wind Farm (former name: Q10), 23 kilometres off the coast of the municipalities of Noordwijk and Zandvoort, is entering a new phase after completion of the contractor selection process. Van Oord, a leading international contractor specialising in dredging, marine engineering and offshore wind projects, shall be responsible for the foundations […]

  • Horizon 2020 picks Nova Innovation to lead €20M tidal arrays project

    6 July 2017
    Authorities & Government, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    European Union’s Horizon 2020 has selected Nova Innovation to lead the project that aims to increase the commercial viability of tidal power through tidal arrays optimization.

  • Rotterdam gets LNG training facility

    22 September 2014

    The Dutch company Falck Risc, together with the Unified Fire Department, will draw up guidelines and recommendations for emergency response services in dealing with liquefied natural gas (LNG). This study is part of the LNG Masterplan Rhine-Main Danube and will be ready at the end of this year. As coordinator for the Rhine Corridor in […]

  • Vestas Takes 11th Place Among World’s Most Innovative Companies (Denmark)

    20 September 2011
    Research & Development

      Published by Harvard Business Review Press, the book took the authors Clayton Christensen, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen six years to study some of the world’s biggest and most innovative companies to discover which companies were placing innovation at the forefront of success. From this analysis Vestas was ranked 11. The authors said Vestas […]

  • Report: US-China dispute could delay Magnolia LNG start

    16 August 2018

    Edison, an investment research and advisory company, notes that the ongoing trade dispute between the United States and China could potentially delay the start of LNG Limited’s Magnolia LNG project in Louisiana. 

  • Offshore Wind in Northeastern USA Powerful but Unstable

    15 August 2016
    Research & Development

    University of Delaware (UD) researchers, who studied wind conditions at the Cape Wind offshore site, have found that offshore wind in the northeastern United States may be more powerful, yet more unstable than expected.  The findings could have important implications for the future development of offshore wind farms in the U.S., including the assessment of how much […]

  • Westwood: Over a fifth of all European hydrogen projects stalled or cancelled

    18 December 2024
    Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy

    Westwood Global Energy, an energy market research and consultancy firm, has identified 23 projects in the European pipeline that have been classed as cancelled or stalled across 11 major European countries that make up the majority of the hydrogen opportunity.

  • UK: 2012 Another Remarkable Year for EMEC

    25 December 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Demand for access to wave and tidal test sites at the European Marine Energy Centre has never been higher as the pioneering Orkney based facility gears up for its tenth anniversary year. All 14 of EMEC’s test berths – at its Billia Croo and Fall of Warness wave and tidal sites – are now contracted […]

  • Smithsonian Supports Panama’s New MPA Proposal

    12 January 2015
    Research & Development

    Two extensive, unexplored submarine mountain chains are proposed as new open-water marine protected areas by the Republic of Panama based on scientific expertise from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Submarine mountain chains are recognized by the United Nations as conservation priorities. The MPAs would dramatically increase Panama’s total marine protected area from 3.54 percent to […]

  • Court to decide on New Jersey coast seismic survey

    4 July 2014
    Project & Tenders

    The Christie Administration, New Jersey, USA,  is taking legal action to halt a federally approved seismic ocean survey that is scheduled to start this month off the New Jersey coast, and which could adversely impact the state’s vital tourism and fishing industries, and marine life, Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Bob Martin announced yesterday. […]

  • USA: Interior Department Forms Two New Bureaus to Manage Offshore Drilling

    20 January 2011
    Business & Finance

    Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar(right) and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) Director Michael R. Bromwich(left)  announced the structures and responsibilities of two new, independent agencies that will carry out the offshore energy management and enforcement functions once assigned to the former Minerals Management Service (MMS). Salazar and Bromwich also announced […]

  • China: Rongsheng Heavy Wins Order to Construct Two 6600 TEU Container Vessels

    9 August 2011
    Business & Finance

    China Rongsheng Heavy Industries Group HoldingsLimited,announced that it has recently secured orders for 2+2 6600TEU containerships from a major European shipowner. Mr. Chen Qiang, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of China Rongsheng Heavy Industries, said, “This is the third group of shipowners that has ordered 6600TEU containerships from China Rongsheng Heavy Industries within the […]

  • Denmark: Offshore Wind Farms and Fish Live in Harmony

    11 April 2012
    Environment

    The first Danish study into how one of the worlds largest wind farms affects marine life is now completed. It shows that the wind turbines and the fish live quite happily together. Indeed some species of fish have actually increased in number. As work is just beginning on Denmark’s newest and so far largest offshore […]

  • HD KSOE, Kepco win ABS’ AiP for floating nuclear power barge

    4 October 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Certification & Classification, Collaboration, Vessels

    HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE) and KEPCO Engineering and Construction Company (KEPCO E&C) have received approval in principle (AiP) from classification society ABS for a new design of a floating offshore nuclear power barge.