The owner and master of a Dutch fishing vessel which had deliberately adapted its nets in order to catch hundreds of baby fish has been fined £51,000 after they were caught by a Royal Navy patrol ship. HMS Severn’s boarding team made a tactical approach during the early hours of the morning, surpris
Trilateral life-saving exercise Cooperation & Security 2011 will take place on Aug 4 (if bad weather – on Aug 5) in the Gulf of Finland, told press service of Russian FSB, St. Petersburg branch to Central Navy Portal. Border guards of Russia, Finland and Estonia will take part in the exercise. Each
In the short term Russia’s Black Sea Fleet (BSF) will be reinforced with six Project 636 diesel electric submarines and six new frigates, reported Interfax on June 31 referring to Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Vysotsky. As for him, in total the Navy will receive about 40 new warships unde
The first ever floating jetty project on Lake Windermere has been completed by Marine Designs Ltd, part of the A&P Group. Marine Designs Ltd, based in Falmouth, Cornwall, designs and builds heavy-duty pontoon systems, many of which are used in the offshore wind renewable sector. The company designed
The steel support structure for the Gudrun platform is now in place on the North Sea field, completing the first phase of the extensive installation work being carried out there. ”The entire operation has been carried out according to plan and in a secure manner,” reports Anders Opedal, senior vice
Last friday a launching ceremony took place at “Nevsky Shipyard”, LLC The second multipurpose salvage vessel “Spasatel Kavdejkin” (Yard Number 702), capacity 4 MW, project MPSV07 was launched. Design Bureau is “Marine Engineering Bureau-Design-SPb”, JSC. A solemn launching ceremony of the lead multi
The first turbine has been successfully installed and commissioned at the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm, and on 2nd August started producing electricity to the UK grid. “This heralds the start of operations and is an important milestone for Scira Offshore Energy, the owner and operator of the
OceanSaver, the leading provider of class approved high capacity ballast water treatment (BWT) systems, today announced the successful commissioning of its first fully operational system onboard Höegh Autoliners PCTC (Pure Car Truck Carrier), Höegh Trove. “Höegh Trove is the first vessel in the worl
Seven years’ work on the FSS Code was finalised at recently held session of the IMO Sub-Committee on Fire Protection (FP 55) The Sub-Committee on Fire Protection (FP 55) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has finalised a comprehensive revision of the Fire Safety Systems (FSS) Code. The
Prysmian, world leader in the energy and telecommunications cables and systems industry, has been awarded a new major contract worth in excess of € 200 million by the Dutch-German grid operator TenneT for the connection project HelWin2, linking offshore wind farms in the North Sea to mainland German
EECV is investing 20 million Euros in the expansion of the terminal in the Europoort for handling coal. This increases the storage capacity by around 50% and transhipment of coking coal can increase by a third. The expansion should be ready in 2013 and is a reaction to the reduction of coal extracti
Ocean liners are expected to take delivery of 230 new ships, adding 1.5 million TEUs to the world fleet, raising total global capacity… (Exim) [mappress] Source: Exim, August 2, 2011.
The international shipping industry has taken its first steps to increase fuel efficiency and reduce emissions… (sustainablebusiness) [mappress] Source: sustainablebusiness, August 2, 2011
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth around $1 billion from the Dutch-German transmission grid operator TenneT to supply a power link connecting offshore North Sea wind farms to the German mainland grid. This is the largest power transmission order in ABB’s
