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Highlights of the Week
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (June 4-10, 2018). Ionada Scrubbing System Onboard Hopper Dredger Lelystad Ionada BV has announced the signing of a Pilot Agreement with Van Oord to conduct trials of Ionada’s Semi-Dry Scrubbing technology onboard
Orkney’s marine supply chain ‘logs in’ to Microsoft
Scottish marine service provider Green Marine has submerged another piece of innovative technology into Orkney’s deeps having recently installed Microsoft’s clean energy-powered datacenter.
More gold for MIDAS with €250K tidal-storage project grant
Dutch province of Zeeland has provided €250,000 from its public fund to support the joint, large-scale, north-west European tidal energy and battery storage project called the MIDAS.
Australian wave hires mWave valve suppliers
Australian wave developer with offices in Wales – Bombora Wave Power – has engaged the services of two contractors for the delivery of valve system for the company’s mWave device.
DSC Dredge and Stichweh Join Forces
DSC Dredge LLC and Stichweh LLC have entered into a manufacturer’s cooperation agreement to promote each other’s products. Stichweh, LLC is a joint venture company formed with Andrew Snoby and Richard Snoby and SMT-Stichweh Maschinen & Service GmbH (Germany). The main product of SMT-Stichweh, which
Marine test facility in France opens for business
The university in French northwestern city of Caen – ESITC – has inaugurated marine test facility equipped with a 40-meter long flume tank.
Scotland opens £20 million low-carbon treasure chest
The Scottish government has called the low-carbon energy project developers to apply for a share of £20 million supplied through the Energy Investment Fund.
Floating Wind JIP Issues Cable Designs Call
The Carbon Trust-led Floating Wind Joint Industry Partnership has issued a call for Expression of Interest (EoI) to participate in a competition to support the development of high-voltage dynamic cable designs for commercial floating wind projects.
Floating Wind JIP Issues Cable Designs Call
The Carbon Trust-led Floating Wind Joint Industry Partnership has issued a call for Expression of Interest (EoI) to participate in a competition to support the development of high-voltage dynamic cable designs for commercial floating wind projects.
Minesto adds ‘commercialization’ duo to its board
Swedish developer Minesto has appointed Javier Sanz, and Jonas Millqvist, as the new member on its board whose focus will be on reinforcing project finance capabilities and commercialization of the company’s tidal energy technology.
Naval Group and Microsoft install marine energy-powered datacenter
French industrial and defense giant Naval Group has collaborated with Microsoft on the second phase of Natick project which resulted in the recent installation of marine renewable energy-powered datacenter off the Orkney Archipelago.
Tocardo strengthens management with finance appointments
Dutch company Tocardo Tidal Power has strengthen its management board with two key hires.
LOC Group names new energy projects development director
International marine and engineering consulting firm LOC has appointed ex-Head of Engineering at BP, Ian Cummins as its new Energy Projects Development Director.
HR Wallingford and University of Salento Join Forces
A collaboration between independent environmental hydraulics consultancy and research organisation, HR Wallingford, and the University of Salento (UniSalento), will see the creation of a hydraulic laboratory on the university’s Ecotekne Campus at Lecce in the South of Italy. A framework agreement, o