Martens en Van Oord has won the contract for the construction of fifth lock chamber at Brunsbüttel, Germany, including the earthworks, dredging, coastal and bank protection works on the project. The customer, ARGE Neubau 5. Schleusenkammer Brunsbüttel, formed by three BAM operating companies, has fi
Suzlon Group has opened a new Blade Science Center in Vejle, Denmark, focused on developing turbine blades and control systems, and integrating the aerodynamic, loads and new structures research across the company. The blade technologies to be developed at the company’s new center will be applicable
Suzlon Group has opened a new Blade Science Center in Vejle, Denmark, focused on developing turbine blades and control systems, and integrating the aerodynamic, loads and new structures research across the company. The blade technologies to be developed at the company’s new center will be applicable
Open Ocean’s current analysis system Metocean Analytics has included high resolution current data of Nova Scotia’s Bay of Fundy to its catalogue. For the Bay of Fundy, Open Ocean worked directly with Richard Karsten and Thomas Roc from Acadia Tidal Energy Institute who are renowned experts of the oc
Royal IHC and German company DIHAG Holding GmbH have jointly acquired the Belgian steel and iron foundry, Allard-Europe NV. IHC and DIHAG each take an equity stake of 40% and 60% respectively. Through this acquisition, IHC is able to realize a reliable supply chain (competitive on price, quality and
The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment (Rijkswaterstaat Survey department IGA) has selected the Kongsberg Maritime EM 2040C very high resolution, shallow water multibeam system to spearhead its inland waterway survey operations. For starters, the Ministry has in 2015 ordered five EM 20
German researchers gathered around the RepaKorr collaborative project are developing an all-round inspection and repair solution to increase the corrosion resistance of offshore wind farms, according to Fraunhofer, one of the participants in the project. The new solution, which includes the developm
New set of standards for the design and operation of tidal turbines has been published based on the outputs of a project in the Energy Technologies Institute’s (ETI) marine technology programme. The new certification standards will apply to all underwater tidal turbines and will benefit developers,
Microsoft has recently deployed an underwater datacenter that could be powered by harnessing the energy of waves or tides as part of Project Natick. Datacenters are the backbone of cloud computing, and contain groups of networked computers that require a lot of power for all kinds of tasks: storing,
Sea Worker Runs Aground off Denmark, Crew Evacuated Offshore installation vessel Sea Worker ran aground south of Denmark’s Hvide Sande on the night between 26 and 27 January while under tow to Esbjerg, A2SEA said in a statement. Umoe Ventus Sinks After Catching Fire off Langeland The Wave Craft Surf
With the order of the ‘Bonny River’ at Royal IHC, the Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering group DEME is investing in a new generation of trailing suction hopper dredgers which will be trendsetting in coastal protection and dredging hard soils. With this dredger, DEME is responding
WaveEL wave energy buoy has left the Swedish town Falkenburg following the completion of the assembly operation. The buoy has been moved on the barge heading to Eriksberg quayside, Gothenburg, where it will be outfitted with the remaining parts. Waves4Power, the company behind WaveEL buoy, will have
Makai Ocean Engineering has released a new version of its software for planning and simulation of subsea power and telecom cable installations. MakaiPlan Pro 6.0 includes the tools of GIS cable route engineering software MakaiPlan, and allows the user to perform precise 3-D, dynamic simulations of a
JULONG, a Chinese manufacturer of dredging, mining and sand processing equipment, has completed delivery of a new cutter suction dredger to India. The new dredger was named CSD SHARAT and will be put up to the test at its first dredging job in Mumbai. This JL-CSD300 type dredger has a suction pipe d
