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Ship&Offshore
10.12.2010
Offshore

Improved safety and decision making in the Strait of Gibraltar

For several years the Spanish government has utilized wave buoys near the Ports of Tarifa and Algeciras in the Strait of Gibraltar to provide wave data to local maritime stakeholders. While this data is useful, the relative small size of the buoys…

Ship&Offshore
10.12.2010
Shipbuilding

Delivery of capesize new building vessel

Navios Maritime Holdings Inc., a global, vertically integrated seaborne shipping and logistics company based at Piräus, announced that the Capesize vessel "Navios Luz" of 179,144 dwt was delivered from a South Korean shipyard to Navios Holdings'…

Ship&Offshore
10.12.2010
Shipbuilding

"Arlington" launched

Northrop Grumman Corporation's Shipbuilding sector successfully launched the company's newest amphibious transport dock ship "Arlington".

Ship&Offshore
09.12.2010
Offshore

Offshore transmission tender

The British Office of the Gas and Electricity Markets Ofgem launched the second tender round for high-voltage transmission links worth around £1.9 billion for six offshore wind projects at an Ofgem conference for investors and wind farm developers,…

Ship&Offshore
09.12.2010
Shipbuilding

Design of a 24m catamaran ferry

Incat Crowther announced a contract to design a 24m Catamaran Ferry for Real Journeys, for operation in the wilderness areas of New Zealand’s South Island.

Ship&Offshore
08.12.2010
Shipbuilding

Damen tug acquired

British company Red7Marine has become the owner of Damen’s new Stan Tug 1205, the first in a new ship series, which was only just unveiled to the market.

Ship&Offshore
08.12.2010
Ship Operation

Liberia authorised by new Port State Control inspection regime

Liberia has been confirmed as one of only eleven flag states which to date have met the criteria set by the Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (PSC) to participate in its New Inspection Regime (NIR) for Low Risk Ships.

 

Ship&Offshore
07.12.2010
Offshore

Subsea gas compression contract

Aker Solutions has been awarded the Åsgard subsea compression system contract by Statoil.

 

Ship&Offshore
07.12.2010
Offshore

‘Fibre in bag’ solution

Viking Moorings, a Stavanger based provider of total mooring solutions to the offshore oil and gas industry, today launched its new ‘fibre in bag’ solution - a complete fibre rope storage system which will enable the fibre rope and the buoy in a pre-set mooring application to be stored safely on the seabed until mobilisation (the fibre rope will be stored in a bag).

Ship&Offshore
06.12.2010
Offshore

Training course in multibeam echo sounder technology

A three day ship-based multibeam training course, organized within the Eurofleets programme, and with an instructor from Kongsberg Maritime, will be held in Bergen, Norway on board "R.V. G.O. Sars", from the 25th to the 27th January 2011.