AecorLink announces that the company has been granted a new patent on its company's communication platform. The patented technology will further enhance the capacity for shore-ship communication via microwave links. The salient advantage with the patent allows the networks to further improve the capability providing high-speed and stable data connections.

Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. announces that Eni, one of the world’s largest energy companies, has extended its lease of a PB3 PowerBuoy® for an additional 18 months. OPT has also been contracted for an additional scope of work to provide a power and communications solution for an entirely new application in the Adriatic Sea.

Teledyne Marine, an industry leader in subsea visualization technology and unmanned marine vehicles announced that it has released a new unmanned survey vessel – the TELEDYNE Z-BOATTM 1800-T.

Damen Oskarshamnsvarvet in Sweden has won the public tender for a contract to undertake a major life extension program on the survey and research vessel S/V Ocean Surveyor, owned by SGU, Sweden’s national geological survey agency.

The Chamber of Commerce of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, renews its collaboration with the first online Maritime Business School, the International Maritime Business School (IMBS), a school specialized in maritime, port and logistics training that offers the widest training catalog in this field of professional specialization.

MacGregor secures deck machinery and cargo handling solution contract for the US Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter program

Jumbo has been awarded a contract to support DEME Offshore in its scope of work on Ørsted’s Hornsea Two offshore wind farm. Jumbo’s scope of work in the project is the provision of transportation for 165 monopiles from Rostock to Eemshaven and 135 transition pieces from Aalborg to Eemshaven with a K3000 class vessel.

Vroon Offshore Services (VOS) Ltd has secured a three-year contract extension with BP, worth around £30million.

The cover of living organisms – so-called biofouling – is a major problem for any technical equipment that has to remain operational under water for long periods of time.

Alumarine Shipyard has delivered a new hydrographic survey boat that is powered by an innovative dual electric/diesel propulsion system to the Port of La Rochelle.

Ampelmann, the Dutch offshore service provider, has added Guyana as a new market to its global portfolio. In a contract with SBM Offshore, an expert in floating production and mooring systems, the company assisted the hook-up and commissioning of their FPSO.

In response to calls from the scientific community, ports and industrial surveyors, Chartwell Marine, a pioneer in next-generation vessel design, has announced the launch of its Scanwell shallow draft survey vessel providing unparalleled standards of versatility and safety in one and half meter waters.

Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress has once more been chosen to provide the connectivity backbone enabling images captured by the deep ocean research institute, Nekton from the floor of the Indian Ocean to be transmitted to audiences worldwide.

Leading boat-handling systems supplier Vestdavit has announced the acquisition of Tritec Production.

One of the easiest to use and cost-effective ballast water treatment systems has been awarded Type Approval by the United States Coast Guard.

Quality Liquefied Natural Gas Transport (“Q-LNG”) has received United States Coast Guard design basis acceptance and regulatory approvals to move forward with construction on two variants of its current design. The designs, each for a 5,400m3 and 8,000m3Articulated Tug and Barge (“ATB”), are both variants of the 4,000m3 ATB design currently under construction at VT Halter in Pascagoula, Mississippi.