Performance of the propulsion solutions supplied by the technology group Wärtsilä exceeded the design specification and contributed to the success of the sea trials for the world’s largest semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV). The ‘Sleipnir’ was built at Sembcorp Marine’s Tuas Boulevard Yard in Singapore for the Dutch offshore contractor Heerema Offshore Services (HOS). It was delivered from the yard in July.
The technology group Wärtsilä will supply a unique and patent-pending LNG fuel storage and supply system for two new trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHDs). The ships are being built by Keppel Offshore & Marine for Van Oord, the Dutch marine contractor. The order with Wärtsilä was placed in Q2 2019.
Harvey Gulf announces that its two PSV 3250’s arrived without incident in Nigeria on August 12, 2019 and immediately began one-year contracts. CEO Shane Guidry commented, “We want to thank our local partner and our Nigeria employees for working 100 percent within our policies, procedures and most importantly our safety culture. We look forward to growing our business in the region.”
Manholes onboard ships or in industrial or offshore plants are generally only used from time to time.
ALE performed an 18,000t topside load-out and floatover transportation from a yard in Zhuhai, China. The topside will form part of a new offshore platform in the South China Sea to support natural gas development in the region.
CONTROP Precision Technologies Ltd. - a company specializing in the field of Electro-Optics (EO) and InfraRed (IR) Defense and Homeland Security solutions ‒ presents a unique EO suite comprising the TORNADO-ER and the SPEED-ER systems.
Dutch offshore access provider Ampelmann recently completed its latest project in the North Sea, creating yet again a number of milestones for the company – working for Olympic Vessel Holdings, Ampelmann supported an Apache North Sea (a subsidiary of Apache Corporation (NYSE,NASDAQ:APA) project and carried out its first cargo lifts in the Oil & Gas sector.
Two fishermen whose boat caught fire off the coast of Land’s End, UK, successfully evacuated into a Survitec liferaft and from there were taken ashore by Falmouth Coastguard. The pair activated the Survitec Seasava liferaft and abandoned Ocean Harvest, when it caught fire.
Students at the Jiangsu Maritime Institute (JMI) in China are to become the latest beneficiaries of KONGSBERG’s most advanced K-Sim simulator technology, with the recent signing of a contract for a major delivery to the institute’s Navigation Simulation Training Center and Maritime Engineering Simulation Training Center.
Classification Society ClassNK has released its Guidelines for Wind-Assisted Propulsion Systems for Ships.
As the global shipping industry learns that the UK-flagged Stena Impero seized by Iranian forces in July was 'spoofed' and begins to accept the extent to which vessels unprepared for a cyber event can be affected, Itai Sela, CEO of cyber security pioneer Naval Dome, says that original equipment manufacturers are not doing enough to provide end users with the level of protection required to secure critical systems.
A portable analyzer designed for monitoring emissions from ships is now available for sale or rent from Ashtead Technology.
Trelleborg’s marine and infrastructure operation has announced that it is to collaborate with Danish water environment specialist, DHI, enabling marine consultants and port owners to more realistically simulate vessel movements in ports and increase port efficiency.
Safety and survival partner Survitec has introduced a completely new lifejacket designed to provide helicopter transfer passengers with a level of safety, comfort and in-water performance not currently available in the energy aviation sector.
The Brent Field, lying 186km north east of the Shetland Islands, is one of the largest fields in the North Sea, and has three gravity base structures, Bravo, Charlie and Delta, and one steel jacket – Alpha.
Damen Shipyards Group has won an award for the Human Machine Interface that it has been developing over the past two years for its Next Generation Tug Series
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