Green Marine and Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) announces they have joined forces to provide clients with a range of proven anchoring and mooring solutions for energetic marine environments suitable for a range of applications including offshore floating wind, aquaculture, wave and tidal energy.

VDAB, the Flemish Service for Employment and Vocational Training, has chosen a unique dredging simulator developed by KONGSBERG on its state-of-the-art K-Sim Navigation technology platform.

The Coast Guard Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to the education and welfare of all Coast Guard members and their families, recently recognized Chairman and CEO Tom Crowley Jr. and Crowley Maritime Corporation for more than 30 years of support at its 25th Tribute to the Coast Guard Seventh District event in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The event, originally scheduled for late January but postponed due to the partial government shutdown, was held April 18.

The technology group Wärtsilä’s Aquarius UV Ballast Water Management System (BWMS) has been granted US Coastguard (USCG) Type Approval. With the company’s other BWMS technology, the Wärtsilä Aquarius EC, already Type Approved by USCG, Wärtsilä becomes the first manufacturer able to offer two USCG Type Approved BWMS technologies.

Topaz Energy and Marine, a leading offshore energy logistics company, is partnering with FUELTRAX, a market-leading smart, real-time marine fuel management solution, on advanced fuel tracking and reporting.

In April Damen and Wilson Sons Estaleiros completed the conversion of platform supply vessel Fulmar to a shallow dive support vessel (SDSV). For this, the vessel, owned and operated by Wilson Sons UltraTug Offshore, need an upgrade from DP1 to DP2 Class notation.

Israel Shipyards Ltd. – a leading shipbuilding and repair company for the Naval and HLS markets – unveils its new multi-purpose Offshore Patrol Vessel, OPV-45, at IMDEX ASIA 2019.

Aqueos Corporation, a provider of manned diving and other subsea services in the Gulf of Mexico, West Coast and select International Regions and Otto Candies, LLC a provider of Diving Support Vessels, ROV-IMR equipped vessels, and DP offshore supply vessels on a world-wide basis, have entered into a multi-year agreement for the charter of the DSV Kelly Ann Candies, a USA built multi-role DP-2 Diving Support Vessel.

Survitec’s Novenco Fire Fighting (NFF) X-Flow water mist system will be retrofitted to Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND) 12-Kingston-class maritime coastal defence vessels (MCDV), to address a known firefighting deficiency.

The technology group Wärtsilä has won the contract to supply 40 generating sets for 12 new LNG fueled platform supply vessels (PSV), the first such vessels to be built for a Chinese owner. The multiple benefits of the Wärtsilä 20DF dual-fuel engines were cited as the reason for the contract award over strong competitive bids.

Ørsted, a global leader in offshore wind, and WindServe Marine, LLC, a premier offshore wind support services provider, have entered into a partnership to construct two purpose-built offshore Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs), which will transport personnel for construction, maintenance, and operation from port to offshore wind farms.

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has completed the construction of FibreTrac, the first fiber-rope offshore crane to enter the market. The crane’s full potential is being validated and its capabilities have recently been demonstrated at an event in Kristiansand, Norway.

Boston-based Sea Machines Robotics announces a new partnership with Hike Metal, a world-class manufacturer of workboats based in Ontario, Canada, to integrate Sea Machines’ SM300 autonomous vessel control system aboard commercial vessels tasked with search-and-rescue (SAR) missions. The collaboration will help develop and demonstrate the capabilities of autonomous marine technology for the purposes of increasing the productivity and safety of SAR operations.

Rever Offshore, a leading subsea services provider to the oil and gas industry, continues its success in the North Sea, announcing the deployment of all four of the company’s vessels since the start of April, 2019.

Trelleborg’s offshore operation was recently awarded three major contracts for drilling riser buoyancy and associated riser protection that will be manufactured across two of its facilities in the UK and Brazil.

DNV GL, a technical advisor to the oil and gas industry, has developed a solution that reduces the risk of offshore floating vessel mooring line failure going undetected by replacing physical sensors with a machine learning algorithm that accurately predicts line failure in real time.