SPT Offshore has installed the first suction pile jacket foundation at the 300 MW CTGNE Yangxi Shaba Phase I offshore wind farm in China. Earlier this year, Guangzhou Salvage Bureau appointed SPT Offshore to perform the suction installation services for what is the first such foundation in the South Chinese Sea. The Netherlands-based company said …
DTU Wind Energy has issued a tender for the lease of test stands at the Høvsøre test center for large wind turbines. The deadline for submitting applications is 30 September by 16:00 local Danish time. In June 2018, the Danish Parliament (Folketinget) approved the expansion of the Høvsøre and Østerild test centers by two stands each. Now, Høvsøre comprises a total …
Coda Octopus Group and NAVSEA 00C3 have restarted the GEN 1.0 Diver Augmented Vision Display (DAVD) system roll-out program to the U.S. Navy fleet. The first Navy Team to complete field training and receive delivery of a DAVD GEN 1.0 system is the NAVSEA Southeast Regional Maintenance Center (SERMC) Dive Locker, in Mayport, Florida. This …
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Dutch Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) has installed the Yaxche-C jacket and topside for oil company Pemex offshore Mexico. Heerema said on Friday that the Yaxche-C jacket and topside was installed using the deepwater construction vessel (DCV) Balder. According to the company, the project – Heerema’s first for Cotemar – was executed safely with no incidents …
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Duke Energy, a North Carolina-headquartered electric power holding company, does not see offshore wind as having big enough potential until the end of the next decade, according to information from the company’s recent earnings call. Responding to a question asked by a Goldman Sachs analyst Michael Lapides, who inquired about the role offshore wind played …
Germany’s city of Kiel announced plans to use the 5G network technology for autonomous ferry shipping operations in the port area. As explained, the new mobile radio standard 5G is expected to enable passenger ferries to cruise partly autonomously between the banks of the inner Kiel Fjord and later even in a fully autonomous way. …
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The Polish Economic Institute (PEI) said on Wednesday that Poland, which is the only European Union country that has not pledged to reach net-zero by 2050, could reach that goal by 2056. The PEI stated that out of the 115 countries covered by the Energy Transition Index (ETI) in 2019, Sweden was the most advanced …
Resolución 420/38240/2020, de 12 de agosto, de la Secretaría General Técnica, por la que se publica el Convenio con Ecoembalajes España, SA, para promover la protección del medio ambiente y prácticas que favorezcan la reducción, la reutilización y el reciclaje de envases en la Escuela Naval Militar. https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2020/08/20/pdfs/BOE-A-2020-9894.pdf
A Panama-flagged chemical tanker has been reportedly attacked by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. The incident, which occurred 180 nautical miles southwest of Socotra, would be the first successful hijack in Somali waters since 2017, maritime intelligence provider Dryad Global said. The vessel, identified at the 8,100 dwt Aegean II, was allegedly hijacked …
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Image courtesy: Hunter Group Oslo-listed shipowner Hunter Tankers AS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hunter Group ASA, has taken delivery of Hunter Frigg, the seventh scrubber-fitted ECO design VLCC newbuilding. The vessel was delivered by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea, and marks the end of the company’s newbuilding program. The company revealed that Hunter …
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