ULSTEIN is currently customizing their innovative Chain type Stinger Handling system concept for three different companies on three different continents. The compact system improves both the vessel design and pipe-lay operations, and as acknowledgment on April 16th 2013, the equipment has won the bi-annual IRO Innovation Prize. The participants casted their votes for the 4 [...]
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, yesterday announced that its Onboard DC Grid will receive a Spotlight on New Technology Award at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) to be held May 6-9 in Houston. The awards honor innovative technologies for the oil and gas industry and related energy sectors that have the potential [...]
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MV Industrial More was launched successfully, on Friday January 25th, at Peters Shipyards in Kampen, the Netherlands. The Industrial More is the fifth in a series of 10,000 DWT cargo ships built under the project name of Sole, denoting the largest vessels ever made at the Kampen yard. The Momentum Scan, Marvel Scan, Motion Scan [...]
A boat with suspension inspired by Paris Dakar-winning rally cars that can remain stable and a ‘seahorse’ vessel consisting of a towering keel that minimises movements in the ocean swell are two of the six innovative concepts that will receive further funding from the Carbon Trust’s Offshore wind Accelerator (OWA), its flagship collaborative RD&D programme. [...]
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has broadened its capability in ship design with the establishment of a new team dedicated to the development of naval ship designs. Rolls-Royce has been at the forefront of innovative ship design for nearly 40 years, designing over 800 vessels, used mainly in the commercial sector. This new team [...]
Alu Marine Shipyard has unveiled a new range of innovative pilot boats. The first model of the range is a 12-metre fast launch designed for pilots on the river Seine in France, which entered into service in April 2012. Its mission is to embark the Baie de Seine pilots on board merchant ships sailing upstream [...]
Leo Hambro, Commercial Director of Tidal Transit, has announced that the company has just placed an order for the manufacture of the third, in its potential fleet of ten, innovative wind farm crew transfer vessels. To be named Tia Elizabeth, this new vessel will be built to exactly the same high specification as its two [...]
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has installed its innovative “Mitsubishi Air Lubrication System” (MALS) for the first time on a ferry – a ship with a slender hull form* – and confirmed over 5% improvement in fuel consumption. MALS is MHI’s proprietary technology that reduces frictional resistance between the ship hull and seawater by introducing [...]
Global marine supplier Alfa Laval now offers a set of sustainable solutions designed to help ship owners and operators comply with current and pending environmental regulations. Grouped under the conceptual name “Pure thinking”, the products will provide security as existing legislation is tightened, as well as compliance with new laws such as those that will [...]
GE Energy Management’s Power Conversion business will supply Singapore marine services company Swire Pacific Offshore Operations (Pte) Limited (SPO) with integrated power generation, propulsion, dynamic positioning (DP) and automation systems for eight new offshore platform supply vessels (PSVs). Four of the PSVs are being built by Universal Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) in Japan and the remaining [...]
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