Damen Dredging Equipment is busy working on the dredging installation for the marine aggregate dredger for CEMEX. The impressive £30 million dredger, type MAD3500, is designed to extract sand and gravel from the sea bed at depths of up to -55 meters, including in the challenging conditions of the No
Maritime Developments (MDL) has proven the complete portability of its flex-lay equipment design with a recently completed project in West Africa. The newest and largest pipelay tensioner in the company’s rental fleet, the MDL TTS-4/375 Series Tensioner was used for installation of oil offloading li
Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) Shanghai has completed the manufacture and commissioning of a Quantum MkIII work-class remotely operated vehicle (WROV) at their Lingang facility. This is the first WROV to be built at their facility since its opening in 2018. SMD Shanghai’s facility is home to a 3700m2 w
JDR Cable Systems (JDR), part of TFKable Group, has been selected by Jan De Nul to supply subsea power cables and accessories for the Taiwan Power Company Offshore Wind Farm Phase One. The project is located off the coast of Fangyuan in Changhua County in Central Western Taiwan. It is being develope
Aberdeen-based energy services firm, Ardyne Technologies, said it aims to enter a new phase of growth following a funding package from Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank. The Bank’s Growth Finance team has provided Ardyne with £7 million, which will be used to enhance its core products and expand the bus
SPI Products, the parent company behind some of the leading buoy and industrial flotation product lines, is getting ready to launch a new product line – a patent-pending lineup of modular floating walkways and docks the company calls Snap Dock. Blake Elder, executive vice president of SPI Products,
Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL) has recently released a new Microplastics Sampler for the collection of water samples for the analysis of microplastics. “Microplastics” refers to plastic particles smaller than 5 mm and includes fragments, films, pellets/nurdles, granules/beads, filaments a
Composit LLC, a Kursk based developer and producer of wear-resistant rubber hoses, recently delivered a set of floating hoses for carrying out dredging works in the Astrakhan Region. Composit’s floating hoses have been used during several navigation seasons in order to achieve maximum results of the
The Estaleiros do Brasil Ltda. (EBR), has been selected by Japan’s MODEC for the fabrication and assembly of a number of topsides process modules for an FPSO system, the FPSO Guanabara MV31.
Coda Octopus has recently partnered with AVIC IET, an offshore wind contractor in China, to integrate the Echoscope4G Surface real-time 3D sonar on a autonomous surface vehicle (ASV). For the first time, AVIC IET will be able to autonomously control its vehicle and the Echoscope4G Surface with its i
The US Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Mission Module Program recently completed shipboard integration testing of two unmanned systems on board USS Independence. The two systems — the Knifefish unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) and Unmanned Influence Sweep System (UISS) — are part of the Mine Counte
A team of scientists and engineers has for the first time successfully drilled over two kilometres through the ice sheet in West Antarctica using hot water. This research will help understand how the region will respond to a warming climate. The 11-person team has been working on the Rutford Ice Str
IKM Testing has been awarded a contract by Total for the work on the Tyra field in the Danish Sector of the North Sea. The contract includes cleaning and preparation for the removal of existing platforms and associated subsea pipelines. The contract will mainly be carried out in 2019 and parts of 20
Hawaiki and PacketFabric have signed a strategic partnership to provide transpacific capacity on the Hawaiki submarine cable system and extend the reach of PacketFabric’s Software-defined Networking (SDN) platform into APAC. Launched in July 2018, the Hawaiki transpacific cable is a 15,000 km fibre
