Offshore energy services provider Helix Robotics Solutions partnered with UTEC Survey, an Acteon Group company, to support the recent installation of Simec Atlantis’ demonstration tidal turbine in Japan.
Marine Institute of Ireland, in collaboration with PLOCAN, has awarded €240,000 in funding for two PhD scholarships that will seek to address challenges related to ocean observing systems and advanced ocean technology development.
The U.S. National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium has selected 15 projects to receive USD 8 million for support structure and electrical system innovation, supply chain development, and solutions for impacts on wildlife and radar. Amongst the four projects chosen for innovative sup
The Ocean Startup Project has launched its second Ocean Startup Challenge, making available up to $1.4 million to ocean innovators across Canada and around the world.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has provided a €9.1 million loan for the construction of 12.9MW floating solar farm in Albania.
The National Oceanography Centre’s (NOC) RRS Discovery has set sail for an expedition to the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO), aimed at understanding the long-term changes in the oceans.
Timor GAP, the national oil company of Timor-Leste has kicked off a study into the potential for establishing an LNG terminal in the country.
A collaborative decommissioning project at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has completed the forensic analysis of a tidal energy tripod.
As the maritime industry embarks upon the fourth propulsion revolution, ammonia has been identified as one of the key alternatives to fossil fuels in the shipping’s pathway toward becoming carbon neutral. There has been a notable increase in the uptake of large ammonia vessels over the past year, ac
Finnish shipping outfit Meriaura Group has started the preparation and design of a transport concept that is to achieve 100 per cent carbon neutrality.
German gas companies Wintershall Dea and VNG have jointly invested in HiiROC, a Hull-based hydrogen technology partner.
Classification society Bureau Veritas has issued an ‘approval in principle’ (AiP) for Royal IHC’s hydrogen-fuelled trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD). In an innovation partnership with the Dutch Rijkswaterstaat, IHC is exploring a new type of vessel referred to as the ‘LEAF’ (low energy adaptive
Ørsted has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with NOAA to share physical and biological information and data in Ørsted-leased waters offshore the United States. Sharing of the data and information resources will be used to plan and ensure the effective deployment, sustainable operation and main
Although inland navigation, short sea shipping and river-sea shipping are already CO2-efficient, there is still potential to make the European fleets greener.
