Daewoo International, the trading arm of POSCO, announced on May 25 that it won a large shipbuilding order in cooperation with Sungjin Geotec, another POSCO affiliate. Sungjin Geotec specializes in offshore plant equipment and modules for global energy markets. Under the deal with Swire Pacific Offs
Scottish Power completed preliminary trials of a 30-meter turbine anchored to the seafloor off the Scottish coast. The results show that the turbine produced one megawatt of electricity, which is enough to power 500 homes and businesses. Alan Mortimer, head of innovation at Scottish Power Renewables
Vos Prodect Innovations B.V. has been awarded a contract for the supply of Cable Protection Systems, for a submarine power cable project in Denmark. This supply contract marks a significant milestone in Vos Prodect’s position among the cable protection system suppliers. Total order covers the design
Today ULSTEIN signed a contract for the delivery of a high capacity subsea construction vessel of the SX121 design to GC Rieber Shipping, with an option for a second vessel. The newbuilding will be delivered in the first quarter of 2014 and has a value of approximately NOK 800 million. “GC Rieber Sh
Project 11982 research ship Seliger built by JSC Yantar Shipyard has completed basic stage of sea trials and returned to the yard’s quay for revision, reports press service of Yantar. Seliger returned from the shipyard’s acceptance base in Baltiysk on May 21. Operation of main powerplant, propeller-
Kongsberg Mesotech Ltd. announces the latest version of MS 1000 software for MS 1071 and MS 1171 Digital Scanning Sonar. MS 1000 Version 5.0 marks a major change in direction for this software. Alan Zhao, Software Product Manager for the company summarized the new approach this way. “We have recogni
Irish Marine Institute technicians installed a new weather buoy off the south coast, The Irish Times reported. New buoy replaced the old one which broke loose in severe weather off Mizen Head. This new model of buoy has the capacity to determine wave path and salinity ranges in water, along with tem
Gibtelecom has announced that it recently entered into a strategic partnership with a leading African communications company, Vodacom South Africa. This partnership is one of the first steps on Gibtelecom’s journey to becoming a global carrier, with Gibraltar being recognised as an international com
NexTech Materials, Ltd. announced that it has received a contract from the Office of Naval Research for a Future Naval Capability (FNC) project aimed at design, development and demonstration of a compact energy system for unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). In this project, NexTech and its team wil
Crowley Maritime Corporation has been selected as a 2011 Company Award winner for the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) program. The selection was based on Crowley’s 48 vessels providing 204,430 highly accurate and timely weather ob
Top leaders from NOAA and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) signed a landmark agreement that will further strengthen cooperative… [mappress] Source: NOAA , June 01, 2012; Image: NOAA
Bluefin Robotics, the leading provider of free-flooded, modular Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and related technologies announced that the company has sold a Bluefin-21 system to US-based Phoenix International Holdings (Phoenix), an experienced marine services contractor which provides underw
Dr. James R. McFarlane, OC, CD, P.Eng., FCAE, founder and president of International Submarine Engineering Ltd. received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal on April 11th, 2012. Presented by The Honourable Steven Point, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, Dr. McFarlane received his med
The subsea hardware market is expected to recover this year, following the global economic crisis and the repercussions of the Deepwater Horizon accident in 2010. Douglas-Westwood (DW) forecast that the subsea sector will continue its growth trend, reaching an annual total of $32 billion in expendit
