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Brazilian PSVs Gain GE Power and Positioning

Aug 22, 2013

It’s a powerful proposal. Keeping a 90-meter, 4,500-deadweight capacity platform supply vessel (PSV) stationary only a few meters from an oil and gas platform, as it transfers fluids, equipment and personnel in challenging weather conditions…

RSC Bio Solutions Hires Technology VP

Aug 21, 2013

RSC Bio Solutions, developer of readily biodegradable lubricants and cleaners, has added Bernie Roell as vice president of technology. RSC Bio Solutions said it is aggressively addressing the needs of the biobased chemical industry for new innovative solutions for a wide range of applications…

Imtech Appoints Marine Managing Director

Aug 21, 2013

Imtech Marine announces that as of July 15, 2013, Capt. Eric Clarke has been appointed as Managing Director of lmtech Marine USA headquartered in Houston. Capt. Clarke has a broad maritime experience and a proven business track record.Capt…

Panama Canal Expansion Lock Gates Arrive

Aug 21, 2013

In a major milestone for the Panama Canal Expansion Program, the first four gates for the new locks have arrived from the port of Trieste, Italy to the waterway's Atlantic side on board the semi-submersible vessel 'STX Sun Rise'.'This is an…

John Porcari Confirmed for WTS Transportation Policy Symposium

Aug 19, 2013

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation John Porcari will deliver the keynote presentation at the 2013 WTS Policy Symposium next month.  The symposium, which will take place on Sept. 17, 2013, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, will…

Wireline Engineering Expands Far East Operations

Aug 16, 2013

Aberdeen-based wireline and well intervention technology specialist Wireline Engineering has boosted operations in the Far East by investing in a new office and supply base in Kuala Lumpur and appointing Craig Glatley as business development manager for the region…

Transas Simulation User Conference: The Future Is Now

Aug 15, 2013

From July 15 to July 19, more than 250 maritime professionals from 41 countries gathered in Maryland, USA to discuss the Future trends and New Challenges in Maritime Simulation during the Transas Simulation User Conference. For the first time ever…

Australian Reef Pilots Don 'SmartCap' Fatigue Monitors

Aug 15, 2013

Pilotage service providers, Australian Reef Pilots (ARP) has embraced world-first brainwave technology in what they say is the pursuit of an ultimate objective of best practice maritime safety standards.ARP is trialling the Australian-developed SmartCap system…

Vard Signs Historic $1.1B Shipbuilding Order

Aug 12, 2013

Vard Holdings Limited  secured contracts with joint ventures of DOF Subsea and Technip for the design and construction of four Pipe Lay Support Vessels (PLSVs), a contract which is the largest order in VARD’s history, with an aggregate order value of approximately $ 1…

Three MOL 'Comfort-class' Return to Service: Hull Scantlings Doubled

Aug 12, 2013

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines report that they, other concerned parties, & Lloyd’s Register which MOL retained as technical consultant, have conducted a thorough investigation into the causes of the mid-June 2013 hull fracture, of the MOL-operated containership 'MOL Comfort'…

Danos to Exhibit at LSU Career Expo

Aug 09, 2013

Danos sait it will exhibit at the two-day LSU Career Expo on Tuesday, Sept. 10 and Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge. The first day of the expo is designed for students majoring in science…

IMCA DP Specialist Plans Busy Autumn

Aug 08, 2013

Marine Technical Adviser Ian Giddings has a busy autumn ahead of him as he will taking part in four events in Singapore, Abu Dhabi and Houston; as well as being at the IMCA Annual Seminar, being held in Singapore (6-7 November, 2013) where he will be facilitating a workshop on DP incident reporting…

'White Space' Waterway Communications System Evaluated

Aug 08, 2013

Hosted by the Port of Pittsburgh Commission, Metric Systems Corp. carried out Beta-testing of its 'White Space' spectrum wireless networking systems with successful results.The trial was a tough, real-world application showcasing the superior…

Minesto Adds Management, Development Staff

Aug 07, 2013

Nordic marine energy technology leader Minesto, with a marine power plant that is able to cost efficiently produce electricity from low velocity tidal and ocean currents, has appointed Dr. Heije Westberg as the company’s new Chief Technology Officer…

Nortek Technical Symposium 2013

Aug 06, 2013

Register is now open for the 2013 Nortek Technical Symposium in San Diego, California on September 20-21, Nortek announced.This year’s event features keynote speakers from Ocean Observatories Initiative, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution…

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