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Seaspan Breaks Ground on $200m Shipyard Modernization Project

Oct 19, 2012

A groundbreaking ceremony today at Vancouver Shipyards, in North Vancouver marks a significant milestone in the re-development of the shipyard into a world-class facility that will build a new generation of vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy…

New VP and GM for Lockheed Martin UK

Oct 19, 2012

Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] named Robert Kramer, 46, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin UK – Integrated Systems, a part of the company’s Mission Systems & Sensors business based in Havant, UK.   Kramer joins Lockheed…

US ONR Supports Navy's New Energy Partnership

Oct 19, 2012

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is committed to development of alternative energy sources, moves ahead with new research effort.The Energy Systems Technology and Evaluation Program (ESTEP) that has started in FY13 is bringing together…

Citizen Science Volunteers Needed to Transcribe Ship's Logs

Oct 19, 2012

NOAA and the National Archives seek citizen science volunteers to transcribe weather data from historic ship logs.NOAA and the National Archives and Records Administration are turning to citizen science volunteers to make a wealth of weather…

Wind Farm Hi-capacity Switchgear Introduced by ABB

Oct 18, 2012

New giant offshore wind turbines need specialized equipment to connect to the electricity grid to minimize power losses.As offshore wind farms move towards deploying higher capacity turbines of 5MW and above, energy losses during energy…

Contruction Starts on World's Biggest Offshore Floating Facility

Oct 18, 2012

At 1601 ft. long  x 242.7 ft. wide, the Prelude FLNG facility will be the largest offshore floating facility ever built.  A new milestone was reached in the world’s use of LNG as fue, as Shell celebrated the cutting of first steel for the…

Intergraph Breaks Ground on New Corporate HQ

Oct 18, 2012

Intergraph, a global provider of engineering and geospatial software, start construction of new headquarters in Madison, Ala.The new headquarters will be located on the current Intergraph campus and is projected to open in summer 2014.Keeping…

Container Ship Stacking Weight Modification Allows More Cargo

Oct 17, 2012

Advanced research and development by Lloyd's Register indicates that container stacking weights can be modified to allow the carriage of more cargo.In an 18,000 teu design the increase in cargo weight could be as much as 10%, says Tom Boardley Lloyd’s Register’s Marine Director…

Australia LNG Bunkering Project Kicks Off

Oct 17, 2012

Det Norske Veritas (DNV) & nine key members of the Australian maritime, port and energy sectors have established the four-month study.The Joint Industry Project (JIP) is to facilitate the adoption of LNG fuelled vessels in Australian waters…

KPI Bridge Oil appoints Risk Management Chief

Oct 16, 2012

KPI Bridge Oil, a global bunker broker and trader has appointed Mrs. Christel McLoughlin as Director of Risk Management products. Christel will be based at KPI Bridge Oil’s Headquarter in London.Christel McLoughlin who is a French national…

China's First Inter-tidal Wind Power Project

Oct 16, 2012

Classification society Bureau Veritas assists Longyuan, China, in 'Jiangsu Longyuan Rudong 150 MW Offshore Wind Farm Pilot Project Phase III.As the only foreign third party inspection company working on this project to have participated in all three phases…

Admiralty Extends Training Campaign

Oct 15, 2012

The UK Hydrographic Office, under the Admiralty brand, has extended its global ECDIS training campaign, which offers qualified bridge officers around the world the opportunity to win generic ECDIS training, making a further 100 training places available…

Arctic Research Ship Scientists on Thin Ice

Oct 12, 2012

Return to Bremerhaven: The research vessel 'Polarstern' returns with new findings from the Central Arctic during the 2012 ice minimum.After a good two months. 54 scientists and technicians from twelve different countries conducted research…

Sonardyne Acoustic Positioning Saves Technip Time

Oct 12, 2012

Technip completes 21 subsea jumper metrology operations using Sonardyne International's Lodestar GyroCompatts & saves 8 days working time.Using the latest Wideband Long BaseLine (LBL) acoustic positioning hardware by optimising its technique…

Marine Power Generation Market Report Published

Oct 12, 2012

'Wave & Tidal Energy Analysis to 2030 for US, Canada, the UK, Portugal, Australia and Republic of Korea (South Korea)' report issued.This excerpt from the market report promulgated by ReportsnReports.com focuses on the UK sector:Governments…

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