Image courtesy Outland Technology Image courtesy Exail Image courtesy Submaris and EvoLogics Vehicles The ROV-1500 from Outland Technology represents a leap forward in underwater robotics, a compact remotely operated vehicle (ROV) weighing in at less than 40 lbs (19kg) the ROV- 1500 is easy to transport
NEW TECH OCEANOLOGY INTERNATIONAL 2024 All photos courtesy MTR unless otherwise noted NEW TECH, PARTNERSHIPS LAUNCH IN LONDON With Oceanology International now one month in the rear-view mirror, MTR takes a look at some of the interesting technologies launched before, during and after the London event.
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OPINION: The Final Word Seeing the Ship as a System Shipping must engage with the decarbonization realities that lie ahead by changing the way it crafts maritime legislation to re? ect its place in the interconnected, interdependent world economy, said Eero Lehtovaara, ABB Marine & Ports. ABB Marine &
Nautel provides innovative, industry-leading solutions speci? cally designed for use in harsh maritime environments: • GMDSS/NAVTEX/NAVDAT coastal surveillance and transmission systems • Offshore NDB non-directional radio beacon systems for oil platform, support vessel & wind farm applications
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CRANES & OFFSHORE WIND Cadeler’s new NG-20000X class vessels will have 2,600t cranes, and its new NG-20000F class vessel will have a 3,200t crane. Similar new vessels for Havfram will have a crane of approximately 3,200t, as will Van Oord’s KNUD E. HAN- SEN-designed newbuilding currently being built in
RADM PHILIP SOBECK, MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND U.S. Navy photo by Bill Mesta/released U.S. Navy photo by Ryan Carter Rear Adm. Philip Sobeck, Commander, United States Navy’s Military Sealift Command, visits USNS Patuxent (T-AO 201) for a tour of the ship at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., November 20, 2023.
mantras are ‘learn from the established European model’ and ‘embrace technology transfer from the offshore oil and gas sector.’ In Robert Langford, the American Bureau of Shipping has all of that and more bundled in one neat package. Langford recently visited with Maritime Reporter & Engineering News on
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and use EV’s to the rapid pace of technology. or methanol to mine lithium for As near as I could establish, the batteries. That is, if we still need American Council for an Energy lithium for batteries by then. Ef? cient Economy is an earnest There are those who argue that and well-meaning organization
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future upgrade to hybrid pro- pulsion. It will support Ørsted and Eversource’s portfolio of offshore wind farms in the Northeast, including the Revolu- American Offshore Services tion Wind project in Rhode Island and the South Fork Wind and Sunrise Wind projects in New York. The vessel will be An of? cial
years ago amid calls for “30 by 30” (30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore power gen- erated by 2030). At a February 2024 New York event hosted by Hellenic American and Norwegian American Chambers of Commerce (the HACC NACC conference), Charlie Papavizas, partner at law ? rm Winston Strawn appearing on an
navigational safety risk assessments. offshore turbine reach 853 feet above sea level.) Overall, however, navigation is just a brief reference within American Clean Power (ACP), the wind industry advo- cacy group, in comments to BOEM, takes on this issue. BOEM’s Notice: one paragraph in 12 pages. The Coast
yards. This capacity has Without a strong, forward-think- gaps that allow for the shipyard in- not been outsourced like many other ing comprehensive American mari- dustry to plan for investments in their critical manufacturing sectors, like time strategy, advancing predictable infrastructure and workforce