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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 25Auerbach explained that ideally, “one ? ed layers of geothermal activity,” noted changes over an area of 8,000 km2. They would have both instruments: seismom- Skett, “and the change in salinity and dis- found up to seven km3 of displaced ma- eters to detect and locate subsurface ac- solved particles for
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 23elatively inactive since 2014, the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai (HT-HH) submarine volcano began erupting on December 20, 2021, reaching peak intensity on January 15, 2022. This triggered tsunamis throughout the Pa- R ci? c, destroyed lives and infrastructure, and generated the largest explosion recorded
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 43“The industry is an ecosystem which includes owners, managers, mariners, shipyards, equipment makers, designers, research institutes and class societies: all of them are crucial,” – Eero Lehtovaara, Head of Regulatory & Public Affairs, ABB Marine & Ports All images courtesy ABB Marine and Ports provi
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 21ROB LANGFORD, VP, GLOBAL OFFSHORE WIND ob Langford has worked in the offshore industry ABS. “We are growing and evolving our services across all for more than three decades, ‘cutting his teeth’ offshore infrastructure along with our continued support to the in a UK design ? rm working in the North Sea
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 19SOVs Source: Intelatus Global Partners built vessel fell from ~25% in early 2021 to ~12% today. Visit Us The biggest new building premium is found in the USA, for at OTC Houston, TX a variety of reasons, where the three tier one SOVs are being Booth 2121 built for ~€87-168 million. VARD is a leader in
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 27Feature Shipbuilding Loumania Stewart / U.S. Coast Guard focus), which require very different business systems to be in place. “We’ve been able to do both,” he said, noting that having systems in place for government jobs makes East- ern Shipbuilding “move-in ready for the Navy and other DOD agencies
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 36HYBRID 2-stroke controllable pitch propeller PTO powertrain Source: MAN Energy Solutions how the system is intended to operate, says Oskar Levander, VP Strategy & Business Development, Kongsberg Maritime. For example, a primary shaft-driven PTO rotates whenever the engine is running; a secondary one
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 15Cruise ships can be cleaned during normal passenger transfer port calls. Cleanings and cargo operations can occur simul- taneously. How is this possible? The EverClean robots are small and require only a single cargo van on the pier. Multiple robots can be deployed simultaneously. Precision navigation
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 36Feature Marine Simulation Pioneering regulatory change Without simulation, opportunities to train on marine evacuation systems are few and far between, basically only Virtual Marine’s impact extends beyond technology de- coming along when the system becomes outdated and velopment. The company has played
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 28Feature Offshore Wind © Eric Dale Creative / Adobe Stock US OFFSHORE WIND: D N OOWN BUT OT UT By Eric Haun – Bob Dylan “The winds of change are blowing wild and free.” n the U.S. offshore wind industry, developments over are many stakeholders still committed to ensuring offshore recent months have
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 55Gazelle is banking on its modular solution, which Ortega says should represent a 30% reduced platform cost. “We are targeting 75% less of mooring length compared. So less mooring length, less materials will be used.” Alvaro Ortega, CFO, Gazelle Wind Power All images courtesy Gazelle Offshore Wind Gaze
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 46ROVS Omega Subsea Robotics ordered six complete ROV systems from Kystdesign. Image courtesy SMD DEME’s upcoming subsea rock installation vessel Yellow- structor ROV systems and two brand new compact Construc- stone, scheduled to join the ? eet in the ? rst half of 2024. tor ROV systems. The systems
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 35JIM MCNEILL: LEADING EARTH’S CITIZEN WARRIORS ACROSS THE SEA By Celia Konowe n the face of intensifying climate change and McNeill, former scientist and internationally renowned associated environmental unknowns, one world British explorer, has more than 36 years of experience travel- explorer has
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 19the back that we call wave channels. They do a number of of operation, you’re in trouble. We’ve seen some big storms somewhat nuanced and complex hydrodynamic things, but this past year, we have some great videos on YouTube from basically they cause the machine to move a lot more in waves. cameras on
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 12INSIGHTS AERIAL DRONES & MINE HUNTING UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM HAS EARNED ITS SEA-LEGS By Edward Lundquist he Swiss-Swedish joint-venture UMS Skeldar V-200 mum take-off weight of 235kg, a maximum speed of 75 knots vertical take-off unmanned arial system (VTUAV) and a payload of up to 40kg. It can take
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 29ROY CAMPE, CTO, CMB.TECH But as important as the growth required to service the equipment, it from electric to charging to the fnal within the company is key, so too is could stretch and break all of the back- audits. the growth externally in the form of end support needed to run a smooth “It’s very
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 28MEET THE CTO emission target. “We decided it’s better to have 3 vessels with dual For the largest ships in the CMB fuel than to have one zero-emission vessel [with ? eet, the focus is on ammonia, as it is no market]. [A zero-emission vessel is] often a cheapest from a production point of white elephant
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 26MEET THE CTO has grown to 90 people across several something that is scalable.” fuels, resulting in an overall reduction world regions, and this technical talent Next the CMB.TECH team targeted of 65% of traditional fuel consump- base is central to Campe completing the Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV) used
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 15impact on operational ef? ciency. This hybrid assisted approach will be necessary going forward if the shipping sector is to ever become truly carbon neutral. Future fuels, such as methanol will play a signi? cant role, but their mainstream availability will likely be limited for several decades
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 14The Path to Zero work to make OceanWings suitable for lyzed the vessel’s behavior in relation to its maiden voyage – marking it as the commercial vessels was actually a scale the use of its four OceanWings. ? rst modern wind assisted modern ship down of the original design. The wing- Their goals went
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 7Training Tips for Ships Tip #55 Maritime Micro-Learning for Mega-Bene? ts By Murray Goldberg, CEO, Marine Learning Systems n our industry as in most others, we typically see on- to be less expensive to update the speci? c microlearning mod- line training content presented as large, comprehensive ules in
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 43into force in 1958, and only gave the IMO broad and, vague tion. But shipbuilders, oil companies, miners, chemical man- powers “to deal with” the regulation and practices “relating ufactures and others with huge ? nancial stakes in shipping, to technical matters of all kinds affecting shipping in inter-
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 38G REAT of BERLIN EXPRESS HIPS S 2023 Photo courtesy Hapag-LLoyd BERLIN EXPRESS SERI DAMAI Hapag-Lloyd welcomed Berlin Express into its ? eet, the MISC welcomed two of its latest new generation of Lique- ? rst ship of its new Hamburg Express class and the ? rst of a ? ed Natural Gas (LNG) carriers
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 19ROBOTICS “You’re going to need different capabilities at different times. I might need to be able to lift and support 150-200 pounds; but I may also need some very ? ne manipulation of small ? ttings to remove that part. So I may have a robot that can support itself for that heavy lift, and it may