Crowley and Massachusetts Maritime Academy will create a first-of-its-kind training and workforce development program dedicated specifically to the New England region’s offshore wind energy industry.
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Energinet has awarded Fugro a marine site characterization contract for the Danish Energy Island project in the North Sea. The contract is part of Energinet’s preliminary studies to build the world’s first “hub and spoke” energy scheme: an energy island 80 km off the Danish coast that will act as a transmission center for hundreds of surrounding wind turbines. Fugro
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Marine-i has agreed to support marine engineering specialist Feritech Global in its plan to create an autonomous subsea vehicle specially designed for geotechnical survey work. Such a design would result in safer, more efficient and cost-effective seabed survey operations. Marine-i and Feritech are collaborating on a structured development program to define the industry standards that the new vehicle must meet,
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Damen Shipyard and Sea Machines Robotics have signed an alliance agreement to further investigate the adoption of collision avoidance functionality on board Damen ships. For the past four years Damen Shipyards Group has been investing in autonomous shipping technologies. The shipbuilder has participated in several joint industry projects to research the readiness level of technologies. Damen is now entering the
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The fifth and final call for the EU-funded MaRINET2 project is now open. The project offers free access to a world-leading network of testing and research infrastructures, including EMEC’s test sites. The call is open to offshore energy technology developers, including offshore wind, wave and tidal energy at full system, subsystem, component or sensor level. Following a simple application process,
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The July webinar on OceanReports is now available as an online video. OceanReports is a tool for developers of energy and other ocean-based projects to help them get to know many facets of a proposed location long before they take costly steps related to selecting sites. The tool and its use is explained in the first 30 min. of a
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