Capturing the sound of lockdown
Offshore Marine Technology: 3rd Quarter 2020
Reduced shipping traffic in Q2 gave researchers a rare chance to record the Belgian North Sea without its usual man-made background noise.
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Green light for ‘Green Jade’
Offshore Marine Technology: 3rd Quarter 2020
CDWE has taken the final investment decision (FID) on the construction of what’s reportedly Taiwan’s first domestically built DP3-enabled heavy-lift/wind turbine installation vessel.
Significant Small Ships – final call for entries
Ship & Boat International eNews: November/December 2020
The Ship & Boat International team has started work on this year’s edition of the annual RINA journal Significant Small Ships, profiling approximately 30 new vessels sized between 5-100m and officially delivered in 2020.
DriX of the trade
Ship & Boat International: eNews July/August 2020
Reliance on USVs is set to continue in the next couple of years, particularly in the North American marine and offshore segments, where iXblue is making inroads with its DriX drone.
High five
Ship & Boat International: eNews July/August 2020
A five-hull arrangement is intended to reduce drag, boost fuel efficiency and support autonomous operations aboard BMT’s latest multipurpose vessel concept.
Taking out the trash
Ship & Boat International: eNews July/August 2020
The Interceptor isn’t solely dedicated to recovering plastic rubbish from the world’s seas – it’s also been developed to prevent it from entering the ocean at all.
What does it mean to be a retrofit ship of the future?
The Naval Architect Jul/Aug 2020
Green Ship of the Future’s ‘The Retrofit Project’ promotes a potential 21.7% fuel saving by utilising energy optimisation-based retrofits
Container lashing: taking the strain for a bigger problem
The Naval Architect Jul/Aug 2020
The loss of more than 40 containers in an incident off the Australian coast has raised questions about how safely secured they were, but lashing is just one factor amid many
Japanese joint project explores shipping’s road to 2050
The Naval Architect Jul/Aug 2020
Feasibility of innovative technologies and alternative fuels surveyed, with concept designs for zero- and low-emission ships
Innovation in the age of Covid-19
The Naval Architect: Jul/Aug 2020
The pandemic has turbocharged digitalisation across the entire industry, says DNV GL, as it launches its maritime specific infection prevention certificate programme
First steel cut for France’s new Bâtiments Ravitailleurs de Force logistic support ships
Warship Technology: July/August 2020
Construction of the first of a new class of logistic support ship (LSS) for the French Navy has commenced at the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire.
US Navy develops requirements for next-generation amphibious platforms and logistics ships
Warship Technology: July/August 2020
The US Navy is exploring the acquisition of a new generation of vessels designed to support future amphibious manoeuvre and logistics sustainment operations coherent with the aims of the US Marine Corps’ Force Design 2030 development blueprint. The blueprint was published in March 2020.