Building Big – Maersk’s Triple-E class Container Carriers
Maersk Line is building the world’s largest container ships to be known as the Triple-E class. Each ship will have a capacity of 18,000 20-foot containers (TEU) or most probably 9,000 40-foot...
View ArticleTriple-E Class Impact on the Container Ship Industry
The new Triple-E class container ships are set to debut with Maersk livery. Maersk’s purpose in acquiring these behemoths is to take advantage of thier enormous capacity, which will enable Maersk to...
View ArticleFirst Electric & Hybrid Boat Conference Held In Nice, France
This weekend saw an event over 100 years in the making. Like electric cars, electric boats seemed to all but disappear at the start of the 20th century. The first electric boats debuted in the late...
View ArticleFuture Bodes Well For Eco-Friendly Container Ships
credit marineinsight.comA new survey of 60 shipping companies reports that shipping companies may be changing how they fuel up.The report, by HSH Nordbank, claims that stricter regulations from the...
View ArticleShell’s Huge Prelude FLNG Hull Launched
The hull of Shell's Prelude was floated in South Korea. When construction is complete, Prelude will be the largest floating facility ever created, weighing more than 600 thousand tons. It will be...
View ArticleThe Future of Maritime LNG Propulsion
The use of liquid natural gas (LNG) as a marine fuel is increasing as new environmental regulations are enacted and bunkering facilities are expanded. Some forecast predict that around 10,000 vessels...
View ArticleSafe Bunkering for LNG – A Challenge to Global Growth
A limiting factor to the increase in the use of LNG fueled ships on a larger scale is the lack of LNG bunkering infrastructure worldwide, with exceptions being northern European countries which have...
View ArticleBrazil OSV Market
In the wake of the Subsea Vessel Brazil conference in Rio, Petrobras announced the approval to contract eight support vessels for its offshore activities. These are part of the 3rd Fleet OSV Renewal...
View Article25th Anniversary of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
On March 24, 1989 the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil across 1,300 miles of coastline. The...
View ArticleAutonomous Surface Vehicle’s C-Worker USV
The C-Worker is an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) designed for offshore services in the O&G industry. The multi-role offshore USV is designed to conduct subsea positioning, surveying and...
View ArticleMarine Technology TV Debuts
In San Diego @ Oceanology North America, the world's leading magazine to the subsea sector -- Marine Technology Reporter with a global circulation of more than 25,000 -- will debut its "Marine...
View ArticleMTR100: Applications Available
The application for the 2017 MTR100 is now open to any and all companies serving the global subsea sector, available at: http://mtr100.marinetechnologynews.com/This is the 12th ANNUAL MTR100, the...
View ArticleGreensea Featured in MTR March
http://digitalmagazines.marinelink.com/nwm/MarineTechnology/201703/The March 2017 edition of Marine Technology Reporter is available, and I'm really pleased to present the work of Ben Kinnaman and his...
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