Editor’s note: The European offshore wind industry is just a little ahead of the nascent U.S. version. For the next few years, the U.S. companies will be building the infrastructure to support the offshore turbines with equipment such as the vessels featured in this article. They are from The Netherlands-based ship builder Damen. The article lets us take a brief tour of one of the ships that will carry O&M crews from shore to work and back. Later in the article, company executives tell how the company streamlines its processes to deliver a new ship in about a month.
Astilleros de Sevilla -que cerró en 2010- volverá a abrir
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Astilleros de Sevilla -que cerró en 2010- volverá a abrir de manos del empresario vigués Urbano Alonso. Es propietario de Contsa Huelva (el antiguo astillero onubense que también rescató) y ahora acaba de constituir una sociedad denominada Astilleros del Guadalquivir en la que inicialmente se harán tareas de reparación de barcos y posteriormente la idea es la construcción, un permiso que se está negociando con el Ministerio de Industria que ya le ha dado un visto bueno provisional por 18 meses para operar.
La empresa nació con un capital social de 200.000 euros e invirtió medio millón para su puesta en marcha y acondicionamiento de la zona del dique seco. "A partir de la próxima semana podrán entrar barcos", indicó Alonso en declaraciones a Europa
Rolls Royce & MAN deliver the World’s largest and most expensive workboat
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Rolls Royce & MAN deliver the World’s largest and most expensive workboat
20 Nov 2014
World's largest workboat launched
Seawork exhibitors, MAN and Rolls Royce have delivered solutions for the world’s largest, most sophisticated and most expensive workboat ever built.
For over 25 years the Swiss company, Allseas, had been developing the ‘Pieter Schelte’. Designed as a vessel to install and remove offshore oil topside structures as single units, its hull is 382 metres long, its beam 124 metres, with the length increasing to 477 metres when tilting lift beam and the pipe-laying stinger are in operation, and also a gap at the bow that is 59 metres long and 122 metres long,
(Reuters) - Paint inspired by the skin of a tuna fish and automated drone ships that don't need crews: such ideas could revolutionize the next generation of ocean vessels as the shipping sector looks to cut costs and tackle pollution.
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(Reuters) - Paint inspired by the skin of a tuna fish and automated drone ships that don't need crews: such ideas could revolutionize the next generation of ocean vessels as the shipping sector looks to cut costs and tackle pollution.
Faced with new environmental rules and the need to cap operating costs as profits slide, shippers are renewing their fleets to make them more eco-friendly and fuel-efficient, participants at a shipping conference in China said this week.
Other ideas, such as powering ships with liquefied natural gas (LNG) to reduce emissions and using 3D printing to make parts, are gaining traction, as these forces drive a fundamental rethink of shipping technology.
"The new ships now have to be energy-efficient. It's all about being economical, about 'green' shipping,"
New offshore vessel ready in about a month? Yes, and for offshore wind techs, say hello to your new ride
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New offshore vessel ready in about a month? Yes, and for offshore wind techs, say hello to your new ride
China’s Subsidized Shipbuilding
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China’s Subsidized Shipbuilding
What’s more significant is that China’s own policies are to blame. Beijing has long considered shipbuilding to be a strategic industry, and it has employed a robust range of mercantilist subsidies to ensure an unfair advantage in world competition. In the process, an inefficient, unproductive industry that, while something of a jobs factory from a social policy point of view, has inflicted itself on world shipbuilding.