Maritime Journal March 2022

Issue No 408

MARCH 2022

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44 Port Closures Russia and Ukraine close Black Sea and Sea of Azov ports as war escalates

46 Safety at sea

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48 F und buy-out

Infrastructure fund Marguerite II buys 65% of offshore services firm Jifmar

50 Global agreement

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12 Pan-Arctic cable

A cable project linking Asia with Europe has been resurrected after 10 months

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73 Beirut Port

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COVER SHOT MARCH 2022

58 Typhoon 3000

Shipping firms are urged to check their policies amid war

Svitzer announces extended contract with Suez Canal

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Damen and Caterpillar agree bow-to-stern services

66 Insurance check

24 Tugs & Towing

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BG Freight Line uses carbon capture to reduce emissions

‘Wave Lab’ will set the standard for public water transport

Union backlash as DP World-owned P&O Ferries fires 800 crew without notice

The director of SMS Group on the need for new blood in the industry

30 Carbon capture

43 Autonomous shipping

46 C rew sackings

10 Profile: Nick Warren

FEATURES

This month’s cover features a first-of-a-kind fully electric battery-powered tugboat, developed and built by Navtek Naval Technologies, which has now completed 580 days in operation.

ZEETUG30®, the first zero-emission, rechargeable and fully electric battery-powered tugboat in the world, was launched by Navtek back in 2020.

After delivery of the first ZEETUG30®, NAVTEK was signed up for three more tugboats with GISAS Shipbuilding Industry (a major pilotage and towage company at Tuzla Bay, İstanbul). Two sister vessels, ZEETUG30®, and one ZEETUG45®, will be delivered at the end of 2022.

A tugboat operation profile covers heavy-duty operations, so it is very different from that of a ferry or

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The Port of Beirut will be restored by French firm CMA CGM

a cargo ship, and requires high, continuous power. But the demands have not affected the performance of GİSAŞ POWER (ZEETUG30®) in its 580 days of operation, as evidenced in an operational status report published with the important figures within this period.

ZEETUG30® can be fully charged at a custom-made quick charge station (QCS) in less than an hour. Total fuel savings amount to 50.27%, and maintenance and repair OPEX savings amount to 21% compared with a diesel version. With emissions, the ZEETUG30 saves 210.1 tonnes a year of CO2, and nitrogen oxide of 0.55 tonnes.

Navtek offers engineering across a wide range of vessels, from the simplest of barges to sophisticated ships as well as project development and initial design.

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NEWS

BRIEFS New four-year ferry contract

Government service provider Serco will continue to operate the Stockholm Djurgårdsfärjerna ferries with partners Strömma Turism & Sjöfart AB for another four years, the companies announced on March 1. The ferries transport more than two million passengers in Stockholm a year, running between Slussen, Skeppsholmen and Djurgården. The companies have been operating the ferries since 2013.

Ocean energy back on track Last year saw Europe installing more than ten times as much tidal energy capacity and three times as much wave energy compared with 2020, according to the EU network Ocean Energy Europe.

“An increase in private investment and the entrance of important industrial players into the sector reflect the growing appeal of ocean energy to investors, power producers and manufacturers,” Ocean Energy says.

Rotor sails for RoRo vessel Norsepower will install two rotor sails on what is believed to be the world’s biggest short sea RoRo vessel, the MV Delphine, which transits between the UK, Ireland and Europe.

The vessel has a cargo capacity of close to 8,000 lane meters, and Norsepower estimates that the two 35m x 5m rotor sails will achieve a fuel and emission saving of between 7-10%.

The sails will be installed by the end of the year.

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RUSSIA AND UKRAINE CLOSE PORTS AS WAR ESCALATES Russia suspended commercial shipping in the Sea of Azov on February 24, while yesterday news agency Reuters said Ukraine would keep its own ports closed until the end of the Russian invasion.

Ukraine reported blasts in the port city of Mariupol, which had been recovered from Russian troops and was now back in Ukraine’s hands. Mariupol is most highly at risk, said the risk assessment firm A2 Global Risk, as it is the Donbass region in the east of the country bordering Russia.

The port of Odessa had already been hit, the firm said.

“In 2020, the port of Mariupol handled seven million tonnes of cargo, making it the fifth busiest in the country,” said A2 Global Risk. “Shipping companies using ports in the Sea of Azov will be unable to collect goods from the affected ports due to the recently imposed maritime restrictions, while vessels currently in the sea may be prevented from leaving the area, “Shipping companies should also check their ‘war risk’ status.”

On February 26, International Maritime Organization secretary-general Kitack Lim said

the IMO fully supported the UN’s call for hostilities to end immediately.

“I am gravely concerned about the spill-over effects of the military action in Ukraine on global shipping, and logistics and supply chains, in particular the delivery of commodities and food to developing nations and the impacts on energy supplies,” he said.

“Shipping, particularly seafarers, cannot be collateral victims in a larger political and military crises – they must be safe and secure.”

Reuters said one of the side effects of the war was the soaring cost of insurance for merchant ships sailing through the Black

8 Under attack: the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol

Sea, with additional ‘breach’ premiums payable for vessels entering high-risk areas, on top of their annual war risk cover.

Quoting an unnamed insurance source, the news agency said the additional premium rate for seven days could be up to 5% of insurance costs, which would mean hundreds of thousands of dollars for a ship voyage, depending on destination.

“Given the Russian offensive from land, sea and air, it would not be surprising if some insurers will be reluctant to provide cover,” it quoted one source as saying.

LUXURY CARS SINK ONBOARD FIRE-STRUCK FELICITY ACE The car carrier Felicity Ace, which caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean on its way from Germany to the US, has now sunk, ship owner and operator MOL has confirmed in a statement.

The Portuguese Navy rescued all 22 crew members safely from the vessel, which was carrying up to 4,000 top-end cars, including Lamborghinis, Audis and Porsches owned by the car firm Volkswagen.

The navy deployed its NRO Setubal ocean patrol vessel to the incident, some 90 miles from the Azores islands, to monitor the area – and although no oil leaks were visible at the time of the fire, MOL says an oil slick appeared when the vessel finally sank.

Two large tugs with firefighting equipment arrived on the scene from Gibraltar along with a salvage craft from Rotterdam, six

8 Felicity Ace has sunk with 4,000 luxury cars on board

days after the fire broke out on February 16.

“The salvage team on site were able to board Felicity Ace by a helicopter and the vessel has started being towed by the large salvage craft Bear to a safe area off Azores,” MOL Ship Management said on February 25.

“Two tugs, ALP Guard and Dian Kingdom, together with a large salvage craft with additional firefighting capacity VB Hispanic, are escorting the vessel.”

However on March 1, MOL

confirmed that the vessel had sunk around 220nm off the Azores ‘after having suffered a list to starboard side’.

“When the vessel sank, there was a small oil slick seen in the water,” MOL said on March 1.

The cause of the fire has not been confirmed, but several news outlets have suggested lithium batteries inside some of the cars – which were electric vehicles – could have sustained the blaze, if not caused it.

Lithium-ion battery fires are particularly difficult to put out, partly because when lithium is exposed to water it produces hydrogen, which is flammable.

They are known to re-ignite and have to be stored away from anything flammable, sometimes in whole tanks of water until the risk of reignition is over.

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NEWS

BRIEFS Sanmar sends 4 tugs to Pakistan

NAUTILUS UNION SLAMS P&O’S OFFERED SETTLEMENT

Four powerful newbuild tugboats have arrived in Karachi. The Kocacay series tugs have bollard pulls ranging from 76 to 86 tonnes and are based on the excluive Sanmar RAstar 3200SX design by Robert Allan. Contracts were signed at a ceremony in Islamabad on March 29, 2021, almost exactly a year before delivery of the boats to Port Qasim, the largest industrial zone in Pakistan.

H-fuelled Edda Breeze named

Hydrogen-fuelled Edda Breeze was officially named on March 12 as one of the vessels supporting Ocean Breeze for its operations at the Bard Offshore 1 wind farm in Germany. It is the first vessel of five Commissioning Service Operation Vessels ordered by Norwegian ship owner Edda Wind, and the ceremony took place at Figueras, Spain.

Wärtsilä Down Under

Finnish technology giant Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply main and auxiliary engines, fuel storage tanks, gas handling equjpment and electrical systems for a 210m RoRo under construction at the Flensburger SchiffbauGesellschaft shipyard in Germany. The equipment includes dual-fuel auxiliary engines, a fuel gas handling system and LNG tanks, as well as almost every electrical system on board, such as bridge consoles with integrated navigation, nautical sensors, monitoring and control systems, internal and external communications, lighting and safety systems.

The vessel has been ordered by Australian operator SeaRoad Shipping.

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Payouts to staff fired without warning last week will total £36.5 million, P&O says - but Nautilus has called it an admission of guilt.

P&O Ferries will pay compensation packages to all of the staff it unceremoniously sacked without notice, to a grand total of £36,541,648, the firm said in a statement released yesterday.

P&O Ferries It says 40 employees will receive more than £100,000, with some exceeding £170,000, and no payouts will be less than £15,000.

“Employees are also being given support to find a new job at sea or onshore, support is being given to those who don’t get a new job, and a comprehensive

employee assistance programme is available,” the company said through PR agency New Century Media, claiming this had been the basis of offers made last week.

“Some employees are receiving 91 weeks’ pay and the chance of new employment,” the agency said.

Reacting to the offer, seafarer union Nautilus said that after five days P&O had only managed to come up with an admission of guilt, not an explanation for ’its outrageous and illegal actions’.

“P&O Ferries’ shameless actions now extend to trying to buy its way out of the legal predicament, exposed by the unions, of failing in its obligation to report to the secretary of state

and to consult with the recognised trades unions,” says Nautilus. ”Nautilus members have been put under intense pressure by P&O Ferries management to accept these redundancy terms whilst threatening them with withdrawal of the offer made if they talk to the press or demonstrate against the company.”

Union general secretary Mark Dickinson demanded the company reinstate all staff who were sacked.

“We are pleased to learn that the government is still considering purusing legal action and will also be investigating breaches of the National Minimum Wage and the terms of agency woprkers’ contracts.” he said.

A spokesperson for P&O Ferries said: “This has been an incredibly tough decision for the business: to make this choice or face taking the company into administration.

“This would have meant the loss of 3,000 jobs and the end of P&O Ferries. In making this hard choice, we have guaranteed the future viability of P&O Ferries, avoided large-scale and lengthy disruption, and secured Britain’s trading capacity.” to our request for a comment.

VICENTE BOLUDA FOS WINS FRANCE’S HIGHEST MEDAL Vicente Boluda Fos, chairman of Spain’s 185-year-old maritime firm Boluda Corporación Maritima, has been awarded France’s most prestigious medal.

The Knight of the Legion of Honour medal will be presented to Boluda Fos in the French capital in June ‘in recognition of the Boluda Corporación Maritima CEO’s professional career as a model of business in the international arena’ The medal will be presented by the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy.

“It is with great pride that I accept this award from the French Republic: I cannot

begin to express my gratitude towards the country,” said Boluda Fos. The award recognises Boluda’s commitment to its role in maintaining the safety and operability of French waters and

ports through the company’s subsidiary, Boluda France, which was set up in 2007.

On February 21, Boluda Shipping began building a container terminal at Santander Port on the northern coast of Spain.

“Boluda Shipping is helping to improve national and international links with the port of Santander with the creation of this container terminal, which will result in lower costs for companies and shorter transit times, and allow Santander and Cantabria to become more competitive,” said Santander Port Authority president Francisco Martin.

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Cleantech wins funding

UK consortium Cleantech has won funding to assess the feasibility of its marine pumped hydro (MPH) technology, which stores energy generated by wind turbines in hollow concrete spheres fitted with a hydraulic turbine and pump. The £150,000 funding has been awarded under the UK government’s Longer Duration Energy Storage Demonstration Programme, which aims to find technologies that can provide greater grid stability by backing up unreliable electricity like that generated by wind turbines.

Valiant Lady arrives in Tilbury

The largest cruise ship to ever dock at London’s Tilbury Dock arrived there on March 10 before a UK tour. Virgin’s Valiant Lady is the company’s second largest cruise ship, with a 2,700 passenger capacity plus 1,600 crew. It is 278 metres long, 38 metres wide and weighs 110,000 tonnes. The largest cruise ship in the world is the Wonder of the Seas, with a weight of 236,800 tonnes.

Mines adrift in the Black Sea

Hundreds of mines have broken free of their tethers near Ukraine, the Federal Security Service of Russia said in a press release on March 19 that was picked up by numerous media outlets including The Moscow Times. “After the start of the Russian special military operation, Ukrainian naval forces deployed mines around the ports of Odessa, Ochakov, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny,” the paper said, adding that the mines were “dilapidated” and made in the first half of the 20th century.

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INFRASTRUCTURE FUND BUYS 65% STAKE IN JIFMAR European infrastructure fund Marguerite II has agreed to buy 65% of the French offshore services firm Jifmar.

The deal is expected to complete in the second quarter of this year, and company co-founders CEO Jean-Michel Berud and supervisory board chairman Foad Zahedi will remain in place. They will reinvest alongside Marguerite, the company said.

Jifmar, which was created in 2005 to provide operational and safety support services to oil and gas companies, has developed its engineering capabilities for marine and subsea projects in shallow waters and expanded into renewable energy, power, telecoms, aquaculture and civil engineering sectors.

“Marguerite aims to support Jifmar in its transition to next-generation offshore service vessels operations to address the decarbonisation challenges of the sector,” Marguerite said. “Jifmar is an innovative company at the forefront of the industry, as demonstrated by the Canopée project jointly developed with Zéphyr & Borée, that entails the construction and operation of the first modern wind-propelled cargo ship specially designed to support Ariane 6 launcher

components from Europe to French Guyana.

“Jifmar has also taken steps towards the decarbonsiation of its fleet by implementing duial fuel or hybrid electric monitoring solutions.”

This is the second big spend for Marguerite this year, having bought the French biogas industrial group Koen, and follows several other investments in the last 12 months, including freight transport operator GTS, heating developer Rebi, green data centre operator Conapto and solar/storage power producer ZE Energy.

The Jifmar stake was sold to Marguerite by RAISE Investissement, which has been supporting the company since 2016.

CSM MONACO EXPANDS OPERATIONS TO FORM NEW JV Columbia Ship Management (CSM) is expanding its operations and services in the French, Italian and Monégasque markets by signing a joint venture agreement with Monaco-based Sea World Management (SWM).

The new company, Columbia Seaworld Management (CSM Monaco), will provide CSM’s maritime services platform to clients in the region including those in the tanker, bulker, container, cruise, MPP, offshore, superyacht, private jet and asset management sectors. Roberto Corvetta, chief executive of SWM, said this was the tangible result of many years of hard work.

“We are proud to become partners of such an important group and we are committed to using all our energy and expertise for the success of the initiative, which, I am sure, will allow us to expand our world and to bring benefit to all our clients,” he said.

The Columbia Group has significant experience in the leisure sector through its COLUMBIA Blue operation, which offers services for the cruise,

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expedition and yacht segments, along with management services for private jet aviation. It also provides hotel, hygiene, training and crewing services.

Welcoming the move, Mark O’Neil, president and chief executive of CSM Group, said the joint venture brought together two like-minded businesses.

“CSM Monaco will bring the entire CSM suite of integrated

8 Mark O’Neil, CEO, CSM Group

maritime services, logistics, catering, private jet management, specialised leisure project management, and event management to existing and new clients in France, Italy and Monaco while capitalising effectively on the excellent network Sea World Management has in the region,” he said.

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Nicholas Warren The SMS Group One of the biggest challenges facing the maritime industry, says SMS Group director Nick Warren, is new blood - or rather, the lack of it.

It’s not because the industry isn’t trying to get younger people interested - there’s just not the interest, for a variety of reasons, says Warren. Organisations in the sector like his are doing their best, but industry, as a whole, needs more of an initiative because there is a severe skills shortage yet the need for those skills is growing more quickly than ever.

“When you look at shipbuilding in this country, we are going to build more ships in the next 10 years than we’ve built in recent generations - yet we can’t build what we need to build as it is today,” he says.

Until the recruitment problem is solved, and with ageing fleets across all sectors, marine engineering services company SMS Marine is going to be busy. With new technologies to take on all the time, partly because of stricter requirements, it’s a constant challenge, but one that if SMS can’t meet themselves - they will make sure someone else can.

will make sure that we subcontract to someone who can. We admit we can’t do everything ourselves, but if a customer needs it we will find someone who can.”

With a staff of 150 and a database of subcontractors of about the same number, SMS is likely to be able to meet whatever demand might be made.

And with eight locations around the UK, customers can go to them - but as it often makes more sense to make repairs in situ, the company’s mobile offering of 40-50 vehicles means services can be carried out on site too.

It also has two dive teams - each, by law, comprising five members - if needed.

“We have three main focuses,” says Warren.

“Interior outfit work; increased support for the defence sector; and the Typhoon 3000 - a 3000T jack-up barge.” (see page 58) “Outfitting and refitting is a major industry.

It’s worth more than £1billion a year and we want to get a small but increasing percentage of the that revenue.”

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“As the technology changes we will be led by that,” says Warren. “We have already taken out old propulsion systems and replaced them with new ones. With propulsion we are seeing more electrification, and ports are being driven by their customers, as are we.

“If we can’t do a particular task in-house, we

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The changes started happening about 20 years ago, but there was a lot of talking about them rather than doing them. Now, things are starting to happen because of the IMO 2016 carbon restrictions, so things have had to change and it seems to be happening quickly.

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PAN-ARCTIC CABLE PROJECT RESURRECTED AFTER DELAY The project, which was originally announced in 2019 by Finnish data networks and software firm Cinia and the Russian telecommunications company MegaFon, was put on ice in May 2021 Initially named the Arctic Connect project, Cinia CEO AriJussi Knaapila said it was ‘a real international opportunity’, but key stakeholders had decided to put it on hold for reasons it did not share.

In December 2021, Cinia announced the project, now called the Far North Fiber project, would go ahead as previously planned but with Far North Digital, a Canadian telecommunications infrastructure company.

Telecoms infrastructure operator ARTERIA Networks was announced as partner on February 16 and will serve as the leading Japanese partner to develop and build the cable.

It will be routed via the Northwest Passage from Japan to Europe with landings in Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, Norway, Finland and Ireland.

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Far North Fiber will be the first multicontinental cable system and the first pan-Arctic system. First of its kind very often causes a paradigm shift. Cinia is very pleased to have all three continents represented in the development team First pan-Arctic cable system “Far North Fiber will be the first multicontinental cable system and the first pan-Arctic system,” said Cinia CEO Ari-Jussi Knaapila. “First of its kind very often causes a paradigm shift.

Cinia is very pleased to have all three continents represented in the development team.”

“The Far North Fiber project is an epoch-making project to build the last remaining submarine cable route connecting

Europe with Japan and Asia at the lowest latency and will greatly contribute to the further development of the digital infrastructure environment in Japanese regions such as Hokkaido,” said Koji Kabumoto, representative director, president and CEO of ARTERIA. “In addition, the new international network realized by the Far North Fiber will be able to create new demand for connectivity in a wide range of fields such as industry, academia and culture in Europe, Japan, and Asia.”

Cinia said the global economy was increasingly relying on international telecom networks and logistics systems, and new routes with additional capacity would be needed to accommodate them.

With a growing concern for security and sustainability as digital economies develop, the system would ensure it was given due consideration, the companies said.

Further details of the project installation were not released.

8 The route of the resurrected Arctic cable project

Subsea 7 wins grant to install ‘PowerBundle’ Subsea 7 and its technology partner FLASC have been given a grant by the UK government to develop an offshore energy storage system that will sit on the seabed to store wind-generated electricity.

The ‘PowerBundle’ was selected to receive a £471,760 (€563,000) grant from the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) after a longer duration storage competition promoting the need for technologies to provide long-term energy storage.

Subsea 7 will use its subsea pipeline bundle technology and combine it with FLASC’s

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8 FLASC and Subsea 7’s ‘PowerBundle’ offshore energy storage

hydro-pneumatic energy storage technology.

FLASC is a spin-off company from the University of Malta.

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preparations for proposed technologies to be deployed on the UK national electricity grid, are already under way.

Phase 2 will be to build and test a grid-connected demonstrator.

Separately, Subsea 7 is to get its fleet upgraded with a secure hybrid communications network by smart technology provider Marlink, which will give it a guaranteed throughput and a separate network for crew comms.

Subsea 7 operates one of the most diverse fleets in the market, including chartered and high specification owned vessels.

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BLUESTOR PROJECT TRIALS BATTERY TECH FOR PORT A project using flow battery technology to power port and vessel operations has won UK government backing to trial its commercial feasibility BlueStor is an energy storage and distribution system based on organic flow battery technology that will be trialled at the international port of Portsmouth, on the south coast of England.

The project is going ahead with four main parties behind it: BEIS, the government’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy; MSE International, a consortium for marine industries set up to stimulate growth and innovation; Swanbarton, a battery and energy storage consultancy; and Houlder, a design and engineering consultancy that serves the marine and energy sectors.

German battery firm CMBlu Energy will provide its scalable redox flow battery for the project. It claims the battery is ‘the first truly green battery technology that’s ready to scale’.

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Significant additional electrical supply capacity is needed to provide shore power to vessels alongside and in time to recharge electrically propelled vessels One of its key advantages over conventional batteries like lead-acid or lithium-ion is its long duration capability, which is achieved with a stack of electro-chemical cells that convert electricity into chemical energy before being stored in charged electrolytes in external tanks.

If the storage capacity is not enough it can easily be scaled up, the project leaders say.

“Decarbonisation of the ports and shipping sector is creating huge increases in electrical power demand, often beyond the

capacity of existing grid connections,” the consortium says.

“Significant additional electrical supply capacity is needed to provide shore power to vessels alongside and in time to recharge electrically propelled vessels. The intermittent nature of power demand in ports makes them good candidates for long duration energy storage and management solutions.”

The project aims to achieve two tasks: 1. To supply electricity to visiting vessels and in-port assets such as cranes and port vehicles at less cost and using electricity wholesale price arbitrage to save money 2. To sell balancing services such as reserve power and demand to grid operators or aggregators.

Once commercial and technical feasibility is ascertained in phase 1, a prototype flow battery will be built to demonstrate the supply of electricity to visiting cruise ships when at berth in Portsmouth.

Babcock assists on LPG floating storage study Aerospace company Babcock has delivered the conceptual engineering support for a combined condensate and LPG floating storage and offloading feasibility study for Twinza Oil. The company undertook the eight-week concept study for a new field development in Papua New Guinea. Major hull conversion scopes and LPG chilling plant topsides were defined and the hull evaluated for strength and motion.

“We were delighted to work with our new customer Twinza Oil to carry out conceptual engineering support,” said Neil Young, Babcock’s engineering and technology director.

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MARINE CIVILS ScaffFloat, from Seawork exhibitors WorkFloat, a system of patented plastic floats that allows pontoons, barges and workboats to be built from standard scaffold components, has just launched its first pontoon in Australia through one of its local partners, AEG Group.

Perth-based Access Engineering Group is the first scaffold firm in Australia to become an Approved Partner of the system, and launched an 8m x 4m ScaffFloat pontoon with a submerged access shelf cantilevered off the end to give bespoke access to its client, who is carrying out maintenance works on Barrack Street Jetty and needs access above and below the water.

Access Engineering Group offers services throughout Australia and the Pacific Rim Region, both on and offshore, and has more than 24 years of trading in the industry. It approached ScaffFloat and applied to be an Approved Provider as it undertakes projects in domestic and commercial construction as well as utilities and infrastructure, and could see that ScaffFloat would be of use to its clients.

Damian Beausang, MD of AEG group, said ‘’We have had a number of other enquiries for ScaffFloat in Australia and we expect this to be the first of many

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Toby Budd, MD of ScaffFloat, said: “The ScaffFloat system is designed to integrate with

8 ”We expect this to be the first of many jobs where we provide safe floating access”

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PIONEERING ANCHOR COMPLETES ON-LAND TRIALS

8 CRC Walrus could be the world’s first amphibious maintenance vessel

RWE reveals amphibious maintenance vessel German energy company RWE and partner Commercial Rib Charters (CRC) have designed what they say is the world’s first amphibious maintenance vessel.

RWE says the potential is huge for the vessel, which can transfer crew to turbines or other assets stranded by rising sandbanks and can therefore support worldwide applications for wind farms in very shallow waters.

The first vessel, to be named CRC Walrus, will be used to reach turbines at Scroby Sands, in eastern England, which have become stranded on the prehistoric sandbank on which they were built.

Because of natural changes in the marine environment and coastal erosion, the sandbank has risen and four turbines cannot be reached by service vessels.

Naval architects Chartwell Marine designed the vessel to specifications requested by RWAE and CRC, and it is now being built by Diverse Marine on the Isle of Wight.

“The fully seaworthy vessel, which can also drive on land, provides a unique access solution for some of the industry’s first-generation assets affected by very dynamic seabed conditions,” says RWE. CRC Walrus is a 12-metre approved crew transfer vessel with a 1,000kg deck cargo capacity. It can carry 10 technicians and two crew.

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A new marine anchor solution has successfully completed on-land trials validating the technology and sealing approval for full-scale production and ocean deployment.

The UMACK (Universal Mooring, Anchor & Connectivity Kit) Project has developed a unique mooring and anchoring solution in a bid to supersede traditional ‘gravity-based’ and tubular monopile anchors – reducing CAPEX, installation and O&M (Operational & Maintenance) costs by more than 50%.

After undergoing rigorous field trials in northern Portugal, the novel technology is now rapidly advancing through full-scale production ahead of ocean deployment. The UMACK system will be integrated with wave energy developer CorPower Ocean’s first commercial-scale WEC (Wave Energy Converter), as a key part of the overall flagship HiWave-5 Ocean Demonstration Project.

This recent field trial build upon previous successful stages of the anchor test programme at the world-class scaled anchor centrifuge testing facility at University of Dundee (UoD), and on-land testing at the worldrenowned Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy System (IWES) in

cooperation with the Test Centre for Support Structures (TTH) of the Leibniz University of Hannover.

CorPower Portugal Country Manager Miguel Silva said the HiWave-5 ocean deployment project is now gathering pace, with teams being mobilised on the ground in northern Portugal.

“The initial anchor lay is pivotal, providing a solid foundation for our wave energy converter to operate in extreme Atlantic conditions,” said Miguel. “The UMACK system provides us with a series of unique benefits, including quickconnection and full-surface operation, removing the need for dive support. This not only streamlines marine operations for the installation process but also the retrieval of our WECs for

8 The system underwent rigorous field trials in northern Portugal

maintenance, helping maximise operational windows.”

The UMACK Project is led by a European consortium including geotechnical specialist Ternan Energy, wave and tidal energy developers CorPower Ocean and Sustainable Marine, mooring experts TTI Marine Renewables, EMEC (European Marine Energy Centre) and marine renewable energy modelling experts from the University of Edinburgh.

UMACK is funded by Scottish Enterprise and the Swedish Energy Agency with co-funding from the OCEANERA-NET COFUND (via the European Commission under Horizon 2020).

HERBOSCH-KIERE TO LAY CABLES FOR BAHRAIN AND ARCHIPELAGO

Work to lay three 66kV submarine cables between Bahrain mainland and its Hawar Islands will begin this month.

Flemish marine construction company Herbosch-Kiere has been selected to install the cables, using its multi-purpose, self-propelled vessel Atlantis.

The vessel is ideal for carrying out this type of shallow water work, says the company, because of its limited draught.

The project is due to be completed within three months.

Bahrain’s Electricity & Water Authority last year awarded the $125.6 million (€112 million) contract to the Saudi Arabian

construction firm Al-Gihaz Contracting, which subcontracted Herbosch-Kiere.

The cables are 66kV XPLE submarine cables with built-in fibre optic cables and will be installed between the landing stations on the mainland and the Hawar Islands archipelago,

8 Herbosch-Kiere’s multi-purpose, self-propelled vessel Atlantis

approximately 25 kilometres away. In total there are 36 islands, but many of the smaller ones are uninhabited.

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The company has also just secured an Asian breakthrough with a contract in Singapore, the firm said on March 10.

PSW Power & Automation, which has worked with Zinus since 2018, has ordered three Shore Power Compact units will primarily supply low-voltage shore power to platform supply vessels serving offshore installations in the Norwegian Sea, but can also be used with other kinds of vessels that call in to the port.

“By using clean electricity from shore during harbour stays, the vessels’ CO2 emissions are reduced compared to having their power requirements met by running on-board diesel generators,” Zinus sales director Ronny Olson said.

The units can deliver 2.5 MW of power, which would be enough to supply around 1,250 detached houses with electricity.

The systems are particularly suitable for busy ports that need reliable, smaller shore power connections that can serve a wide variety of vessels.

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ZINUS WINS EUROPE AND ASIA CONTRACTS FOR PORT CHARGING

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The contract marks our breakthrough in Asia and is a key milestone that strengthens our position internationally. We see Singapore as a very interesting market by virtue of its great focus on environment and sustainability Zinus has been contracted in Singapore to supply its automonous charging system to enable fully electric sea transport for workers travelling between the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park in Singapore.

The three electric passenger catamarans are owned by the Penguin International

Shipyard in Singapoore, where three charging towers will be installed on land along with six receiving units for charging plugs on the vessels.

“This is an especially important order for Zinus, and we are pleased with our agreement with the renowned Penguin Shipyard,” said Zinus CEO Endre Eidsvik.

“The contract marks our breakthrough in Asia and is a key milestone that strengthens our position internationally.

We see Singapore as a very interesting market by virtue of its great focus on environment and sustainability.”

Olson said Zinus has more than 120 of its systems installed in Norwegian and other international ports.

The systems are specifically designed for busy ports that need smaller shore power connections for a variety of vessels.

“Each unit has a small footprint, and the technology is thoroughly encapsulated and secured against seawater and harsh weather conditions,” says the company.

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UKHO ANNOUNCES FIRST LIVE S-102 SEA TRIAL The UKHO, PLA and SEAiq Pilot will test S-102 Bathymetric Surface product specifications in real-life scenarios with PLA pilots for the first time this spring The project will help gain understanding of user requirements of the new data set and collect feedback that will help to influence the S-100 data standard development process, in turn improving data coverage and user experience, the UKHO says.

This is the third phase of the S-102 Bathymetric Surface project between UKHO, PLA and SEAiq Pilot to create and supply the necessary data sets required by pilots.

Before the actual live sea trial takes place, a planning desk exercise will be run through different scenarios using the S-102 data.

“S-100 data standards will be transformative for anyone who uses marine navigational data, “ said project lead and head of OEM Technical Support and Digital Standards at the UKHO Tom Mellor.

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By conducting this trial we will continue to build the safety case for S-102 and help to support greater commercial, economic, environmental and safety of life at sea outcomes in the UK’s Exclusive Economic Zone “By conducting this trial we will continue to build the safety case for S-102 and help to support greater commercial, economic, environmental and safety of life at sea outcomes in the UK’s Exclusive Economic Zone.

“We are keen to bring a user perspective to the future of nautical navigation with a small, diverse and highly experienced team of pilots and hydrographers joining this collaborative effort.”

The outcomes of the trial will be monitored from pilot boarding point to berth, using SEAiq Pilot’s Portable Piloting Unit and the UKHO’s S-102 data to monitor the passage, the UKHO says.

The results will then be assessed to understand the need for potential extensions to S-102 and to feed back into the IHO testbed development process.

During January and February 2022, the PLA provided the latest hydrographic survey information of the trial area for the UKHO to create and supply the necessary S-102 data sets required by pilots.

Before the live sea trial commences, the project will first observe a passage planning desk exercise running through different scenarios using the S-102 Bathymetric Surface data.

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Ørsted hires Fugro to deliver geo-data around UK wind farms Geo-intelligence firm Fugro has been awarded a contract by Danish power company Ørsted to investigate a marine geotechnical site around two of the world’s largest offshore wind farms. Ørsted owns the rights to develop the ‘Hornsea Zone of wind farms off the northeast coast of England..

Fugro will mobilise multiple vessels from its fleet to combat challenging ground conditions and deliver large volumes of geo-data within the required project schedule, which is set for May to August 2022.

“The detailed site investigations include downhole cone penetration testing, seismic

8 Fugro Scout, one of the vessels to deliver geo-data around Hornsea

cone penetration testing, downhole sampling and high-quality rock coring as well as borehold geophysical logging,” said Fugro.

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“This will not only enable reliable and efficient foundation designs, but also help derisk the project’s future developmental phases.”

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TUGS & TOWING

TUG DELIVERY AND ORDER ROUND-UP

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8 PSA Marine’s latest pair of RAmparts tugs have Niigata main engines

tugs in the current fleet and be operated by its subsidiary Mailiao Harbour Administration Corp providing shiphandling along with security and external firefighting services in the designated areas. Built concurrently at PaxOcean’s Batam, Indonesia shipyard, Covid-19 caused some delays but both vessels successfully completed sea trials and are now at Mailiao Port.

The 31.8m tugs feature a flush main deck with accommodation below and forward of the VSP compartment with additional cabins for master and chief engineer on the deckhouse level.

As with the PSA Marine pair, Niigata provide resilientlymounted main engines with two 6L28HX models each rated 1,897kW at 750rpm powering Voith VSP 28R5/210-2 thrusters forward in tractor configuration with both tugs exceeding the designed bollard pull of 50t and achieving a free running speed of 12kn.

The accommodation is “outfitted to a high standard” for six persons, the deckhouse including an engine watch room, wet room area and galley and lounge/mess area. As well as two double berth cabins, the lower deck also provides two storage spaces while the wheelhouse has a Voith style control console which can be operated for both ahead and astern operations. Other specifications include: beam moulded 11.48m, depth least moulded 4.65m and maximum navigational draught 5.2m.

8 Uzmar-built Alsancak 20 will operate within its own fleet of tugs

Credit: Uzmar

Turkey’s Sanmar Shipyards is known for its examples from RAL’s tug catalogue with the combination of proven designs and quality build attracting a steady stream of orders for Sanmar. Its first delivery of 2022 sees the Sanmar-exclusive RAmparts 2400SX Halcon III (launched as Bogacay XLVIII) joining earlier delivered sisters Saam Valparaiso, Saam Palenque and Albatros to become SAAM Towage’s first Sanmar-built tug operating in Chile.

Both builder and client speak of the beneficial attributes of the Bogacay class, where along with other similar compact designs a respectable 70tbp is delivered via a Caterpillar/ Rolls-Royce main engine/thruster combination on a hull length of just 24.4m (excluding fenders). ABS-classed Halcon III provides firefighting class 1 capabilities, accommodation for up to six persons and carries unrestricted service notation.

Slightly smaller than the RAmparts 2400, the 2200 Sirapinar class variant is another popular design and Sanmar’s first order for 2022 has been chalked up for the 2020-built Sirapinar XV, currently part of Sanmar’s own fleet.

The 22m long, 54tbp tug will be joining the fleet of SMS Towage, the UK’s largest family-owned towage company becoming the Hull-based company’s 11th Sanmar-built tug and its third Sirapinar class vessel operating alongside Pullman and Lloydsman delivered in 2017 and 2019 respectively. Propulsion involves Schottel fixed-pitch thrusters powered by Caterpillar 3512C main engines Ali Gurun, vice president, Sanmar Shipyards, said: “We are delighted to get 2022 off to a flying start by signing a contract with our good friends and long-term partners at SMS Towage.

It is always pleasing when an existing customer comes back for more. Our Sirapinar class tugs have proved extremely popular because of their low-manning operation due to a high standard of machinery automation.”

Another RAmparts class tug, the 2500W variant features in the news that Uzmar Shipyards has deployed its newbuilding Alsancak 20 to Ambarli Port. As well as a tug builder in its own right, Uzmar also operates a private pilotage and tug service at several Turkish ports and this new addition joins nine other Uzmar tugs at Ambarli. The BV-classed, fifi1 equipped vessel flies the Turkish flag and with a Caterpillar/ Kongsberg main engine/thruster combination delivers 80tbp and a speed of 12kn.

Looking beyond Europe and again going up the size scale with the RAmparts design two consecutively hull numbered 3200-CL examples PSA Wanda and PSA Vision are joining PSA Marine’s extensive tug fleet in Singapore. Built by Cheoy Lee Shipyards, Hong Kong with hulls from Hin Lee (Zhuhai Shipyard) the 70tbp pair are powered by Niigata main engines with Caterpillar providing two auxiliaries.

The final news is notable in its nature and moves away from RAL’s ASD configured portfolio mentioned above with the Canadian naval architect recording its first entry in the Taiwanese market with delivery of the TRAktor-V series high performance Voith (VSP) tractors Mailiao 1505 and Mailiao 1506 to Formosa Plastic Corporation. They will replace ageing

Credit: PSA Marine

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Seasonal bad weather in Europe has seen two Boskalis tugs provide emergency assistance to a drifting bulk carrier and a grounded container ship, all within one week.

If your ship requires assistance there are definite advantages if it happens on the doorstep of the Dutch salvage industry, including Boskalis and its subsidiary Smit Salvage. So, when the 189m long, 37,200dwt bulker Julietta D encountered problems while anchored off IJmuiden during storm Corrie the Dutch soon became involved.

Julietta D was adrift and following contact with another vessel and two offshore structures started to take in water in the engine room, also losing its rudder. Helicopters, lifeboats and local tugs including Multraship’s Multratug 18 were soon on scene with all 18 crew safely evacuated by helicopter.

Boskalis’ tug Sovereign was conveniently available in Rotterdam and soon arrived with a Smit salvage team airlifted to the casualty by helicopter and Sovereign and Multratug 18 establishing towing connections. A second Boskalis tug, Manta, also arrived with additional equipment and personnel, and with the tugs having 457tbp available collectively regained control of Julietta D and towed it to Rotterdam, a ‘port of refuge’ where

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AMBITIOUS STANDARDS GOALS FOR SAAM 8 SAAM is celebrating a double achievement with its operational standards

out by DNV Business Assurance including evaluating leadership, planning, support, operations, performance and improvements.

In separate news SAAM Towage and Caterpillar have signed a global services agreement aimed at boosting the efficiency of SAAM’s tug fleet using digital solutions for planned and preventative maintenance. The agreement includes an ongoing review of over 200 Caterpillar engines, backed by a team from Caterpillar. In addition, SAAM will: “benefit from technical support through fleet management services and other new technologies to

generate continuous improvements.”

Looking at SAAM in general, it states it is the largest towing company in the Americas with a presence in: Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Panama, El Salvador and Uruguay. Its services include: shiphandling; barge towing and civil construction services; salvage services and specialist services for vessels at offshore terminals and oil and gas platforms with operations at 84 ports with 170+ tugs completing over 100,000 manoeuvres for around 37,000 vessels per year.

BOSKALIS TUGS KEPT BUSY IN THE NORTH SEA

Credit: Flying Focus)

SAAM Towage has reported progress for its environmental and quality ambitions with renewal of ISO certification and achievement of carbon neutrality with its Colombia operation.

Towage service providers are constantly under pressure from customers to maintain operational and sustainability standards and SAAM Towage Colombia has achieved its PAS 2060 carbon neutrality certification and ISO 14061-1 assurance of greenhouse gases (GHG). Classification society BV verified that the company correctly measured and offset 100% of GHG emissions totaling 3,930 tons of CO2e generated in 2020 at all of its towage operations at Cartagena Bay, including for the Ecopetrol Group.

SAAM describes sustainability as a “strategic objective” and a “cornerstone of our management” where it measures its carbon footprint and takes steps to reduce it including by fully offsetting it with forestry projects. The goal for 2022 is to continue making progress upgrading facilities and equipment technology including the installation of a solar power generation plant at its Cartagena operations base.

Quality of its product is also part of the plan and SAAM Towage Brazil has recorded a milestone with renewal of its ISO 9001:2015 certification for a further three years. The international certification validates the company’s procedures and quality of the towage services and the larger organisation as a whole aims to achieve a single operating model and standardised management across its operation. The recertification audit was carried

8 Tugs from Multraship and Boskalis assist Julietta D

Multraship and Smit continued work including dewatering and machinery preservation under a joint LOF contract.

Just three days later Sovereign and Manta were heading out again in better weather but for a potentially more serious incident when

the container ship Mumbai Maersk (399m, 20,568teu) ran aground off the Frisian island of Wangerooge while inbound to Bremerhaven.

No injuries or pollution were reported and a flotilla of around eight local tugs were soon on the scene. After an unsuccessful refloating attempt, Smit Salvage was once again involved, with Sovereign and Manta tasked to assist. The German Havariekommando (Central Command for Maritime Emergencies) also assisted, including from the emergency response vessel Neuwerk. Boskalis’ Sovereign along with Neuwerk and six smaller tugs were able to refloat Mumbai Maersk two tides later, whereafter it proceeded to Bremerhaven for diver inspection.

When built for JP Knight Lowestoft in 2003 (as Anglian Sovereign) the 180tbp Sovereign was chartered to the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency for around eight years as one of its four Emergency Towing Vessels covering UK waters before joining the fleet of Smit and Boskalis.

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MORE TUGS ANNOUNCED FOR SVITZER’S SUEZ FLEET Svitzer has operated in the Suez canal since 2019 with the RAstar 3200, 80tbp tugs Svitzer Port Said 1 and Svitzer Port Said 2 stationed at Port Said at the northern end.

Towage provision has been enhanced with the arrival of Svitzer Suez 1 and Svitzer Suez 2, RAstar 2800 variants offering similar bollard pull to the initial pair and stationed at the canal’s southern end at Port Suez (see MJ January 2022).

News of the contract extension for Svitzer AMEA (Africa, Middle East and Asia) has coincided with additional news that a further two similar tugs are to join the fleet, one stationed at Port Said and the other to the south at Port Suez, making six Svitzer tugs stationed in the canal, all crewed by a total of 120 Egyptian seafarers.

The ‘symmetrical’ disposition of the fleet is a reminder that when the container ship Ever Given ran aground in the canal a year ago, passage was blocked completely, meaning tugs positioned to the north could not pass if required to assist from the southern side and vice versa.

Svitzer has turned to Turkish tug operator and builder Med Marine for the two new vessels with its version of the Robert Allan Ltd RAstar 2800 tug, designated as the MED-A 2885 by Med Marine. As is common with series tug production nowadays delivery time is short, the vessels scheduled to be in service by the end of May 2022 from Med Marine’s Eregli Shipyard on Turkey’s Black Sea coast.

Brief details of the pair include a LOA of 28.4m on a beam of 13m and maximum draught 5.7m. They will meet IMO Tier

Credit: Svitzer

Svitzer has announced an extension to its towage contract with the Suez Canal Authority including two additional tugs bringing the Danish tug owners fleet operating in the canal to six

II standards, powered by 2,100kW Caterpillar 3516C main engines driving Kongsberg US 255S FP thrusters providing 75tbp and speed 12kn. Slipping clutches will be included for firefighting capabilities.

Melis Üçüncü, sales manager, Med Marine, said: “We are thrilled to be delivering our most favourable tugs to Svitzer.

Deliveries of these boats are as exciting as the other projects we have with our valuable client. We are very excited about the contract and being able deliver state of the art units to Svitzer.”

8 Svitzer’s Suez Canal tug fleet will soon number six vessels

Redwise completes notable tug delivery Netherlands-based ship delivery company Redwise has described the memorable delivery task of a 19m tug from the west coast of Scotland to Iceland.

“Astute seamanship or fools endeavour” was the initial reaction of Redwise personnel when they received an enquiry from fellow Dutch company Damen Trading, who in November 2021 was looking to deliver the 19m Damen Stantug 1907 Bruiser from Greenock on the west coast of Scotland to Port of Sauðárkrókur on the north coast of Iceland.

Redwise has delivered ships for third party customers since 1906, dealing with all shapes and sizes, often involving new vessels built on the other side of the world to where their owners will operate them but perhaps not having the resources to undertake the delivery themselves.

In their own words, Redwise “scratched their heads before putting them together” to plan delivery of Bruiser to its new home.

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8 Bruiser was delivered safely to Iceland by Redwise

Noting that the WNA (Winter North Atlantic) loadline mark was there for a reason was one consideration when thinking about crossing the North Atlantic in the autumn/ winter period in a 19m long vessel with a very limited freeboard, but Redwise said: “Looking at it practically with a keen eye for seamanship and knowing that the right Redwise master and crew were available we made the decision to go for it professionally”.

A key aspect was breaking the voyage into smaller sectors providing the ability to seek shelter, and the new owner was keen to avoid commercial pressures.

“This is quite unlike what we see too often nowadays when schedules seem to be more important than acceptance that the master should have the absolute discretion and is best positioned to judge the prevailing conditions,” says Redwise.

Following on-site inspection with the new owners and recognising that it would fit the risk management and mitigation tools ultimately boiling down to common sense, registry, class and owner’s insurers’ agreement on the voyage.

Patience was required for preparations at Greenock before setting out, after which Scottish lochs were passed to stay sheltered with stays at Stornoway (two days), Runavik – Faroe Islands (four days) and Eskifjörður on Iceland’s east coast (two days).

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Companies now look beyond their own front door for delivery of sustainable operations. For the shipping industry, this includes service providers such as shiphandling tug operators Leasing and financing company Maritime Partners has announced that the “world’s first methanol-fuelled towboat” will be available for charter in 2023.

Louisiana-based Maritime Partners in conjunction with US naval architect Elliott Bay Design Group, US hardware developer e1 Marine and Europe-based ABB is just one of several industry players from tug owners, designers and shipyards to technology groups developing alternative-fuelled tugs including: all-electric, battery mechanical hybrid, LNG and methanol-fuelled variants all intended to provide greener solutions for a naturally energy intensive sector while at the same time satisfying regulatory environmental standards.

Maritime Partners says decarbonising the sector poses substantial challenges particularly due to the inherent size, space and weight limitations of tugs. Batteries are one solution but only suitable perhaps for certain operating profiles and requiring regular recharging. LNG is another option but the pressurised or cryogenically stored gases present extra demand on space within the tug with availability of fuel another potential problem area. The developers say methanol is available in 88 of the world’s top 100 ports avoiding the need for costly diversions.

The tug, to be named Hydrogen One, will be IMO 2030 compliant, meet US Coast Guard Subchapter M requirements and have an operational range of 550 miles before refueling. Its availability in Maritime Partners’ charter fleet will “meet the pressing demand for sustainable towboat operations”.

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shiphandling tug operators and the EcoTow arrangement being given the opportunity for DP World-owned Unifeeder to reduce associated emissions and boost its green agenda. Initially Unifeeder will deploy EcoTow services for its vessels, requiring towage services on the River Thames equating to around 100 vessel assists annually.

There are three categories of emissions: Scope 1 from company-owned and controlled activities; Scope 2 covers indirect emissions from electricity used by the company; and Scope 3 are all other indirect emissions linked to a company’s operation, which Unifeeder says make up the majority of a company’s carbon footprint.

It is with Scope 3 where EcoTow is expected to unlock around 90% CO2 reduction through Svitzer’s use of Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (HVO) instead of Marine Fuel Oil. Denmark-based Unifeeder has a global operation, its European customers benefiting from a multimodal door-to-door service. Its hub-and-spoke feeder operations provide a link for larger international shipping companies to connect their customers with

8 A Svitzer tug assists a Unifeeder vessel in London

ports and regions out of reach of large container ships. Its relevance to the sustainability of towage services is reflected in Unifeeder making almost 14,200 calls at more than 200 ports annually, its fleet of chartered shortsea and container feeder vessels currently standing at just over 50.

In the wider world, Unifeeder Group has similar operations globally.

Michael Bonde, COO networks and operations at Unifeeder, said: “We hope this will serve as an inspiration for our other vendors and partners.”

WORLD’S FIRST METHANOL TUG ON ITS WAY

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Shipping company Unifeeder has signed up to Svitzer’s EcoTow service whereby the latter’s London tug fleet will be powered by carbon neutral marine biofuel.

Following a successful pilot, Svitzer Towage has announced it is to convert its ten vessel London-based tug fleet to run on marine biofuel (see MJ January 2022). It is also offering a new towage solution called EcoTow, whereby the impact of towage operations is calculated and matched with a volume of biofuel to be delivered to the London-based tugs.

Companies now look beyond their own front door for delivery of sustainable operations. For the shipping industry, this includes service providers such as

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Designed by Elliott Bay Design Group it will use proven, efficient technology throughout including ABB’s electrical power distribution and automation technology. e1 Marine’s methanol-to-hydrogen fuel cell will involve its reformer technology generating hydrogen from methanol on demand, which the developers say will make it considerably safer than transferring and storing hydrogen directly, with the tug’s crew requiring minimal additional training to use the technology.

Robert Schluter, managing director at e1 Marine, said: “Converting methanol to hydrogen reduces the CO2 output and our

8 Maritime Partners’ methanol-fuelled tug will be available for charter in 2023

reformer technology eliminates the complexities of direct fuelling and storage of gas marine fuels. By producing hydrogen at the point of consumption for a mixture of methanol and water, e1 Marine’s system enables the safe, efficient and economic use of hydrogen as a marine fuel. ”The technology is ideal for anything that requires continuous power over extended periods including workboats and medium range passenger vessels, or to provide backup power in ports and harbours.”

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8 UK tug owner Carmet Tug Company has ordered a new workboat, its first new multirole vessel for ten years.

The vessel will be a 20m long EasyWorker class workboat built by Dutch shipyard Groeneveldt Marine Construction. Volvo Penta engines will develop 1,200bhp and deck equipment will include a crane and 40t anchor-handling winch. Due for delivery in July the design has been adapted to meet the specific requirements of Carmet who operate a fleet of 10 tugs and workboats including as the sole towage contractor for the Manchester Ship Canal.

8 Commencing what promises to be a notable quartet of tugs delivered in 2022, Grandweld Shipyard has laid the keels of the first two RAL TRAktor 2700-Z tugs to be operated by Kuwait Port Authority.

Ordered by Specialities Construction for General Trading and Contracting Company (SCC) the keel-laying ceremony was attended

by Grandweld general manager Jamal Abki; SCC CEO, Mubarak Al Woqayan and BV class representatives in Dubai. The four tugs will be equipped for multiple tasks and it is hoped MJ will return and examine these tugs in more detail when deliveries commence.

8 Carmet’s new workboat is being built in the Netherlands

8 GPS Marine Contractors has won its second Green Apple Environmental Best Practice Award of the past four years.

The Green Apple Transport Sector Gold Award was for Rochester UK-based GPS Marine’s work transporting materials by barge on the London Tideway Tunnel project and its adoption of renewable fuels reducing fleet emissions. The change to 100% hydrogen treated vegetable oil for its tugs has reduced carbon emissions by 90% and created significant NOx and particulate emission reductions while eliminating SOx emissions completely. GPS operates a diverse fleet of tugs from Shoalbusters to support launches along with numerous barges, pontoons and dredging vessels.

Commencing what promises to be a notable quartet of tugs delivered in 2022, Grandweld Shipyard has laid the keels of the first two RAL TRAktor 2700-Z tugs to be operated by Kuwait Port Authority 8 Tug builder Uzmar reports it has become the first Turkish shipyard to be certified to ISO 50001 standards by Lloyd’s Register.

The certification covers Uzmar’s energy management programme and joins its ISO 14001 environmental and ISO 9001 quality standard collection.

Congratulating employees for their active engagement throughout the entire energy journey, Noyan Altug, Uzmar CEO added: “Our energy reduction measures at Uzmar have also been positively received by visitors to the shipyard. They are aware that their ships are fuel-efficient, and they can see how environmental sensitivity is woven into the Uzmar culture and shipbuilding process.”

TUGS & TOWING Zeetug has released an operational status report on Gisaş Power, the world’s first zeroemission all-electric tug along with opening of the ‘Zeetug Factory’ and keel-laying ceremony for a new vessel.

An all-electric vessel is one solution that can suit certain operating profiles and it was back in January 2018 that the keel for Istanbul-based Navtek’s Zeetug30 Gisaş Power was laid with delivery following just two years later for this revolutionary step forward in sustainable towing operations. The vessel has been in operation for nearly two years now, allowing time for reflection on its record and performance with Zeetug sharing its experience. For those following current trends the released data will be viewed with interest.

Gisaş Power has spent 583 days in operation, 552 of which were actual operational days involving 1,532 sorties with a total run time of 1,930 hours and total charging of 380,000kWh. The vessel spent 74.5 hours off service for maintenance and/or repair.

The efficiency data includes a figure of 95% operational day rate and 3.8% non-working/ working hours with an average of 2.8 towing acts per day. Stoppages were 18 (total 74.5 hours) including one hour for annual class survey with no works required. The Li-Lo

ZEETUG PROGRESS REPORT AND EXPANSION PLANS

8 Zeetug has reported on performance of its all-electric tug Gisas Power

batteries’ state of health was 99.5% and total fuel (energy) OPEX savings, Marine Diesel Oil (MDO) vs electric were 50.27% with total maintenance and repair OPEX savings of 21% of MDO. Emission figures include 317.7t (210.1t pa) of CO2 and 0.83t (0.55t pa) of NOx saved, MDO vs electric.

Gisaş Power is a Zeetug30 variant of the twin thruster ASD-configured tugs produced by Navtek whose catalogue of emission-free, electric tugs illustrates eight versions with tbp/ LOA figures respectively of: 30t/18.7m,

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Gisaş Power has spent 583 days in operation, 552 of which were actual operational days involving 1,532 sorties with a total run time of 1,930 hours and total charging of 380,000kWh. The vessel spent 74.5 hours off service for maintenance and/or repair 45t/25.5m, 55t/27m, 60t/27.9m, 65t/28.7m, 70t/29.6m, 75t/30.5m and 80t/31.4m.

Additional specifications of Gisaş Power include a beam of 6.7m, depth 4.65m, draught 3.5m, total motor power 1,900kW and speed 11.3kn.

Separately, Zeetug has announced that production has started on its second phase with the keel-laying ceremony held for a new Zeetug30 and opening of the new Navtek&Gisaş Boatyard, described as ‘The Zeetug Factory’.

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BG FREIGHT LINE INSTALLS CARBON CAPTURE SYSTEM One European freight line operator is using a carbon capture system by Value Maritime to reduce emissions and gain competitive edge BG Freight Line will install Value Maritime’s Filtree and carbon capture system onboard two of its container vessels, BG Onyx and BG Ruby, chartered from German shipowner HS Schiffahrt.

The decision highlights the advantages of bringing the strengths of both shipowner and charterer/co-owner together to prepare for future environmental regulations and gain an edge over competing vessels.

“Value Maritime’s technology offers us an immediate and sustainable solution to reducing our carbon emissions while keeping our vessels commercially competitive and sailing with virtually no disruption to our trading,” said Koert Luitwieler, CEO, BG Freight Line.

Sustainable ships Once the installation is complete in the summer, the vessels will continue to trade in North-West Europe emitting considerably less carbon. They will utilise Value Maritime outlets across this region to reuse the carbon on land.

This is the first of many contracts Value Maritime intends to sign with German shipowners and charterers.

“A green and financial dividend is the best of both worlds.

Not only can our clients reduce their carbon emissions with a system that’s cleaner than MGO and capture carbon onboard their small-large sized vessels, but they can also generate substantial fuel savings and earn back their investment in 1-2.5 years,” said Maarten Lodewijks, director and co-founder, Value Maritime.

Value Maritime developed “Filtree”, a unique system that cleans both air and water from all ship types and includes an integrated carbon capture feature for newbuilds or retrofits.

The “plug and play” Exhaust Gas Cleaning System (EGCS) is based on compact, patented and proven technology. It filters sulphur as well as ultra-fine particulate matter from

the exhausts of small-large size ships while ensuring the wash water used is also filtered and the ph neutralised before discharge.

The CO₂ capture feature removes and stores carbon from the vessel’s exhaust gases and uses it to charge a CO₂ battery which can be offloaded and re-used to facilitate the growth of flowers and other crops or used to enrich future fuels such as methanol for dual-fuelled vessels.

The contract includes installation and commissioning by the Value Maritime engineering team, initial training and any ongoing maintenance.

8 BG Freight Line will install Value Maritime’s Filtree and carbon capture system onboard two of its vessels BG Onyx and BG Ruby

TES fast tracks hydrogen plans for German port The Ukraine crisis is spurring Europe on to move away from crude and embrace renewable fuels faster. Ørsted owns the rights to develop the ‘HGerman energy firm Tree Energy Solutions (TES) is accelerating plans to develop the German port of Wilhelmshaven into a global green hydrogen import hub.

The project will provide alternative energy security in the longer term for Germany and Europe whilst accommodating LNG as an intermediate source of energy supply. ”The TES-Wilhelmshaven project is unique in its ability to achieve Germany’s and Europe’s plans to decarbonise in a

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8 TES is accelerating its hydrogen plans at Wilhelmshaven

sustainable way at an industrial scale whilst carefully and prudently navigating the current energy-crisis,” said Paul van Poecke,

founder and managing director at TES. The Wilhelmshaven project, initiated in 2019, will account for 10% of Germany’s total annual primary energy demand by 2045.

TES Green hydrogen will be primarily produced using solar, wind and hydro power, when CO2 will be added to make green CH4 to be used as the ‘energy carrier’.

This will then be transported to Wilhelmshaven in a specially constructed fleet of ships before being converted back into green hydrogen, with the resulting CO2 being captured and returned to the producing countries by ship in a continuous closed-loop system.

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Efficiency indicator The CII is an operational efficiency indicator which measures how efficiently a ship transports goods or passengers in grams of CO2 emitted per cargo-carrying capacity and nautical mile based on its Annual Efficiency Ratio (AER).

StormGeo’s s-Insight combines the

SMART CARBON INDICATOR (CII) GIVES CO2 RANKINGS

provision of CII data for multiple vessels in an intuitive interface, with the expert advice from StormGeo on a consultancy basis on how to improve vessel carbon intensity rankings.

The new tool calculates attained and required CII ratings and the deviation between the two, for a selected period using necessary vessel factors.

Based on the preliminary CII rating, the tool also predicts the year of CII rating deterioration allowing the user to interpret how a vessel is

13th

8 StormGeo’s new smart CII dashboard was developed in response to the industry

currently ranked versus how it will be ranked in the future when CII rating limits are tightened.

A three-day average trend element is also incorporated into the dashboard.

A feature will be incorporated into the dashboard which ship operators can use to run scenarios that provide insight into how the deployment of optimisation measures will impact a vessel’s CII rating for that year.

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A new Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) will provide ship operators with a digital tool for reporting and monitoring carbon rankings.

Developed in response to industry demand, StormGeo’s new CII Dashboard will play a vital role in helping ship operators to comply and stay ahead of new CII rules. ”This tool was developed based on client feedback on what they need to ensure the compliance of their vessels with incoming IMO rules for energy efficiency improvement and carbon intensity reporting and reduction,” said Dr Thilo Dückert, Vice President Fleet Performance Management at StormGeo. “Ultimately, we will integrate a voyage efficiency indicator into the tool that evaluates how efficient a voyage is compared to a benchmark. This will take the idea one step further as a more advanced way of looking at vessel or fleet-level CII ratings.”

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RED TAPE MOUNTS AS OFFSHORE ENERGY EXPANDS

By Andrew Calderbank-Link, CrewSmart managing director

Data-driven management helps streamline mounting crew, vessel certification requirements The UK’s offshore wind industry and the sectors that support it are witnessing significant growth as wind energy entrenches itself as the energy transition’s modus operandi.

In particular, the Offshore Energy Support Vessel (OESV) sector is seeing growing demand for vessels and skilled labour to support new offshore wind farm developments.

OESV companies are now working in overdrive to ensure they have the right supply of crews and vessels, ready to meet those commercial opportunities.

However, OESV operators must not only ensure they have the right resources to meet demand, but also that they meet the mounting certification requirements being placed on their crews and vessels.

New vessel health and safety certifications and skills qualifications are becoming hard to stay on top of, but are essential for mitigating legal, reputational and financial risks.

As new vessels and skilled labour enter the market, deploying systems to streamline certification and compliance management will ensure the industry can take advantage of the opportunities currently on the table.

Keeping up with certifications has become a full-time job Over the past 10 years, the number and type of certification requirements in the OESV sector have grown significantly.

Newly expanded requirements for mental health, first aid, and food and hygiene certifications, for instance, as well as changing regulations, including the High-Speed Offshore Service Craft (HSOSC) Code and Workboat Code II, add to this complexity.

The general trend towards additional certification requirements doesn’t appear to be slowing down, and the burden is firmly on operators to understand and ensure that their crews and vessels remain compliant.

Operators must also navigate this growth amid varying requirements between maritime regulations and private charterers.

Maritime regulations, for example, may require a deckhand to renew their fire safety qualification every five years, while a private charterer may require renewal every two years.

Managing vessel defects, equipment expiry dates and DPRs across entire fleets has similarly become a full-time job, as vessel numbers grow, and as limited supply now means that crews and vessels are having to work across different sites.

As the OESV sector scales to meet the current demand, it’s essential for operators to use technologies to centralise their certification tracking and management systems, to ensure their operations continue unabated.

Data-driven tech helps streamline certification complexity Employing data-driven management systems is an emerging answer to the mounting certification challenge.

Designated platforms with preloaded and customisable certification inputs can provide a single, end-to-end point of access for all essential compliance data, giving operators full visibility and oversight to entire crew and fleet operations

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across different sites and contracts.

In removing redundant paperwork piles and streamlining complicated operational and commercial requirements, integrated fleet management systems now offer unique ways to take control of crew and vessel certification and maintenance.

Such technology can also be adapted to the requirements of different companies and sectors, such as oil and gas, wind farms and harbour towage, among others.

Wind farm operators, for example, can access specific site contact details, individual turbine information and operating ports, which are preloaded onto these platforms.

Some market-leading systems already include the majority of UK and EU wind farms, and this type of granularity and flexibility is mimicked when the technology is employed across other sectors.

Ultimately, the OESV sector is already feeling the benefits of streamlining its compliance and auditing processes through adopting these technologies, and progressive growth of the trend will help the industry remain compliant

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New vessel health and safety certifications and skills qualifications are becoming hard to stay on top of, but are essential for mitigating legal, reputational and financial risks as it rapidly scales to meet demand.

The bottom line It’s time for the OESV industry to adopt end-to-end management systems for vessel operators, such as the CrewSmart product, which understands how data help OESV operators to track and manage the mounting certificate requirements.

It also enables them to stand up to the scrutiny of thirdparty auditors, mitigate legal, reputational and financial risks, and ultimately save time and money by providing full visibility of critical operational activity.

Compliant, effective maritime operations are a cornerstone of the growing offshore energy supply chain, and the competitive edge offered by a digitised approach to these operations is ripe for the picking.

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Partnership During the collaboration, each vessel will be assessed for appropriate solutions, possible operational improvements and life extension considerations.

Solstad has worked to reduce emissions since 2009, both through operational measures (Solstad Green Operations) and technical upgrades. These have so far resulted in average fuel consumption per vessel being reduced by more than 20%.

The further reduction to 50% is expected to be reached by optimising energy efficiencies and by retrofitting the vessels to operate with alternative fuels such as hydrogen, ammonia and methanol. Additionally, new ship designs

PARTNERSHIP SET UP IN EFFORT TO DECARBONISE FLEET

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A fleet operator has formed a technology partnership to achieve a 50% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2030.

In efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of its 90-vessel fleet, Solstad Offshore is working with Wärtsilä to identify and implement solutions that will increase fuel efficiency and reduce emissions from its offshore vessels.

“Cooperation is vital if we are to implement the solutions needed to succeed with the green shift that is under way.” said Tor Inge Dale, head of sustainability at Solstad Offshore.

must be capable of offering low or zero emissions from the outset.

Wärtsilä has established itself as a pioneer in the testing of ammonia as a fuel for both marine engines and fuel cells. It has successfully operated a combustion engine on a fuel mix with 70% ammonia content and it’s currently developing capabilities to use

8 Wärtsilä and Solstad Offshore are collaborating to identify opportunities to decarbonise the operators’ fleet

even higher proportions of the fuel.

In 2021, the company was awarded ‘Best of What’s New’ recognition in the engineering category by Popular Science magazine for its work within the MS Green Ammonia project.

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MARINE RENEWABLES Tidal energy firm Nova Innovation has won a seabed lease to develop the company’s largest tidal energy array off the north Scottish coast.

Crown Estate Scotland has awarded Nova Innovation an option to develop a 15MW tidal array at Yell Sound, in the Shetland Isles archipelago, to power what it predicts will be a third of household electricity in Shetland.

Tidal turbines sit on the seabed and are therefore invisible on the surface of the ocean and ships are free to pass between them.

Because they are driven by non-stop ocean currents, whether the wind blows or not is immaterial, unlike with wind turbines. Nova will double its existing three turbines to six.

“Having been at the centre of the oil and gas industry for 50 years, Shetland is now at the forefront of the green energy revolution, and we are excited to play our part in decarbonising the Shetland Islands,” said Nova Innovation CEO Simon Forrest.

Nova Innovation was set up in 2010. In 2018 it partnered carmaker Tesla to combine energy storage with its tidal turbine technology, which it said was the world’s first grid-connected tidal power station.

In July last year, Nova Innovation and French firm Sabella joined forces to develop tidal

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8 Noval Innovation’s tidal turbine

energy projects in French and UK waters.

The Memorandum of Understanding pledged to accelerate development of tidal energy sites for both companies, combining expertise to drive rapid scale-up of installed capacity in the tidal energy sector in the UK and France.

The alliance will include co-operation across French and UK sites, driving down costs, catalysing opportunities for funding, and delivering economies of scale.

It also accords with a November 2020

Having been at the centre of the oil and gas industry for 50 years, Shetland is now at the forefront of the green energy revolution, and we are excited to play our part in decarbonising the Shetland Islands European Commission Offshore Strategy, which set out the challenge of delivering marine energy capacity targets of 100MW by 2025, and 1GW by 2030.

The future for tides is looking bright, with Nova winning €2.5 million from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator Fund to upscale its 100kW tidal turbine in December last year. It says the finance will pay for a two-year campaign to design, build and demonstrate an upgraded version of the turbines.

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CAMPAIGN GROUP CLAIMS EU WILL LOCK IN FOSSIL FUELS FOR SHIPPING

European transport campaign group Transport&Environment (T&E) claims a quarter of EU shipping will run on LNG by 2030 – which will lock in fossil fuels for decades and bring limited benefits to the climate.

Blaming ‘misguided EU sustainability targets (which) encourage an uptake of LNG’, the group has published a study that it claims shows that a law proposed by the European Commission gives the green light for LNG well into the 2040s.

The law would require ship operators to reduce the lifecycle carbon footprint of fuels, and targets set by the EU will tighten over time, with the aim of squeezing out the most polluting oil-powered ships and drive more uptake of sustainable fuels.

However, the regulation allows LNG to be considered a transitional fuel, which means it can be treated as a sustainable one.

“The shipping industry is one of the world’s biggest polluters and is heavily reliant on fossil fuels,” said sustainable shipping officer delphine Gozillon, at T&E. “The old narrative of gas as a transitional fuel just doesn’t hold. We cannot afford to shift from one fossil fuel to another. It will not get us to net zero emissions by 2050 and, by putting more methane into the atmosphere, may even fry the planet faster.”

8 LNG-powered ships are not going to help the climate, says T&G

The report says that because LNG is so much cheaper than ‘genuinely clean’ alternatives, it will make up 23% of total energy used in EU shipping by 2030, up from 6% today.

“Europe’s policymakers should introduce dedicated quotas and incentives to boost demand for hydrogen-fuels,” said Gozillon.

“Genuinely clean solutions do exist, but currently they are expensive. It we kick start demand now, a green shipping future is possible.”

T&E was created more than 30 years ago to promote its vision for a zero-emission mobility system. The group says it has shaped some of the EU’s most important environmental laws, such as setting ambitious CO2 standards for cars and trucks.

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HIGH PERFORMANCE OSV LAUNCHED BY IRISH CHARTERER An Irish charterer has commissioned a high performance offshore service vessel for commercial use

Future proof The 12m landing craft is powered by two 200hp OXE Diesel outboards supplied by Proteum, the UK and Ireland distributor for the OXE range of engines, to serve ICCB’s expanding operational requirements in the growing offshore energy, transport and aquaculture sectors.

Ros Aine can carry loads up to 4.9 tonnes, providing time management and fuel savings, while OXE’s high torque delivers sufficient power to manoeuvre under high loads and at low speeds.

The wide availability of diesel at the moment gives Ros Aine the versatility and extended range to operate in remote locations. But when stricter emission goals are implemented

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Dublin’s Irish Commercial Charter Boats (ICCB) has commissioned Ros Aine, a high performance diesel OSV, future proofed to run on Hydrated Vegetable Oil (HVO).

The vessel, which has been called a ’market first’ for offshore vessel design that fits high performance diesel outboards (OXE) to meet offshore operators’ standards, is a highly manoeuvrable and versatile vessel capable of reaching remote regions, in particular, hard to reach inshore salmon farms.

“We have carried out the first contract charter with Ros Aine accumulating 125 hours. The potential for the OXE in Ireland is huge within the commercial and aquaculture industry, we are happy to have adopted the OXE early on and are already seeing the benefits,” said Eoin Grimes, owner of ICCB.

in future, all OXE engines can run on HVO, which reduces carbon dioxide emissions by up to 94.2%.

OXE is a high performance diesel outboard built for commercial users and is making significant market penetration worldwide due to its rugged, robust and reliable design. Engines are available in 150hp, 175hp, 200hp and 300hp options.

8 The OSV is kitted out with OXE engines which can run on HVO

Viking Line launches ‘climate-smart flagship’ Champagne christened Finnish shipping firm Viking Line’s Viking Glory on February 28, a day before the passenger ship was launched between Turku and Stockholm.

“This fantastic vessel exceeds all my expectations, It represents a brand-new generation of vessels and highlights the company’s origins in the archipelago in a fine way,” said Viking Line CEO Jan Hanses.

The €225 million vessel is being hailed as a ‘climate-smart flagship’, with technology group Wärtsilä under a three-year agreement to provide technical management of the ship’s ‘broad scope of solutions’, which comprise six LNG-powered Wärtsilä 31DF engines, two LNPac fuel gas supply systems an three tunnel thrusters.

The vessel was built in Xiamen, China, where it set sail in December 2021 for arrival in the Port of Turku, Finland, in January.

Wärtsilä will also provide on-demand remote operational and technical support,

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8 Viking Glory, Viking Line’s new ’claimate-smart flagship’

with engine health diagnostics and performance and emissions optimisation.

“Viking Glory is a flagship for climate-smart technology and encapsulates our group ambition to be a forerunner of responsible navigation,” said Henrik Wilhelms, director, Agreement Sales, with Wärtsilä Marine Power.

“A vessel designed to minimise emissions

is just the start. Successful maintenance and technical support is needed to keep equipment and the vessel operating at top efficiency and ensure the lowest possible carbon footprint in the future.”

Viking Glory is a 222m x 35m cruise ferry, and although it is bigger than another vessel by Viking Line – Viking Grace (218m x 32m) – it uses 10% less fuel because of the more advanced technologies installed, says Wärtsilä.

Wärtsilä has also installed a UV ballast water management system, navigation system and dynamic positioning system on the vessel.

From today, the Viking Glory will sail between Turku in Finland and Stockholm, the Swedish capital.

It was christened by Viking Line director Jakob Johansson’s wife, Isabel Lennse, a jewellery designer from Stockholm. Johansson is the company’s largest shareholder.

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MHO-CO LAUNCHES TWO HYBRID OFFSHORE VESSELS

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Vessel designer MHO-Co has launched two offshore support vessels with hybrid engines and a filter system that makes them clean and green.

The two 35m hybrid vessels are for transporting crew and equipment to and from offshore locations in the North Sea. Built by AFAI Southern Shipyard in China’s Guangzhou, the MHO Apollo and MHO Asgard were designed by MHO CEO Mik Henriksen.

They are electric/diesel hybrid boats, which the company says means they are cleaner, and by using bilge filter separators by Wave International, a marine systems manufacturer, they do not spill bilge water while at sea.

The electric engine is powered by five batteries with a design life of 10 years,

according to its specification., which gives it 12 hours of standby.

“We looked at every element of the new hybrid catamarans to ensure that they met the highest levels of environmental protection and weight restrictions,” said Henriksen.

Henriksen says the vessels can operate in the harshest environments 365 days a year, “even when wave heights exceed two metres”, he says.

Headquartered in Denmark, MHO-Co operates mainly in northern Europe.

The two new vessels join the 39m dieselpowered MHO Gurli and MHO Esbjerg, which are twin vessels with a 65-tonne goods capacity.

The company also operates MHO Grimsby, a 26m catamaran crew transfer vessel.

Its fleet is specifically for offshore energy and wind support, with an emphasis on low fuel consumption and high performance, it says. The fleet can also carry out hydrographic survey work.

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VESSEL LAUNCHES Scottish ship repair firm Dales Marine has built and launched a vessel from its Aberdeen dry dock, which last saw a new vessel built more than 33 years ago.

Réalt na Farraige is the result of more than eight months’ work by the Dales team of around 30 technicians and engineers.

The diesel-powered 18.2m workboat will be used on fish farms in the Irish Sea, with kitchen and galley for crew.

In 2021, Dales won a contract to build a multi-cat style vessel platform for the fishing industry. The last boat to be launched from the dock was in the 1980s, when ship builders Hall, Russell & Co owned it. The firm, which made iron and steel ships ranging from cargo vessels to warships including mine sweepers during the First and Second World Wars, closed down in 1992.

“The launch of the Réalt na Farraige is a monumental occasion and represents a significant project for Dales Marine. It has delivered several firsts for the business, including the first vessel they’ve built and the first vessel to be built in Aberdeen for a long time,” said project manager Gary Norrie. “”Today marks a memorable milestone in Scottish shipbuilding history. Exciting times lie ahead at Dales Marine Shipyard in the

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Dales Marine is a subsidiary of the Aberdeen-registered Dales Engineering, which operates five dry docks across Scotland.

In 2021, Dutch investment firm H2 Equity bought Dales Engineering, saying demand

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Europe’s leading commercial marine show is back in style Finally, Seawork is back.

After two long years of absence, the 23rd Seawork is back on.

And it has been a hard two years. Even businesses that have been able to continue to operate have not had the in-person contact with clients and suppliers that is so vital for success. Face-to-face meetings build trust and value in a way that no phone or Zoom call can.

Seawork is a great chance to reconnect with the commercial marine business which we all enjoy so much.

It’s also a show with a large local component, which is important for the Solent region as well as Maritime UK as a whole. More than a third of all exhibitors have Solent addresses and Seawork facilitates tens of millions of pounds of orders, both directly and as part of the supply chain.

We will of course make it safe for visitors and exhibitors by implementing the industry best practice.

And don’t forget our new Seawork.com has some great new features that allows you to make connections, plan meetings and develop your network 365 days a year.

We are very much looking forward to welcoming everyone back to Mayflower Park in June.”

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After two years of being forced to carry out so much of the maritime industry’s business in a virtual world, exhibitors and stakeholders are signing up to Seawork 2022 in what could be the biggest show yet.

The exhibition and conference, to be hosted alongside the Marine Civils exhibition showcase, opens its doors to more than 600 exhibitors and up to 8,000 visitors from 70 countries on June 21-23 in Southampton, at the Mayflower Park venue.

We’ve come a long way since our first show in 1998, when we welcomed around 80 exhibitors. We now hold a unique quayside exhibition of more than 75 vessels and items of floating plant on purpose-built pontoons, and all can be trialled – from 30m wind farm support vessels, jack-up barges and pilot boats to commercial RIBs. The indoor exhibition area

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Around 85% of them influence or authorise purchasing decisions for their organisations.

Safeguarding the future of maritime Seawork is also about jobs and employment, which are vital for the industry going forward, and one aspect of all our work that is increasing front and centre is jobs apprenticeships and training.

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stakeholders to make Thursday 23rd June the day to focus on it and we are delighted to be starting work with Maritime UK and the Solent LEP to deliver the programme.

There is unlikely to be a single maritime business in the Solent region that is not thinking hard about staffing and HR and commercial marine needs to show itself to be an attractive, multifaceted sector to attract trainees and graduates.

It does have an amazing built-in advantage - the natural, magnetic attraction of working with the sea and the coast.

Seawork and its exhibitors, associations and supporters can be a great showcase for this.

The commercial marine sector is a vital facilitator to trade, security and maintenance of our coastlines, ports and harbours, security and safety on the water.

Attracting and maintaining talent will be a vital part of achieving this.

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Business briefings include events from the new National Shipbuilding Office, the Ministry of Defence - UK Defence Equip & Support – who are responsible for the purchase and maintenance of all small vessels and equipment for the three services. They use Seawork as their annual Industry Day to meet with both existing and potential new clients.

The Department of International Trade is also on hand to advise businesses how they can boost overseas trade.

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SHOWCASE YOUR INNOVATIONS AT SEAWORK One of the most popular events at Seawork is the Innovations Showcase, which gives visitors the chance to see what’s new in equipment, vessels, projects and anything else maritime.

Part of the European Commercial Marine Awards (ECMAs), winners of each category receive an award and Certificate of Commendation, and there’s a ‘Spirit of Innovation’ trophy for the overall winner.

The high level of innovation and cuttingedge technology is a must-see for all visitors

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Award winners 2019 It’s been such a long time since the last Innovations Awards, we thought we’d remind you who won what and how you can enter this year: Enter before May 20 if you have European Commercial Marine Awards Spirit of Innovation: WorkFloat. a product that is innovative Maritime Professional of the Year: Mark and has been released to Ranson, secretary and subsequently market since the last Seawork. chief executive of the National Workboat Complete the form at www.

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This is an opportunity to showcase originality, ability to problem solve and make a real difference to the industry with the latest in design and ingenuity.

Maritime Sustainability: Soilstone M&CCE Project: Kaymac Marine and Civil Engineering Innovation Showcase Vessel Design & Construction: Baltic Workboats Shipyard Marine Equipment, Electronics & Materials: MMG Welding Diving and Underwater Technology: Kongsberg’s GeoPulse USV Safety and Training: Shakespeare, by SM Group Europe Marine Power & Propulsion: Cox, for its Cox Powertrain Renewable Energy: Fugro.

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SEAWORK PREVIEW 2022 “Wavelab” is the ground-breaking autonomous boat set to be an advanced testbed for sustainable urban mobility technologies. The contract to supply a complete electric drive train for the vessel is a vital part of the German city of Kiel’s plans to bring next-gen intermodal public transport to fruition.

The Torqeedo-powered electric vessel, “Wavelab”, will serve as a research platform for the “Clean Autonomous Public Transport Network” (CAPTN) initiative in Kiel. The program aims to create the infrastructure for an integrated inner-city mobility network based on multiple modes of transport on water and land.

“Wavelab” will be built by the Gebrьder Friedrich shipyard in Kiel and is scheduled to be delivered by the end of 2022. Torqeedo has been selected to provide the fully integrated electric propulsion system. The package includes dual 50 kW Deep Blue steerable thrusters and six Deep Blue lithium-ion batteries with a total capacity of 240 kWh. Four Power 24-3500 batteries supply the 24V onboard grid. The system is completed by a 22kW fast charger, DC/DC converter and DC/AC converter.

The “Wavelab” will serve as an open platform for research and development of the required technologies for a planned clean

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autonomous public transportation network on the Kiel Fjord. “The advantages of electric propulsion are obvious in terms of zero emissions and quiet operation,” said Sцnke Stich, sales manager of Gebr. Friedrich.

“Torqeedo is a clear leader in sustainable mobility technology and will be a solid partner in developing this first-of-its-kind vessel.”

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8 The Torqeedo-powered electric vessel, “Wavelab”, will serve as a research platform for the “Clean Autonomous Public Transport Network” (CAPTN) initiative in Kiel, Germany.

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SOLUTIONS BY TPA PONTOONS A ‘first-class’ solution needed by engineering firm AECOM to inspect a critical section of a viaduct was provided by the modular pontoon company TPA Pontoons.

TPA supplied a 49m2 dual-layer Versadock pontoon complete with operatives, outboard motor and Spider MEWP for the first principal inspection of the viaduct, part of which encompasses the Bridgewater Canal on the north of England, by engineering and infrastructure specialists AECOM. The viaduct had a general inspection from ground level (points of safety) in 2019, two years after the 0.6km long viaduct was opened by operator Merseylink, but this was its first principal inspection since commission. These inspections are tactile and carried out at close quarters every six years, using access equipment and plant.

AECOM had originally requested lane closures on the dual-carriageway viaduct to deploy an underbridge unit to carry out the inspections on the spans over the canal and undeveloped land. However, due to journey time measurement obligations, Merseylink asked for an alternative method of access.

Steve Wilson, senior engineer (bridges, inspections and surveys) with AECOM, investigated using a spider MEWP to inspect a few of the spans including the Bridgewater Canal span, which required getting a Spider MEWP down to tow path level.

He contacted Spider lift hire specialists Higher Access, a sister Vp plc company to TPA, and met on site with one of their representatives, together with one of the operatives from TPA Pontoons.

TPA carried out a stability calculation report to confirm the pontoon design and loadings and maximum MEWP reach capabilities. They then supplied the complete access package – operators, on-site crew, outboard motor, plastic pontoon and MEWP – for the four-day contract. The pontoon was required to be a dual layer design to carry the weight of the 3t MEWP and allow it full range of operations.

Direct access to the A533 bridge was restricted so the pontoon, complete with 28m2 of perimeter edge protection, was motored some 1km downstream from a launch and recovery site on the Astmoor Industrial Estate in Runcorn, passing under a pedestrian bridge and a dual carriageway slip road onto the A558 Daresbury Expressway, to the viaduct.

The outboard motor was set up on a 3m x 2m single layer section extension to the 7m x 7m moduled main pontoon, in addition to a 4.5m containment bund to prevent any potential spillages from the MEWP. In addition to the equipment, TPA provided the Spider MEWP, which worked to heights over water of up to 12m, and the pontoon and outboard motor operators, including an onsite operative who acted as marshall/lookout for boat traffic on the canal and pedestrian traffic on the canal banks.

“TPA were first class from start to finish and I had no complaints,” said Steve Wilson.

TPA’s business development manager for pontoons, James Myatt, said: “It’s still relatively uncommon to use a Spider MEWP from a pontoon. However, working with our sister company Higher Access we were able to provide a cost-effective package to allow safe working at height over water and we are delighted AECOM were so pleased with how we delivered this project.”

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First hybrid boat on the Thames powered by MAN PME Group is delighted to confirm that the UK’s first hybrid high-speed passenger ferry will be powered by MAN. This innovative project saw PME Group, the client, Uber Boat by Thames Clippers, the builder Wight Shipyard and Naval Architects One2three working together to produce a sustainable greener future solution for this iconic brand.

Powered by MAN V12 D2862 LE489 IMO Tier III with 1450hp, the first ferry is set to launch in autumn 2022 with a further MAN powered hybrid in spring 2023.

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vessels to operate solely on battery power while transporting commuters and sightseers through the Capital – through the

Central Zone, between Tower and Battersea Power Station piers – and recharge while using MAN engine power outside central London.

The technology is not reliant on shorebased charging; the new boats will use excess power from the MAN engines to re-charge their batteries for the central London stretch.

PME Group will be exhibiting MAN green solutions at Seawork 2022. Share your vision with us and how we can help you get closer to net zero.

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SMI WELCOMES UK GOVERNMENT SHIPBUILDING SUPPORT

The importance of shipbuilding capability is underlined by tragic events in Ukraine, which demonstrate Britain requires the resilience to be able to defend itself as an island nation as well as support our allies around the globe.

The Society of Maritime Industries has warmly welcomed the UK government’s ‘Refresh’ strategy to spend £4 billion on the industry.

The UK government’s decision to spend £4 billion (€4.7 billion) on supporting the country’s shipbuilding industry has been warmly welcomed by the Society of Maritime Industries.

The investment, according to the government, will: “Galvanise and support shipyards and suppliers across the UK, with new measures including better access to finance, vital skills building and funding for crucial research and development into greener vessels and infrastructure.

“Designed in partnership with the recently formed National Shipbuilding Office, the strategy ‘Refresh’ will also deliver a pipeline of more than 150 new naval and civil vessels for the UK government and devolved administrations over the next 30 years.

“The vessels will include large warships, border force cutters, lighthouse vessels and the new National Flagship.”

SMI CEO Tom Chant said safeguarding the

UK’s sovereign shipbuilding capability for complex naval vessels by strengthening the wider commercial maritime industry was an important step.

“The importance of this capability is underlined by tragic events in Ukraine, which demonstrate Britain requires the resilience to be able to defend itself as an island nation as well as support our allies around the globe.”

“Shipbuilding has been in our blood for centuries and I want to ensure it remains at the heart of British industry of generations to come.,” said UK prime minster Boris Johnson. “The National Shipbuilding Strategy will transform this important and crucial industry, driving technology development and upskilling the shipbuilders of tomorrow. This will ensure the UK is rightly seen as a shipbuilding power across the world.”

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“This much anticipated release firmly supports the development of the UK’s shipbuilding enterprise. Our members have consistently told us industry requires confidence. With confidence businesses can invest for the long term, ramping up productivity and apprenticeship programmes.

“The government’s firm commitment to a 30-year shipbuilding pipeline shows it is listening and we further welcome the increased emphasis on the social value of shipbuilding.

“This is a huge step forward which, consistently applied, will help to prevent UK shipbuilding opportunities go abroad.”

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OCEAN SAFETY LAUNCHES EXTENDED EQUIPMENT RANGE Ocean Safety, specialist in the worldwide supply, distribution, service and hire of marine safety equipment, is delighted to be sponsoring the 2022 edition of Speed@Seawork Focusing on the commercial high speed marine sector, Speed@Seawork will take place on Monday 20 June at Cowes Yacht Haven on the Isle of Wight. At the event, Ocean Safety will be showcasing products from its commercial range as well as giving live demonstrations of its vital lifesaving equipment to the attending specialist delegates.

Following Speed@Seawork, Ocean Safety, whose customers include ship and superyacht builders, round-theworld-racing, cruising yachts and the MOD, will be exhibiting at the main Seawork show at Mayflower Park in Southampton, 21-23 June.

Displaying an extensive range of its eponymous commercial marine safety equipment, Ocean Safety will also be displaying a selection of quality safety products from its core suppliers, including AquaSpec, Spinlock, Ocean Signal, Hammar, Typhoon International, Dacon and Hansson Pyrotechnics.

In addition, on the first day of the show, Ocean Safety will be launching an exciting new extension to its commercial marine liferaft range, offering CTVs, tugboats, ferries and workboats a greater choice when selecting or replacing liferafts to meet safety requirements and regulations.

“We’re delighted to be sponsoring Speed@Seawork as well as exhibiting at the main Seawork event in Southampton,” says Ocean Safety’s managing director, Alistair Hackett.

“It’s such an important event for the commercial marine sector.

“We’re looking forward to meeting both customers and industry colleagues face to face again at the first Seawork since 2019, where our team of commercial marine safety experts will be on hand to provide advice on product ranges, servicing schedules and hire options.”

Ocean Safety, which is part of the Alliance Marine group, is

a global supplier and distributor of marine safety equipment including liferafts life jackets, man overboard equipment and EPIRBs. It manufactures its own Jon Buoy man overboard recovery range.

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Marine Fire Safety showcases new fire and safety products Marine Fire Safety, specialists in firefighting and lifesaving equipment for the marine industry, will be back exhibiting at Seawork this year, showcasing a range of new products and services aimed at the commercial marine market.

Stat-X onboard fire suppression systems will remain a key feature at this year’s show, giving new and existing customers an opportunity to discuss their servicing and supply options with the team.

For the first time since establishing its safety division, the team will be presenting visitors with its extended offering, which includes life raft hire, sales and servicing and a wide range of additional safety products, all of which are supported by its UK service network.

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In addition, the show will provide the perfect platform to discuss the recently launched Workboat 1.2.3 package. This fully managed fire and safety package is designed to remove the hassle of sourcing and servicing equipment from operators, ensuring that all equipment is purchased from one source at a competitive price.

Mark Bresnahan, MD at Marine Fire Safety, said: “The launch of the safety division and the introduction of this management package gives us the opportunity to tailor packages to meet our clients’ needs and requirements.

“It demonstrates our continued efforts to expand our product and servicing offering, with the aim of creating a one-stop-shop approach for all their marine fire and safety requirements.”

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SEAWORK PREVIEW 2022 Rescue organisations including South Africa National Sea Rescue and Jersey Lifeboat Association and commercial operators including Associated British Ports, Boskalis Westminster and Space X are all Gemini RIB users.

Family-run marine business Berthon Boat Co Ltd will be exhibiting its latest commercialgrade boats after testing them in some of the most arduous sea conditions and around treacherous coastlines in the world.

The Gemini WR550, WR650, WR780 & WR880 RIBs are now in stock with a new, rounded deep ‘V’ shaped Gemini hull, to offer comfort and responsive handling at top speeds.

For many years, Gemini RIBs have been in operation with prestigious organisations throughout the world including the UK MoD, Royal Navy, United Nations, UK Police Force, Royal Australian Navy, Royal New Zealand Navy, and Special Forces teams. Rescue organisations including South Africa National Sea Rescue and Jersey Lifeboat Association, and commercial operator including Associated British Ports, Boskalis Westminster and Space X are all Gemini RIB users.

“By working closely with our clients, each boat can be configured and equipped to suit individual requirements, with a flexible

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platform design meaning a range of console and seating options are available,” says Berthon. “We also provide both petrol and diesel solutions to power the RIBs, and can code to MCA or international compliance.”

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employing 175 in the UK alone with a further 25 overseas. It has 300 deep water berths and offices in the UK, USA, France, Spain and Scandinavia. It provides a range of branded marine products such as VERSADOCK, Gemini RIBs, and is the #1 Yamaha dealerin the UK. 8 Visit Berthon Boat Co Ltd at Seawork 2022

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LALIZAS UK TO DEBUT COMMERCIAL SAFETY PRODUCTS Lalizas UK is delighted to be returning to Seawork with a wide range of new products and services dedicated to the commercial marine and workboat sector Following a successful launch last year, the Lalizas HRU, which is SOLAS/MED and USCG approved and suitable for all liferafts from 4-150 persons, will be making its Seawork debut.

As UK distributors for ACR Electronics, Lalizas UK will be showcasing ACR’s very latest EPIRBs, all of which conform to the change in (MSC.47(101) performance standards, just prior to the July implementation date.

Visitors will get the opportunity to have all their questions answered and discuss the changes with the team.

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We have expanded our SOLAS/USCG product offering considerably, as well as partnering with some of the commercial industry’s well-known marine brands ACR’s wider range of PLB and AIS EPIRB solutions will also be making an appearance, together with the new awardwinning ResQLink 410 RLS and the ResQLink View RLS. These will feature alongside ACR’s GMDSS/SOLAS safety solutions for use on commercial and workboat vessels.

Charlie Mill, Managing Director of Lalizas UK, said: “We have been working hard to strengthen our commercial safety product portfolio. We have expanded our SOLAS/USCG product offering considerably, as well as partnering with some of the commercial industry’s well-known marine brands. Our growing service network supports all our efforts,

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ensuring that no matter where you are in the world, our existing and future customers are well looked after.”

Lalizas UK will be exhibiting a host of additional personal and onboard safety equipment, made up of life rafts, lifejackets, survival suits, breathing devices, MOB equipment, life buoys and housings.

A full range of PainsWessex commercial pyrotechnics will also be on display.

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Baltic Lifejackets Sweden a must-have for seafarers “Your safety is our number one priority,” says Baltic Lifejackets Sweden, which is gearing up to introduce its Baltic INDU Pro product.

“This 305N Lifejacket is designed for the commercial working environment, allowing the wearer to work in comfort, with a large neck opening and a soft collar,” says the firm.

“It comes complete with an EN/ISO 12401 safety harness designed to fit a fall arrest harness.”

Other features include a non-magnetic stainless steel interlocking front buckle, detachable twin crutch straps, buddy line, zipped access point to AIS/PLB, two card holders, attachment points for light, AIS and sprayhood, lifting

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becket and whistle, with reflective patches on the cover.

As well as its new lifejacket, Baltic Lifejackets will exhibit its full range of commercial lifejackets and buoyancy aids, as well as flotation clothing.

“Baltic Lifejackets Sweden loves boats, sea, sailing, sun, watersports and kayaking,” the company says.

“In short, we love everything that is connected to the wearer. That is why we are dedicated to making aquatic life safer and thus even more fun and comfortable.”

Baltic Lifejackets has been making lifejackets since 1977, and sells its products in around 50 countries.

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MEET THE NATIONAL SHIPBUILDING OFFICE, MOD AND DIT The MOD department responsible for all UK Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) projects dealing with the procurement and through-life support of all boats and their equipment, used by all three services, will be present again in strength and represented by the DE&S “Boats Team”.

Exclusive meetings with members of UK government departments are available for Seawork & Marine Civils 2022 exhibitors.

The new National Shipbuilding Office (NSO), the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and Department for International Trade (DIT) are all taking part in the programme of one-toone meetings.

The National Shipbuilding Office is responsible for coordinating vessel procurement across all Government departments, as well as implementing the recently published refresh of the National Shipbuilding Strategy.

The MOD department responsible for all UK Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S)

projects dealing with the procurement and through-life support of all boats and their equipment, used by all three services, will be present again in strength and represented by the DE&S “Boats Team”.

They use the exhibition as their annual Industry Days to meet with existing clients and meet new potential clients. The MOD Boats Team will also give its regular annual update on opportunities during the exhibition.

The UK Department for International Trade (DIT) helps UK national companies involved with sales and export abroad, both commercial and military, for boats, equipment and related services. Seawork & Marine Civils offers a unique opportunity for exhibiting companies to meet with them to discuss their products and future plans.

While the MOD Boats team are equally happy to meet national and international companies, the DIT will only meet with UK companies.

The programme is exclusive to Seawork &

Marine Civils 2022 exhibitors and can be accessed via the exhibitor online manual, which goes live later this month.

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COMMERCIAL RIB CHARTER With an impressive fleet now topping out at thirty-four vessels and nearly twenty-five years supplying services such as dive support vessels and crew transfers to the UK and European market; Commercial Rib Charter continue to evolve within the world of offshore vessel support services.

Offering a variety of services,

vessels ranging from 4m to 17m and the attitude of ‘whatever the question is, the answer is yes’ Commercial Rib Charter have the

ability to meet almost any project requirement, in any location.

This year, Commercial Rib Charter can be found on berth ?? at the Seawork’s exhibition where they will be inviting you to come aboard for a tour of one of their vessels and have chat with the knowledgeable operations team to discuss the services they are able to offer.

www.commercialribcharter.co.uk/ | Tel: 01590 607103 | stuart@commercialribcharter.co.uk

ASAP SUPPLIES ASAP Supplies have been supplying products for maintenance, repair and overhaul to the marine industry for over 30 years, supporting Commercial and Trade sectors.

Working together with customers, ASAP can offer tailored product packages, fast delivery and competitive trade discounts across the product range to provide a better solution for their customers. With over 12,000

stock lines from over 90 industry leading brands including Parker Racor, Hella, MG Duff, Jabsco and

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many more, ASAP can supply you with the quality parts you need. New additions to their range include Arctic Steel, Raptor protective coatings and Sierra Marine inboard, outboard and drive parts.

ASAP offer free UK & Ireland delivery on orders over £100 (ex VAT), same working day despatch before 3:30pm and an exclusive Trade support team, plus many other benefits.

www.asap-supplies.com | Tel: +44 (0)1502 716993 | info@asap-supplies.com

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SEAWORK PREVIEW 2022 Damen Shipyards will provide bow-to-stern services to Caterpillar while extending the scope of services for Damen customers under a new global value agreement.

First to be implemented in Australia and New Zealand, the agreement will potentially be in place in all Damen’s service hubs around the world.

“Damen views the agreement as a milestone on their strategy to streamline services for their customers,” said Damen.

“The shipyards group’s philosophy of standardization is further improved with a comprehensive service programme for Cat assets.”

Damen produces between 150 and 200 vessels a year, many of them fitted with Caterpillar engines.

“This agreement is a great step in improving the support we provide to Damen vessel owners,” said Damen Services managing director Rutger Blaauw.

“As a global service business, we aim to operate as close to our clients as possible while supporting them on-site and remote. We are therefore increasing our presence and performance at our local service hubs. We will closely co-operate

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8 Caterpillar has provided engines for standarized Damen vessels since the 1970s

with Cat dealers and thereby offer services on Cat engines.”

“This agreement supports both Caterpillar and Damen’s long-term vision for innovation and service excellence and marks another step in Caterpillar’s relationship and commitment to services,” said Derrick York, Caterpillar Marine Managing Director.

Caterpillar has worked with Damen Shipyards Group since the 1970’s, providing engines for the standardized vessels the Shipyards group delivers.

On March 17, Damen delivered the first of a new class of Damen Multi Cats, the 2309, to crew transfer operator HST, which HST

says is the first stage of its strategy to become a total solutions provider to the offshore renewables sector.

“HST’s new asset now allows them to offer its clients a premium service, with some custom feature assets added to its new vessel, including Volvo Penta engines for added efficiency and emissions reductions,” the firm said.

“The bow thruster has also been upgraded for enhanced manoeuvrability and the crew cabins have been fitted with satellite television and high-speed interconnectivity with fleet system and VSAT.” Additional equipment upgrades include a five-tonne pull winch and a heavy duty crane with a lifting capacity of 25 tonnes at 5.8 metres outreach. On the aft deck a tugger winch with 12 tonnes of pull has been installed along with an A-frame with plough for cable laying. Additional redundancy throughout the vessel is another feature, ensuring both reliability and versatility.

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SEAWORK PREVIEW 2022 Isle of Wight boat builder Wight Shipyard has won a contract to build two catamarans that will be solely powered by batteries as they transport commuters and tourists up the River Thames.

When it comes to recharging they will be able to use biofuel power outside central London, thus avoiding shore-based charging, the company says.

The river buses will be used on London’s Uber Boat line, which is run by Thames Clippers between Battersea Power Station and London Bridge.

Wight Shipyard has been building Thames Clipper vessels since 2017, when it was first commissioned.

“Uber Boat is committed to achieving net zero with all new builds by 2025 and for its wider fleet and infrastructure by 2040,” said Uber Boat founder and CEO Sean Collins.

“We’re looking ahead with this hybrid design, ensuring easy conversion to green hydrogen or another renewable energy source – something we’re also focusing heavily on with the new projects we’re undertaking thanks to recent DfT (Department for Transport) funding.”

Uber Boat began in 1999 with one boat servicing 80 passengers between the piers of

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Greenland and Savoy. In 2006 AEG, the sports and entertainment company, bought a majority stake and it now operates 21 vessels along four lines, serving 23 piers.

In February, Wight Shipyard announced an all-share merger with multinational shipbuilder OCEA, creating a combined group to capitalise on the fast ferry and offshore renewable energy market opportunities.

The deal will see Wight Shipyard almost double in size and should be completed by the

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end of March.

“This is a transformational deal for the Wight Shipyard Co and for the Isle of Wight, confirming the resurgence of the shipbuilding industry in the United Kingdom,” said CEO Peter Morton.

OCEA has facilities in France, the Caribbean and the Philippines.

Both companies’ work includes supporting the offshore renewable energy sector.

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RIB RIDE IN THE NORTH SEA WITH A HEFRING MARINE SYSTEM A project to monitor operators on a Marathon 900 RIB-D boat from Viking Norsafe found huge differences in the guidance of the system and the operator’s behaviour, Hefring Marine’s monitoring system was used during an 11hour trip over 212 nautical miles, from Hanstholm in Norway to Hvide Sande in Denmark, as part of a research project carried out with Viking Life-Saving Equipment.

“The aim of the project was human injury prediction, structural capacity prediction, sea-keeping effect analysis and machine-human interface,” says Hefring Marine. “The Hefring Marine system was actively monitoring the trip but did not feature the HM Captain on-board interface, and therefore no real-time guidance.

“The goal of the monitoring was to observe and analyse the operator’s behaviour. The boat had a crew of two, both of whom have prior experience in high-speed boat operations.

The results of our on-board data collection and processing were significant and relevant for the safety of today´s highspeed-boat operators, who deserve measures that ensure duty of care.”

The system used a single sensor configuration, which was placed by the helm in the front seating position in the vessel and therefore the best place to monitor any impacts or motions experienced by the operator.

“The Hefring Marine system monitors impacts and motions and calculates a recommended safety speed (Redspeed over Ground, or ROG), which uses an impact threshold to determine onboard safety compared to actual Speed over Ground (SOG),” says Hefring.

“The impact threshold was set to 3.0g because at this limit, crew can start to experience extreme discomfort but are unlikely to suffer injuries.”

Every 1.8 minutes, an impact greater than 3.0g was recorded, with a peak impact of 6.0g – which if measured as an average over 10 peak impacts, would be considered by the US Navy to be the limit for small craft accelerations that can cause physical injury – “and should be expected only when military crew is under fire”, says Hefring.

Also, 72% of the trip was done at a higher SOG than the recommended ROG – and 90% of the impacts above 3.0g occurred at these times.

The research was carried out in collaboration with VIKING Life-Saving Equipment as a partner in the Intelliboat project, and although the operator did not have an HM Captain interface for guidance, which could have improved overall safety during the trip, the project demonstrated the huge difference between the operator’s actions and the system’s guidance.

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Sonihull could save up to 408 million tonnes of CO2 Sonihull could save the maritime industry up to 408 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, says director Darren Rowlands.

Anti-fouling systems firm Sonihull’s managing director Darren Rowlands made the bold claim at the Society of Maritime Industries annual conference in Newcastle upon Tyne, of which the firm was a gold sponsor.

Sonihull’s anti-fouling technology could save millions of tonnes of CO2, the firm claims.

Sonihull’s technology uses ultrasound to keep surfaces clear of algae, weeds and barnacles – which reduces drag, fuel burn, CO2 emissions and maintenance costs, the company says.

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8 Sonihull’s anti-fouling technology could save millions of tonnes of CO2, the firm claims

“Taking propellers in isolation, it has been estimated that if Sonihull prop-protection systems were fitted on every commercial vessel in the world, global ship emissions would be reduced by between 160 and 408 million tonnes of CO2 every year,”

said Rowlands.

“With fuel savings alone in large ships, the prop protection systems are paying for themselves within weeks, even before factoring in the reduced prop polishing and maintenance schedules. Our systems are networkable and can be used to protect stationary structures like wind farms and oil rigs too.”

In March 2021, Sonihull signed an agreement with Norwegian maritime technology group Kongsberg Maritime to be its sole supplier of ultrasonic anti-fouling systems for the company’s entire range of Kamewa waterjets.

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ERMA FIRST ERMA FIRST, the global BWTS leader, is bringing the world’s smallest and easiest to install ballast water treatment system to the international market through its acquisition of US firm oneTANK LLC, a subsidiary of US naval architecture and marine engineering firm Glosten.

oneTANK is a small scale innovative, low-cost, IMO Revised G8 Code and United States Coast Guard compliant system. Also, its mixing technology is developed and patented by U.S. Geological Survey.

The oneTANK system is a game-changer for smaller vessels struggling to comply with stringent ballast water regulations.

It is a simple, low cost and fully automated offering. This makes it ideal for smaller vessels that don’t ballast regularly and often have space restrictions, such

as workboats, tugboats, fishing boats and superyachts as well as semi-subs and tanker aftpeak tanks. The fitting is fast, flexible and economical.

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www.ermafirst.com/ | Tel: (+30) 210 40 93000

ARTEMIS TECHNOLOGIES Founded in 2017, Artemis Technologies is a world leading high-performance maritime design and applied technologies company committed to decarbonisation of the maritime industry.

With skills in simulation, lightweight structure engineering, electronics, hydraulics, aerodynamics and hydrodynamics, Artemis

Technologies develops highspeed zero-emission vessels and propulsion systems to ensure a sustainable maritime future.

Through research and collaboration, the Company continues to be a world leader in high-performance, green-

powered vessels, utilising specialist expertise to provide tailored services to both highperformance and commercial clients, as well as developing unique products, including the unique Artemis eFoiler® electric propulsion system, which is set to revolutionise the industry.

The first test vessel to be powered by Artemis Technologies’ revolutionary

www.artemistechnologies.co.uk/ | info@artemistechnologies.co.uk

Artemis eFoiler® electric propulsion system, an 11m workboat, is expected to take to the water this Spring.

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BULLDOG BOATS Come and visit us on VB16 and experience our latest HDPE vessel for the commercial marine market. .

Come and visit us on VB16 and experience our latest HDPE vessel for the commercial marine market.

Designed Strong, Built Tough & Constructed with pride.

Words which transcend all of our vessels from our smallest 4m riverine craft to our all weather 12m patrol, crew and landing craft vessels.

We will also be highlighting our all new first of class HDPE catamaran which will hit the water in August 2022.

www.bulldogboats.co.uk/ | Tel: 01777872375 | Email: sales@bulldogboats.co.uk

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ENERGY SOLUTIONS Energy Solutions are the UK distributor for WaterWorld’s range of electric inboard motors.

The electric engines are designed to be a direct replacement for a traditional

diesel engine both in size and cost. Perfect for narrowboats, small coastal craft and inland waterway fleets that are looking to reduce both noise

and emissions the motors offer an efficient and reliable electric alternative. Already well established in the Netherlands the motors are a proven and tested option for fleet operators and private owners.

www.bulldogboats.co.uk/ | Tel: 01777872375 | Email: sales@bulldogboats.co.uk

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UZMAR WINS THE CREDIT IT DESERVES It’s been a good year so far this year for Turkish shipbuilder Uzmar, which became the first Turkish shipyard to be award the ISO 50001 certification by Lloyd’s Register in January.

The certification was granted for the shipyard’s energy management systems, and the award “is a direct reflection of the environmental commitment of our corporate culture,” said Uzmar CEO Noyan Altug.

In February, it deployed its newbuild Alsancak 20 to Ambarli Port to join nine other Uzmar tugs at the port, which serves the greater Istanbul metropolitan area and is one of Turkey’s major ports.

As well as being a tug builder in its own right, Uzmar also operates a private pilotage and tug service at several Turkish ports and the new is a BV-classed, fifi1 equipped vessel flying the Turkish flag and with a Caterpillar/ Kongsberg main engine/thruster combination delivering 80tbp and a speed of 12kn.

No stranger to awards In fact the ISO 50001 certification is just the latest in a string of certifications that Uzmar has under its belt, having already been DuroWipers will return to Seawork this year with its hard to miss display of working wiper systems and external wiper system taking centre stage.

“Seawork is always amazing for us,” says managing director Noel Gould. “The business we secure by doing business face to face pays for the exhibition.”

The wiper, which is suitable across multiple applications, played a key role in ensuring the company performed well during the challenges of the pandemic and Brexit, Gould believes.

“We’re really lucky because we branched out in a number of different directions prior to the pandemic and our business is across multiple sectors,” he says.

“We cracked the oil and chemical sectors a few years ago, when we started supplying our wiper systems to oil rigs and to their associated cranes and machinery. It’s a lucrative sector and it’s really paid off for us over the last few years.”

Hidden power The DuroWipers external wiper system is gaining popularity across the commercial marine market, where boat builders are realising its potential as a no-fuss, easy-install option for both newbuild and retrofits, says the company.

The wiper is sealed inside a heavy-duty waterproof pod manufactured from 3mm and 5mm AISI 316 stainless steel or aluminium. It can be mounted above or below the window, with the bracket either bolted or welded to the bulkhead.

All DuroWiper systems have unique patented twin drive shafts and a rotary mechanism.

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certified to ISO 14001 environmental and ISO 9001 quality standards.

“All levels of our business are committed to lean principles and implementing new energy-saving methods; congratulations to all Uzmar employees for their active engagement throughout our entire energy reduction journey,” says Altug.

“Our energy reduction measures at UZMAR

8 Uzmar’s Alsancak 20 has been deployed to one of Turkey’s major ports

have also been positively received by visitors to the shipyard. They are aware that their ships are fuel-efficient, and they can see how environmental sensitivity is woven into the UZMAR culture and shipbuilding process.”

Uzmar is a regular exhibitor at Seawork, and this year’s show is no exception.

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DuroWipers don’t offer spares because the wiper systems have such a long life, says Gould.

“It’s this that makes our wipers unique.

Other wipers have no longevity past 12 months and performance can be poor. We have a patented product that will outlast anything else out there on the market,” says Gould.

DuroWipers’ extended and lifetime warranties are what the RNLI, the MoD and Royal Navy have taken advantage of and why the company has a world-class reputation in the marine industry.

The firm also won the supply contract to equip the Severn class with Class 60 pantograph systems, with five lifeboat stations across the UK initially getting a refurb at the RNLI’s Lifeboat Centre in Poole, to extend service life for another 25 years.

In 2016, DuroWipers secured its largest order ever courtesy of Seawork – a contract to fit five cross Channel DFDS ferries with maintenance-free external pantograph systems.

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HALYARD With in-house design and manufacture of individual exhaust components to complete systems, Halyard offers both standard and bespoke solutions designed to suit your needs.

We manufacture GRP silencers, separators, tube and connectors and nitrile, silicone and Nomex hoses & bellows.

We specialise in water-cooled

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and dry exhaust systems and as distributors for Emigreen and IMS can also provide DPF and SCR packages to meet the latest emissions requirements. We are distributors for:

Aquadrive antivibration drive systems 9 Seatorque shaft systems 9 AdvanTec Marine - Freeman watertight closures & Steelhead deck mounted lifting equipment 9 Wave filtration products – bilge water, grey water, fresh water, tank vents, and boat washdown

9 Emigreen SCR & DPF solutions 9 IMS dry silencers and SCR & DPF solutions In addition, we also supply: noise insulation materials, thermal insulation jackets, valves, mounts, couplings.

New build, Refit, Maintenance – HALYARD HAVE THE SOLUTION

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URL: www.halyard.eu.com | Tel: +44 (0) 1722 710 922 | Email: technical@halyard.eu.com

MCC MARINE Rupert Marine is a Swedish based boat manufacturer. All our customers have one thing in common; extremely high demands on their boats.

Our clients are military, police, rescue and maritime organisations as well as high demanding yachtsmen. Their demands and preferences set the standard for every Rupert

boat we build. With hundreds of boats delivered our boats are truly tried and tested under the most demanding conditions.

The collected experiences of our customers have enabled us to develop one of the best boats on the market. Rupert’s boats

are available in a wide range of models for different applications and are used from Spitsbergen in the north to Australia in the south.

It is with great pleasure that we today announce that we appointed MCC Marine Services Limited, trading name MCC Marine, as sole distributor of the Rupert Marine R-series in the UK

& Channel Islands.

Any questions can be answered by Martin Linderhav, Rupert Marine and Craig McCarthy, MCC Marine.

Stand No. VB01

www.mccmarine.co.uk/ | Tel: 023 8045 6116 | enquiries@mccmarine.co.uk

BUOYANT WORKS Fendering Solution Specialists in Offshore Wind, Commercial Vessel and Quayside applications.

Come and see our latest New Generation FenderIT products on display.

Born out of 30 years of experience, FenderIT uses a unique combination of material technology and design flare to

Our Key Specialisms include:

9 Bow Fender systems for provide High Strength, Lightweight Fender and Impact Protection solutions. We adopt a modular and repeatable approach to maximise customer benefits from both an operational and long-term maintenance perspective.

Offshore Windfarm Crew Transfer Vessels.

9 Modular and Low Weight Tug Fender Solutions.

9 FENDER WALL – A Modular high performance alternative to traditional Cone, Arch and Element Fender systems.

9 Windshield, our innovative Protection System for Wind Turbine Boat Landings and Monopiles.

Andrew and the team will be on Stand F29 to welcome you and discuss your project needs.

www.buoyantworks.com | Tel: 01579 381916 | andrew@buoyantworks.com

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YAMAHA MOTOR It isn’t just the quality of the technology which encourages people to choose Yamaha; it is also the passion and understanding that Yamaha has for the marine environment.

The RYA British Sailing Team use Yamaha Outboards for approaching 20,000 hours per

year. They rely on Yamaha’s dependability and global support to keep their teams at the forefront of competitions.

Choosing Yamaha is choosing professional quality that performs all year round in many conditions.

Enthusiasm, dedication and knowledge keep Yamaha at the cutting edge of marine technology and makes Yamaha the number one global brand.

Yamaha engines are built to last.

www.yamaha-motor.eu | Tel: +44 (0)203 027 5116 | ied.stevens@yamaha-motor.co.uk

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NEW-LOOK IMES INTERNATIONAL IMES International joined Pryme Group in 2021 and is one of five complementary engineering and manufacturing businesses within the group.

IMES International has been delivering an independent inspection, monitoring and testing service for fixed and loose lifting equipment in the marine, defence and industrial sectors for more than 60 years.

The company says the safety of employees and business relies on the integrity of assets, and its global reputation is founded in innovation and a dedicated engineering team that provides expert consultancy in integrity assurance.

Operating worldwide from six locations across the UK, IMES’ product and service range boasts extensive accreditation that it says distinguishes the company from crane or lifting equipment manufacturers.

“Our technical consultation service for all types of mechanical handling equipment comprises procurement, design, manufacture, installation, testing and commissioning, including regular health checks and detailed integrity assessments,” IMES says.

Core Competencies at IMES International 5 Lifting equipment inspection 5 Wire rope integrity services 5 Bespoke load measurement and monitoring systems 5 Non-destructive testing 5 Crane condition assessments, servicing and overhaul 5 Third party assurance services through crane procurement 5 Bespoke load test and lifting equipment design 5 Subsea electrical testing 5 Load pins, compression, tension and running line tension 5 Subsea, ATEX, aata-logging, HMI, SCADA, Metocean, Aquaculture 5 TLP, Semi, FPSO, Buoy mooring, Riser top tension 5 Integrated marine monitoring, Safety load indication, Anti collision 5 Overhaul, service, maintenance and repair of mechanical handling systems COMPLEMENTARY BUSINESSES Caley Ocean Systems Caley are specialists in offshore lifting and handling solutions.

They overcome technological, systematic and design challenges to create innovative solutions that ensure the safety and robustness of offshore installations. These services are offered in addition to their standard range of products that includes A-Frames, davits, carousels, pipe handling equipment and launch and recovery systems for manned submersibles, IWOC and saturation dive systems.

SengS SengS is home to a state-of-the-art testing facility, offering

independent hydrostatic and gas testing, as well as PR2 temperature-controlled product qualification testing.

Additionally, SengS offer assembly and maintenance services, bespoke product design and engineering consultancy and have a proven track record in delivering rapid engineering solutions for operators suffering from mechanical breakdowns during offshore operations.

8 IMES inspecting welded ‘d’ links on umbilical reels

Hydratron Hydratron provide innovative engineering solutions to complex engineering challenges related to high-pressure and flow control systems. These services are offered in addition to their standard range of products that include high-pressure air-driven liquid pumps, gas boosters and associated systems.

GA Engineering GA Engineering offer specialist machining and fabrication solutions including CNC & EDM machining. From precise smallscale components to large scale fabrication. GA Engineering offers customers a broad, but complementary range of contract and sub-contract manufacturing capabilities. The expansive capability across the group means that GA Engineering can machine parts from 0.3mm to 2m in diameter.

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SEAWORK EXHIBITOR SHOWCASE

ROBOSYS Robosys is a leading provider of AI Maritime Autonomy and Smart Shipping software with two decades of experience in the field.

Our Voyager AI software can transform a new or existing vessel into a fully autonomous Unmanned Surface Vessel, capable of independent

navigation, collision avoidance and dynamic route optimisation.

We use cutting edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to provide scalable levels of

autonomy, up to and including full level 4 Autonomy.

In its simplest form, Voyager AI can also provide Collision Avoidance Decision Aid (CADA) support which is COLREGS compliant, for a vessel’s master to enhance the safety for lean crewed ships. At the next stage, as an “Intelligent” AutoPilot it can autonomously control a lean crewed ship. Or, in a fully fledged USV, Voyager enables both remote piloting and fully

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www.robosysautomation.com/

RMCS MHPS Ltd are known predominantly as service bollard manufacturers and installers.

Whilst still working on marinas and caravan parks we work closely with specialist pontoon manufacturers to provide electric, water, lighting, pump out, CCTV and gate entry

for the service pontoons for specialist vessels. MHPS (RMCS) have been working with RWE, ORSTED and SSE to provide our specialist services. As the client relies on the pontoons having the correct equipment in

autonomous navigation and collision avoidance utilising the latest AI enabled vessel identification and perception systems. and private owners.

place to keep the vessels fully serviced is a highly important factor in keeping the numerous wind farms serviced. Over the last five years RMCS have carried out most of the major developments including being asked to upgrade the services at Rampion Windfarm for RWE after the temporary pontoon had outlasted its tenor. A new pontoon by Inland and Coastal Is being installed with high

www.rmcs.co.uk | Tel: 01945 440779 | Email: sales@rmcs.co.uk

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quality products being bespoke manufactured and installed by RMCS with a 25year design life.

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HMNB PORTSMOUTH WELCOMES TYPHOON 3000 JACK-UP BARGE SMS Group firm OverWater has won a contract to support KBS Marine with the operation and maintenance of a brand new 3000T jack-up barge – the Typhoon 3000.

OverWater, which is permanently based at HM Naval Base Portsmouth, will work to commercialise the asset via commercial chargers when it is not needed within the naval base.

Typhoon 3000 is a Ravestein platform of the following dimensions; 60m LOA, 28m beam, 800T on deck crawler crane capacity, 3000T lift capacity, with 52m spud legs. It is an extremely capable mutli-role semi-submersible jack-up barge that can also be used as a dry dock, lift platform or transport barge.

The asset has numerous commercial marine applications and will be homeported in the Solent.

Dave Chaffers, general manager for the SMS Group, said: “The principle purpose of the barge is to obviously support the Royal Navy, but by working in close partnership with the various stakeholders we look forward to commercialising the jack-up not only within the Solent but also within UK and European Waters.

“She offers immense capability to the marine civils, dry dock and commercial refit and repair markets; not to mention the heavy lift and ports and harbours sectors.

“As a jack-up she’s definitely a ‘premium’ solution and tremendously capable.”

Chris Norman, SMS Group managing director, said: “The JUB is a unique piece of kit, but perhaps more importantly our commercial offering is somewhat unique too.

“Not only can we now support programmes of works that involve either heavy lift or dry dock operations, we can obviously support the works to be undertaken onboard the platform.

“Our core engineering capability is now fully mobile; this places us uniquely in the market, with a turn-key technical and engineering solution very much available to civil, defence and commercial customers alike.”

“The Typhoon 3000 give us shiplift capacity, in the Solent, up to 3000T,” said Chaffers. “It also gives us the ability to move the platform, as required, to anyone of our eight sites.

This capability is unrivalled in the UK, and now available for charter via Overwater. Our focus now is on managed, turnkey, engineering solutions.”

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Williams Shipping signs 15-year port lease A new lease with the Port of Milford Haven will ensure that Williams Shipping will continue to provide marine services from Pembroke Port for the next 15 years.

It is a sign of the firm’s commitment to long-term investment in the area, the firm says.

“We have had a marine operation in Pembroke Dock and Milford Haven since 2004,” said managing director Philip Williams. “We provide many different services to the port, which are contributing to the economic growth of the area.”

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Williams Shipping has mobilised a 22m multicat Willendeavour to Pembroke Port, where it will now be based alongside its existing fleet, which includes a 15m multicat and 16m tug.

“We have also invested in a replacement 70t crawler crane to operate from one of our flat top barges and will soon be basing one of our fast passenger launches in the haven to enable faster crew changes,” said Williams.

The company also has plans to improve berthing pontoons at Quay 3 and support the marine and renewables sectors that the port is keen to develop.

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SEAWORK PREVIEW 2022 An offshore emergency support vessel operator has been awarded contracts totalling more than £100 million to support new and existing clients in the UK Continental Shelf.

North Star is the largest such operator in the North Sea with a fleet of 41 emergency response rescue vehicles (ERRV) supporting 50 offshore oil and gas installations in the region.

“North Star has supported the offshore energy sector for the past 40 years and we have an unrivalled expertise and high quality ERRV fleet,” said Matthew Gordon, North Star’s chief executive.

The company has undertaken an in-depth sustainability study across its infrastructure support vessel fleet to help decarbonise its tonnage, enhance operational performance and meet its net zero 2040 target. It has also invested a six-figure sum in the fleet management software tool Sertica to help streamline the business.

“The North Sea is still a very competitive landscape, and we recognise the need for continual investment in our fleet and services to ensure we deliver value and efficiencies to remain market leading,” said Gordon.

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Maersk Training completes £750,000 refurbishment The final phase of a £750,000 (€900,000) training centre has been completed by Maersk Training in Aberdeen, Scotland.

The final phase of the Portlethen training centre was an advanced firefighting facility that can provide a full suite of accredited emergency response training for offshore, marine and industrial firefighting teams, Maersk says.

“During the first phase of upgrades last year, Maersk Training installed a larger pool, a bespoke work at height and confined space training unit, a first aid simulator and a dedicated basic technical training simulator,” the firm says. “The investment ensures the centre meets the needs of the North Sea workforce as it looks to the energy transition while enhancing its legacy service offering to the oil and gas sector.”

Delegates at the centre can be placed in realistic fire and helicdeck emergency scenarios, said UK operations manager Callum Dewar.

“They will undertake extensive training in planning, system and controls, personal protective equipment and any potential hazards during emergency response,” he said. “During the courses they will be taught to efficiently manage any HSE risks, as well as how best to communicate effectively with teams.”

Interest in autonomous and remotely controlled ships is burgeoning with one safety expert at its vanguard.

Integral to the success of unmanned ships in the future will be the link between the vessel’s control system and its safety system, says the survival technology expert, Survitec.

This will be one aspect under scrutiny when the first unmammed vessel Yara Birkeland goes into operation on the Herøya-Brevik route in Norway in early 2022. ”The link between the vessel’s control system is crucial, becoming even more so on these unmanned systems. The systems need to talk together,” Finn Lende-Harung, commercial director fire solutions, Survitec, told RINA. Autononomy milestone The 3,200dwt ship’s maiden commercial operation this year will mark the start of a two-year technology test phase as the vessel aims to become certified as an autonomous, fully electric container vessel.

Onboard Yara Birkeland for its first laden voyage will be a unique, automatic and remotely operated firefighting system

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designed and commissioned by Survitec.

The system will be monitored by crew from a virtual bridge and machinery control room ashore. Survitec’s scope of supply included a Novenco XFlow water mist system for the vessel’s eight separate battery rooms; an Inergen fire extinguishing system for the switchboard rooms, pumps rooms, control rooms and electrical spaces and a Novenco XFlow water spray system for the cargo holds, open decks, superstructure and other compartments.

A different approach was required for a fire system onboard a crewless ship. The system had to be redesigned for automatic activation based on the signals received from heat and flame sensors and CCTV cameras located all around the vessel. It also had to be able to send signals to seawater pumps, gas cylinders and valves, providing alerts to operators shoreside.

Survitec is currently designing a similar firefighting system for a pair of fully autonomous ferries under construction at a shipyard in India.

WinGD expands crew training to Singapore Swiss marine engine technology developer WinGD has added a fifth crew training centre to its branches in Greece, Switzerland, Korea and China.

The new Singaporean training centre will prepare crews for future fuel vessels with virtual and in-class training courses to cover the full portfolio of engines as well as operational aspects of the future fuel landscape with a priority on safety and engine optimisation.

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The training will be delivered in partnership with shipping firm DCS Power PTE. WinGD says a Full Mission Engine Room Simulator, equipped with its virtual reality engine room Xpert, allows crews to train for responding to emergency scenarios involving the engine itself and all engine systems.

“The complexity of the marine engine and its sub systems are increasing with the introduction of multi-fuel systems,” said WinGD

director of operations Rudolf Holtbecker.

“For optimal operation and engine maintenance, crews need to be familiar with the machinery and the modealities associated with the fuels of the future. The emphasis on improving vessel efficiency with reduced fuel consumption will ensure that priority is given for reducing the emissions footprint.”

As well as WinGD’s own training centres, it has authorised, third-party training partners in Poland, the Philippines and India.

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RAYMARINE RELEASES LATEST ARRAY RADAR PRODUCT Marine electronics specialist Raymarine will be bringing the latest in the company’s radar range to Seawork.

The new Cyclone radars use CHIRP pulse compression and Raymarine beam sharpening technology. This delivers superior target separation and long-range resolution.

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Agencies renew calls to protect seafarers in pandemic UN agencies have renewed calls to give seafarers support in the event of pandemics such as Covid-19.

The International Labour Organization (ILO), International Maritime Organization (IMO), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Health Organization (WHO) on February 28 issued a joint statement asking stakeholders to take action to support the world’s 1.9 million seafarers from being unduly impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions.

“The full impact of the Omicron variant and related response measures on crew changes is not yet clear and further VOCs may yet emerge,” the statement says.

The agencies have listed 10 specific actions it would like to see taken so the effects of such global crises on seafarers can be minimised: 1. Ensure access to medical care or evacuation 2. Grant ‘key worker’ designation to seafarers 3. Prioritise vaccination 4. Provide access to tests and PPE 5. E nsure protocols are agreed internationally 6. Adopt the latest legal instruments 7. I mplement WHO guidance for Covid-19 management on cargo ships and fishing vessels 8. P rovide public certificates of proof of heal if required

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9. Regularly update relevant guidance and mechanisms as scientific insight develops 10. Limit disruption to supply chains and jump on emerging viruses of concern.

“Recognizing the critical role of the maritime sector in keeping trade flowing during the global fight against Covid-19, the four organisations- have throughout been highlighting the pandemic’s impact on shipping and global sustainable trade and development, and once again urge all stakeholders to ensure the continued safe operation of shipping and to keep ships moving, ports open and cross-border trade flowing,” a joint statement said.

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HYBRID FIRE FIGHTING VESSELS PASS 100-DAY TEST Two new fire fighting vessels have passed their first 100 days of operation with flying colours The Dresden and Prag are the first diesel-electric hybrids in Flotte Hamburg’s fleet and are equipped with battery systems from EST-Floattech. ”An important aspect in selecting the battery systems was the safety of using the lithium-ion batteries,” said Marc Mühlenbeck, sales account manager at EST-Floattech Hamburg, the company’s German subsidiary, founded in 2021.

“We apply high-quality pouch battery cells that ensure high-energy density, good heat dissipation and high-energy efficiency. In addition, two independent battery management systems monitor and control safe charging and discharging.

Other safety features include a fireproof housing and a venting system in the event of a thermal runaway.”

Impressive performance The 100-day trial tested out, among other things, the Green Orca 1050 battery systems on the inland waterway vessels.

The ships were put into operation in a successful partnership involving the vessel builder Damen, the electrical and automation project partner Royal Van der Leun and Flotte Hamburg, which is a subsidiary of the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA).

Flotte Hamburg, fleet manager for the ± 50 ships of the ‘Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg’ since 2017, is implementing its environmental strategy for both fire-fighting boats.

Its five-pillar concept includes the switch to low-emission fuels (pillar I), as well as exhaust after treatment for new purchases (pillar II), retrofitting existing ships (pillar III) and efficient ship operation (pillar V). An example of Pillar IV – innovative drive technologies – is the battery-buffered diesel-electric hybrid drive, which optimally combines power, reliability and environmental protection.

The Green Orca 1050 modules, certified by the classification society DNV, each have a total battery capacity of 315 kWh.

The plug-in hybrid allows up to four hours of fully electric and therefore emission-free travel through the port at an average speed.

The new propulsion technology has also been well received by the crews.

“I’m delighted with the handling of the two fire-fighting vessels in hybrid mode,” said Melvin Siebold, Captain at Flotte Hamburg. “As captain, I can not only carry out extremely precise manoeuvres, but also navigate large parts of the port of Hamburg in battery mode in an anticipatory sailing style. In addition to pleasant, noiseless sailing, I also observe that my colleagues are not exposed to exhaust fumes when working on deck.”

Both the Prag, which is on full-time charter for the Hamburg Fire Brigade, and the Dresden, used multifunctionally by the HPA (e.g for building inspections) and the fire brigade, were built at Damen Shipyards Hardinxveld.

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World’s largest container scrubs up well Alfa Laval has monitored the performance of its new exhaust scrubbers over eight months on the world’s largest container vessel.

Swedish scrubber manufacturer Alfa Laval says the performance of its new design PureSOx scrubbers has matched expectations on the world’s largest container ship over eight months at sea.

The Ever Ace, owned by Evergreen Marine, has two scrubbers with a shared water cleaning system, which Alfa Laval says provides maximum reliability with a minimal footprint.

It was the first of 12 vessels to get the scrubbers in Evergreen’s A Class, which comprises container vessels of up to 24,000 TEU capacity. They are powered by a main

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8 Alda Laval’s PreSOx exhaust scrubbers were fitted on the world’s largest container vessel Ever Ace

engine of 60MW and five auxiliary engines of 4.5MW each.

The two scrubbers, one for the main engine and the other for the auxiliary engines, can operate in open or closed

loop and require effective cleaning of the closed-loop circulation water. This is provided by a shared water cleaning system, based primarily on high-speed centrifugal separation.

“The limited gas load during a short shipyard sea trial was not enough to test the full WCS cleaning capacity, so Alfa Laval experts followed Ever Ace during a September journey from the UK to Germany and the Netherlands,” said Alfa Laval.

“Along the route, the WCS could be observed during longer periods with high engine loads. Cleaning performance was high throughout the voyage, even when much larger amounts of circulation water reached the WCS.”

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VESSEL & EQUIPMENT NEWS Lloyd’s Register (LR) has given Norwegian ship owner Egil Ulvan Rederi Approval in Principle for its hydrogen-fuelled bulk carrier, With Orca.

The ship is being hailed as zero-emission in all operations, being powered by hydrogen stored on board in compressed form. The hydrogen combustion engine will be optimised and the vessel will also have a fuel cell system for energy production in low load conditions.

Some of the energy required to operate the 88m/5,500 tonne vessel will be harvested directly from the wind through two large rotor sails, says LR says, and any excess energy can also be stored in batteries.

LR marine and offshore director Mark Darley said the project was a world first in using several alternative propulsion technologies in combination.

Designed by Norwegian Ship Design, the hydrogen will be supplied by Statkraft and is scheduled to begin operations in early 2024, when it will sail routes mainly in the North Sea – which has ideal windy conditions.

It will carry aggregates from western to eastern Norway and grain in the opposite direction.

Per-Kenneth Øye, chief transport officer at Felleskjøpet Agri SA, said: “Our aim is to

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achieve sustainable fleet renewal, phasing out old tonnage. The project was initiated to set the standard for others to follow, and we are pleased that we now have accomplished this important step.”

“The project marks a milestone in the journey towards a zero-emission future for the shipping industry,” said LR, which says it is

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ANTIGLARE KIT INSTALLED Thordon Bearings ON NEW SERIES OF TUGS unveils shaft seal with SRTP The safety feature was first used in Thordon’s TG100 workboat and SeaThigor naval vessels, and has now been designed for use in merchant fleets.

The new BlueWater Seal has been designed to have a lower maintenance requirement yet robust shaft seal, completing its COMPAC open seawater lubricated propeller shaft bearing system.

It is a commercial-grade axial lip seal specifically designed for merchant shipping fleets, the company says.

“The BlueWater Seal meets growing market demand for a complete propeller shaft line solution from a single source,” said technical director Anthony Hamilton. “Although we can offer the seal as an individual component, it forms a fundamental part of the Thordon COMPAC open seawater lubricated propeller shaft bearing system.

“At first glance it may look like any other axial lip face seal out there, but what makes this seal unique is its SRTP capability and revolutionary RENFORM main seal ring.”

The technology was developed by chief research engineer Gary Ren, who said in comparative trials at Thordon’s full-scale test rig in Ontario, Canada, the seal operated ‘without friction spikes and considerably less friction than similar seals leading to reduced wear, longer life and less maintenance’.

“The development is a real boon to those ship owners and operators looking to adopt an open seawater lubricated shaft line arrangement as the entire propeller shaft line system can now be sourced from one company,” he said.

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A series of ten newbuild tugs just built in the UAE will benefit from specially installed antiglare sunscreens.

The new offshore and harbour tugs will each be delivered to the owners with a set of SOLASAFE antiglare roller sunscreens installed at the wheelhouse windows.

“Shipyards in the United Arab Emirates are prolific builders of tugs, Platform Supply Vessels and other vessel types that are mainly employed supporting offshore rigs and platforms,” said John Lightfoot MBE, chairman of Solar Solve Marine. ”It is typical to win orders to supply a series of vessels, as shipowners often order their new vessel requirements in a series. They can benefit from the economies of scale at the build stage and easier, more efficient maintenance throughout the life of the series of vessels.”

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When in use, they will reject 92% of the glare, 77% of the heat and 97% of the ultra-violet radiation caused by the sun to create a safer, more comfortable working environment.

Because the consignment was for ten shipsets and the initial enquiry was made some months before the screens were needed, the customer took advantage of Solar Solve’s offer to make a set of nine SOLASAFE sunscreens to trial on the first vessel.

These were sent to the shipyard so they could be installed to ensure a proper fit before the rest of the order was fulfilled.

SPEED KEY TO BWTS RACE Fast track delivery is vital in meeting the IMO deadline for ballast water treatment system (BWTS) retrofits.

That’s according to Norwegian ballast water treatment specialist Optimarin, which said a quick turnaround is needed because shipowners are keeping their fleets running at all costs to rake in record revenue.

At the same time it warned the capacity crunch caused by high retrofit demand poses the risk of installing sub-standard BWT systems with a higher cost both in upfront price and long-term maintenance, impacting future operations.

“Shipowners focused on efficient operations face a big dilemma: how can they keep their vessels running while future-proofing their fleet with a compliant and reliable BWTS to

ensure it can continue trading efficiently beyond 2024?,” said Leiv Kallestad, chief executive, Optimarin.

The IMO’s ballast water management convention is due to be implemented in September 2024, with no extension in sight.

Optimarin estimates that around 30,000 ships - about half of 62,000 eligible commercial vessels - still require BWTS retrofits.

This amounts to as many as 1000 BWTS installations per month, which will put a massive squeeze on yard and engineering capacity.

But Kallestad believes there does not have to be a trade-off between retrofitting and ongoing operations. The supplier’s delivery model of less than 30 days is supported by available drydock capacity at one of partner Newport Shipping’s global network of 15 affiliate yards.

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LARGEST SHORT SEA RORO VESSEL TO GET ROTOR SAILS

Norsepower will install two rotor sails on what is believed to be the world’s biggest short sea RoRo vessel, the MV Delphine, which transits between the UK, Ireland and Europe.

Operated by CLdN, the vessel has a cargo capacity of close to 8,000 lane meters, and Norsepower estimates that the two 35m x 5m tilting rotor sails will achieve a fuel and emission saving of between 7-10%.

It is the seventh vessel so far to be fitted with Norsepower’s rotor sails, and the third to include the tilting function.

They work by detecting when the wind is strong enough to deliver fuel and emission savings, at which point they start automatically. The technology is around ten times more efficient than a conventional sail 8 A diagram of Norsepower’s tilting rotor sail because more lift is produced with a much “Seeing the interest grow in our tilting Rotor smaller sail area, the company says.

Sail design demonstrates how the industry is Norsepower says its rotor sails can be looking for proven, flexible solutions to lower retrofitted on existing ships as well as on new greenhouse gas emissions and reduce fuel vessels. They are a modernised version of the costs across a range of vessel sizes and Flettner rotor, a spinning cylinder that uses operations,” said Norsepower CEO Tuomas Riski. the Magnus effect to harness wind power to “With fuel becoming increasingly expensive, thrust a ship. making savings will also have a huge impact The optimal number and size of sails are on commercial success.” based on the size, speed, and operating In November 2021, Norsepower signed an profile of the target vessel, so Norsepower Lebus aYP 2019.qxp_Lebus YP 17/12/2019 15:07 MoU Pagewith 1 Kongsberg Maritime to facilitate the makes range of sizes to accommodate.

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INSURANCE, LEGAL & FINANCE

SHIPPING FIRMS URGED TO CHECK INSURANCE POLICIES Marine insurers have widened the area they consider high risk for shipping around the Black and Azov seas in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

In an advisory on March 7, the Joint War Committee amended its listed areas to include Romanian waters at the Ukraine-Romania border in the west, and then east up to the Russia-Georgia border.

All inland waters of Ukraine and some of Russia and Belarus were also added to the list.

It means that ships making voyages in these areas must notify their insurance companies to make sure they still provide cover and at what price.

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You may think all is well, but the knock-on effect of port closures in Ukraine could impact on other ports to which your goods are heading. It is always good advice to not rely on a freight forwarder or shipper’s insurance policy, but to purchase your own cover. If not, should you need to claim, you might find big holes in your protection The Joint War Committee said it knew of at least three vessels that had been hit in the region – Millennial Spirit, Namura Queen and Yasa Jupiter, and there have been reports of more. According to US TV news channel CNN, the Millennial Spirit, a Moldovan oil tanker, was still on fire on March 9, two weeks after it was hit by an apparent Russian military strike.

Marine cargo specialist Ascend Broking is urging shipping companies to check if their routes are affected and still covered.

“Even if a vessel can gain access to the Black Sea or the Sea of Azov, it may find itself facing risks that would not be

covered by a standard marine cargo insurance policy, because they are associated with war,” the broker said.

“Claims for resulting losses would not therefore be valid.

Several vessels, flying under the flags of neutral countries, have already been damaged by missiles.”

Marine cargo specialist with Ascend Broking Matt Price said if goods were already in transit, it was vital to find out if they were affected by invalidated insurance.

“You may think all is well, but the knock-on effect of port closures in Ukraine could impact on other ports to which your goods are heading,” he said. “It is always good advice to not rely on a freight forwarder or shipper’s insurance policy, but to purchase your own cover. If not, should you need to claim, you might find big holes in your protection, of which you were unaware, or find yourself trying to pursue a claim in a foreign country and in a foreign language.”

However the broker also said it was not impossible to buy cover – shipping companies just needed to know where to look.

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DP World finalises legal requirements to buy Imperial DP World Logistics has met all necessary conditions to enable it to buy 100% of Imperial Logistics, the firm announced today.

The transaction will be finalised on March 14.

The move is intended to deepen DP World’s foothold in Africa, it says, where the company already has several ports. It also has a European network of inland terminals that connect with deep sea ports in Europe.

South Africa-based Imperial Logistics complements DP’s intentions with its market access and logistics solutions in Africa, DP World group chairman and CEO Sultan

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Ahmed Bin Sulayem said, where it is predicting trade to grow at more than twice GDP, driven by population growth, accelerated urbanisation and a rising middle class.

The deal will allow the company to offer integrated end-to-end solutions along key trade lanes into and out of Africa, said Imperial Group CEO Mohammed Akoojee, driving better supply chain efficiency and therefore enhancing value for all stakeholders.

The firms confirmed that all regulatory approvals had been fulfilled in preparation for the formal handover on March 14.

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INSURANCE, LEGAL & FINANCE Law firm Hill Dickinson has added to its international team of master mariners with the appointment of Helene Peter-Davies to its London office.

A master mariner and solicitor with 30 years’ experience in the shipping industry, PeterDavies specialises in wet and dry shipping matters that have a technical nature.

She has investigated a number of casualties and handled cases through to resolution, including Lloyd’s Salvage Arbitration, LMAA Arbitration, High Court, Court of Appeal and mediation proceedings.

She also advises on policy and procedural issues concerning the UK Ports and Terminals industry.

Peter-Davies has firm sea legs, beginning with a cadetship at the age of 17 and a further 12 years of seagoing experience as a deck and engineering officer on a variety of vessel types, including VLCCs, product tankers, LNG carriers, container ships, oil field standby/ anchor handling vessels, high-speed craft and Ro-Ro vessels.

One back on land, she oversaw the vessel vetting and approval processes for an oil major and lectured in Maritime Law at the then Glasgow College of Nautical Studies (now Glasgow College).

HILL DICKINSON ADDS MASTER MARINER TO LEGAL TEAM She was awarded the Victoria Drummond Award by Nautilus International in 2019 for her mentoring work and the Merchant Navy Medal for Meritorious Service in 2020 for services to Women in Maritime.

“We are very pleased to welcome Helene to the team,” said Hill Dickinson partner and master mariner Phil Haddon. “She is well known to us from her years of work in the industry including on high value, multijurisdictional and complex cases.”

Hill Dickinson has been responding to emergency situations arising out of major marine casualties and disasters for over 200 years. Its team of mariners, all of whom are qualified lawyers, provide assistance in every type of casualty situation to clients around the globe, from offices in Europe and the Far East.

The company urges early stage intervention whenever an incident occurs, quickly identifying the potential legal issues, preserving and captuiring relevant physical, electronic and witness evidence.

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PORT OF ROTTERDAM BUOYED UP BY BOLLARD TECHNOLOGY When the Port of Rotterdam decided to upgrade its old single point steel-hulled mooring buoys for safer, lower maintenance systems, it looked to French aids to navigation specialist manufacturer Mobilis.

The low density polyethylene hulls on buoys like the Mobilis AMR 14000 4-ring SWL 108T unit selected by the Port of Rotterdam have a number of distinct advantages over steel-hulled buoys.

They are more likely to rebound with little or no damage in the event of a ship hull strike, unlike steel buoys that are more liable to split or deform permanently (dent). Even if there is damage to a buoy such as the AMR 14000, the unit takes down in a much more modular way, so worn or damaged parts can be swapped out or replaced relatively cheaply. Furthermore, polyethylene buoys are softer than steel so less liable to damage the plating or coatings on the ship itself.

Scheduled lifting and servicing of polyethylene buoys is less frequent than with steel buoys. While some manufacturers claim that polyethylene is ‘fouling free’, this is not strictly the case. What is undoubtedly true though, is underwater growth rarely adheres well to this plastic, so the buoys need not be coated with anything, and a quick pressure-wash is all that is needed to remove a season’s growth.

They are economical in maintenance, ecological (Mobilis claims 100 % recyclable) and stable to meet changing needs and market conditions. High quality UV-stabilised plastics such as those used by Mobilis are also said to hold their colour longer than painted steel buoys.

The 4-ring SWL 108T is rated at a safe mooring load of 4 x 108 tonnes and was specially developed in close cooperation with the Port of Rotterdam. Four hawsers per buoy, plus a rethink of mooring facilities port-wide mean that Rotterdam’s 260 mooring buoys of the 1980s have been replaced with just 29 of this new design.

The buoys feature an innovative bollard mooring system that allows boatmen to work easily and more safely from a workboat, even when freeing the moorings; a task where they encountered seizure and blocking problems in the past due to corrosion and wear.

8 Hawsers can be released from the safety of a workboat’s deck

Navaids firm publishes white paper on daymarks Navmoor has published an informative white paper on daymarks for fixed locations.

Navigational aids firm Navmoor has released a white paper on daymarks for fixed locations to help harbour masters and coastal management organisations ensure they are compliant with IALA (International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities) recommendations.

The paper looks at the shape and colour of daymarks, which can often be a bit ‘bodged’, says Navmoor managing director Chris Newall.

“In the worst case scenario a port can be closed if it isn’t kept up to certain standards,” he says. “Most of the ports that are noncompliant are local council authority-run

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8 Corroded: Daymarks need regular attention and maintenance, says Navmoor

ones, where they end up with bodged works – but they don’t know they haven’t complied with the IALA. The white paper breaks down the very technical IALA guidelines, with simple

explanations of materials, colours and appropriate locations for different kinds of daymarks.

It gives a lot of advice about all aspects of daymark installation, for example that consideration should be given to possible ageing or degradation of colour and luminance.

“Local contaminants such as industrial pollutants and bird fouling can also reduce performance, suggesting a more frequent maintenance schedule,” the paper recommends.

It also talks about the kind of mounting structure that could be used depending on the conditions in which the daymark is likely to be installed.

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NAVIGATION & COMMUNICATION

FIRMS SIGN MOU TO DEVELOP NEXT GEN SATELLITE COMMS Two partners have joined forces to develop innovative satellite communications capabilities for commercial vessels.

Advanced comms Yahsat Government Solutions (YGS) advanced satellite communications solutions will be jointly offered to customers to support critical operations such as Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) protection, security, anti-piracy, anti-human trafficking and coastal patrol.

The MoU will enable Al Seer Marine to build on Yahsat’s extensive experience in delivering highly secure satellite communications services for safety and security missioncritical applications such as Comms-on-the-Move (COTM) and Beyond Line of Sight (BLoS).

By pre-qualifying its COTM solutions to work efficiently on Al Seer’s unmanned vessels, Yahsat said it has developed a strong business model and value proposition, which will reduce the integration and timeline risks, ensures platforms’ structural and design integrity, warrants onboard combat systems and sensor compatibility and more importantly, optimises system integration costs.

The combined expertise of Al Seer Marine and Yahsat in melding COTM, BLoS and other combat systems on maritime

Source: AI Seer Marine

Vessel manufacturer Al Seer Marine has signed an MoU with communications company Yahsat to test line-fitting unmanned vessels with advanced satellite connectivity solutions.

“Our two organisations share common interests in promoting the technologies that are needed in today’s world,” said Holger Schulte-Hillen, chief operating officer, Al Seer Marine.

“This partnership is an important development for us and aligns with our efforts to boost our contribution to the UAE’s sovereign developed technology solutions in the maritime safety, security and communications sectors by enabling Al Seer Marine and Yahsat collaboration.”

platforms opens the door to an exciting range of add-ons, creating massive value for customers while ensuring performance, reliability and security.

In September, Al Seer Marine formed a joint venture with BGN International, one of the world’s leading energy, trading, storage, and transport companies, to acquire a portfolio of very large gas carriers (VLGCs) for transport of liquefied petroleum gas around the world.

The joint venture also awarded a contract to South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries to build two new VLGCs, each with a capacity of 86,000 cubic metres, the companies said. The new carriers are due for delivery in the first and second quarters of 2023.

8 The MoU was signed by Eisa Al Shamsi, general manager of YGS, and Holger SchulteHillen, chief operating officer of Al Seer Marine

ORCA AI navigational aid wins certification A navigational aid platform by Israel-based ORCA AI has been given Product Design Assessment certification by the American Bureau of Shipping.

ORCA says it is the first time an AI-based navigation platform has received the certification.

Combining artificial intelligence and imaging technology, ORCA’s system was launched in 2019 to supplement existing onboard sensors with an AI-powered navigation and vessel tracking system that allows crews to detect ships in any situation at any distance with enough time to take action if needed to avoid collision.

The software platform, supported by

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computer vision sensors, thermal and low-light cameras, is already being used by well-known brands in the industry, ORCA says.

“This certification will significantly increase situational awareness and ultimately enhance maritime navigation and

augmentation of crews with the use of data intelligence,” said co-founder and chief technology officer Dor Raviv.

The system is available for use on ships and also remotely by fleet managers.

The American Bureau of Shipping’s PDA certification is “a voluntary and efficient product approval solution suitable for qualified manufacturers who are targeting promotion of their products to the marine and offshore market sectors’, said Gareth Burton, vice-president, Technology, at the ABS. “This product will assist the development and use of advanced technologies such as AI and data analytics to improve marine operations.”

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OCEAN SCIENCES

SCIENTISTS STUDY SEAL TEETH TO ANALYSE CLIMATE CHANGE Scientists in the UK and Norway have analysed teeth from Arctic harp seals that shows changes in their ocean food since the 1950s.

Researchers at the Universities of Liverpool and St Andrews, the UK National Oceanography Centre and the Institute of Marine Research in Norway have found that food webs in the Barents Sea, a marginal sea in the Arctic Ocean off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia, have been affected by changing climate over the past 70 years.

They say that seal teeth are like tree rings, with annual growth layers of dentine being deposited and leaving a biological record of age.

“Combining unique 60-year records from compound specific 1δ 5N (a measure of the two stable isotopes of nitrogen) biomarkers on harp seal teeth alongside state-ofthe-art ocean modelling, we observed a significant decline in the 1δ 5N values at the base of the Barents Sea food web from 1951 to 2012,” the Multi-decadal environmental change in the Barents Sea recorded by seal teeth paper says.

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Our results suggest that the Arctic ecosystem has been responding to anthropogenically induced local and remote drivers, linked to changing ocean biology, chemistry and physics, for at least 60 years “This strong and persistent decadal trend emerges due to the combination of anthropogenic atmospheric nitrogen deposition in the Atlantic, increased northward transport of Atlantic water through Arctic gateways and local feedbacks from increasing Arctic primary production.

“Our results suggest that the Arctic ecosystem has been responding to anthropogenically induced local and remote

drivers, linked to changing ocean biology, chemistry and physics, for at least 60 years. Accounting for these trends in 1δ 5N values at the base of the food web is essential to accurately detect ecosystem restructuring in this rapidly changing environment.”

The paper says warming and changes in ocean circulation affect nutrient supply and thus the base of Arctic marine ecosystems, with cascading effects on the entire food web through bottom-up control.

The paper was published in the journal Global Change Biology. It was led by Dr Camille de la Vega and Dr Pearse Buchanan, post-doctoral researchers on the NERC (Natural Environment Research Council)-funded ARISE project, a fiveyear research project led by Professor Claire Mahaffey from the Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences.

8 Scientists have discovered oceanic changes over 60 years thanks to the teeth of the Arctic harp seal

Hawaiian coral researchers report rare good news A study of three coral species in conditions simulated to replicate warmer and more acidic seas has shown that ultimately they thrived.

In a report published in Science Daily, researchers at Oregon State University said that while at first half of each species did succumb, none completely died off and by the end of the 22-month study they were actually thriving.

Samples were placed in tanks with four different conditions: current ocean; ocean acidification; ocean warming (+2oC); and a combination of warming and acidification.

It can only provide hope for the future of corals, said Rowan McLachlan, a doctoral

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8 Montipora capiitata: one of three coral species that thrived in simulated warmer, more acidic ocean waters

student in earth sciences, who led the study .

“We found surprisingly positive outcomes in our study, “McLachlan was quoted as

saying. “We don’t get a lot of that in the coral research field when it comes to the effects of warming oceans.”

Because the study was conducted over almost two years, compared with most similar research that only spans five months, the findings were optimistic, Ohio State professor of earth sciences Andréa Grottoli said.

“There are aspects of coral biology that take a long time to adjust,” she said. “There can be a dip when they are faced with stressors, but after enough time corals can recalibrate and return to a normal state.”

The three coral species collected were Montipora capitata, Porites compressa and Prostes Iobate.

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WORKS IN PROGRESS

FRENCH FIRM HIRED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN BEIRUT PORT The port of Beirut, devastated by a massive explosion shortly followed by a warehouse fire, will be restored by a French firm over 10 years.

French shipping and logistics group CMA CGM has been awarded the contract to manage, operate and maintain the port of Beirut for 10 years, a year and a half after the port was destroyed by fire and explosion.

The work will be given to the firm’s subsidiary, CMA Terminals.

In August 2020, a warehouse in the port containing 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate blew up, killing at least 190 people and leaving up to 300,000 people homeless.

A month later, a fire broke out in a warehouse containing barrels of cooking oil, officials said, which spread to nearby tyres. At the time, suggestions were made that the fire had been caused by repair work at the port.

Now the port will be entirely renovated and modernised at a cost of some $33 million (€29 million) by CMA CGM, which says the first $19 million will be spent in the first two years of a 10-year plan.

The renovation will include a complete infrastructure upgrade with new port equipment; a new technical facility for maintenance and the storage of spare parts; and environmental performance improvements such as the purchase of ‘greener and ecofriendly’ equipment.

It also plans ‘a digital transformation of the terminal’, with modern management systems implemented to communicate between operations and the various operators at the port.

“Faithful to our commitments to Lebanon, we will be launching shortly an ambitious investment plan that will transform Beirut port’s container terminal into a state-of-theart facility that meets the best international standards,” CMA CGM Group CEO Rodolph Saadé said.

The Group, which says it accounts for more than half of the container terminal’s volumes, appears to be keen to maintain its foothold in Lebanon, with the acquisition last year of the container terminal inside Tripoli Port.

The renovation will include a complete infrastructure upgrade with new port equipment; a new technical facility for maintenance and the storage of spare parts; and environmental performance improvements such as the purchase of ‘greener and ecofriendly’ equipment

8 Port of Beirut

“Considered the country’s second commercial port, CMA CGM Group is pursuing its will of strengthening its presence at Lebanon’s ports,” the company said. “The Group plays an active role in supporting and developing the country’s economy through its investments in shipping and ports, as well as in logistics via its subsidiary CEVA Logistics.”

Global Energy Storage closes investment in Rotterdam Guernsey-based Global Energy Storage has finalised its investment in the Port of Rotterdam, it announced on February 22.

It is the first investment by the energy company in the assets of the Stargate Terminal owned by Gunvor Group, which include four Class 1 product tanks totalling more than 212,000m3.

The company plans to develop infrastructure for biofuel and other renewable fuels storage, gas storage, gas to chemicals production, green and blue hydrogen production and hydrogen carriers, such as ammonia.

GES has also bought the rights to develop up to 20 hectares of vacant land,

8 Port of Rotterdam - GES

and has plans to develop a multi-purpose seagoing jetty.

The site has a large waterfront with deep water access and scope for brownfield and greenfield development.

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“This is an important milestone for GES,” said GES CEO Peter Vucins. “The location of this first investment in the heart of the Port of Rotterdam positions us perfectly to significantly contribute to our client’s needs to develop the new storage and logistics infrastructure to facilitate the energy transition which is upon us and accelerating.”

The Port of Rotterdam is Europe’s largest port, with deep-water access and worldclass connectivity to inland waterways and pipeline infrastructure.

GES is backed by Bluewater, the specialist international private equity firm focused on the middle-market energy sector.

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INDUSTRY DATABASE AIR CONDITIONING & DEHUMIDIFIERS Webasto See under: Generators, Gen Sets & Auxiliaries

ALIGNMENT & TEST EQUIPMENT n Spectrum Metrology Unit 8, Ireton Avenue, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE4 9EU Tel: +44 1162 766262 sales@spectrum-metrology.co.uk www.spectrum-metrology.co.uk Electro optical metrology company selling alignment telescopes and precision electronics levels for alignment, flatness, angle, level, squareness and parallelism (shipbuilding and repair - propeller shaft and engine alignment).

ALUMINIUM STOCKHOLDERS n Righton Blackburns Building 38, Second Avenue, The Pensnett Estate, Kingswinford, West Midlands, DY6 7UE Tel: +44 1384 276400 sales@rblimited.co.uk www.rightonblackburns.co.uk Universally acknowledged as market leader for the supply of raw materials to the marine industry, Righton Blackburns is your first choice for aluminium, stainless steel, copper alloys, plastics, composites and steel products.

ANCHORS n Trillo Anclas y Cadenas SLU Parque Empresarial de Coiros, Parcela 10, 15316 Coiros (La Coruna) Tel: +34 981 173478 Fax: +34 981 298705 info@rtrillo.com www.rtrillo.com Chain Cables, Shackles, Swivels, Mooring Gear and Mooring Ropes.

BARGES Neptune Shipyards BV See under: Workboat builders n Williams Shipping Manor House Avenue, Milbrook, Southampton, Hampshire, SO15 0LF Tel: +44 2380 529555 marine@williams-shipping.co.uk www.williams-shipping.co.uk Providing marine and logistics services for over 120 years. Pontoons, Tugs, Workboats, Fast Launches, Multipurpose Barges with cranes. Roadtransportable Multicats, full operational base facilities, craneage and open storage. Our group includes marine services & vessel charter, road transport & heavy haulage, container hire & sales, warehousing & storage, and marine lubricants distribution.

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BLINDS & CURTAINS

DECK EQUIPMENT

n Solarglide Ltd Unit 8 The Stottie Shed, Bakers Yard, Christon Road, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE3 1XD Tel: +44 1915 970543 Fax: +44 1670 898614 theteam@solarglide.com www.solarglide.com Solarglide are a UK based manufacturer and supplier of exceptional quality and innovative marine tested solar screens, curtains, blackout blinds, dimout blinds, wipers, and adhesive window films.

n Atlas Winch & Hoist Services Ltd Old Station Yard, Station Road, Biggar, Lanarkshire, ML12 6DQ Tel: +44 1899 221577 Mobile: +44 7836 545117 Fax: +44 1899 221515 info@winchhire.com www.winchhire.co.uk Hirers and Suppliers of 2/4/6/8-point mooring sets available, single, double and triple drum winches available.

Fairleads, deck sheaves, anchors, diesel or electric driven hydraulic power units.

Air tugger winches, wire ropes, slings and shackles. New or reconditioned equipment available.

BOW & STERN THRUSTERS WaterMota Ltd See under: Propulsion Systems

BUOYS & BEACONS n JFC Marine Weir Road, Tuam, Co Galway Tel: +44 7792 772447 uk@jfcmarine.com jfcmarine.com/ JFC Marine offer an extensive range of aids to navigation solutions including navigation buoys, lanterns, AIS systems, battery and solar powered solutions that are used by mariners and port authorities worldwide. n Sabik Marine Höylänlastu 2 A, Porvoo, FI-06150 Tel: +358-19-560 1100 sales@sabik-marine.com marine.sabik.com/ Sabik Marine design and manufacture high-quality LED marine signals and Aid to Navigation, AtoN, solutions with remote monitoring and control.

CHAINS n Carlier Chaines SA 37 Rue Roger Salengro, 59733 SaintAmand cedex Tel: +33 3 27 48 12 00 Fax: +33 3 27 48 95 27 info@carlier-chain.com www.carlier-chain.com/ Carlier Chaines SAS Is producing chain for 90 years. We have many years of experience in manufacturing all kinds of chains, anchors & lifting accessories for any use. Our production facilities are based in North of France on 10 000 m², where we produce sizes from 10mm to 120 mm diameter. Our quality system is ISO 9001 since nearly 20 years. Our Forging dept can forge standard & on drawing items (shackles, swivels, fittings, hooks.)

Our mecano welded dept can make any metal structure of maxi 12T (anchor, buoy, port & quay equipment.) This make Carlier Chaines SAS the most reliable partner for chains, fittings, recognize for the quality of the products, service.

Fluidmecanica C/Coruña 37, P.O. Box 5220, 36.208 Vigo Tel: +34 986 21 33 29 Fax: +34 986 29 85 18 fluidmecanic@fluidmecanica.com www.fluidmecanica.com From 1977 we design, manufacture and install deck equipment. Towing winches (standard or escort), anchor windlasses, cranes, davits, thrusters, towing hooks, power packs and steering gears. n Global Services Ltd Global House, 28 Trade City, Apple Lane, Exeter, Southampton, UK, EX2 5GL Tel: +44 7493 978533 commercial@globalservicesltd.co.uk www.globalservicesltd.co.uk/ commercial Market leader in Marine Procurement.

25 years’ experience in supporting Commercial vessels with ship supplies & services. n Ibercisa Deck Machinery Molinos 25, (Pontevedra), 36213-Vigo Tel: +34 986 213 900 Fax: +34 986 202 779 ibercisa@ibercisa.es www.ibercisa.es Ibercisa is a technological company.

Founded in 1969, has been dedicated to the design and manufacture, under its own technology, a widest range of deck machinery for all kind of marine markets (fishing, tugs, oceanographic, navy, offshore, civil, merchant, research and dredging).

DESIGN

CRANES

Deri Jones & Associates Ltd Llwyngwyn, Forge, Machynlleth, SY20 8RR Tel: +44 1654 702001 info@djaweb.co.uk www.djaweb.co.uk We focus on the engineering and design of construction systems for complex, large structures, providing accurate parts for CNC cutting and comprehensive assembly instructions.

n HS Marine Via G. Marconi, 33 Sabbioneta, Italy, MN 46018 Tel: +39 0375 254 819 info@hsmarine.net www.hsmarine.net HS.Marine is a leading ship and offshore cranes manufacturer with the world’s widest range of models ranging from 5 to 1.000 tm capacity. All crane models are specifically designed, masterly built and assembled to provide our customers top quality.

n Island Computer Systems Ltd 41 Horsebridge Hill, Isle Of Wight, PO30 5TJ Tel: +44 1983 827100 info@maxsurf.net www.maxsurf.net Maxsurf provides naval architects, surveyors, offshore engineers and shipbuilders with a complete range of software tools for all phases of the vessel design, analysis and construction process.

n Macduff Ship Design Ltd Low Shore, Macduff, Aberdeenshire, AB44 1RE Tel: +44 1261 833825 Fax: +44 1261 833835 info@macduffshipdesign.com www.macduffshipdesign.com Macduff Ship Design Ltd are proven industry leaders in the Naval Architecture and Marine Survey sectors, having worked for more than 25 years with owners, operators and shipyards globally. n Southerly Designs 2 Carrol St, Port Denison, 6525 Tel: +61 8 9927 2750 info@southerly.com.au southerly.com.au Southerly Designs is a leading designer of high speed aluminium working vessels. Specialists in high and medium speed monohull vessels. Patrol and Military vessels. Pilot Launches. Fast fishing vessels. Utility vessels and work boats. Landing craft. Offshore support and crew boats. Over 600 vessels in service. southerly.com.au

DIESEL ENGINES & SPARES n Beta Marine Ltd Davy Way, Waterwells, Quedgeley, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL8 8LT Tel: +44 1453 723492 Fax: +44 1453 883742 sales@betamarine.co.uk www.betamarine.co.uk Since 1987 Beta Marine has developed an enviable reputation for providing quiet and smooth-running marine diesel engines and generating sets to suit a wide variety of applications. They are renowned for durability, longevity, reliability and deliver an excellent return on investment. n Volspec Ltd Woodrolfe Road, Tollesbury, Nr Maldon, Essex, CM9 8SE Tel: +44 1621 869756 Fax: +44 1621 868859 enquiries@volspec.co.uk www.volspec.co.uk Volspec Ltd the UK’s premier Volvo Penta Centre with the UK’s largest stock of genuine spare parts, engines and accessories for the marine, commercial and industrial markets.

Competent factory trained workshop based or mobile engineers ready to assist whenever required to both UK and international customers. Our online web shop available for UK and many European markets at www.volvopenta. com/volspec/en-GB WaterMota Ltd See under: Propulsion Systems

DIESEL POWER & PROPULSION Motorenrevisie Spaarnestad Nijverheidsweg 27G, Haarlem, 2031 CN Tel: +31 23 531 03 17 revisie@spaarnestad.nl www.spaarnestad.nl With over 30 years of experience in the field of maritime & industrial diesel engines. We are official dealer of Bosch Diesel Center | John Deere | Yanmar | Balmar | Zenoro | Delphi | Caterpillar | MTU (Service dealer)

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INDUSTRY DATABASE DIVING & MARINE CONTRACTORS n Northern Divers (Eng) Ltd Oslo Road, Sutton Fields Industrial Estate, Hull, Yorkshire, HU7 0YN Tel: +44 1482 227276 Fax: +44 1482 215712 contact@northerndivers.co.uk www.northerndivers.co.uk Established in 1963 we are one of the leading diving contractors in the UK with divers and management experienced in all aspects of underwater work to a maximum depth of 50 metres. We can offer a full complement of diving equipment and a various range of marine craft to cover your requirements. n Quest Underwater Services Ltd Ferryman’s Way, Weymouth, Dorset, DT4 9YU Tel: +44 1929 405029 Fax: +44 1929 405472 info@questmarine.co.uk www.questmarine.co.uk Today Quest provides a large range of diving and marine related services and owns and operates a comprehensive fleet of marine plant and equipment from our operations base at Portland Harbour Dorset

DIVING EQUIPMENT n Spyderco 820 Syderco Way Golden, Colorado Tel: +1 1303 279 8383 Fax: +1 1303 278 2229 www.spyderco.com Spyderco pioneered the modern folding knife, introducing features like pocket clips, serrations and one-handed opening. That innovation and quality are the heart of Spyderco’s distinctive folding knives, fixed-blades and sharpeners.

DREDGING BP Norse Marine (UK) Cleverley Cottage, Bishops Waltham, Southampton, Hampshire, SO32 1FX Tel: +44 1489 890031 Fax: +44 1489 890031 jan@bpnorsemarine.co.uk www.bpnorsemarine.co.uk Coastal towing, tug with 12 tonne BP, 160 cubic meters Hopper Barge, 16x8m Crane barge/dredger - Barge Norse 2, silt disposal, quayside maintenance & fendering, and fully crewed deliveries.

Based in the Solent area, with 25 years’ experience in the marine industry. n Jenkins Marine New Harbour Road West, Hamworthy, Poole, Dorset, BH15 4AJ Tel: +44 1202 668558 Fax: +44 1202 669209 office@jenkinsmarine.co.uk www.jenkinsmarine.co.uk Dredging contractors, owners and operators of self-propelled dredge pontoons, split hopper barges, Workboats, tugs and flat deck barges (available with spud legs) n Rohde Nielsen A/S Nyhavn 20, Copenhagen K., DK-1051 Tel: +45 33 91 25 07 Fax: +45 33 91 25 14 mail@rohde-nielsen.dk www.rohde-nielsen.com.

Specialising in capital and maintenance dredging, land reclamation and coast protection. As Scandinavia’s largest dredging contractor, we thrive on low cost timely and efficient solutions.

n Smals Dredging Ltd Highbridge Enterprise Centre, Isleport Business Park, Bennett Way, Highbridge, Somerset, TA9 4AL Tel: +44 7510 530150 pco@smals.com www.smals.com Royal Smals; inland dredging company cleaning and maintaining inland waters. With 20 very accurate, all road transportable cutter suction and deepwin dredgers in various measures we clean your harbours, navigation channels, lakes, inland waters in an eco-friendly environmental friendly way.

Moreover, we are always searching for the best way to reuse the dredged up sediment nearby; for flood protection, as farmland fertiliser, by strengthening the quays, or recovering the eroding salt marshes. And much more! Want to know more? Please contact us via www. smals.com n UK Dredging Queen Alexandra House, Cargo Road, Cardiff, Glamorgan, CF10 4LY Tel: +44 2920 835200 Fax: +44 2920 835216 ukd@abports.co.uk www.ukdredging.co.uk UK leader offers efficient solutions to dredging requirements throughout Europe. Modern vessels feature latest technology, in-dock dredging maintenance, capital works, buoy lifting and hydrographic/land surveys.

DREDGING EQUIPMENT Neptune Shipyards BV See under: Workboat Builders

ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS & REPAIRS Neyland Marine Services Limited Unit 52, Honeyborough Business Park, Neyland, Pembrokeshire, SA73 1SE Tel: +44 1646 600358 Fax: +44 1646 600323 neylandmarine@aol.com www.neylandmarine.co.uk Fault finding, repairs and servicing and all electrical and electronic equipment, communication and navigation systems, motor servicing, windlasses, winches, switchboard and generator specialists, circuit breaker (primary and secondary injection testing), full thermal imaging analysis and reports.

ELECTRICAL PROPULSION SYSTEMS n MJR Power & Automation 85 & 88 Willows Court, Teesside Industrial Estate, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17 9PP Tel: +44 1642 762151 sales@mjrcontrols.com www.mjrcontrols.com For over 25 years, MJR has delivered turnkey marine power, electrical and automation projects to the commercial, energy and renewable marine sectors providing consultancy, engineering, construction, installation and commissioning services.

ENGINES - OUTBOARD n Suzuki GB Plc Steinbeck Crescent, Snelshall West, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK4 4AE Tel: +44 1243 388940 suzuki@mindworks.co.uk www.marine.suzuki.co.uk Suzuki is a manufacturer of an automobiles, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and outboard marine engines for the global market.

EXHAUST SYSTEMS n Halyard (M&I) Limited 86 Cobham Road, Ferndown Industrial Estate, Wimborne, Dorset, UK, BH21 7PQ Tel: +44 1722 710922 technical@halyard.eu.com www.halyard.eu.com Exhaust Systems - Noise & Vibration Control - Environmental Protection specialists, Halyard, designs and manufactures high quality, technically advanced equipment. Halyard also distribute: Aquadrive, Emigreen DPF & SCR, Seatorque shaft systems, Siderise noise insulation and Wave filtration.

FENDERS / FENDERING Battley Marine Ltd East End House, Billingford, Dereham, Norfolk, NR20 4RD Tel: +44 1362 668641 Fax: +44 1362 668930 battleymarine@gmail.com www.battleymarine.com Fenders - New and second-hand: all types. Pneumatic (to ISO 17357), Foam, Rubber & Plastic. First Yokohama approved fender repair company worldwide in 1976. Inspection, refurbishment, renetting services also available (no fix, no fee).

Batmar Super Sliding Fender (HDPE): the recycled plastic alternative to timber.

Pneumatic and Foam fenders available for Hire at competitive rates – all sizes. ISO 9001:2008 certified. n Buoyant Works Unit 4, Little Trethew Industrial Estate, Horningtops, Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 3PZ Tel: +44 7850 778109 andrew@buoyantworks.com www.buoyantworks.com/ BuoBuoyant Works is an innovative designer and manufacturer of high performance, lightweight fendering and offshore wind farm impact protection products n Fender Innovations and Poly Marine Fender Systems Westrak 240, 1771 SV Wieringerwerf Tel: +31 22 37 64 170 info@fenderinnovations.nl www.fenderinnovations.nl Fender Innovations is specialized in Tailor designed and produced Fender Systems specifically adapted to the field of operation. Shared properties of the systems are a minimal weight and long lasting durability. For almost every application such as: tenders, fast rescue, research and survey, wind farm support Vessels, heavy duty ribs, superyacht tenders, unmanned marine systems. Poly Marine Fender Systems is specialized in Heavy Duty fender systems for, Pilot Vessels, Crew Tenders, Pontoons and specials such as Bollard and Shore tension protection.

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n Manuplas Unit 18 Estover Road, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 7PY Tel: +44 1752 771740 sales@manuplas.co.uk www.advancedinsulation.com Manuplas design and manufacture vessel fendering, quayside fenders, navigation buoys, mooring buoys and subsea buoys. Manuplas supply to ports, harbours, navies, boat builders and operators and the offshore energy market.

FINANCE n Shawbrook Bank Prospero, 73 London Road, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1LQ Tel: +44 7799 134682 / +44 7342 085974 Jason.crump@shawbrook.co.uk www.shawbrook.co.uk/marine Specialist marine finance provider for UK based SME companies. Marine mortgages available for workboats, WFSV’s, tugs, barges, dredgers, ferries, Thames river craft, hire fleets, coastal ships and other commercial vessels.

FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT n Marine Fire Safety Limited Unit D1-D4, Bridge Business Centre, Brickhouse Lane, Godstone, Surrey, RH9 8JW Tel: +44 1342 844379 Fax: +44 1342 843172 info@marinefiresafety.co.uk www.marinefiresafety.co.uk Marine Fire Safety; who are well known and trusted by many for supplying, installing and maintaining firefighting equipment within the commercial marine sector, have teamed up with Lalizas UK to extend their services and support to both new and existing customers. n Seago Deanland Business Park, Golden Cross, East Sussex, BN27 3RP Tel: +44 1825 873 567 sales@seagocommercial.co.uk www.seagocommercial.co.uk Seago Commercial specialise in sale and hire of SOLAS and ISO approved life rafts. With a range of products including lifejackets, fire extinguishers, pyrotechnics, industrial fibre ropes, wire ropes and chains.

FIRE PROTECTION n Global Insulation (European) Ltd Unit 84, Station Road, Hayling Island, Hampshire, PO11 0EL Tel: +44 2392 462113 globalinsulate@btconnect.com www.globalinsulation.co.uk Suppliers and Installers of Thermal and Fire Insulation on Aluminium & Steel Structures. 20 years, involvement in marine projects for thermal, acoustic and passive fire protection to many prestigeous vessels.

FIRE PROTECTION GENERAL Adec Marine Limited See under: Life Saving Equipment

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INDUSTRY DATABASE GENERATORS, GEN SETS & AUXILIARIES n Atlantis Marine Power Limited Western Wood Way, Langage Science Park, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon, PL7 5BG Tel: +44 1752 208810 sales@atlantismarine.com www.atlantismarine.co.uk/ UK distributors for Kohler generators from 5 to 500 kw prime power.

Kohler’s patented P-Gen load share system facilitates smaller generators increasing redundancy and reducing fuel consumption. n Kohler Power Systems 1 Kristallaan, Zevenbergen, 4761 ZC Tel: +1 800-544-2444 Muriel.HUGUET@kohlereurope.com kohlerpower.com/ Kohler Power Systems, provides complete power systems, including generators (residential, industrial, mobile, portable, and marine), automatic transfer switches, paralleling switchgear, monitoring controls, and accessories for emergency, prime power and energymanagement applications. Kohler has delivered energy solutions for markets worldwide since 1920 WaterMota Ltd See under: Propulsion Systems n Webasto Webasto House, White Rose Way, Doncaster Carr, South Yorkshire, DN4 5JH Tel: +44 1302 322232 Fax: +44 1302 322231 info-uk@webasto.com www.webasto.co.uk Webasto offers robust heating and air conditioning solutions for retrofitting or as original equipment. they do this for any type of commercial boat, patrol craft, cargo vessel, passenger boat or naval vessel. We are also now the sole distributor of WhisperPower in the UK.

HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING Webasto See under: Generators, Gen Sets & Auxiliaries

HYDRAULIC COMPONENTS & SYSTEMS n Brimmond Group Tofthill Avenue, Midmill Business Park, Kintore, Aberdeenshire, AB51 0QP Tel: +44 1467 633 805 www.brimmond-group.com At Brimmond Group we specialise in mechanical, hydraulic or electrical solutions. Our highly qualified engineers can design, manufacture, service and repair a vast range of equipment to meet any client’s needs. n Hypro Marine Mount Pleasant Lane, Lymington, Hampshire, SO41 8LS Tel: +44 1590 681445 info@hypromarine.co.uk www.hypromarine.com As a leading designer and manufacturer of power-assisted steering systems, Hypro Marine has an enviable reputation in the industry for the quality and performance of its products. Specialists in finding unique solutions, we are able to offer a bespoke design and manufacturing service.

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INSURANCE SERVICES n A-Plan Insurance 2 Foregate Street, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR1 1DB Tel: +44 1905 930760 sales@aplan.co.uk www.aplan.co.uk A-Plan Commercial Marine is a long established Specialist Insurance broker providing insurance solutions to the UK Marine market. n Knighthood Corporate Assurance Services Ltd Knighthood House, Imberhorne Lane, East Grinstead, Sussex, RH19 1LB Tel: +44 1342 327111 Fax: +44 1342 319575 enquiries@knighthoodcorporate.com www.knighthoodcorporate.com Leading specialist Marine Underwriting Agents & Insurance Brokers to the maritime industry, offering a range of bespoke insurance policies for commercial passenger craft, tugs, workboats and marine service operators throughout the UK and Europe.

JACK-UP BARGES

n Walcon Marine Cockerell Close, Segensworth West, Fareham, Hampshire, PO15 5SR Tel: +44 1489 579977 Fax: +44 1489 579988 sales@walconmarine.com www.walconmarine.com Walcon Marine is a market leader providing quality design, products, construction and installation of yacht harbours and berthing facilities worldwide together with a first class service to its customers.

MARINE CONSTRUCTION n TMS (Teignmouth Maritime Services Ltd) Unit 22B Dawlish Business Park, Exeter Road, Dawlish, Devon, EX7 0NH Tel: +44 1626 866066 Fax: +44 1626 864288 info@tmsmaritime.co.uk www.tmsmaritime.co.uk TMS Ltd have many years of expertise in Marine and Civil Engineering. We operate throughout UK and Europe, where we utilise our unrivalled abilities and professionalism to successfully complete marine and civil engineering projects.

Fastnet Shipping Ltd See under: Workboats

MODULAR PONTOON SYSTEMS

LIFE SAVING EQUIPMENT

n Baars Confloat B.V./ Baars Charter Rivierdijk 276, 3360 AB, Sliedrecht, 3361 AV Tel: +31 184 415566 Fax: +31 184 411227 rental@baarsbv.com www.baarsbv.com/en/ Hire & Sales of containerised modular (spud) pontoons with a height of 4, 6 and 8 ft, modular multipontoons. See Baars Charter at Dredging Equipment for barges.

Adec Marine Limited 4 Masons Avenue, Croydon, Surrey, CR0 9XS Tel: +44 2086 869717 Fax: +44 2086 809912 sales@adecmarine.co.uk www.adecmarine.co.uk Servicing and hire of liferafts, boats and lifejackets. Sales of a complete range of marine safety and fire fighting equipment to SOLAS and MED. n Jo Bird & Co Ltd Factory Lane, Basonbridge, Highbridge, Somerset, TA9 4RN Tel: +44 1278 785546 Fax: +44 1278 780541 info@jobird.co.uk www.jobird.co.uk Jo Bird and company have been making safety equipment cabinets from composite materials for over 30 years.

MOORING & BERTHING EQUIPMENT

LIFERAFTS

n Péguet & Cie Maillon Rapide, 12 rue des Buchillons, B.P.205, Annemasse, F-74105 Tel: +33 450 95 58 23 Fax: +33 450 92 22 06 d.durand@peguet.fr www.peguet.fr Product range fully certified: Self certification in permanent connections as machinery part.-EN 362 certified product range in PPE industrial safety – connectors. Over 200 items available, made in France.

Adec Marine Limited See under: Life Saving Equipment

NAVAIDS

Spinlock Ltd See under: Life Jackets

MARINE CIVILS n DiveCo Marine Ltd Head Office, Marine House, Upnor Road, Lower Upnor, Rochester, ME2 4UY Tel: +44 1634 566560 info@diveco.co.uk www.diveco.co.uk DiveCo Marine are award winning, multi-disciplined experts in the project management and delivery of inland and inshore marine engineering, construction and commercial diving solutions for private and public sector projects.

n Navmoor Ltd The Innovation Centre, Ebbw Vale, Gwent, NP23 8XA Tel: +44 2922 638222 info@navmoor.com navmoor.com/ We supply, install, maintain, and refurbish aids to navigation of any type, manufacturer, and age. We Hold stock of lanterns, buoys, mooring, sinkers, and monitoring equipment, to ensure the prompt response to any outage, anywhere in the UK or Ireland. And if you’re thinking about monitoring, you’ve come to the right place, with an online monitoring portal coupled with our own monitoring modules that will blow your mind!

n Trinity House The Quay, Harwich, Essex, CO12 3JW Tel: +44 1255 245121 Fax: +44 1255 245009 Commercial@trinityhouse.co.uk www.trinityhouse.co.uk Trinity House offers customers costeffective solutions for the maintenance of marine aids to navigation and the provision of marine data acquisition.

NAVAL ARCHITECTS & MARINE ENGINEERS n Incat Crowther P O Box 179, Terrey Hills, HQ Sydney, NSW 2084 Tel: +61 2 9450 0447 Fax: +61 2 8006 5783 info@incatcrowther.com www.incatcrowther.com Incat Crowther is a diversified marine design business with offices in Australia, USA and the United Kingdom.

NAVIGATION & COMMUNICATION n Pharos Marine Ltd Automatic Power Inc Unit 14, Castle Mews, Hampton, London, TW12 2NP Tel: +44 7535 094337 jcorio@pharosmarine.com www.automaticpower.com Pharos Marine is one of the oldest and only UK Based manufacturer of Aids to Navigation in the world. With factories in the UK we have your AtoN needs covered.

OCEANOGRAPHIC / HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY n Briggs Marine Contractors Ltd Seaforth House, Seaforth Place, Burntisland, Fife, KY3 9AX Tel: +44 1592 872939 Fax: +44 1592 873779 enquiries@briggsmarine.co.uk www.briggsmarine.com our services include; vessel charter, renewable energy services, offshore windfarm maintenance solution, submarine cable installation, repair and maintenance, marine engineering, marine salvage, pollution response, environmental consultancy, oil and gas terminal operations, aids to navigation services, and third party vessel management

OFFSHORE SUPPORT n Tidal Transit Limited Unit 6 North Creake Airfield Business Park, Bunkers Hill, Egmere, Walsingham, Norfolk Tel: +44 1328 854225 charter@tidal-transit.com www.tidal-transit.com Tidal Transit provides access solutions to the offshore energy industry. Via its fleet of purpose built vessels, Tidal Transit transports people and cargo to and from offshore assets. The company’s fleet is focused on increasing efficiency and time on structures with the aim of reducing the LOCE

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INDUSTRY DATABASE OIL POLLUTION CONTROL n Lamor Corporation UK Ltd 3 Medina Court, Arctic Road, Cowes, Isle of Wight, PO31 7XD Tel: +44 1983 280185 Fax: +44 1983 280056 uk.info@lamor.com www.lamor.com Lamor is the world leader in the manufacture of products and services for the Oil Spill Response Industry. We design and produce Booms, Skimmers, Pumps, Dispersant systems, Vessels and we also design recovery systems to be built into new and older vessels. MCA/ IMO Training, Design and Consultancy on a worldwide basis.

PR, MEDIA & ADVERTISING AGENCIES Sue Stevens Media Ltd 7 Foxhills, Ashurst, SO40 7ED Tel: +44 2380 292992 suestevens@suestevensmedia.co.uk www.suestevensmedia.co.uk 25 years’ experience specializing in Commercial Marine. Media buying, strategic PR campaign planning and implementation, press releases compilation and distribution, newsletters, company brochures and clients’ magazines and social media management.

PAINTS & COATINGS MATERIALS n Jotun Paints (Europe) Ltd 7 Stather Road, Flixborough Industrial estate, Scunthorpe, DN15 8RR Tel: +44 1724 400000 marineenquiries@jotun.co.uk www.jotun.com/uk/en/b2b/ paintsandcoatings/ships/ Jotun is the global leading provider of marine coatings, with established positions in protective, decorative and powder coatings worldwide. It has 39 production facilities and representation in over 100 countries.

PILOT BOATS n Safehaven Marine Ashgrove, Cobh, Cork Tel: +353 86 8054582 info@safehavenmarine.com www.safehavenmarine.com Builders of the Interceptor Pilot Boat range, 11.5m, 13m, 14.5m & 16.5m.

For when you demand strength and exceptional seakeeping. Also builders of GRP Crew transfer, Patrol & SAR boats, Hydrographic survey vessels, Work boats and Passenger Vessels Uzmar Shipping & Trading Co. Ltd See under: Vessel Build & Repair

POLLUTION CONTROL n Ecocoast Studio1.1, Nest@Mallard, Express Park, Bristol Road, Bridgewater TA6 4RN Tel: +44 1392 877 991 www.ecocoast.com www.bolinabooms.com Ecocoast, with now offices in the United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom, is a global leader in engineered products for the protection of coastlines, waterways, critical marine assets and infrastructure.

Pontoons

Neptune Shipyards BV See under: Workboat Builders

POWER & PROPULSION n Hamilton Jet EMEA Unit 26, The Birches Industrial Estate, East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH19 1XZ Tel: +44 1342 313437 Fax: +44 1342 313438 marketing@emea.hamiltonjet.com www.hamiltonjet.com HamiltonJet waterjets provide highly efficient propulsion for high speed vessels operating in the world’s most demanding marine environments. n Stone Marine Propulsion Ltd Dock Road, Birkenhead, Merseyside, CH411DT Tel: +44 1516 522372 Fax: +44 1516 522377 sales@smpropulsion.com www.smpropulsion.com/ Stone Marine Propulsion design and manufacture a complete range of high quality propulsion equipment for commercial and naval vessels of all types and sizes. Our latest propeller designs significantly lower fuel consumption and emissions

PROPELLERS & STERN GEAR n Teignbridge Propellers International Ltd Great Western Way, Forde Road, Brunel Industrial Estate, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 4AW Tel: +44 1626 333377 Fax: +44 1626 360783 info@teignbridge.co.uk www.teignbridge.co.uk World leaders in innovation, design and manufacture of high performance, high quality propellers and sterngear for 45 years. Approved by all major classification societies. Propellers to 2.55m, shaftlines to 400mm.

PROPULSION SYSTEMS n Marine Jet Power AB Hansellisgatan 6, Uppsala, SE-754 50 Tel: +46 10 164 10 00 sales@marinejetpower.com www.marinejetpower.com For more than 30 years, Marine Jet Power (MJP) has been redefining the waterjet market with innovation and unsurpassed quality. Engineered and built in Sweden, MJP’s proven stainless steel, mixedflow waterjets are used in many diverse applications, from fast military craft and passenger vessels to workboats worldwide. Over 100 million running hours strong, n WaterMota Ltd Cavalier Road, Heathfield Industrial Estate, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 6TQ Tel: +44 1626 830910 Fax: +44 1626 830911 dm@watermota.co.uk www.watermota.co.uk WaterMota has been supplying the marine industry with engine room packages since 1911. Heat exchanger / keel cooled propulsion engines from 5.8 to 22 litres, auxiliary engines, generating sets and custom built power packs, heavy duty reversing gearboxes, hydraulic and power steering systems and power takeoff units, heavy duty sea water pumps for most makes of engines, strainers, impellers and accessories, installation and servicing.

RECRUITMENT

SAFETY HOOKS

n Seamariner Ltd Seamariner Ltd, The Square, Fawley, Southampton, Hampshire, SO45 1TA Tel: +44 2380 840374 admin@seamariner.com www.seamariner.com Seamariner Limited are Marine Recruitment Specialists and have been established since 1992. We hold ISO 9001:2015 accreditation by Lloyds Register and are MLC, 2006 compliant.

We supply temporary and permanent seafarers to shipping companies worldwide and our expertise is the basis of our continued success.

Having dedicated Recruitment Consultants for each discipline, ship owners will often be guided by our indepth knowledge. Our logistical support team ensures the recruitment process is smooth and efficient.

n H Henriksen Trleborgveien 15, Tnsberg, 3101 Tel: +47 33 37 8400 Fax: +47 33 37 8430 hooks@hhenriksen.com www.hhenriksen.com H. Henriksen AS is a technology Company with a long and proud history within the maritime and offshore sector.

Henriksen has a strong position within safe MOB boat lifting operations, Launch & Recovery systems for offshore vessels, oil Spill Recovery and Entering and Boarding Systems for maritime and urban environments.

ROPES

n Subsalve USA P.O Box 2030, North Kingstown, Ri 02852 Tel: +1 401 88408801 Fax: +1 401 884 8868 Richard@subsalve.com www.subsalve.com Subsalve is the worldwide leader and innovator in the design and manufacture of buoyancy engineered inflatables.

Our underwater lift bags are specified to meet the toughest challenges in recreational, commercial, scientific, and military applications.

Cotesi UK Ltd 10 Ripponden Business Park, Oldham Road, Ripponden, UK, HX6 4DJ Tel: +44 1422 822000 Fax: +44 1422 821007 enquiries@cotesi.co.uk www.cotesi.co.uk Cotesi UK is a manufacturer / supplier of Mooring ropes in different materials from Polypropylene to HMPE Dyneema, Nylon, Polyester, Polysteel, Tow lines, winch lines.

Polyform Buoys, Fenders, floats Ropes, Nets & Cordage. n English Braids Ltd Spring Lane, Malvern Link, Worcestershire, WR14 1AL Tel: +44 1684 892222 Fax: +44 1684 892111 eboffshore@englishbraids.com www.englishbraids.com English Braids is a family run business established in 1968, now a leading UK manufacturer of bespoke project-based HMPE rope solutions and mooring lines for over 50 years.

Official Dyneema partner. With an extensive technical team and a longstanding trusted supply chain we manufacture dyneema winch rope slins, winch ropes and mooring lines from Dyneema HMPE. We have the ability to test an manufacture a range of products in different materials depending on your requirements.

SAFETY n Johnson Controls Plc The Security House, Hanworth Rd, Sunbury-on-Thames, TW16 5DA Tel: +44 1932 743333 www.johnsoncontrols.co.uk Johnson Controls formally TYCO & ADT is a market leader in providing integrated security solutions such as Building Management Systems, Fire Detection, Fire Suppression, HVAC and Security Systems.

Spinlock Ltd See under: Life Jackets

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SAFETY SIGNAGE Adec Marine Limited See under: Life Saving Equipment

SALVAGE & WRECK REMOVAL

SANITATION & PLUMBING n Lee Sanitation Ltd Wharf Road, Fenny Compton, Warwickshire, CV47 2FE Tel: +44 1295 770000 Fax: +44 1295 770022 sales@leesan.com www.leesan.com LeeSan, leaders in marine sanitation (now a Pump Technology Ltd Group Company) have over 25 years’ experience designing, specifying and supplying equipment for seagoing and inland waterways craft of all sizes. Extensive stocks of spares and replacement components are available for most marine toilets.

Now promoting their “One Stop Pump Shop” so whether it be clean or waste water they can specify a pump for all applications including all the peripherals that you may need.

SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS n Applied Satellite Technology Ltd (AST) Head Office: Satellite House, Bessemer Way, Harfreys Industrial Estate, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR31 0LX Tel: +44 1493 440011 Fax: +44 1493 249721 info@theastgroup.com www.theastgroup.com AST is a global supplier of satellite and end-to-end remote communications.

We provide a comprehensive range of devices, voice and data connectivity and empower our customers to optimise their operations.

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INDUSTRY DATABASE SEATING & CHAIRS n Allsalt Maritime 2952 Ed Nixon Terrace, Victoria, BC, V9B 0B2 Tel: +1 206 962 1986 info@allsalt.com www.allsalt.com Allsalt Maritime is a design, manufacturing, and R&D firm specializing in marine shock mitigation technology whose mission is to create products that give you more days on the water. Allsalt is the owner of the Shoxs and Kinetix product lines. n Capital Seating 1 Forward Park Sheene Road, Gorse Hill Industrial Estate, Beaumont Leys, Leicester, LE4 1BF Tel: +44 1162 169910 Fax: +44 1162 169920 info@capitalseating.co.uk www.capitalseating.co.uk Distributors for GRAMMER Nautic. Marine seating of the highest performance and quality. Full suspensions optimised for arduous marine environments, high shock mitigation performance, comfort, ergonomic design and DNV-GL Type approval.

STABILISERS n Humphree Grimboasen 16, Gothenburg, 417 49 Tel: +46 31 744 3577 Fax: +46 31 744 3573 humphree@humphree.com www.humphree.com Humphree, based in Gothenburg on the west coast of Sweden, is a company dedicated to providing: “Speed at sea” through innovative technology solutions for high performance vessels.

Specialized in Trim and Stabilisation our Product portfolio consists of Interceptor systems and Fin stabilisation systems.

STEERING GEAR WaterMota Ltd See under: Propulsion Systems

TRAINING n Lloyds Maritime Academy KNect House, 30-32 Mortimer Street, London, W1W 7RE Tel: +44 2070 174483 learning@knect365.com www.lloydsmaritimeacademy.com Lloyd’s Maritime Academy is the world’s largest provider of professional development courses and academic education qualifications for the maritime industry n Thames Marine Academy Upnor Road Lower Upnor, Rochester, ME2 4UY Tel: +44 7703 842852 www.thamesmarineacademy.co.uk The sea is a challenging and at times physically exhausting environment in which to work – not for the faint-hearted.

TRANSMISSIONS WaterMota Ltd See under: Propulsion Systems

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TRANSPORT & LOGISTIC SERVICES n Rubb Buildings Ltd 246 Dukesway, Team Valley Trading Estate, Tyne and Wear, Gateshead, NE11 0QE Tel: +44 1914 822211 info@rubb.co.uk www.rubbuk.com Rubb marine and port structures can be custom designed to meet a variety of bulk handling methods. Relocating and extending is easy and cost effective in a busy environment.

TUGS n NH Towage Frederiksø 8, Svendborg, 5700 Tel: +45 62 22 29 11 info@nhtowage.dk www.nhtowage.dk/?

We perform long- and short-range towages. We have a broad experience in towages of hulls, dredgers, pipes and barges. If the need arises, we can also provide assistance in salvage operations, such as towing vessels in distress to a nearby port of safety. Our fleet is employed in marine construction projects. From offshore wind farms to bridges, piers, and jetties to harbour extensions, assisting dredgers to cablelaying operations, our experience and the flexibility of our fleet can provide a valuable source of assistance to a diverse range of construction projects.

Uzmar Shipping & Trading Co. Ltd See under: Vessel Build and Repair n Van Wijngaarden Marine Services BV Buitenweistraat 15, 3372 BC Hardinxveld-Giessendam Tel: +31 184 490 244 info@wijngaarden.com www.wijngaarden.com A family owned company with over 45 years of experience in the service of: Chartering tugs / workboats / launches for Inland and Sea-going towage, Assistance- and Supply services to provide services for dredging, construction and offshore companies, on projects all over the world, 24/7 – 365 days a year

TUGS, TOWING & SALVAGE

n Med Marine Omer Avni Mah. Inebolu Sok. No:21, Setustu-Kabatas, Beyoglu, Istanbul, 34427 Tel: +90 2123111800/01 info@medmarine.com.tr www.medmarine.com.tr Thanks to its experienced maritime pilots and high quality tugboats all built in its large-capacity shipyards, Med Marine is Turkey’s leading towage and pilotage operator and had been serving its clients for their newbuilding projects since 1995 Uzmar Shipping & Trading Co. Ltd See under: Vessel Build & Repair

UNDERWATER SERVICES n Nemo Power Tools Unit 3 Landscape Close, Weston on the Green, Oxfordshire, Bicester, OX25 3SX Tel: +44 1869 934333 nemo@fairlocks.co.uk www.nemo-underwatertools.co.uk Nemo Power Tools are the first of their kind and the world’s only completely submersible battery-operated power tools. n Propspeed 23 Akatea Road, Auckland, New Zealand, 0602 Tel: +44 7766 056 911 info@propspeed.com www.propspeed.com Ensure operational readiness while reducing cost and saving fuel with Propspeed®. Superior in-field performance, technical support, and over 21 years in the marine industry.

VALVES n LK Valves and Controls Ltd Unit 4 Arbour Place, Arbour Lane, Knowsley Industrial Park, Liverpool, L33 7XG Tel: +44 151 548 3300 Fax: +44 151 548 3311 sales@lkvalvesandcontrols.co.uk www.lkvalvesandcontrols.co.uk LK Valves & Controls are ISO 9001:2015 accredited marine valve & actuator stockist & distributer, representing carefully chosen, high end, market leading European principles, with many products having classification Society type approval.

VESSEL BUILD & REPAIR

n DSB Offshore Ltd Riverbank House, 1 Putney Bridge Road, London, SW6 3JD Tel: +44 2073 842882 brokers@dsboffshore.com www.dsboffshore.com Specialist shipbrokers handling the sale & purchase and chartering of Tugs, Jackups, barges, Split hoppers, Dredgers and various Workboats etc. Our services also include Towage, heavy lift transport and Valuations.

n Dixon Group Europe Ltd 350 Leach Place, Walton Summit Centre, Lancashire, PR5 8AS Tel: +44 1772 323529 sales@dixoneurope.co.uk www.dixoneurope.co.uk Dixon is a premier manufacturer and supplier of marine fluid transfer products including a range of water strainers, inlet scoops, thru hull fittings, valves, couplings, pipe fittings and hose assemblies

n Herman Sr bv Ebweg 56, Barendrecht, 2991LT Tel: +31 78 619 25 07 info@hermansr.com www.hermansr.com Herman Senior b.v. is a family-owned company based in Barendrecht, The Netherlands. Although the company was founded in 1992, the roots of the company go back all the way to 1976.

With our versatile fleet of Multicats and Shoalbusters, Herman Senior offers a wide range of marine services to our customers on a worldwide basis.

n Navalrocha Estaleiro da Rocha Conde de Óbidos 1399, lisboa, 036 Tel: + 351 213 915 900 navalrocha@navalrocha.pt www.navalrocha.pt Navalrocha offers a complete ‘onestop-shop’ shiprepair service providing a full range of turnkey solutions. These services are delivered in cooperation with a series of long-standing and trusted partners with offices located within the yard.

n Uzmar Shipping & Trading Co. Ltd Kosbas Kocaeli Serbest Bolgesi, Sepetlipinar SB Mah., 102. Cad. No:14-16 Basiskele,, Kocaeli, 41090 Tel: +90 (262) 341 45 10(pbx) info@uzmar.net www.uzmar.com Harbour & ship assist, terminal, escort & offshore tugs and supply vessels; shallow draft utility workboats and river push boats, tugs up to 170 meters in length, any power range whether direct diesel, diesel-electric or hybrid propulsion technology along with wide range of numerous type vessels.

VESSEL SALE & CHARTER Uzmar Shipping & Trading Co. Ltd See under: Vessel Build and Repair

WINCHES n Gemmell and Prout Marine Ltd Swann Street, Hull, Yorkshire, HU2 0PH Tel: +44 1482 329600 Fax: +44 1482 216296 enquiries@proutmarine.co.uk www.proutmarine.co.uk Designers and manufacturers of winches, windlasses and capstans.

Hydraulic, electric, diesel, pneumatic and manually driven, along with ancillary equipment. Also hydraulic towing winches.

Lebus International Engineers Ltd Pioneer House, Shorebury Point, Amy Johnson Way, Blackpool, Lancs, FY4 2RX Tel: +44 1253 402402 Fax: +44 1253 345748 enquiries@lebusinternational.com www.lebusintengineers.com Experienced designers and manufacturers of special purpose and standard marine handling equipment inclusive of winches, windlasses, capstans, cranes, davits, reelers, fairleads, cable spooling systems etc. n Lemans Nederland BV PO Box 527, Bergen op Zoom, NL 4600 AM Tel: +31 164 680 097 Fax: +31 164 681 971 info@lemans-nederland.eu http://www.lemans-nederland.nl/ Lemans Nederland bv is a company situated in the south-west of The Netherlands. We are specialised in hoist, lift, push and towing equipment. As well as deck, dock and quay equipment.

Our delivery program consists of for example: Winches, windlasses and capstans (standard and custom built; manual, electric or hydraulic; planetary gear unit, worm-gear, spur-gear, etc; to handle wire, umbilical, rope, chain-cable, etc; Either for anchor handling; mooring; fishing; dredging; towing; tug etc), some even from stock. Otherwise with quite short lead times.

WINDOW WIPERS n Durowipers Unit 20, Oldends Lane Industrial Estate, Stonehouse, Glos, GL10 3RQ Tel: +44 1453 820972 Fax: +44 1453 820979 sales@durowipers.co.uk www.durowipers.co.uk Design and manufacture of high performance window wipers. Three year Warranty. DuroWiper Pantographs and Pendulums have a Patented twin drive rotary transfer box giving a remarkable smooth, powerful and reliable performance.

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INDUSTRY DATABASE n Exalto Wiper Technologys PO Box 40, 3370 AH, Hardinxveld -Giessendam Tel: +31 184 615 800 Fax: 31 184 614 045 wipers@exalto.com www.exalto.com Marine Exalto produces the world’s best professional marine wiper systems.

WORKBOAT BUILDERS n Aister C/Baixada do Cocho, nº 228, A Guia – M, Meira – 3, MOAÑA, 6955 Tel: +34 986 240 294 Fax: +34 986 240 157 i.defrancisco@aister.es www.aister.com/en Safe, reliable and designed for work aluminium boats: bespoke patrols, SAR boats and passenger catamarans. n Cheetah Marine OceanBlue Quay, The Esplanade, Ventnor, Isle Of Wight, PO38 1JR Tel: +44 1983 852398 mail@cheetahmarine.co.uk www.cheetahmarine.co.uk Now in our 25th year of production, Cheetah Marine continues to lead Europe in the specialist design and construction of power commercial catamarans. (hydrographic workboat/ catamaran) n Diverse Marine Medina Ship Yard, Pelham Road, Cowes, Isle of Wight Tel: +44 1983 300656 info@diversemarine.co.uk www.diversemarine.co.uk DM acquired the assets of equipment of South Boats IOW and trade from Cowes, IOW specialising in the design, construction, refit, repair and maintenance of workboats, military and patrol craft, lifeboats, pilot boats, fishing boats, commercial and pleasure craft

n Neptune Shipyards BV Rivierdijk 586, 3371 ED, Veerdam 1, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, 5308 JH Tel: +31 184 621423 Fax: +31 184 612741 info@neptunemarine.com www.neptunemarine.com We design, build, repair, convert and mobilize vessels for the maritime industry. It is our aim to offer you the best solution through innovation, creativity, cooperation and flexibility.

Uzmar Shipping & Trading Co. Ltd See under: Vessel Build and Repair n SMS Group Ltd Unit 1 Ocean Quay, Belvidere Road, Southampton, Hants, SO14 5QY Tel: +44 2380 141010 info@sms-marine.co.uk www.sms-marine.co.uk Southampton Marine Services specialise in ship building, ship repairs and steel fabrication across all aspects of the marine industry.

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n Habbeke Schelphoek 103, 1621Mk Hoorn Tel: +31 2993 62182 Fax: +31 2993 67464 info@habbeke.nl www.habbeke.nl Habbeké Shipyard, established in 1966, has almost fifty years’ experience of quality shipbuilding. The wharf builds exclusively in aluminium, and enjoys an excellent reputation for innovation, quality and service. The shipyard builds aluminium workboats, & both open and closed vessels for rescue, pilot or general work duties.

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n Baltic Workboats AS Nasva Harbour, Nasva, Kaarma v, 93872 Saare mk Tel: +372 452 1140 contact@bwb.ee bwb.ee/ Baltic Workboats AS has a strong track record for the design, build and delivery of steel and aluminum workboats for professionals around the world.

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