Editor’s note: The European offshore wind industry is just a little ahead of the nascent U.S. version. For the next few years, the U.S. companies will be building the infrastructure to support the offshore turbines with equipment such as the vessels featured in this article. They are from The Netherlands-based ship builder Damen. The article lets us take a brief tour of one of the ships that will carry O&M crews from shore to work and back. Later in the article, company executives tell how the company streamlines its processes to deliver a new ship in about a month.
ICS addresses OECD shipbuilding working party
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The question of what exactly constitutes an eco-ship has puzzled the industry for some time
The OECD should be cautious about becoming involved in the question of what constitutes an ‘eco-ship’, was the message delivered to governments in Paris by the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) at a meeting of the OECD Working Party on Shipbuilding.
ICS believes that this subject is best left to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) or for shipyards to negotiate with their customers. If further consideration were to be given to an OECD definition of ‘eco-ship’ this should not be used as a justification for future subsidies by governments that might lead to market distortion.
Referring to China’s new ship recycling policy whereby it is offering significant subsidies of about
Herido en el puerto de Marín al caer cuando pintaba un buque
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Herido en el puerto de Marín al caer cuando pintaba un buque
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El protocolo de emergencias se activo ayer en el Puerto de Marín ante la alerta de un accidente laboral en las instalaciones de Factoría Naval. Aunque "todo quedó en un susto", como apuntaban desde la empresa, en un primer momento se llegó a hablar de graves consecuencias en este siniestro. Este extremo quedó descartado y el trabajador fue trasladado a un hospital por inhalación de gases, pero con lesiones leves.
El suceso se produjo a las 11.30 horas al caerse un empleado de unos 30 años al tanque de un buque en el que estaba pintando. Testigos apuntaron que la víctima presentaba "síntomas de mareo", aunque no de carácter grave
Rolls Royce & MAN deliver the World’s largest and most expensive workboat
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Rolls Royce & MAN deliver the World’s largest and most expensive workboat
20 Nov 2014
World's largest workboat launched
Seawork exhibitors, MAN and Rolls Royce have delivered solutions for the world’s largest, most sophisticated and most expensive workboat ever built.
For over 25 years the Swiss company, Allseas, had been developing the ‘Pieter Schelte’. Designed as a vessel to install and remove offshore oil topside structures as single units, its hull is 382 metres long, its beam 124 metres, with the length increasing to 477 metres when tilting lift beam and the pipe-laying stinger are in operation, and also a gap at the bow that is 59 metres long and 122 metres long,
Astilleros de Sevilla -que cerró en 2010- volverá a abrir
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- Published on Monday, 24 November 2014 15:43
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Astilleros de Sevilla -que cerró en 2010- volverá a abrir de manos del empresario vigués Urbano Alonso. Es propietario de Contsa Huelva (el antiguo astillero onubense que también rescató) y ahora acaba de constituir una sociedad denominada Astilleros del Guadalquivir en la que inicialmente se harán tareas de reparación de barcos y posteriormente la idea es la construcción, un permiso que se está negociando con el Ministerio de Industria que ya le ha dado un visto bueno provisional por 18 meses para operar.
La empresa nació con un capital social de 200.000 euros e invirtió medio millón para su puesta en marcha y acondicionamiento de la zona del dique seco. "A partir de la próxima semana podrán entrar barcos", indicó Alonso en declaraciones a Europa
New offshore vessel ready in about a month? Yes, and for offshore wind techs, say hello to your new ride
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- Published on Saturday, 22 November 2014 07:15
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New offshore vessel ready in about a month? Yes, and for offshore wind techs, say hello to your new ride
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