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Posidonia 2018: Experts Agree Shipping Lags Behind in New Tech Adoption

Cleaner Seas July 6, 2018

The evolution of shipping from the first to the third industrial revolutions, and from using wind, steam and compasses to oil and satellites, required generations of development, yet it seems that the shipping world today is faced with a revolution which is unfolding with a breakneck speed due

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Seawork International 2018: Damen Shows Two New Fast Crew Supply Vessels 2710 and 1204

Cleaner Seas June 7, 2018

Damen showed two new Fast Crew Supply vessels to the world for the first time at the 2018 Seawork International Exhibition and Conference, in Southampton, UK. The FCS 2710 and FCS 1204 received their first public viewings and the naming ceremony for the FCS 2710 was also held on the opening day of the show.

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New Member Added to the Siship BlueDrive Family: Siship BlueDrive Eco

Cleaner Seas May 9, 2018

The Siship BlueDrive topology is based on DC technology and offers a wide range of benefits such as continuously reliable operation, a leaner design due to fewer components, an extended life cycle and fuel savings.

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New Crane Device ‘YawSTOP’ to Cut Loading Time of Shipping Cargo

Cleaner Seas April 9, 2018

While dynamic positioning systems automatically maintains a vessel’s position despite wind and currents, and heave compensated cranes adjust for wave and roll, rotation control of suspended cargo is frequently handled by vessel or harbour crew with taglines attached to the corners of the load. This is a highly inefficient method to load and unload goods and equipment, and

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Posidonia 2018 in Greece

Cleaner Seas April 1, 2018

Posidonia 2018 at the Metropolitan Expo, Athens Greece.

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Thordon ThorPlas-Blue Found Creating a Safer Working Envirnoment and Reducing Operating Costs

Cleaner Seas March 7, 2018

The grease-free ThorPlas-Blue bearings Thordon supplied and installed to a Mississippi River line haul boat recently have helped reduce the vessel’s operating costs while creating a safer working environment for the crew.

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Singapore Sterntube Spill Reduced by Hydrex Mobdock

Cleaner Seas December 7, 2017

Using its flexible mobdock technology, damaged aft sterntube seals can be quickly replaced underwater during a vessels port-stay, negating the need for costly drydocking.

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Royal Canadian Navy to be supplied with Kelvin Hughes’ Downmast Submarine Radar

Cleaner Seas October 4, 2017

Kelvin Hughes, a world leader in maritime navigation and security surveillance radar, is delighted to announce that it will be supplying its SharpEye™ downmast submarine navigation radar in support of the Royal Canadian Navy’s sustainment program.

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Kelvin Hughes is Set to Celebrate its 70th Anniversary of First Type-Approved Maritime Radar

Cleaner Seas October 2, 2017

Kelvin Hughes is celebrating 70 years of radar in 2017. In 1947 the first Type 1 radar was produced and installed on a new fishing trawler, the Type 1 then went on to be the first type approved radar, gaining its type approval certificate on 11th August 1948, the first radar to do so.

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Autonomous Launch and Recovery Demonstrated by Planet Ocean & ASV

Cleaner Seas September 8, 2017

The demonstration, in front of invited guests from the project partners, Planet Ocean, National Oceanography Centre, ASV Ltd, University of Southampton and funders Innovate UK and Dstl took place on a sunny July day in the Solent.