Finnish technology group Wärtsilä conducted a successful round of tests on its automated dock-to-dock solution. The system was tested on ‘Folgefonn’ ferry, which visited all three ports serviced by the vessel, with the autonomous operation being…
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International Maritime Organization (IMO)’s global programme on Women in Maritime is the latest to feature at the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference in Nairobi, Kenya (26-28 November) this week.A WOMESA side event on the integration of women in the m…
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Sea-state monitoring firm Miros Group is set to supply eight Oil Spill Detection (OSD) systems to Brazilian oil major Petrobras in the world’s largest x-band radar-based OSD surveillance and response contract to date.The agreement is in partnership wit…
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In an encouraging sign for the future tonagge supply, newbuilding ordering activity has quieted down over the course of the past couple of weeks. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Allied Shipbroking said that it was “a moderate week in terms of n…
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