Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Iran reports pirate attack in Gulf of Aden

Iran Repels Pirate Attack on Tankers in Gulf of Aden

New York to get largest wind turbines for offshore projects

New York Wind Farms Will be Built With Giant 15 MW Turbines

Published Oct 18, 2021 7:19 PM by The Maritime Executive

Days after saying that it was preparing its 15MW wind turbine to begin certification testing in 2022, Veritas announced the turbines which are currently on track to be the industry’s largest have been designated for two of the US’s largest planned offshore wind farms. Empire Offshore Wind, a joint venture between Equinor and bp, has named Vestas as the preferred turbine supplier for the proposed 2.1 GW Empire Wind 1 and Empire Wind 2 offshore wind projects planned for offshore...

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Russia Claims to Have Chased U.S. Navy Out of Pacific Exercise Area

Published Oct 18, 2021 6:55 PM by The Maritime Executive

The U.S. Navy is pushing back on Russian claims that the destroyer USS Chafee was ejected from the area of a recent Russian-Chinese joint naval exercise. On Friday, Russia's Ministry of Defense claimed that a Russian destroyer forced the Chafee to alter course after Chafee attempted to "violate the state border of the Russian Federation in the Peter the Great Bay." When the Russian Navy challenged Chafee's movements "in an area closed to navigation due to exercises with the use...

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Norway seeks zero emission with hydrogen and zerocoaster

Modular Design for Coaster as Norway Builds Hydrogen Infrastructure

Published Oct 18, 2021 5:32 PM by The Maritime Executive

If Norway is to achieve its target to reduce emissions by 50 percent by 2030, the country like much of the global shipping industry needs to develop not only new ships but the hydrogen infrastructure to support the transition. To that end, the Norwegian government is funding projects seeking to research and propose a cost-competitive hydrogen value chain that can support and accelerate the transition to zero-emission shipping solutions. The Norwegian Parliament in June 2021 confirmed the country’s position as...

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"Unplanned" Crane Movement Could Delay New Wind Installation Vessel

Published Oct 18, 2021 5:20 PM by The Maritime Executive

Crane builder Liebherr and offshore wind vessel operator Seaway 7 have experienced a setback in the construction of the monopile-installation vessel Alfa Lift. An "unplanned movement" of a key crane component aboard the new ship has prompted a technical investigation. The Alfa Lift was ordered by offshore wind specialists OHT in 2018, long before OHT's merger with Subsea 7's renewables unit this July. Alfa Lift is a semisubmersible heavy lift crane ship, purpose-built for installing offshore wind tower foundations and...

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Video: Newfoundland Couple Moves House Using Dories and Barrels

A young couple in McIvers, Newfoundland, recently found a unique way to beat the soaring cost of building materials in an overheated housing market. They bought a vacant WWII-era house on the waterfront, strapped a trailer and a few dozen empty barrels on the bottom, and floated it half a mile across the water to their own property. Thanks to this time-tested Newfoundland method, along with a high tolerance for risk and a lot of help from their boat-owning neighbors,...

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crew rescused from cargo ship aground in storm off Taiwan

Taiwan Coastguard Rescues 14 From Stranded Cargo Ship

Taiwan’s Coastguard Administration was called on to rescue the crew of a general cargo ship that had gone aground in the Taiwan Strait on October 17 during the latest typhoon to hit the region. Gale force winds complicated the rescue operation, but all 14 crew were successfully removed by helicopter. The crew of the 5,500 dwt cargo ship Fortune (registered in Panama) issued a distress call Sunday morning reporting that the vessel had lost power and was drifting in the...

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Op-Ed: Australia's Nuclear-Powered Subs Should be Made in America

[By James Kell] The first of anything is expensive. Theodore Wright studied this in the 1930s and found a mathematical relationship between how many of a thing have been made and how much cheaper and faster production becomes. Wright’s Law states that for every doubling of production, the cost drops by a certain percentage determined in large part by how complex the production line is. It’s hard to imagine a more complex production line than that for nuclear submarines. Look at Britain’s difficulties as...

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Iran reports pirate attack in Gulf of Aden

Iran Repels Pirate Attack on Tankers in Gulf of Aden

Speaking on television, the Commander of Iran’s Army Navy Rear Admiral Shahram Irani said that the Iranian Navy had once again successfully defended Iranian tankers from an attack by pirates in the Gulf of Aden. The admiral said that escorting Iranian oil tankers and commercial vessels is the main mission of the fleet of Iran’s Army Navy. "The 78th naval fleet of the Islamic Republic of Iran, consisting of the Alborz destroyer, was attacked by five pirate boats this morning...

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Iconic Ocean Liner QE2 is Now the World's Biggest Floating Nightclub

The classic transatlantic liner Queen Elizabeth 2 is now home to what may well be the world's largest floating nightclub, Float Dubai. The famed QE2 served Cunard Line from 1968 to 2008, when she was sold to the government of Dubai's private-equity investment firm for use as a floating luxury hotel. Those plans were delayed for a decade due to the global financial crisis, but in 2018 - after a change in ownership, the removal of her propeller and 2.7 million man-hours...

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Italian ports hit by strikes over COVID restrictions on workers

Protests Over COVID Regulations for Workers Spread to Italy’s Ports

Protests in Italy over the country’s new COVID-19 rules for workers spread on Friday to several of the country’s largest ports. While reports vary on the level of disruption, workers at three of the country’s major ports were reported either on strike or staging protests calling for the government to either pay for mandatory testing or drop the so called “Green Pass” restrictions. Starting today, October 15, workers across Italy are required to have an electronic pass to work. It...

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Video: Newfoundland Couple Moves House Using Dories and Barrels

A young couple in McIvers, Newfoundland, recently found a unique way to beat the soaring cost of building materials in an overheated housing market. They bought a vacant WWII-era house on the waterfront, strapped a trailer and a few dozen empty barrels on the bottom, and floated it half a mile across the water to their own property. Thanks to this time-tested Newfoundland method, along with a high tolerance for risk and a lot of help from their boat-owning neighbors,...

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crew rescused from cargo ship aground in storm off Taiwan

Taiwan Coastguard Rescues 14 From Stranded Cargo Ship

Taiwan’s Coastguard Administration was called on to rescue the crew of a general cargo ship that had gone aground in the Taiwan Strait on October 17 during the latest typhoon to hit the region. Gale force winds complicated the rescue operation, but all 14 crew were successfully removed by helicopter. The crew of the 5,500 dwt cargo ship Fortune (registered in Panama) issued a distress call Sunday morning reporting that the vessel had lost power and was drifting in the...

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uss north dakota

Op-Ed: Australia's Nuclear-Powered Subs Should be Made in America

[By James Kell] The first of anything is expensive. Theodore Wright studied this in the 1930s and found a mathematical relationship between how many of a thing have been made and how much cheaper and faster production becomes. Wright’s Law states that for every doubling of production, the cost drops by a certain percentage determined in large part by how complex the production line is. It’s hard to imagine a more complex production line than that for nuclear submarines. Look at Britain’s difficulties as...

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Iran reports pirate attack in Gulf of Aden

Iran Repels Pirate Attack on Tankers in Gulf of Aden

Speaking on television, the Commander of Iran’s Army Navy Rear Admiral Shahram Irani said that the Iranian Navy had once again successfully defended Iranian tankers from an attack by pirates in the Gulf of Aden. The admiral said that escorting Iranian oil tankers and commercial vessels is the main mission of the fleet of Iran’s Army Navy. "The 78th naval fleet of the Islamic Republic of Iran, consisting of the Alborz destroyer, was attacked by five pirate boats this morning...

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QE2

Iconic Ocean Liner QE2 is Now the World's Biggest Floating Nightclub

The classic transatlantic liner Queen Elizabeth 2 is now home to what may well be the world's largest floating nightclub, Float Dubai. The famed QE2 served Cunard Line from 1968 to 2008, when she was sold to the government of Dubai's private-equity investment firm for use as a floating luxury hotel. Those plans were delayed for a decade due to the global financial crisis, but in 2018 - after a change in ownership, the removal of her propeller and 2.7 million man-hours...

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Italian ports hit by strikes over COVID restrictions on workers

Protests Over COVID Regulations for Workers Spread to Italy’s Ports

Protests in Italy over the country’s new COVID-19 rules for workers spread on Friday to several of the country’s largest ports. While reports vary on the level of disruption, workers at three of the country’s major ports were reported either on strike or staging protests calling for the government to either pay for mandatory testing or drop the so called “Green Pass” restrictions. Starting today, October 15, workers across Italy are required to have an electronic pass to work. It...

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New York to get largest wind turbines for offshore projects

New York Wind Farms Will be Built With Giant 15 MW Turbines

Days after saying that it was preparing its 15MW wind turbine to begin certification testing in 2022, Veritas announced the turbines which are currently on track to be the industry’s largest have been designated for two of the US’s largest planned offshore wind farms. Empire Offshore Wind, a joint venture between Equinor and bp, has named Vestas as the preferred turbine supplier for the proposed 2.1 GW Empire Wind 1 and Empire Wind 2 offshore wind projects planned for offshore...

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"Unplanned" Crane Movement Could Delay New Wind Installation Vessel

Crane builder Liebherr and offshore wind vessel operator Seaway 7 have experienced a setback in the construction of the monopile-installation vessel Alfa Lift. An "unplanned movement" of a key crane component aboard the new ship has prompted a technical investigation. The Alfa Lift was ordered by offshore wind specialists OHT in 2018, long before OHT's merger with Subsea 7's renewables unit this July. Alfa Lift is a semisubmersible heavy lift crane ship, purpose-built for installing offshore wind tower foundations and...

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cumbre vieja volcano la palma

Video: First Underwater Footage of La Palma's New Lava Delta

A group of researchers from Spanish university ULPGC has obtained the first underwater ROV footage of the lava delta that the Cumbre Vieja eruption is creating along the coast of La Palma. The ULPGC's QUIMA oceanographic research group was on scene last week to explore the lava delta with an underwater video camera and a small ROV. The footage may help to understand the impacts and the evolution of the flow where it reaches the sea. QUIMA researchers have also...

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Maersk Makes Third Start-up Investment in Potential Future Fuel

For the third time in just two months, A.P. Moller – Maersk, the parent company of the shipping giant, has invested in a developmental company working on alternative fuels as part of the company’s efforts to become a leader in the decarbonize the shipping industry. These investments, made through Maersk Growth, the corporate venture segment of the company, highlight the addition of the green fuels category as an additional sub-investment theme under the company’s overall umbrella of supply chain investments....

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