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Scotland Funds World’s Most Powerful Tidal Turbine

The Scottish Government has awarded £3.4 million ($4.1 million) in funding to help build the world’s most powerful floating tidal turbine. Scottish engineering company Orbital Marine Power has been...

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Canada Plans Whale-Friendly Tanker

The government of Canada is funding the design of an LNG-fueled tanker that will be up to 90 percent quieter than traditional tankers. The move is recognition that marine species, including the Sou...

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CSSC Designs LNG Carriers with Fuel-Saving Air Lubrication System

Shipbuilding giant China State Shipbuilding Company (CSSC) is planning to integrate a novel technology into a future generation of LNG carriers. CSSC's Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding yard has signed an...

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UK Sets Aside Another $36M for Seaports' Brexit Preparations

After a lukewarm response from port operators about government funding for Brexit customs preparations, the UK Department for Transport (DfT) has announced that it is expanding its investment by anoth...

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Efforts to Refloat Grounded Spanish Minesweeper Continue

The Spanish Navy is still working to refloat the minesweeper Turia, which grounded Tuesday near Cartagena, Spain. The fiberglass-hulled Turia went aground Tuesday morning off La Manga, a narrow pen...

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Lamu Port Project Impacts Kenyan Fishermen's Livelihoods

[By Janet Njunge] At a police station on Lamu Island in Kenya, 47-year-old Somo Mohamed Somo is nursing his injuries. Somo, the chairman of a local group representing Lamu’s fishermen, has come to...

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Video: The Wreck of the Franklin Expedition's HMS Terror

Parks Canada has released new video from the interior of HMS Terror, one of two vessels from the Franklin Expedition of 1845, which sought to find the Northwest Passage but ended in tragedy. The ve...

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Safety Seal Firm Roxtec Appoints New Marine and Offshore Manager

Greater Manchester-based international safety seal manufacturer Roxtec has appointed a new Marine and Offshore Sales Manager. James Yates joins Roxtec from another well-known international manufact...

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New Experiments Prove the Physics of Ship's Wakes

[By Steinar Brandslet] He solved a 127-year-old physics problem on paper and proved that off-centred boat wakes could exist. Five years later, practical experiments proved him right. “Seeing the...

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U.S. Blacklists Master of Iranian Tanker Adrian Darya 1

The U.S. Treasury has designated the closely-watched Iranian tanker Adrian Darya 1 as a "blocked property" using anti-terrorism rules crafted after the Sept. 11 attacks. Consistent with prior warnings...