Like spirits passing between worlds, billions of invisible beings rise to meet the starlight, then descend into darkness at sunrise. Microscopic plankton’s daily journey between the ocean’s depths and surface holds the key to understanding crucial planetary processes, but has remained largely a mystery until now. A new Stanford-developed rotating microscope, outlined in a study […]
03 Aug 2020by David Foxwell Ørsted and its partners in the Westküste 100 project have received funding confirmation from the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy. Westküste 100 is the first large-scale hydrogen project in Germany that is part of the country’s ‘Reallabor’ (real-world laboratory) framework. Ørsted Offshore executive vice president and chief executive […]
18 Aug 2020by David Foxwell SMST in the Netherlands is to provide an access and cargo tower with motion-compensated gangway for Ta San Shang Marine’s service operation vessel (SOV). The Dutch company is also to supply the vessel with a 3D motion-compensated crane. The SOV will be the first to operate in Taiwanese waters. The vessel […]
04 Aug 2020by David Foxwell Jan De Nul Group has reached another milestone in its work on Taiwan Power Company’s Offshore Windfarm Phase 1 Project Demo. The company recently connected the project to the Taiwanese grid, completing installation of four medium-voltage export cables. It also completed an upgrade of the onshore substation in Changhua County. Jan […]
A new eco-friendly Autonomous Guard Vessel (AGV) design is anticipated to be smaller, lighter and more efficient than others in the offshore wind market. This AGV design to replace conventional guard vessels came about in a project group facilitated by LISA, a community for maritime professionals. The project group resulted in a consortium, which includes […]
A project to add floating solar panels to a wind farm is scheduled to be incorporated into the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm site by 2025, writes Dag Pike. According to TNO, the Dutch organisation for applied scientific research, the research and demonstration of offshore solar energy in the new offshore wind farm will […]
12 Aug 2020by David Foxwell A crew transfer vessel (CTV) built for the Yunlin offshore windfarm in Taiwan has been completed by Lungteh shipyard. The CTV, Prosperous 1, was completed on schedule, and formally named on 20 July in Yilan County. The vessel is the first locally-built CTV for Taiwan’s Prosperous Wind Shipping and will be used to […]
19 Aug 2020by David Foxwell MHI Vestas Offshore Wind is to source towers for its offshore wind turbines from a partnership between CS Wind and Chin Fong and has signed a purchase agreement with them. The agreement covers complete tower supply for MHI Vestas’ Taiwanese projects, Changfang Phases 1 and 2, Xidao and Zhong Neng. Changfang […]
19 Aug 2020by David Foxwell Bosch Rexroth has developed an autonomous landing solution for motion-compensated gangways it believes will improve safety and performance when transferring personnel to offshore structures. Landing systems usually combine drive technology and digital sensors to compensate for the movement of a vessel on which a gangway is installed. However, manual control is […]
Nautical fiction deserves a place on your summer reading list. Here are 8 sea novels that will give you a taste of the genre–and make you want to come back for more! Almost one hundred summers ago, Frenchman Alain Gerbault set sail from Gibraltar to circumnavigate the globe–alone. Why undertake such a feat? “I wanted freedom, open […]
