Marking a significant step forward in seafarer welfare, a group of established maritime entities have joined forces to build a digital platform aimed at improving the emotional well-being of the world’s 1.7 million seafarers.

Marine engineer specialists, Malin Marine Services, part of the Malin group, in partnership with The Scottish Salmon Company and HSSMI, have secured funding from the Seafood Innovation Fund to undertake an exciting new project to identify viable, cost-effective technologies for aquaculture work boats, whilst reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

The technology group Wärtsilä has signed a Wärtsilä Optimized Maintenance Agreement covering two offshore Well Intervention Vessels owned by Norway based Siem Offshore.

As the search for oil has moved into deeper waters with more distance to shore-based facilities, Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessels have become essential tools in the process.

Castle Ship Management (CSM), a vessel ownership company based in Gibraltar, has taken control of operations formerly managed by leading offshore vessel company Atlantic Marine Offshore in the UK, through Castle Ship Technical Management UK.

Intellian announces the v45C, the smallest antenna the company has yet developed for the maritime satellite communications market.

Kongsberg Maritime (KM) technology is at the center of an ambitious new project to build a state-of-the-art, next generation Field Development Vessel (FDV) for Triumph Subsea Services.

Kongsberg Maritime announces a significant and strategic new equipment contract with Russian LNG producer Novatek.

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory experts created and tested 3D-printed antennas and arrays to advance radar technology and enable new applications for the U.S. Navy.

Kongsberg Digital and Nautilus Labs are pleased to announce a partnership to include the Nautilus Platform fleet and voyage optimization tool in the Kognifai open ecosystem.

Boston-based Sea Machines Robotics, a leading developer of autonomous command and control systems for commercial vessels, announces that it has entered a strategic alliance with Damen Shipyards Group, of the Netherlands, to incorporate the company’s autonomous and wireless-helm systems as standard features in Damen’s global vessel build catalogue.

Doha Marine Services (DMS), a leading offshore support vessel company, has seen a successful start to its “Supply on Demand” solution and is now publishing its twice weekly sailing schedule, with services sailing every Monday and Thursday.

The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) and Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) has announced Marico Marine as the winner of the third ADMIRALTY Marine Innovation Program challenge.



Bollinger Shipyards LLC has delivered the USCGC FREDERICK HATCH to the U.S. Coast Guard in Key West, Florida. This is the 166^th vessel Bollinger has delivered to the U.S. Coast Guard over a 35-year period and the 43^rd Fast Response Cutter (“FRC”) delivered under the current program.

“We used to do shore power projects on ships some years ago, but the market was too slow. Now however, with new regulation and grants supporting ship-owner’s shore power investments, we are back in the business of shore power. Together with NG3 we are ready to take on new orders,“ Aleksander Askeland CSO at Yara Marine Technologies says. 

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured an order from SIA Solutions LLC to deliver 36 traction winch systems, 72 storage reel brakes and electrical control systems to the specialized concrete mat sinking unit, ARMOR 1, currently under construction at Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors LLC, Houma, Louisiana for the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).