North American Lobster Industry Confronts 'Ropeless' Traps After Whale Entanglements
,” said Charles Mayo, senior scientist at the Center for Coastal Studies in Cape Cod, Massachusetts."Not effective to the point we need. We need a growing population. We don’t have that many whales left.”Washington and Ottawa are now promoting ropeless fishing as a possible long-term solution. Traditional lobster fishing uses traps that sink to the ocean floor and are connected by a rope to a buoy floating at the surface. Ropeless gear, by contrast, only deploys a rope and buoy to the surface when its owner activates a release trigger by remote control.NOAA published a strategy document
New Cloud Platform for Subsea Survey Data
subsea data management. This will be essential as their investment in new assets and infrastructure increases rapidly in the coming years,” said Hennemann.The TrueOcean MDP, which is deployed through a unique multi-cloud approach using diverse vendors for improved agility and scaling, is a long-term solution able to effectively drive value and meet immediate growth demands of the wind energy sector today, while preparing users for an expected boom in subsea data availability enabled by new autonomous marine survey vehicles and the transformative business models they can unlock. These future operations
Offshore Renewable Energy: A Port Puzzle for Floating Offshore Wind
activities and major component repairs that need to be undertaken, that’s going to be a conflict for deepwater port access.”A large question mark also remains over how O&M will be done. Currently the consensus is to tow units back to shore, but it’s not clear if this is a long-term solution. “One of the big things that is still missing in the puzzle is the good way of doing large component replacement or maintenance of large components on floating wind farms. The ones that can come up with the good solutions for that, there’s an enormous market there.” Could that
Van Oord's Offshore Vessel to Cut Emissions, Fuel Consumption with FUELSAVE Tech
maritime industry," Van Oord said."400% higher overall emission reduction potential""Van Oord is always looking for new technologies that contribute to the efficiency increase of our vessels and making them cleaner. We believe that this is a satisfactory and affordable short-term solution to support that goal," Job Voormolen, Manager R&D and Innovation said.According to Van Oord, this is the first time that the system is being deployed on MaK engines with a classification from Bureau Veritas and Kongsberg Vessel Insight integration for a demanding DP3 operation.Marc Sima
Tidal Power for Seabed Oil and Gas Installations
is confident that the Power Hub will have uses beyond filling the gap until power via cable to the seabed can be installed or restored. The equipment offers the prospect of at least five years’ running time without needing maintenance, and probably a lot longer. So it could serve well as a long-term solution, especially in remote offshore areas.It is also modular, so parts can be swapped in and out as new technology, such as improved batteries, come to the market. “The Subsea Power Hub is compact, easy to transport and assemble, and simple to lower to the seabed and connect,” Slorach
Polarcus Halts Repayments as it Seeks Restructuring
. In order to address the Company's long term financing structure and debt service, it has initiated discussions with its finance providers, being the banks, lease providers and certain bond holders. The finance providers are in active dialogue with the Company regarding its efforts to find a long term solution to the Company's financial position. While these discussions are ongoing, the Company has decided to halt all payments of interest and amortization to all of its finance providers. The finance providers have been informed of such payment halt. The Company will work intensively with its finance
Maritime Disputes Headline U.S.-China Talks
issue takes time to play out." U.S. officials cited climate change as one area where China and the United States could collaborate on a global issue. "This is a classic example of an area of a global challenge for which U.S.-China cooperation is an essential ingredient of any long-term solution," one official added. (By Lesley Wroughton and Michael Martina; Additional reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Jeremy Laurence
February 2024
