ABS launches My Digital Fleet

Timely access to relevant information to support the safe and efficient operation of vessels is critical in the digital era and offers a competitive edge. However, vessel data typically resides in disparate

Sea Machines to prototype use of barges as autonomous military helipads

The U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has awarded Boston headquartered Sea Machine Robotics a contract to enable autonomous, self-propelled operation of opportunistically available commercial ocean barges to land and

Paraná River push boats get Fleet Xpress connectivity

In a breakthrough for maritime broadband inland along one of South America’s longest waterways, Inmarsat has equipped four Paraná River push boats operated by Impala Paraguay with Fleet Xpress connectivity, The push

Gibbs & Cox wins DARPA Sea Train award

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Gibbs & Cox, Inc. a multi-phase contract to develop and demonstrate a Connectorless Sea Train concept. DARPA has exercised the base development phase

Coast Guard R&D Center to test and evaluate Sharktech autonomous vessel

Boston-based Sea Machines Robotics has partnered with Jeanerette, La., headquartered shipbuilder Metal Shark Boats to supply the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center (RDC) with a new Sharktech 29 Defiant vessel

Hamworthy Pumps makes strong tanker market reentry

Singapore-based Hamworthy Pumps, now part of the Svanehøj Group along with sister brands Svanehøj, Eureka and Dolphin, is making a strong return to the tanker pump room sector in alliance with Denmark’s

Kongsberg and MAN in digital collaboration project with Höegh

Kongsberg Digital and MAN Energy Solutions are to deliver joint digital infrastructure to Höegh Autoliners. This marks the first step in entering into a strategic digitalization partnership and formalizes a Memorandum of

ESS specialist offers “microgrid in a box” for easy vessel installation

Vancouver, Canada, headquartered energy storage system (ESS) specialist Sterling PBES has launched the CanPower “microgrid in a box,” designed to add energy storage to virtually any vessel, without the need for complex

Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker to retrofit Wärtsilä solutions

Wärtsilä has won a contract for the delivery and integration engineering of two retractable thrusters and a dynamic positioning (DP) system for the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) icebreaker CCGS Amundsen. Wärtsilä was

Shoreside power banks for electric vessels could use recycled batteries

Sweden’s Stena Group, whose operations include Stena Rederi and Stena Line, is taking the next step in shipping electrification: the development of a new type of shoreside energy storage, similar to very

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