Offshore services specialist CWind Taiwan has adopted Reygar’s advanced remote monitoring system - BareFLEET - for its fleet of crew transfer vessels (CTV) operating in the Asian island's offshore wind market.The BareFleet system has been connected…
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Pirates Kidnap Crew of MV Bonita
Pirates have kidnapped nine crew members from a Norwegian shipping vessel named the MV Bonita off the coast of Benin in West Africa.MV Bonita was anchored and awaiting berth at the Cotonou port to discharge a shipment of gypsum when the pirates boarded...
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Boeing tests space taxi, one of three parachutes does not open
Boeing Co said on Monday that one of three parachutes failed to deploy during an otherwise successful safety test of its unmanned CST-100 Starliner crew capsule, being developed to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
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NASA probe provides insight on solar system’s border with interstellar space
(The Nov 4 story corrects speed of cosmic rays in paragraph 10.)
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LCS Kansas City Completes Trials
The future USS Kansas City (LCS 22) successfully completed acceptance trials in the Gulf of Mexico. LCS 22 is the 11th Independence-variant littoral combat ship (LCS), built by Austal USA in Mobile, to reach this milestone.Acceptance trials…
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Jan De Nul Aiming for 100% Renewable Fuel
Jan De Nul Group carries out dredging work in the Benelux with 100% renewable fuel. With this, the world player is further committing itself to immediately and considerably reducing its CO₂ emissions. Trailing suction hopper dredger Alexander…
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SGS Acquires UWC and GDS
Subsea Global Solutions (SGS), a commercial diving company, has announced that it has acquired Underwater Contractors Pte. Ltd. (UWC), a prominent commercial diving firm based in Singapore, and Gray Diving Services Pty. Ltd. (GDS), a commercial diving ...
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Thyssenkrupp to Invest $279 mln at Shipbuilding Division
Thyssenkrupp plans to invest 250 million euros ($279 million) at its unit that builds submarines and warships, the German industrial conglomerate said on Monday.The investment at Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) will be made by 2023, the group said, ...
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Baltic Index at 4-month Low on Weak Demand
The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships ferrying dry bulk commodities, fell to a four-month low on Monday, weighed down by easing rates across vessel segments.The Baltic index, which reflects rates for capesize…
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Pirates Kidnap Four from Greek Tanker
Pirates attacked a Greek oil tanker off the coast of Togo in the early hours of Monday and fled after taking four crew members as hostages, the West African nation's navy said, two days after a similar attack in the waters of neighbouring Benin.Of the ...
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