Commercial Marine News

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7 June 2023

New partnership agreed: Ecomar Propulsion and EH Group

Ecomar Propulsion have agreed their third partnership agreement at NOR-Shipping 2023 - with Swiss hydrogen fuel cell specialists EH Group Engineering AG.

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7 June 2023

Glasgow boat builder Ultimate Boats to unveil two new recyclable workboats at Seawork

Glasgow boat builder Ultimate Boats is to unveil two new fully recyclable, high-performance workboats at the Seawork trade fair in Southampton June 13-15

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5 June 2023

Kongsberg successfully demonstrates autonomous vessel operations on Belgium’s inland waterway network

Kongsberg Maritime successfully completed a live trial of autonomous shipping technology in Bornem, Belgium, demonstrating the progress the company has made in fully autonomous systems.

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10 May 2023

GE Power Conversion renews its Partnership Agreement with Nedstack Fuel Cell Technology for the development of marine fuel cell solutions

A pilot project, for a large-scale marine fuel cell application provided valuable feasibility support to a cruise provider for their technical and commercial evaluation of decarbonization solutions.

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4 May 2023

Ian Tyler appointed as new Chairman of BMT Group Ltd.

BMT, a leading international design, engineering and risk management consultancy, has announced the appointment of Ian Tyler as Chairman of BMT Group Ltd.

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4 May 2023

Emeritus Professor Chengi Kuo of University of Strathyclyde has received the Royal Institution of Naval Architects’ (RINA) William Froude Medal

The honour was received in recognition of his significant contribution to the field in a career spanning more than 50 years.

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26 April 2023

Inmarsat secure agreement with Vega-Reederei to install fleet secure solution

Inmarsat has secured an agreement with Fleet Xpress customer Vega-Reederei (Vega) to install Fleet Secure Unified Threat Management (UTM) across the Hamburg-based ship manager’s fleet of existing and newbuild vessels.

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21 April 2023

Sonihull named as one of the first recipients of The King’s Awards for Enterprise.

Innovative SMI company, Sonihull, which is harnessing the power of ultrasound to clean up the seas has been given the royal seal of approval after being named as one of the first recipients of The King’s Awards for Enterprise.

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20 April 2023

Maritime BIM Bootcamp

Unlocking the full potential of Building Information Management within the Maritime sector

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6 April 2023

SMI Annual Conference 2023 - Presentations

Please find all presentations here.

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