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France Backs Five Ports with $300M for Floating Wind
France picks Cherbourg, Brest, Nantes-Saint-Nazaire, Port-la-Nouvelle and Marseille-Fos for floating wind port upgrades.
31 July 2026 2 min read floating windport infrastructurefrance 2030
News · Ports & Regional Developments ABS: Floating Offshore Wind to Strain Support Vessel Supply
ABS report warns floating offshore wind growth could tighten supply of AHTS and MPSV vessels by 2029.
29 July 2026 2 min read floating offshore windoffshore support vesselsabs report
News · Companies & Industry Damen Launches Second CSOV 9020 for TSSM Fleet
Damen launches the second CSOV 9020 for TSSM, a Taiwan-Japan JV supporting offshore wind operations in Taiwanese waters.
29 July 2026 2 min read offshore windcsovdamen shipyards
News · Maritime Tech & AI Bureau Veritas Approves Seatrium's 30MW Floating Data Center
Bureau Veritas grants Approval in Principle to Seatrium's 30MW floating data centre concept for offshore AI and cloud computing infrastructure.
28 July 2026 2 min read floating data centerbureau veritasseatrium
News · Maritime Tech & AI Nuclear Ship Concepts Clear Reviews, Yet Decades From Service
Three commercial nuclear ship design concepts won approvals in principle in 2026, but outdated codes and licensing gaps leave real-world trading decades away.
27 July 2026 1 min read nuclear propulsionapproval in principlemolten salt reactor
News · Fuel & Decarbonization Iraq to Sign Syria Deal on Mediterranean Oil Pipelines
Iraq's cabinet has approved a pipeline agreement with Syria to route oil exports to the Mediterranean, diversifying export options.
26 July 2026 2 min read oil pipelinesiraqsyria
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SIRE 2.0 CBT: what computer-based training can and cannot do before a vetting inspection
OCIMF does not require crew to hold a SIRE 2.0 computer-based training certificate, and no inspector will ask for one. What the inspection actually measures, what OCIMF already gives you at no cost, and the questions to ask before buying a CBT package.
28 July 2026 7 min read SIRE 2.0VettingCrew Training
Guide · Technical & Maintenance Bunker survey guide: how a chief engineer verifies the fuel actually delivered
A working guide to the bunker quantity survey, from a chief engineer who has stood on the barge: initial gauging, the cappuccino effect, trim and temperature corrections, MARPOL sampling and what to do when the figures do not agree.
27 July 2026 8 min read BunkeringBunker SurveyFuel Management
Analysis · Maritime Tech & AI Spreadsheets vs evidence-based oversight: why the fleet's paper habits keep failing it
A side-by-side look at how fleet condition is actually tracked — paper forms, spreadsheets, PDF reports and inboxes — against what evidence-based oversight changes, task by task, and what it costs to stay with the old way.
27 July 2026 6 min read Fleet ManagementDigitalisationMaritime Software
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Satellite internet at sea: how to choose between LEO, VSAT and L-band
Starlink is fast, cheap and everywhere in the conversation — but it does not count as safety communications, and its coverage changes country by country. A practical guide to the questions to ask, in order, when putting connectivity on a ship: primary link, failover, safety layer.
22 July 2026 5 min read ConnectivityLEOStarlink
News · Maritime Tech & AI J-Ocean, Ucast Sign MoU for Smart Shipyard in South Korea
J-Ocean Heavy Industries and Ucast will deploy 5G, AI, IoT and robotics at Gunsan Shipyard under a new MoU.
21 July 2026 2 min read smart shipyarddigital twin5g
News · Maritime Tech & AI Norway's SEAMLESS Project Advances Autonomous Ship Regulation
Norwegian researchers demonstrate remote fleet management in the Oslofjord, moving crews ashore under new IMO guidance.
19 July 2026 3 min read autonomous shippingremote operationsseafarer shortage
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