Monday, November 6, 2017 edition

Floatgen FOW demonstrator launched

The first floating offshore wind (FOW) turbine built in France was launched at Saint-Nazaire on 13 October just 15 months after construction began. The project, beginning with the turbine, tower and floating foundation, are being funded by the European Commission. This...

AI for port logistics

Channel 5 is a new service currently being piloted at Seayard’s container terminal in Fos-sur-Mer on France’s Mediterranean coast. It was developed by MGI, a Marseille-based company specialised in Cargo Community Systems (CCSs) and Port Community Systems (PCSs) for port,...

Airbus ship tests kite power

Airbus ro-ro parts carrier Ciudad de Cadiz, operated by Louis Dreyfus Armateurs, is testing a kite traction system developed by Toulouse-based startup Airseas.The company was set up in September by Vincent Bernatets, who spent much of a fifteen-year stint with Airbus...

Interview: Mark Jan Van den Akker, CEO of Damen Dunkerque

Projects at Damen’s Dunkerque yard include ship repairs and conversions, assembly of offshore wind turbines and structures, and new-build shipbuilding. And Mark Jan Van den Akker, the recently appointed CEO of Damen Shiprepair Dunkerque has big plans in all three areas....

Special-purpose fishing boats

French boatbuilder Sibiril Technologies, based at Carantec in Brittany, has announced plans to build combined shellfish dredgers and pot fishing boats of a type known in France as coquillers-caseyeurs. The announcement follows an order placed in April this year by...

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