The fourth Global Lifting Awareness Day – #GLAD2023 – will take place on Thursday 13 July. Powered by the Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) and supporting organisations, it is now a widely celebrated day where manufacturers, suppliers, and end users are among those sharing material that promotes safe and high quality load lifting. Social media posts, videos, articles, and in-person activity will again be bound together by the hashtag, #GLAD2023. Industry stakehol

The Caldwell Group Inc. has published a new catalog featuring its range of lifters The manufacturer of below-the-hook and material handling equipment has gathered details and specifications about its most popular general lifters for the 116-page 2023 BTH General Lifters catalog, which includes lifting and spreader beams; C-hooks and coil lifters; tongs and grabs; rotating crane hooks; and lifters for sheet and pallet applications. Lisa Sympson, Marketing Manager at Caldwell,

“There comes a time in every rightly constructed boys’ life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure” – Mark Twain Every day, treasure hunters search sunken shipwrecks or sites of interest to retrieve artifacts that can be sold on the open market or donated to museums for preservation. “The practice of treasure-hunting can be controversial, as locations such as sunken wrecks or cultural sites may be protected by national or international law con

For decades, fish consumption has risen by 3% annually across the globe as people swap meat for a healthier, more environmentally friendly protein source. Fish consumption will continue rising as organisations look towards the ‘blue economy’: the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth and promotion of ‘blue food’ — all edible fish, aquatic plants, mussels and algae — to improve the food industry’s environmental impact. Thanks to this growing demand for sustain

Glamox AS, one of the world’s leading lighting companies, has announced contracts to provide its marine lighting for four wind turbine commissioning and service operation vessels for Integrated Wind Solutions (IWS) Fleet AS of Norway, and two wind turbine installation vessels for Cadeler A/S of Denmark. These latest orders underline the spectacular growth in the market for offshore windfarms and the specialist ships needed to construct and support them. An estimated 230 windf

The Netherlands’ Damen Marine Components (DMC) has won its first multi-vessel order in the USA. Four packages, each comprised of steering gear and rudders, five winches and two towing pin systems, will be supplied to US shipbuilder C&C Marine & Repair for four new-build Multi Cats 3013 workboats. The first two vessels will be delivered to Callan Marine Ltd. and the second two vessels will be built “on spec” by C&C Marine & Repair for sale or lease to the US market. Each of th

Jetstream Tours has spent the end of the summer season in engineering mode. Despite a challenging few years and a good weather September predicted, the tour company closed its doors temporarilly to embark on its biggest engineering project to date. The flagship vessel, Jacob Marley joined the Jetstream fleet in 2016 with engines that were installed in 1980s, and they have done very well to be still working, but they are based on old requirements for their emissions and spares

Diverse Marine and NR Marine Services are proud to announce the contract signing to construct the first of class Diverse Marine 27m CTV (Crew Transfer Vessel). The international expansion of the offshore wind sector is creating significant opportunities and challenges for the maritime supply chain and rewarding operators, builders and designers of innovative craft that meet legislative requirements but reduce vessel emissions and fuel consumption. This new vessel, to be named