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48 st / March 2015 www.sea-technology.com The judges selected two joint winners. Jason White, op- erations feld manager from the Undersea Vehicles Program at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, won Best Digital Stills Images, and the other joint winner was Patrick O'Driscoll, who submitted standard-defnition video foot- age from the Kongsberg Maritime OE14-366 Colour Zoom Camera. Seatronics, 2G Robotics Announce Partnership Seatronics (Aberdeen, Scotland) announced a global sales and distribution partnership with 2G Robotics (Water- loo, Canada) that makes the 2G Robotics line of underwater laser scanners available through Seatronics for equipment rentals and sales. The underwater laser scanners developed by 2G Robot- ics capture detailed 3D models of subsea environments and deliver 100 times higher resolution than sonar. Foreship Hull Form Yields Fuel Savings Hull form optimization and hydrodynamic design from Foreship (Helsinki, Finland) are at the core of fuel consump- tion savings to be achieved by a new-generation coastal general cargo ship. Meriaura Group (Turku, Finland) signed for two 4,700- DWT Ice Class 1A VG EcoCoaster general cargo newbuilds at Dutch yard Royal Bodewes (Hoogezand, Netherlands) in January, with the frst due for delivery at the end of July 2016. LJMU-Mersey Maritime Project for Atlantic Region Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) has teamed up with Mersey Maritime (Birkenhead, England) and Vestfold University College in Norway to bring together maritime clusters from the Atlantic region. The partners were invited to lead an EU-funded workshop at the Atlantic Stakeholder Platform Conference in Porto, Portugal, in January to present to stakeholders their ideas to create a common platform to support innovation, research and higher skills. Technip Contracts Damen Shiprepair A contract has been awarded by Technip (Paris, France) to Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam in the Netherlands for dry-docking, upgrades and operational modifcations to the deepwater rigid pipe S-lay and heavy-lift vessel Global 1200. The vessel arrived at the yard in January 2015. The Global 1200 is the frst of two deepwater rigid pipe S-lay and heavy-lift vessels owned by Technip. Lubrications Technology Offers Energy Savings Silverstream Technologies (London, England) and Shell (The Hague, Netherlands) announced the sea trial of Sil- verstream Technologies' new air lubrication technology for ships, the Silverstream System. The sea trials show net en- ergy effciency savings in all analyzed cases. Shell funded and, along with Silverstream, oversaw the installation of the Silverstream System on the 40,000-DWT products tanker MT Amalienborg. Ocean Signal's RescueME MOB1 Receives European Certifcation Approval The rescueME MOB1 has completed all the regulatory procedures required to permit sale throughout Europe. ICS Hopes for Improved Movement of Seafarers The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) is hopeful progress can now be made toward improving the facilitation of shore leave and crew transfers for merchant seafarers. This follows recommendations by an International Labour Organization (ILO) tripartite meeting of employers, seafar- ers' unions and governments in Geneva, Switzerland, at which ICS coordinated the shipowners' representation. The ILO meeting considered possible adjustments to the Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention. Japan Supports Beaching Yards in India After returning from a trip to Indian recycling yards, Aki- hiro Tamura, director of shipbuilding policy at the Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro) expressed that ship re- cycling yards in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh need to be part of the global scheme of sound ship recycling, and those yards in Alang, India, that have invested in fully upgrading their facilities to meet the terms of internationally agreed rules should be rewarded by winning more business. The 14-strong Japanese industry and government delegation visited Alang with the intention of assessing the quality of beach recycling yards in the region. Tritech Successful With Swedish Navy Tritech (Aberdeen, Scotland) has been selected as the preferred supplier for sonar and acoustic positioning on board Saab Seaeye (Fareham, England) Falcon ROVs for Försvarets Materielverk, (Stockholm, Sweden), the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration. The 10 ROV systems will be deployed for seabed surveys, inspections, light underwater work and recovery of objects. They encompass a full suite of Tritech sonars, including Gemini multibeam imager, Micron mechanical scanning sonar, PA500 altimeter and MicronNav USBL. Global Ship Lease Announces Agreement To Acquire Additional Vessel Global Ship Lease Inc. (Majuro, Marshall Islands) has agreed to acquire an 8,063-TEU containership from a lead- ing container liner company for a purchase price of $53.6 million. The 2004-built vessel is expected to deliver in March 2015, subject to the completion of customary additional documentation and closing conditions. Upon delivery, the vessel will be immediately time chartered back to the con- tainer liner company for a period of 36 to 39 months, at charterer's option, at a gross rate of $34,500 per day. Kongsberg Maritime Announces Image Competition Winners Kongsberg Maritime (Kongsberg, Norway) has selected the winners of "The Full Picture Photo and Video Competi- tion," which ran from August 26 until November 30, 2014. With iPad Minis on offer as prizes and the chance for some entries to be used in Kongsberg Maritime marketing activi- ties, the company's international camera user base submit- ted underwater stills and video. international