27.05.2013

As of 2010 the Norwegian maritime industry will need 7,000 more engineers, but will face hard competition for workers from more profiled sectors. Nor-Shipping Campus has a plan to recruit the country’s students back into a...

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11.09.2012

The Norwegian Shipowners’ Association has supported a new set of energy efficiency measures adopted by the international shipping community last year to reduce CO2 emissions, paving the way for possibly the first mandatory...

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10.09.2012

In the first year since Maritime 21 strategy was launched, it has revamped the Norwegian Research Council’s strategy for MAROFF fund applications, increased collaboration between research institutes and industry, and expan...

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10.08.2012

Piracy attacks have hit an unprecedented high in 2011. Norway has countered by adopting regulations for the shipping industry to arm its vessels as of July and sending Orion aircraft to survey sea traffic offshore Somalia.

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20.06.2012

Collaborate when you can, compete when you must. That has been a common mantra in the highly competitive maritime industry given its conservative attitude towards information sharing. Maritime 21 and Induct Software are wo...

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10.06.2012

LNG is becoming an increasingly important fuel source for the shipping industry, which must meet new environmental requirements within the decade. This year’s NOR Shipping conference in Oslo highlighted LNG’s significance ...

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10.02.2011

The Norwegian Marine Research Institute Marintek is leading a public-private initiative to build a World Ocean Space Centre in Trondheim by 2020. The concept has been called the third wave, referring to the historic openin...

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07.02.2011

The melting of polar ice, technological advances, and the recent delineation agreement between Norway and Russia over the Barents Sea are providing great impetus to the possibility for increased maritime traffic through th...

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09.12.2010

The Norwegian maritime industry has called for the government to allocate NOK 505 million per year in research and innovation starting in 2012. The goal of the new strategy, Maritime 21, is to shift the focus from many sma...

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08.12.2010

Norway adopted a new regulation effective July 2010 enforcing ballast water exchange off its coast. The measure is an intermediate step ahead of the International Maritime Organisation’s Ballast Water Convention requiremen...

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