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The Norwegian Coastal Administration (NCA) recently introduced Sea Traffic Management and its PortCDM concept.The Norwegian Minister of Transport Ketil Solvik-Olsen logged in and officially inaugurated the Port of Stavanger test bed.

Rotterdam-based transportation company Samskip has completed the acquisition of Euro Container Lines AS, building on a strategy for growth in the Nordic area to make its largest ever acquisitive move in Norway.

A new report conducted by Norwegian law professors Beate Sjåfjell and Anita Halvorssen concludes that Norway can not proceed with its plans for oil and gas exploration in the Arctic as their research of country's national and international law revealed that these activities are illegal.

The Norwegian authorities of Oslo have established ambitious targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In 2030, emissions should be reduced by 40% compared to the levels of 40 years earlier. Shipping – as a significant contributor to emissions – will likely be required to meet the same targets.

The Norwegian Shipowners' Association issued 'Maritime Outlook Report' for 2016 presenting developments in the industry during last year as well as expectations for the current year. The outlook indicates that 2016 will be an extremely difficult year for many segments of the maritime industry. Following five uninterrupted years of growing income, turnover fell in 2015. The prognosis is for this decline to continue into 2016.

 The Norwenian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy approved the plan for the development and operation for Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea as well as the associated plans for installation and operation of pipelines and power supply from shore.The Johan Sverdrup oil field will be developed in several phases. Phase one consists of four bridge-linked platforms, in addition to three subsea water injection templates. The ambition is a recovery rate of 70%, allowing for advanced technology for increased oil recovery (IOR) in future phases. The phase one development has a production capacity in the range of 315,000-380,000 barrels per day. First oil is planned for late 2019.“We are on schedule in the Johan Sverdrup development. The project activities will now be stepped up, and more contracts will be awarded in the autumn. Last week the first piece of the Johan Sverdrup development, the pre-drilling template, was installed on the field in the North Sea.  In addition the construction of the first jacket has started at Kværner Verdal. Contracts worth more than NOK 40 billion have been awarded so far in the development, 75 percent of which have been landed by suppliers with Norwegian invoice addresses,” says Øivind Reinertsen, senior vice ...

Kongsberg is working with Østensjo and Marintek on a project for operations using motion compensated and telescopic gangways

The Norwegian government has presented a positive, proactive maritime strategy

For the first time in a decade, the Norwegian International Ship Register signs a brand new cruise ship

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