Siport21’s offshore wind projects reference in the Spanish Naval Architecture Congress

Nowadays, Spain is a benchmark in the value chain of offshore wind power installations, so confirmed by Spanish Naval Architecture Congress, held in Bilbao, where Siport21 has presented two of its projects related to this industry. Offshore wind turbine fields require the manufacture of large-scale elements (cylindrical structures of the tower, the nacelle, or the…

HAZID-HAZOP processes in hazardous products terminals using manoeuvring and mooring simulation

During the II ANPRA Congress of Lessons Learned from Serious Accidents or Incidents in Pilotage Maneuvers, organized in Cartagena by the National Association of Colombian Pilots, Siport21 explained the paramount importance of HAZID-HAZOP processes as a tool for risk analysis in port operations. The Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) includes…

Buque Haugesud Knutsen GNL bunkering

Siport21 involved in the design of mooring equipment and compatibility studies of the first Spain-flagged small-scale LNG carrier

Siport21 is involved in the review of the mooring equipment design and compatibility studies of the first Spanish small-scale LNG carrier, the “Haugesund Knutsen”. The ship, owned by the shipping company Knutsen OAS, began operating in January. This new carrier, built by Spanish shipbuilder Astilleros Armon in Gijon and flagged in Spain, has 92 metres…

The importance of dynamic mooring analysisin the Pacific coast to improve operability and safety of nautical operations

The specific conditions of the Pacif coast, with high wave energy content, generatea marked impact over moored ships at jetties or buoysystems. Although the usual waveconditionsdo not involve impressive wave heights, the dominant presence of longperiods (between 12 and 25 seconds) causes very significant interaction forces on the moored vessels. Due to these circumstances, high…

Nautical RiskAssessmenton Offshore Wind FarmsApplying Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

Nautical RiskAssessmenton Offshore Wind FarmsApplying Big Data and Artificial Intelligence In several European projects, Siport21 has applied a methodology of nautical risk assessment on offshore wind farms that includes Big Data and Artificial Intelligence techniques. The location of an offshore wind farm should be carefully studied to analyze its impact on maritime traffic. The methodology…

Siport21 participates in ECOBUQ project: a simulator of ship configuration related to economic and environmental efficiency

Siport21, together with Gasnam, Basque Maritime Forum, Cotenaval, and Murueta Shipping Company, will develop a simulator of ship configuration related to economic and environmental efficiency (ECOBUQ). This project has been presented by Gasnam, as an Innovative Business Group, to a research program from the Spanish Department of Trade and Industry. The aim of this project…