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Airbus ship tests kite power

Airbus ro-ro parts carrier Ciudad de Cadiz, operated by Louis Dreyfus Armateurs, is testing a kite traction system developed by Toulouse-based startup Airseas.The company was set up in September by Vincent Bernatets, who spent much of a… […]

Special-purpose fishing boats

French boatbuilder Sibiril Technologies, based at Carantec in Brittany, has announced plans to build combined shellfish dredgers and pot fishing boats of a type known in France as coquillers-caseyeurs. The announcement follows an order placed in April this year by fishing company Eddy Blanchet for two boats for delivery in the first half of 2018. The deck gear, most of which is made of composite materials and produced by vacuum infusion, is approaching completion.

 

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Ravitailler les bases antarctiques : Une expédition au profit de la science

Remplaçant le navire éponyme qui a effectué pendant plus de 30 ans cette mission, L’Astrolabe, tout nouveau patrouilleur et bateau logistique polaire français, a débuté le 3 novembre sa première campagne de ravitaillement des bases scientifiques en Antarctique.

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