Halifax’s Graphite Innovations & Technology, or GIT, has inked a two-year deal to apply its new coating for ship propellers to 25 vessels owned by London, U.K.-based tanker company Stolt Tankers.

Stolt Tankers is the shipping division of

Veer Group, the brainchild of Lunenburg, N.S.-based shipping entrepreneur Danielle Southcott, is raising capital and searching for a manufacturing partner for its planned hydrogen- and wind-powered container ships.

So far, CEO Southcott said in an

This year’s Canadian Women in Ocean Industries Leadership Conference, or CWOIL, will be in St. John’s from May 9 to 11, with the aim of fostering blue economy participation by women.

CWOIL aims to increase the competitiveness of the oceans sector

The Victoria-based Centre for Ocean Applied Sustainable Technologies, or COAST, is getting a $2 million funding boost from the British Columbia government via its Innovative Clean Energy Fund.

Created in 2021 and operated by regional business group

National industry group the Ocean Startup Project is seeking applicants to its new cleantech competition, held under a partnership with the municipalities of Port Alberni, BC, Rimouski, QC and Yarmouth, NS.

The Ocean Communities Climate Challenge

Reflecting on her four years as executive director of Dalhousie University’s DeepSense hub for artificial intelligence in the blue economy as she prepares for a move to Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, Jennifer LaPlante highlights her work giving

Research Nova Scotia is spending $1.1 million to continue a Dalhousie University wastewater testing program that used sewage to track the spread of COVID-19 during the depths of the pandemic.

Researchers from the Centre for Water Resources Studies,

In preparing our latest Canadian oceantech report, one thing that has been striking is the swift evolution of a national network of accelerators for early-stage oceantech startups.

Five years ago, any Canadian bluetech entrepreneur looking for a

The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship and Thales Canada, a division of French satellite imaging giant Thales Group, will run two naval innovation challenges this spring with prizes of $175,000 each.

The first challenge

P.E.I.-based Sofistofish Technologies, which makes analytics software for lobster fishers, has announced a North American distribution deal with Mackay Marine Canada, which is a division of one of the world's largest maritime electronics companies.

Halifax-based research group eOceans has come up with a definition for the “Blue Economy” that only includes activities that are tied to ocean health.

Some academics and some experts in southern hemisphere countries use a similar definition, and

Sherbrooke, Que,-based Oneka Technologies, which recently opened an office at the Dartmouth-Based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship, will head up a new Ocean Supercluster project to install a wave-powered desalination system off the