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Map of NS Coastline Aims To Enhance Public Safety

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GIT to Coat 25 U.K.-owned Tankers

  • Apr 06, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Veer Group Readies Hydrogen Container Ship

  • Apr 05, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Women in Ocean Industries Conference Coming to St. John’s

  • Apr 03, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

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

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COAST Bags $2M Funding

  • Mar 30, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Ocean Startup Project Launches Cleantech Competition

  • Mar 28, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

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

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LaPlante Joining Ocean Supercluster

  • Mar 27, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Dal Water Testing Research Gets Funding Boost

  • Mar 27, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

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,

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Canada’s Growing Network of Bluetech Accelerators

  • Mar 26, 2023
  • Peter Moreira

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

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COVE, Thales Launch Naval Innovation Challenges

  • Mar 21, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

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

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Sofistofish Expanding Software Offerings

  • Mar 20, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

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.

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Redefining ‘The Blue Economy’

  • Mar 15, 2023
  • Carol Moreira

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

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Oneka to Head $14M OSC Project

  • Mar 14, 2023
  • Avery Mullen

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

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