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News

  • CEDA Dredging Days Goes to Casablanca

    The Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has celebrated the creation this month of a North African Section with the announcement that CEDA Dredging Days will be held for the first time in its history outside Europe at Casablanca in Morocco. The event is scheduled for the 22 to 24 October 2002 with the theme 'Dredging Without Boundaries'. 

  • Norwegian seismic ship leader changes hands

    Norwegian shipyard Mjellem & Karlsen Verft in Bergen, a world leader in the design and supply of seismic and research vessels, has changed hands. 

  • EEBD Meets New SOLAS Requirements

    From 1 July of this year, ships are required to carry emergency escape breathing devices (EEBDs) in accordance with amendments to IMO SOLAS legislation. 

  • Germans ready First of Three Enviro-boats

    Lemwerder, Lower Saxony, workboat specialist Abeking & Rasmussen is on target to complete the first of a trio of state-of-the-art environmental protection patrol boats this Autumn for the German Coast Guard. 

  • Challenging Repower for Savannah Pilots

    The Savannah Pilots Association in Georgia USA have been operating their 57' aluminium pilot boat since 1984. Built at Louisiana's Breaux Bay Craft, the boat has served them well. When a repower was recently necessary, the Association chose a pair of Cummins KTA19 M4 engines producing 700hp each at 2,100rpm in a medium continuous duty rating. 

  • New Dutch Dredging Industry Dispute Flares

    News The Dutch dredging industry has been rocked again by a battle for control of the recently formed Ballast HAM Dredging joint venture. 

  • PLA's Gravesend Jetty Works Underway

    The contract to demolish the existing riverside facility and rebuild a new jetty at Denton Wharf, Gravesend, has been awarded to Mowlem Marine, a division on John Mowlem and Company, by the Port of London Authority. 

  • Temperature Monitor Warns of Variance in Boatbuild Composites

    A new product from Letchworth UK-based dataTaker Ltd can be used in the marine industries to monitor the temperature of composites during construction. 

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