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News

  • News Hollandsche Beton Groep Sold Back to Dutch Control

    01 Jul 2002

    Dutch construction firms Royal BAM NBM and the Hollandsche Beton Groep (HBG) have announced that the former will purchase the latter from Spanish construction firm Grupo Dragados. 

  • Sea Trials Success for ENC Updates to Vessels at Sea

    01 Jul 2002

    ChartCo has concluded successful sea trials for the delivery of weekly Electronic Navigation Charts (ENCs) in conjunction with Primar and the Stolt Nielsen shipping company. ChartCo's services to date have focused on satellite delivery of digital Notices to Mariners and paper chart updates rather than electronic chart data. 

  • VT Launches New Fishery Protection Ship

    01 Jul 2002

    HMS Tyne, the first in a new generation of fishery protection vessels for the Royal Navy has been launched at Vosper Thornycroft's Woolston, Southampton yard. The vessel is expected to be handed over to the Fishery Protection Squadron (FPS) in November of this year. 

  • UK Funding Diverts Heavy Road Transport to Water

    01 Jul 2002

    The British Government's Department for Transport (DfT) has awarded an £8.5m Freight Facilities Grant to Staffordshire-based Robert Wynn & Sons Ltd (RWSL) for the development of an innovative transportation system that will utilise shortsea routes and inland waterways to take 'abnormal indivisible loads' off the UK's congested roads network. 

  • seawork2002 Exhibition Sizzles in the Sunshine as Sales Soar

    01 Jul 2002

    seawork returned to its quayside location in the working Port of Southampton last month for the fifth consecutive summer to welcome record numbers of exhibitors and visitors. 

  • Transas Bridges River Kwai and Launches Website

    01 Jul 2002

    Singapore-based Transas Marine Pacific has received an order from Eastwind Shipmanagement Pte Ltd to supply the first multi-purpose simulation complex to be established in Myanmar, formerly Burma. 

  • Spectacular Lifts for New London Bridge

    01 Jul 2002

    During the early hours of 20 May, SMIT commenced the final phase of its involvement in the construction of two new pedestrian foot bridges spanning London's River Thames and located on either side of the existing Hungerford Bridge. 

  • Aberdeen Conference Sees £Billions in Marine Renewables

    01 Jul 2002

    Britain's Energy Minister, Brian Wilson, invited UK industry to win itself a substantial share of growing global investment in new and renewable energy, expected to add up to £400bn by 2010. 

  • New Marine Safety Consultancy Service

    01 Jul 2002

    Southampton-based Ocean Safety has launched a new design, drawing and consultancy service created to provide technical and detailed safety specifications for shipbuilders and naval architects in the commercial, defence and leisure sectors. 

  • United Kingdom Treasury Supports Coastal Hydrography Project

    01 Jul 2002

    A practical partnership between the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, the Environment Agency, Ordinance Survey and the Maritime & Coastguard Agency to produce a shared methodology for definitive measurement of environmental data in the shallow inter-tidal areas around Britain's coast has received a financial boost. 

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