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Diving & Underwater Services

  • OI06 Launch for Diver Inspection System

    01 May 2006

    Kongsberg Maritime introduced a new integrated diver deployed underwater inspection system at the recent Oceanology International (OI06) exhibition. 

  • Nearshore AUV Unveiled at OI06

    01 May 2006

    The Talisman autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), which was a focal point of the recent Oceanology International (OI 06) exhibition in London, is equipped with thrusters supplied by Fareham UK based Seaeye Marine. 

  • Big Contract for Young Company

    01 May 2006

    The Aberdeen based specialist marine and subsea services provider TSMarine (Contracting) Ltd has won a contract worth up to £6.5m only 18 months after forming. The contract with SubSea Resources Plc will see TSMarine provide deepwater salvage support from its vessel MV Geomaster. 

  • 'Diver Change' Anodes Simplify Replacement

    01 May 2006

    An FPSO conversion underway at the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore will be protected against hull corrosion using a Cathelco C-Shield ICCP system incorporating the latest 'diver change' anodes. The Capixaba is being converted from a VLLC tanker and will eventually be operated by Single Buoy Moorings in an oilfield off Brazil on a lease and operate basis. 

Dredging

  • Olympics Boosts Aggregates Dredging

    01 May 2006

    London's victorious bid for the 2012 Olympics looks set to contribute to a substantial increase in demand for dredged aggregates. Metoc plc has launched a new service to provide environmental engineering for the dredging of marine aggregates from the UK Continental Shelf to meet demand in the UK South East, which is also expected to rise if construction of the Thames Gateway container terminal is given final approval. 

  • Boskalis Enjoys Dredging Renaissance

    01 May 2006

    The current good fortunes of the global dredging market are reflected in the 2005 results announced by Dutch giant Royal Boskalis Westminster, which has reported a spectacular 85% rise in net profit to 62.7m and a record turnover of 1,156m which was up 13% over 2004. 

Hydrographic Survey by David Goodfellow

  • Glasgow Harbour Surveys

    01 May 2006

    Clydeside Survey reports successful completion of extensive bathymetric surveys of Glasgow Harbour over distances of around 2.5km and in waters where visibility was less than 20cm. Aside from the effects of deformation, a number of construction cracks and rungs of disused ladders were identified. 

  • RoxAnn System Upgraded

    01 May 2006

    Seabed mapping specialists Sonavision of Aberdeen have re-designed their RoxAnn system with introduction of a smaller and lighter version, the GD-A. It can be powered using a USB connection from a computer, although a 5 volt DC laptop supply unit is also included. 

  • IMCA Updates Multibeam Guidelines

    01 May 2006

    The Offshore Survey Division of the International Marine Contractors Association has revised its guidelines on The Use of Multibeam Echosounders for Offshore Survey (IMCA S 003 Rev.1). 

  • UKHO-JHA Accord

    01 May 2006

    The UK Hydrographic Office has signed a collaboration agreement with the Japanese Hydrographic Association under which Admiralty customers will now have access to over 600 new electronic navigational charts of Japanese waters as well as the Malacca Strait. 

  • World Hydrography Day Set for June

    01 May 2006

    Wednesday 21 June will mark the inaugural annual World Hydrography Day as a result of a resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly in New York last November under its Oceans & Law of the Sea agenda. 

Marine Civils by David Foxwell

  • Halcrow Assesses Coastal Erosion Risk

    01 May 2006

    Halcrow in the UK is close to completing a study for DEFRA to develop a procedure to provide coastal authorities with the means to better understand, appraise and quantify the coastal erosion risks they are obligated to manage. 

  • Water Injection Trial May Cut Cost of Dredging The Broads

    01 May 2006

    A pioneering trial that could cut costs for dredging on the lower areas of the Broads, the well known inland waterways in the UK, got under way in April. The Broads Authority said the scheme, costing £30,000, aims to remove 6,200 m3 of silt from the River Bure and will cost only a third of the average price of dredging projects in the Broads. 

Marine Renewables

  • Funding Flow for Shallow Water Tidal Stream Power Generator

    01 May 2006

    BMT Renewables Ltd is part of a consortium that has been awarded a grant of £878,000 from the UK's Department of Trade and Industry for a two year, £1.7m research, design and development project known as Pulse Stream 100. 

  • Connection Regime for UK Marine Energy

    01 May 2006

    The drive to increase Britain's offshore wind energy has been given a significant boost as details were announced of how their connection to the electricity network onshore would be funded and operated. 

Monitoring & Control

  • Radio Record of Tyne Ferry Passengers

    01 May 2006

    Tyne and Wear UK based Southern Electronics, in conjunction with radio communication manufacturer Icom UK, has designed an innovative yet practical way of recording passenger traffic on the Tyne Ferry using radio communication equipment. 

News

  • Port-Net Partners Share Experiences

    01 May 2006

    Delegates from the Haven Gateway Partnership joined port representatives from across Europe last month to share and discuss their experiences in electronic data interchange (EDI) and cargo flows, in the latest of a series of workshops within the EU's Port-Net initiative. 

  • Hot Seawork Starts with Blue Cool

    01 May 2006

    With Seawork expanded to unprecedented size for 2006, the arriving visitor will scarcely know where to begin. If the weather is hot, there may be even more reason to start at Stand Number 1, where Webasto will be showing new and advanced marine air conditioning systems which promise to deliver new levels of performance and comfort into the marketplace. 

  • Fassmer Produces First Oil Skimming Combination

    01 May 2006

    Fassmer Werft has handed over the first of a new type of small ship combination designed for environmental service with local authorities. 

  • MCA SAR Improvements

    01 May 2006

    The UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency search and rescue figures for 2005 show the total number of occasions where assistance was required went down compared to 2004, and the total number of persons rescued (where lives were at risk) was also down. The total number of alerts received by the Coastguard increased but this was seen as a positive response to a campaign encouraging people to alert the Coastguard earlier when in trouble or to report those suspected of being in trouble more readily. 

  • International ENC Cooperation

    01 May 2006

    The Norwegian Hydrographic Service (NHS), operator of the Primar Stavanger electronic navigational chart service, has signed a distribution agreement for Japanese ENCs with the Japan Hydrographic Association. 

  • Spanish Ferry to Commence Operations in Portsmouth

    01 May 2006

    Portsmouth Commercial Por t in the UK and Portsmouth City Council have confirmed that the Spanish short sea shipping line Acciona Transmediterranea will commence operations from the city to the Port of Bilbao on the 18th of this month. 

  • Young Engineer Drug Busters

    01 May 2006

    Young Engineers is a UK educational charity with a remit to inspire young people to pursue careers in engineering. 

  • First of Three 'Heavies' for Hamburg Police

    01 May 2006

    Now in service in Germany is the first in a series of three 17.56m long heavy harbour patrol boats for the Hamburg Wasserschutzpolizei, which is responsible for law and order on the City's rivers and estuary waters. 

  • DNV Makes It Official

    01 May 2006

    Radio Holland Group is the first company to receive worldwide recognition by Det Norsk Veritas for servicing and testing radio communication equipment and annul certification of Voyage Data Recorders. Global recognition follows many years during which the experienced staff at some 51 Radio Holland Group subsidiary branches along the major shipping routes of the world have been used by DNV to carry out statutory radio surveys on board DNV classed vessels. 

  • Holyhead Freight Boom

    01 May 2006

    Stena Line is to increase freight capacity on its Holyhead to Dublin route with the introduction of an additional vessel. The company will redeploy current ferry Stena Seatrader from its North Sea fleet, commencing operations on the Central Corridor in July. 

  • 'HMS Daring' Foremast Delivered

    01 May 2006

    VT Shipbuilding has completed its construction work on the Royal Navy's first of class Type 45 destroyer HMS Daring with delivery of the foremast to BAE Systems Naval Ships in Glasgow. 

  • Box Tops at Felixstowe

    01 May 2006

    The world's largest containership, COSCO Ningbo, made its inaugural call at the UK Port of Felixstowe last month. At 9,449 TEU, the giant boxship has the highest declared capacity of any vessel currently in operation. Designed to cope with the ever growing trade from China, COSCO Ningbo will operate on the Asia Europe 1 (AE1) service, rotating Shanghai - Dalian - Qingdao - Singapore - Port Said - Rotterdam - Felixstowe - Hamburg - Antwerp - Singapore - Hong Kong - Shanghai. 

  • HIT Bulks Up

    01 May 2006

    A new long term agreement between Associated British Ports and Arkady Feed (UK) Ltd will boost agribulks throughput at the Port of Immingham's Humber International Terminal by an estimated 100,000 tons per year. 

Pollution Control

  • Brits Lower the Boom in America

    01 May 2006

    Two exhibitors at the recent Spill 06 event in London collaborated earlier this year when UK based Oil Limited took its newly developed RB400 rigid boom system across the Atlantic to be tested by Ohmsett, America's National Oil Spill Response Test Facility in New Jersey. 

  • Big Year for ISU Oil Recovery

    01 May 2006

    Members of the International Salvage Union recovered some 875,000 tons of pollutants during salvage operations last year. Emergency assistance was provided worldwide for 247 vessels with cargoes and bunkers threatening pollution. 

  • Timely Response Speeds Pollution Clean-up

    01 May 2006

    One little known aspect of the grounding of the tanker Tasman Spirit off Karachi port is that concern for the health of pollution control workers led to the cessation of beach clean-up operations. 

Port, Harbour & Marine Construction

  • Venice Flood Barrier Works Underway

    01 May 2006

    Some 40 years after an abnormal high tide flooded the city and made 5,000 people homeless, the massive marine construction project to protect Venice in Italy is now underway. The Modello Sperimentale Elettromeccanico (MOSE) project involves a system of moveable, automatically operated dikes being placed at the entrance of the three main canals connecting the Adriatic Sea to the Venice lagoon. 

  • No Slip-Ups at Seawork

    01 May 2006

    Visitors to Godmanchester's inland waterways on the River Ouse can look forward to using four new public mooring pontoons this year. Operated by the UK Environment Agency, the existing mooring pontoons were ageing wooden constructions which were a potential safety hazard for users, especially in wet conditions. 

  • Investment for 'Fast Jets' in Boulogne

    01 May 2006

    The Boulogne Chamber of Commerce and Industry has announced a 20m investment in a new ro-ro berth which is due to go into service in 2007. 

  • Geosynthetic Liner Enables Austrian River Diversion

    01 May 2006

    A river diversion project in Austria which has released an additional six hectares of land on which to build a new hospital was made possible by a self-sealing geosynthetic clay liner. 

  • £5m Kickstarts Barrow Masterplan

    01 May 2006

    The first step of a comprehensive masterplan to transform Barrow in the UK has been given the green light with an investment of over £5m from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA). 

  • New Mussel Harbour for Warrenpoint

    01 May 2006

    Dawson WAM, the river and marine engineers, have completed the construction of a new mussel harbour and berth development at Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland at a cost of £2.6m for the Warrenpoint Harbour Authority which has enabled the bed of the town dock to be lowered in excess of 3m to provide the berthing depths required to accommodate a new generation of large mussel trawlers. 

Seawork International 2006 Preview

  • Paint Your Workboat at Seawork

    01 May 2006

    Jotun Paints returns to Seawork and will be found next month on Stand 25, where it will be showing a complete range of cost effective marine coating products which are available for the coastal and small workboat market. 

Tugs & Towing by Jack Gaston

  • Spain Completes Advanced Pollution Control Tugs

    01 May 2006

    Spanish shipyard Astilleros Armon SA has completed a pair of seagoing, multi-purpose tugs, equipped extensively for pollution control duties. 

  • Serco is Selected as Preferred Bidder for £1bn MoD Contract

    01 May 2006

    A joint venture led by Serco Group plc (Serco) has been selected as preferred bidder by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the Future Provision of Marine Services contract. 

  • Leading Designer Calls for Common Standards

    01 May 2006

    In a paper to the International Tug and Salvage Convention ITS 2006 in Rotterdam, well known tug designer and naval architect Robert Allan appealed for the harmonisation of international standards governing tug construction. 

  • Mampaey Introduce the DOT Towing System

    01 May 2006

    Mampaey Offshore Industries launched the Dynamic Oval Towing (DOT) system, the latest addition to their range of towing and mooring equipment, on their stand at ITS 2006 in Rotterdam. 

  • TOWLINES

    01 May 2006

    The new French tug company, Societe Nouvelle de Remorquage du Havre (SNRH), due to commence shiphandling operations in January, had still not started work at the beginning of May. A new tug fleet, chartered from Kotug in the Netherlands, remain idle in the face of endless legal difficulties and recently threats of industrial action by tugmen from the only rival fleet in the port, Les Abeille. The new SNRH fleet was put in place to coincide with the opening of the new Le Havre Port 2000 container complex. 

  • Norwegian ETV Will Be the First Towing Vessel to Use LNG

    01 May 2006

    Norwegian shipbuilder Myklebust Verft of Gursken has been awarded a contract by Remoy Management, operators of vessels for the Norwegian Coastguard, for a sophisticated Emergency Response Vessel capable of towage and rescue operations. Delivery is scheduled for December 2007 and an option is also in place for one further vessel of the same type. 

Vessel Launch Baloe

  • 'Baloe' is Ready for the Jungle

    01 May 2006

    The new Shoalbuster 2208 Baloe has been delivered to Dutch tug owner Sleepvaartbedrijf Herman SR BV of Zwijndrecht by Damen Shipyards of Hardinxveldt. 

Vessel Launch British Waterways Pusher Tugs

  • 'Small & Green' Is Ideal for British Waterways

    01 May 2006

    An important phase in the modernisation of floating plant for British Waterways (BW) is rapidly coming to fruition at the shipyard of Manor Marine in Portland, Dorset (a trading company within MPI Services (UK) Ltd). 

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