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Surf Harbour's Past
New sections added to the Chichester Harbour Conservancy' s website enables users to see what sediments have been deposited in the harbour over the last 10,000 years an thus learn about the changing harbour landscape and how it was used.
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Fos Box Tops
The French Port of Marseilles was closing on the one million TEU mark for 2007 as the year ended, with throughput reaching 826,000 units to the end of October.
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Ferries Find Favour
Over the three months of July, August and September, SeaFrance enjoyed an increase of 13% in car traffic. This performance sees the French operator currently investigating shipyard availability in Europe to build a new vessel with significantly increased garage space.
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Cash for Seaford Sinking
Marine South East, which addresses the needs of the marine sector in the UK South East region, has offered 40% of the funding for an initial scoping study into a project which aims to boost the local economy of Seaford and Newhaven.
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NewsAn Important New Tug and Barge for Osprey
When the new tug ' Osprey Fighter' and a smart new barge arrived in Newcastle towards the end of November it marked a significant step forward for owner Osprey Shipping Ltd. The new tug is designed and equipped for worldwide service and intended to enhance the company’ s towage and ...
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NewsSerco Denholm Awarded MOD Contract
Serco Denholm Marine Services (‘ Serco Denholm’ ), a joint venture led by Serco Group plc, has signed a 15 year PFI contract valued at up to £ 1bn with the UK Ministry of Defence to deliver a wide range of marine services to the Royal Navy.
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News'Flying Phantom' Lost in a Tragic Accident
The Clyde tug ’ Flying Phantom’ and three of her crew were tragically lost when the vessel capsized and sank near Clydebank on 19 December. Owned by Svitzer, Flying Phantom was one of three tugs towing the 39,000 grt bulk carrier ’ Red Jasmine’ bound for Rothesay dock in dense ...
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NewsSmit Acquires the Remaining Shares in URS
On the last day of 2007 Smit Internationale NV announced its agreement with Fairplay Towage to acquire Fairplay’ s 50% interest in Antwerp based URS. Through this acquisition Smit will become 100% shareholder of URS, the leading towage provider in Belgium. The total value of this transaction was given as ...
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NewsJP Knight (Caledonian) Consolidate Their Scottish Fleet
The Invergordon based towage company J P Knight (Caledonian) Ltd has consolidated its UK tug fleet after completing the purchase of a number of modern ASD tugs from Japan. In it’ s new form the Invergordon fleet comprises four modern vessels, the existing tug ' Kincraig' , purpose built for ...
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News'Napoli' Legacy Looms Large for Salvors
Salvors, other sectors of the maritime industry and government agencies, including Coast Guards, are voicing concern at the scale of the challenge which would be presented by ultra-large containership casualties. The International Salvage Union (ISU) is amongst those sounding a cautionary note about the lack of suitable cranes and other ...
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NewsTsavliris Longed for a Calm Christmas
The Christmas past may have taken a back seat for Tsavliris Salvage Group if the number of operations it was conducting continued to come thick and fast. The last three months of 2007 saw Tsavliris take on significant salvage cases. Following a highly active start to the year, Tsavliris closed ...
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NewsTug Designer Finds 'Independence' in Philadelphia
Although internationally well known for its prolific output of tug designs, Vancouver based Robert Allan Ltd is not averse to bidding for other types of contract. Shortly before Christmas the City of Philadelphia Fire Department commissioned ' Independence' , the new RAnger 2000 Class fireboat designed by Robert Allan Ltd ...
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Liverpool to Host Hydro8 Symposium
The Hydrographic Society UK, on behalf of the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies, is to stage the 16th International Hydrographic Symposium, Hydro8, in Europe' s 2008 Capital of Culture, Liverpool, from 4 to 6 November 2008.
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Subsea 7 Norwegian Contract
Extensive survey operations in support of installation of subsea structures, control umbilicals, tie-in and pre-commissioning of all flowlines are among the main requirements of a $140m contract placed by BP Norge with Subsea 7 of Aberdeen for general subsea construction work in the Idun and Skarv fields in the Northern ...
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Greek Chart Dispute
Louis Hellenic Cruises has blamed inaccurate charts for the loss of its ship Sea Diamond off the Greek island of Santorini. The vessel hit a reef and sank last April, killing two French passengers.
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NewsDutch Government Considers Creation of Huge Offshore Island
The Dutch government is considering a radical plan to build a £ 7bn island in the shape of a tulip in the North Sea. The idea behind the concept is to relieve pressure on its overcrowded cities and protect the coastline from rising sea levels.
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Details of Damietta Container Facility Confirmed
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (ADB) have confirmed that they have approved a $150m loan to finance the Damietta container terminal situated on Egypt' s Mediterranean coast.
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Construction of Jeddah's new container terminal under way
The Saudi Trade and Export Development Company (Tusdeer) has announced that construction of its $443m Red Sea Gateway Terminal at Jeddah Islamic Port (JIP) was due to commence this month.
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EBRD provides loan to Ukrainian port
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to provide a € 26m guaranteed loan to Illichivsk Sea Commercial Port, one of the largest ports in Ukraine. The 15 year loan will help the port carry out a programme of modernisation that includes berth reconstruction, procurement of cargo handling ...
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NewsShetland Islands Council Loses Battle to Stop Dredging
The Shetland Islands Council (SIC) is being asked to pay more than £ 5m towards the cost of dredging work at Port of Lerwick, having lost a legal battle to prevent the work going ahead.
