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NewsBremen Dockland Transformation Underway
Pile driving has begun on new quaysides in Bremen’ s Europahafen, part of a € 13.3m civil engineering development project to transform the historic Überseestadt docklands district into an office and leisure complex.
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News'Fair Maid' Delivers On Eastern Promise
Macduff Ship Design was awarded a contract last month to provide a complete design and drawing package for the construction of two 13m twin screw harbour tugs, to be built by Boustead Yachts of Malaysia for their own use to handle new vessels and repairs within their docks and slipways.
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NewsLatest Meercat Moored in Fjord
Southampton UK based Meercat Workboats has sold the latest of their road transportable multi-role vessels to Østlandets Plast og Dykk Service AS.
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NewsFassmer Delivers Biggest Newbuild to Senegal
Small ship building specialist Fassmer in Germany has delivered one of its biggest newbuildings ever, the 76m Ro-Pax ferry ' Aline Sitoe Diatta for Senegal.
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NewsConference Examines UK Ports Policy
Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary for State for Transport will be the headline speaker for a one day conference on the theme of UK Ports Policy: Reaching Conclusions.
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News'Orca II' at Home in the Waves
Ireland' s Safehaven Marine have just launched the first of class vessel to their latest design.
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NewsChanges at Port Ramsgate
Major changes in the way the UK' s Port Ramsgate is run could be in the pipeline. In 2006 the Department for Communities and Local Government published a report entitled ' Opportunities for Ports in Local Authority Ownership' . Aimed at around 60 ports in England and Wales, it addressed ...
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NewsIADC Dredging and Reclamation Seminar
The International Association of Dredging Contractors (IADC) will hold its 30th International Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation on 16-20 June this year at Delft in the Netherlands.
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NewsCEDA Encourages the Next Generation
The Netherlands based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) continued its campaign to involve students and young professionals more closely with the industry when it announced the winners of the CEDA Dredging Days 2007 poster competition at its gathering which took place within the recent Europort exhibition in Rotterdam.
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NewsBelgian Folk Hero Arrives at Christmas
Dutch shipbuilders IHC Merwede celebrated the Christmas season by launching the 9,000m3 capacity trailing suction hopper dredger ' Breydel' from its Kinderdijk yard on 22 December. Named after 14th century Flemish freedom fighter Jan Breydel, the newbuild will join the fleet of Belgium' s Dredging International, one of the main ...
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NewsWesterschelde Dredging to Boost Flanders
Work has started on the deepening of the Westerschelde, which is intended to reinforce the competitive position of the port of Antwerp. Flemish Minister-President Kris Peeters officially started dredging works at a ceremony last month which marks the official start of the historic deepening works of the Westerschelde.
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NewsMaasvlakte 2 Awarded to Van Oord and Boskalis
The Port of Rotterdam Authority has announced its intention to award the contract for the Maasvlakte 2 port extension project to a consortium consisting of Dutch dredging and marine construction majors Van Oord and Royal Boskalis Westminster. The contract was due to be signed at the beginning of 2008.
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NewsPassenger Boat Industry Launches Conference
Members of the UK passenger boat industry will gather in London on 6 March 2008 for the first national conference in the history of the industry. Opportunity, Challenge and Change: The Future of the UK Passenger Boat Industry is organised by The Passenger Boat Association (PBA) in partnership with Knighthood ...
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News$7m Research Into Propulsion System Coatings
A strategic alliance between Rolls-Royce and UCT Coatings Inc. is bringing new technology to the marine market and is about to start work on a $7m U.S. Navy research contract.
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NewsDiesel Electric On the North Sea
While diesel-electric propulsion continues to garner converts in North America, it is a more usual system in Europe.
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NewsEvolution Guides Cat's New MaK
Caterpillar Marine Power Systems began delivering upgraded C versions of the popular MaK M 25 series of marine engines from the first of this month. Since it was introduced in 1996, more than 700 M 25s have collectively logged over 11m operating hours as main propulsion engines.
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NewsLister Petter Back with Bio-Diesel
The venerable Lister marine engine which has powered so many inland waterway craft returns to the UK market in versions capable of running on up to 100% bio-diesel fuel (B100) through an expansion of a distribution arrangement with the Hendy Group' s Hendy Power.
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NewsThe 'Dokter' Seeks Emissions Cure
Dutch ferry operator Teso is claiming to be the first shipping company in the world to make use of environmentally benign GTL diesel-type fuel. The company' s ferry ' Dokter Wagemaker' , which carries goods, vehicles and passengers between Den Helder and Texel is trialling the new fuel.
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NewsNarrow Escape for Two Ships in Channel
In just over a week two ships escaped serious damage, or worse, in incidents in the English Channel. When the news broke early on the morning of 2 January that the 90,465grt container vessel ' LT Cortesia' had ran aground on the Varne Bank while travelling through the Dover Strait ...
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NewsGreen Ships Sail to Rotterdam
Regulations and systems designed to protect the marine environment raise crucial investment, procedural and safety issues for the shipping industry, but they also chart a course towards business retention, cost savings and improved public image.
