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News'Environmental Aspects of Dredging' in One Volume
The Dutch based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has published a new edition of ' Environmental Aspects of Dredging' in cooperation with the International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC).
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NewsDredging Systems Readied in Mozambique
Swindon UK based hydrographic survey systems supplier Del Norte Technology Ltd has completed its contribution to the handover of the single pipe trailing suction hopper dredger ‘ M S Alacantara Santos’ from the Japanese shipbuilders Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to the Mozambique government' s dredging company, Emodraga.
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News'Pearl River' Heads Marseilles Expansion
Dredging is underway in the first phase of construction work on the Port of Marseilles Authority’ s Fos 2XL container terminal project. Due in service by 2010, two new terminals are being developed in partnership with private operators Port Synergy and MSC, increasing annual capacity at Fos from 600,000 to ...
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Newbuild Boom Continues for Renamed IHC
Having gained new orders to the value of € 650m during the summer, Dutch dredger builder IHC Holland Merwede (which announced a name change to IHC Merwede at Europort Maritime last month) has purchased the largest covered slipway in Europe at Krimpen aan den Ijssel, where it will build the ...
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NewsTechnology Tops the Charts
Just twenty years ago, in an era of tapes, magnetic disks and manufacturers extolling their latest solid state microprocessor-controlled wonders, we had data loggers doing 100 soundings a second and programmers writing real-time software for 16 and 32 bit desktop computers boasting 20MB memories, and out in the field, radio ...
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NewsTugs & Towing - 20 Years On
Over the past two decades the towage industry has seen phenomenal changes in almost every sector and every aspect of the business. The industry has a history traceable with some accuracy to the 1830s and tug development moved forward in ‘ fits and starts’ until the 1960s, when a variety ...
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NewsCameras Keep Watch on 'Galatea'
Following the successful installation of Hernis Scan Systems' integrated surveillance systems onboard the Trinity House vessels ' Patricia and ' Mermaid' , Hernis has supplied its Hernis 400 system for the new Northern Lighthouse Board and Trinity House vessels built at the Remontowa shipyard in Poland.
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NewsSystem Software Drives Smarter Winch
Americ' s Markey Machinery has supplied of the second DEPCF-52 75hp electric hawser winch for a series of Nichols Brothers Shipyards built 6,800hp tugs.
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NewsLighten Up for Easier Mooring
Following a successful eight month sea trial on its Cosmerry Lake VLCC, Cosco Dalian found that, in comparison with steel wire mooring lines, ropes made with Dyneema enabled a reduction in mooring time and significantly improved crew safety.
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NewsLift Efficiency Boosts Tiger Bay
Marine Travelift Inc has sold its very first self-propelled transporter onto the US market. The Marine Travelift TM 40C was purchased by Tiger Point Marina and Boat Works of Jacksonville in Florida.
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Crane gain at Europort Maritime
In ceremonies on the Van der Velden Marine Systems stand at Europort Maritime in Rotterdam last month, the wraps were pulled off an Effer 130 4S marine crane to signify the signing of an exclusive agreement for Van der Velden to distribute Effer marine cranes in the Netherlands and Germany.
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NewsHamburg Automates to Boost Capacity
The Port of Hamburg’ s biggest container terminal operator, Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), has turned to Kalmar to supply three more crane blocks with its automatic stacking crane (ASC) system and related technology for the second phase in the conversion of HHLA Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB) to a ...
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NewsRenewable Energy Congress Planned for Vienna
Environmental experts from all over Europe and overseas will be gathering in Vienna for the first European congress for environmental technology and renewable energies, Envietech, which will run from 31 January to 1 February.
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NewsContract Signed for New Dartmouth Ferry
The Dartmouth-Kingswear Floating Bridge Company, operator of the town’ s Higher Ferry across the River Dart, has signed a contract with Pendennis Shipyard for the construction of a replacement vessel to be delivered in the summer of 2009.
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NewsMCA Provides Feedback Following Emergency Exercises
The UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA’ s) maritime emergency exercises are now regular events around the British coast. A Maritime Guidance Note (MGN) has recently been published providing feedback, including observations and recommendations from a series of exercises involving a specific class of vessel.
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NewsFirst AHTS Simulator Installed in France
Bourbon Offshore has inaugurated its first training centre in Marseilles, which includes the first Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel (AHTS) Simulator installed in France.
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The 20 Year Safety Learning Curve
Maritime Journal arrived at the start of a steep learning curve for the maritime industry. On 6 March 1987 the ' Herald of Free Enterprise' left Zeebrugge with its bow doors open and 193 people paid the price for poor seamanship. The incident drove the IMO and a host of ...
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NewsMobile ROV Repair Saves the Day
As the ROV market is expanding rapidly, many ROV operators are forced to focus mainly on their direct operational performance, leaving them struggling with the maintenance and support for their valuable systems. Based at Zierikzee in the Netherlands, Seatec Underwater Systems B.V. has responded to these circumstances by expanding it’ ...
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NewsSentinel Satisfies In Underwater Warfare Trials
The new Sentinel Diver Detection System from Sonardyne International successfully completed a four-day series of intensive trials at the US Naval Underwater Warfare Center, Newport, Rhode Island during October. Although full details of the tests cannot be disclosed, the US Navy subjected the system to a variety of threat scenarios. ...
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News'Impossible' Underwater Repair Now Routine
When a fishing line and net became stuck between the seal rings of a 168m container ship, the underwater repair company, Hydrex, flew a highly qualified diving team to Salalah, Oman, to carry out the renewal of the aft stern tube seals of the vessel underwater.
