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NewsUmoe's Long Term Strategy for Schat-Harding
PLANS by the Norwegian group Umoe Industri to merge its lifeboat and davit subsidiary Umoe Schat-Harding with Bergen based equipment manufacturer TTS Marine ASA have been cancelled. Umoe has called off the proposed all-share merger following a significant change in the shareholder profile of TTS.
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NewsEngineer-Divers Prove Their Worth in Water
The problem of taking engineering expertise below water is increasingly being addressed through the use of engineer-divers. Rather than have engineers stay on dry land to glean essential information from non-specialist divers, firms are looking to place engineer-divers into the water.
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NewsDive Team Recovers 'Pamela S'
Swansea based Kaymac Marine & Civil Engineering Ltd were asked to assist in the recovery of the wreck of the fishing vessel Pamela S, which sank in Camarthen Bay on 17 July.
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NewsBelgians Flourish in South America
Belgium''s Jan De Nul Group, together with SAIPEM and Constructoro Norberto Odebrecht, won a contract last month from Peru LNG to build marine export facilities at the Pampa Melchorita LNG facility, located some 200km south of Lima. The total contract is valued at $247m, with Jan De Nul taking a ...
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NewsBeauDrain Speed Consolidates Bremerhaven Port Extension
Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster has undertaken a project extending a car terminal in the German port of Bremerhaven. The harbour project was executed by driving a sheet pile wall along new terrain created by dredging.
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NewsDredgers Make Beeline to ASRY
From its location on Bahrain in the Arabian Gulf, the Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard (ASRY) is well placed to win work on a wide variety of passing tonnage. The second quarter of 2006 was a busy time for ASRY, with high demand for all the docks and alongside repair ...
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Fugro Geos Ormen Lange Project
Fugro Geos, which has provided measurement support services since 2001 for development of Ormen Lange, Norway''s largest gas field, due to come onstream next year, has been contracted by Norsk Hydro to provide all-important real-time current profile, wind and wave data for both the pipeline and the field itself.
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Irish Marine Institute Opens New HQ
The Irish Marine Institute''s new headquarters at Oranmore, Galway Bay have been formally opened by Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. Housing a majority of the Institute''s 200-strong staff, the 50m, 11,000m 2building features 54 scientific laboratories, a crescent-shaped office facility and a 150-seat auditorium specially designed for both national and international ...
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Seismic Development
Paris-based Compagnie GUnUrale de GUophysique (CGG) has announced that it is to acquire US competitor Veritas in a 2.4bn takeover that will create a giant in the supply of geophysical and seismic survey services to the worldwide oil and gas industry.
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NewsRussian Contracts for Veripos
Veripos in Aberdeen has been awarded two major contracts by Romona, the Russian survey company. The first is for supply of two LD2 integrated GNSS demodulator systems installed by Romona aboard its specialist survey vessel, Teknik Perdana, operating in the Sakhalin oil and gas sector in the Russian Far East ...
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NewsA Vertical Future for Marine Energy?
Progress continues on the prototype device being developed to harness wave energy from the movement of the sea (see MJ, October 2005).
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NewsMarine Works Preface Battersea Revamp
Hampshire UK based Commercial Marine and Piling (CMP) has completed a £ 1m contract at Battersea Power Station in London to refurbish the existing jetty for use as a commercial wharf. It will be used to remove spoil from redevelopment works at the site, which is one of the largest ...
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DEFRA Announces Fee Rises for Marine Licensing
DEFRA in the UK has announced that fees for marine industry environmental licences would increase at the end of July.
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NewsPlain Sailing for Pennine in Spain
The decision of defending America''s Cup Champions, landlocked Switzerland, to stage the 2007 event from the Spanish Port of Valencia has led to an explosion of port development and housing works which are transforming the city itself as well as the nearby coastline from where many thousands will watch the ...
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NewsTTS Awarded SemiSubmerged Linkspan Contract
TTS Port Equipment AB has been awarded a contract for a semi-submerged linkspan for use by island traffic outside Gothenburg, Sweden. The semi-submerged linkspan will be a vehicle deck structure hinged to the quay.
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News£300m Bristol Port Company Development Pushes Forward
Bristol Port Company is consolidating plans announced last year to build a 300m deepwater container terminal on reclaimed land outside the Avonmouth dock complex and now expects to submit a planning application before the end of this year.
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NewsPontoons Cap Fishing Harbour Revamp
Southampton UK based Solent Marine designed and built 80 pontoon sections and designed a 36m linkspan bridge which recently completed a multi-faceted project to create moorings for the fishing fleet in Cornwall''s Newlyn Harbour.
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NewsReclamation Work Begins on First Island at Dubai Waterfront
Dubai Waterfront, the world''s largest waterfront development and a subsidiary of Nakheel, has begun reclamation work on the first of seven islands to be reclaimed at the project.
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News'Crystal' Clears the Way for Cleaner Seas
The Seacore jack-up barge Excalibur has recently been mobilised as part of Southern Water''s £ 80m wastewater treatment scheme that is expected to bring ''unprecedented environmental improvements'' to the Kent coastal towns of Broadstairs and Margate.
