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NewsUK Consultation Paper on Dredging Regulations
The Department for Communities and Local Government in the UK has issued a Consultation Paper on Draft Marine Minerals Dredging Regulations and Procedural Guidance. The document is aimed at the marine dredging industry, organisations who advise on dredging proposals, environmental groups and those who comment on individual dredging applications.
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New Quay Completed at Rye
Construction of the Rye Fish Market Quay, situated on the western bank of the tidal River Rother near Rye, is now complete. Commissioned by the Environment Agency, designed by Atkins and constructed by Jackson Civil Engineering, the £ 4.7m project is one of only 11 registered fish landing sites in ...
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NewsBMT SeaTech Studies Re-Design of Portsmouth Harbour Channel
BMT SeaTech Ltd, a subsidiary of BMT Ltd, has recently completed a comprehensive study for Defence Estates South West. Forming part of the Portsmouth Harbour Regeneration Project, the study looks at the re-design of the deep water channel for Portsmouth Harbour in the light of its use by large future ...
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NewsDutch Consortium Wins Sohar Phase 3
A consortium of Interbeton, Six Construct, and Van Oord has been awarded the 195m contract for the construction of quay walls and dredging (Phase 3) at Sohar Port in Oman. The client is the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Government of Oman.
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NewsGet Plastered Safely at Seawork
If there were a Long Distance Exhibitor Award at Seawork, Miko Marine AS of Oslo would be in the running, but the company is no stranger to marine activities in the UK.
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NewsStrength and Style in Milford Haven's New Pilot Launch
The new Pilot and Patrol Launch Skomer was delivered to the Milford Haven Port Authority (MHPA) last month and is one of the cutting edge vessels to be found on the floating pontoon at Seawork 2006. Skomer has been built principally as a pilot boat to serve the Port’ s ...
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NewsRecycled Glass Best in Blasting Trials
Full scale tests at Dunstons Ship Repair in Hull UK have confirmed the advantages of using 100% recycled glass as a new grit blast medium for cleaning steel and preparing metal for painting. The groundbreaking trials are part of a wider series of trials commissioned and funded by the Waste ...
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NewsLocal Consortium Use Modern Skills to Perform Classical Refit
Earlier this year the Irish Government''s 32m sail training vessel Asgard II was brought to the Brooke Marine Facility at Lowestoft for an extensive refit ahead of its busy season of summer voyages.
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NewsSkyjacks Lower the Boom
Contractors working on Wightlink''s Our Lady Pamela passenger catamaran used two knuckle boom lifts from the AFI Aerial Platforms rental fleet to ensure that they could easily access all parts of the vessel.
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Modern Products Help Rescue Historic Lifeboat
Sika''s advanced Sikaflex adhesive bonding and sealing solutions are helping to restore the world''s oldest surviving motor lifeboat, the James Stevens No 14 to its former glory. Wheelmark accredited Sikaflex products were used throughout the 43ft historic vessel, originally built in 1900.
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NewsJoined Up Piping at Seawork
Reading based Marine Ventures Ltd returns to Seawork as UK distributor for the Swiss-made pipe couplings of Straub Werke AG , which have had such an impact on pipe joining practice in Europe and throughout the global marketplace.
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Bugsier to Purchase Three Rotor Tugs
German tug owners Bugsier Reederei und Bergungsgesellschaft Gmbh & Co, KG may well be ''fighting fire with fire''when they take delivery of three new RT80r class Rotor Tugs from Kooren Shipbuilding and Trading BV. In a recent announcement Kooren reported the sale of this trio, already on order from the ...
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NewsAnglian Monarch' Takes Cruise Ship in Tow
Britain''s National Contingency Plan for marine emergencies was tested in the early hours of the 6 May by a potentially serious fire aboard the 11,100grt cruise ship Calypso, with 708 people onboard. When the ship reported an engine room fire in the early hours of that Saturday morning, 16 nautical ...
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NewsBarry to Build a New Offshore Tug at Zamakona
Among several significant deals completed or initiated in Rotterdam at the ITS 2006 convention was one concerning the construction of a new anchor handler to the Robert Allan Rampage 5000 design.
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NewsJ P Knight Substantially Reinforce Scottish Fleet
J P Knight (Caledonian) Ltd has recently substantially reinforced their tug fleet at Invergordon with two modern azimuthing stern drive (ASD) tugs from Japan. Now bearing the names Kincardine and Kinnaird, the tugs are virtually identical sisters with just a few minor differences.
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NewsTOWLINES
.Ostensjo Rederi of Haugesund in Norway has ordered two more Velox class escort and shiphandling tugs from Astilleros Gondan in Spain. Delivery is scheduled for October 2007 and February 2008. The vessels will be virtually identical to the Tenax, the second of two previous tugs described in the February issue ...
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NewsZ-TECH Update and a 'Hot Tug' Environment
Recent months have seen a period of unprecedented activity at the headquarters of naval architects and consultants Robert Allan Ltd in Vancouver. Thanks to the success of Robert Allan tug designs the company, which has grown enormously over the past three to four years, is working hard to keep abreast ...
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NewsAMT to Tow 'Nomadic' Home to Belfast
Farnham UK based Anchor Marine Transportation (AMT) has won the contract for what is likely to be a very high profile marine transportation job later this summer, returning SS Nomadic, tender to SS Titanic and the only surviving ship of the White Star Line, back to Belfast where it was ...
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NewsBoxship Salvage Underway In Azores
SvitzerWijsmuller Salvage has won a major contract to remove the wreck of the 1,061teu containership CP Valour, which grounded in the Azores during the winter.
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NewsRedwise Revels in Tug Deliveries
Redwise Maritime Services BV of the Netherlands made a rocket start to 2006, delivering 12 vessels in the first four months and having 10 more projects underway as of last month.
