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Guardian Maintains Denmark - Russia Subsea Cable
Subsea cable installation and maintenance company Global Marine Systems Ltd has new customers for its Guardian private cable maintenance programme, with Danish communications solutions provider TDC and Russian long distance telecommunications operator Rostelecom both signing up.
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News£22bn Pan-European Marine Energy 'Supergrid' Proposed
Dublin based renewable energy company Airtricity has announced plans to create a £ 22bn pan-European subsea energy grid called Supergrid, which will link a series of offshore wind farms from the Mediterranean to the Bay of Biscay, Atlantic Ocean, North Sea and Baltic Sea.
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NewsGSS Zings Back to Seawork
Scotland based marine construction and support services company and returning Seawork exhibitor GSS has been forging ahead with expansion plans over the last six months.
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NewsSeaboard Sets Sailing Club's Foundations
Marine civil engineering contractors Seaboard Limited has carried out a much needed facelift for a tired concrete waterfront in Chichester Harbour UK.
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NewsShallow Water Terminal Studies
Bureau Veritas is playing a leading role in a joint industry project to investigate shallow water wave conditions in order to provide reliable wave information leading to optimal offshore LNG facility designs.
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NewsRestoration of Hull Swing Bridge
Newly renamed Sheffield engineering company DavyMarkham has been awarded an £ 800,000 contract to restore Hull''s Wellington Street Swing Bridge to full working order. The appointment was announced by Citybuild, Hull''s urban regeneration company, and the work will be overseen by Hull City Council engineers and appointed consultants Pell Frischmann. ...
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Seawork Exhibition Debut for Cathodic Protection Spcialist
First time Seawork exhibitor Hockway Marine Corrosion Services Ltd of Redhill UK has formed a technical alliance with Houston USA based Deepwater Corrosion Services Inc. The alliance will bring Deepwater''s innovative and proven life extension cathodic protection solutions to the UK, Europe and the Middle East.
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NewsSelf Elevating Platform Fleet Expands
Flexifloat Systems BV of Rotterdam is building another C-7 Class modular self elevating platform which will join the company''s rental fleet.
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News£10m Expansion at Port of Tyne
Due to the success of the UK Port of Tyne''s bulk cargo business, a £ 10m investment programme to extend cargo handling facilities has begun.
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NewsLandslide Investigation on Isle of Wight
Coastal landslides can cause considerable damage to roads, buildings and underground services. From the perspective of the Isle of Wight Council, its most valuable assets are coastal defences and an extensive network of important highways and the retaining walls which support them.
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NewsMulti-Purpose Pontoons at Seawork
Making their debut at Seawork 2006 will be EasyFloat Pontoons, an innovative design of lightweight modular floating pontoons which were introduced to the UK market last year by Crystal 32 Ltd.
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NewsNew Linkspans Expand Ports' Capacity
A triple berth ro-ro linkspan designed, built and installed by MacGregor is central to a new river terminal development which opened last month at the ABP Port of Immingham in the UK.
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EMSAGG's Conference Reels-in the Experts
The Construction Industry Research & Information Association (CIRIA) in the UK published an overview of its recent European Marine Sand and Gravel Group (EMSAGG) conference, which was the second such conference.
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NewsPort of Salalah Goes for MoorMaster
The Port of Salalah and Mooring Systems Limited''s licence holder Cavotec Group Holdings (CGH) have concluded a deal for four new MoorMaster 600 (MM600) automated mooring units. The equipment is due to be installed by the end of this month.
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Ghana Gets Belgian Loan to Restore Harbour
The Belgian government is to provide 6.3m under a concessionary loan agreement to Ghana to undertake restoration of a fishing harbour and lagoon in the central region.
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Support for Scotland's Largest Flood Prevention Scheme
Halcrow in the UK has been given the green light to proceed to the detailed design and procurement stage on a £ 50m flood prevention scheme for the White Cart River in Glasgow.
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Dredging Underway on Abu Dhabi's Al Raha Beach Project
Work in Abu Dhabi is forging ahead on the Al Raha Beach development project that will see the creation of 500 hectares of new land. The project is being implemented by Aldar on the beach side of the main highway leading into the city of Abu Dhab, from Dubai.
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NewsShore-Side Electricity in Ports Recommended
The European Commission has published a Recommendation in its Official Journal (OJ) which could lead to the development and installation of much new marine infrastructure in the form of shore-side electricity for the use of ships at berth in Community ports.
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Delft Hydraulics Testing Dune Revetments
The Dutch Directorate for Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat) has commissioned WL Delft Hydraulics to investigate the behaviour of ''hard'' elements (such as dune foot revetments or boulevards) in sandy dunes.
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NewsWind Farm Sector Guidance on Underwater Cabling
One of the issues raised by the growing UK investment in offshore wind farms is that of the cabling that connects turbines to the mainland.
