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NewsSpecialised Underwater Seal Repairs Go Global
Antwerp based Hydrex has now launched a new phase in its cooperation with Eagle/Kobelco Marine to do underwater stern tube seal repairs and replacements.
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NewsMass Flow Excavator Mobilised
Subsea equipment and service provider Scan Tech UK launched a new HydroDigger, claimed to be the world''s largest mass flow excavator, from their Bridge of Don premises recently.
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NewsDutch Deal for Largest India Built CSD
Amsterdam based VOSTA LMG has received a contract from Indian partner shipyard Mazagon Dock Limited for the supply of an engineering and component package for a 1,500kW cutter suction dredger (csd) which will be the largest such vessel ever to be built at an Indian shipyard. The order for Mazagon ...
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NewsIncreasing Demand for IHC Dredgers
Prolific Dutch dredger builders IHC Holland Merwede have made a flying start on 2006 with new orders booked to the value of ?250m. The orders suggest that IHC shipyards at Kinderdijk, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Sliedrecht, Delfgauw, Goes and Litostroj (in Slovenia) will be utilised through most of 2007.
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Marine Study Begins for Oman's 'Blue City' New Development
The Sultanate of Oman will be the location for the latest self-contained residential and tourist complex in the Middle East when the US$15bn Blue City project gets under way.
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NewsBearings Bear Up In Tough Conditions
Canada''s Thordon Bearings Inc has been making significant gains in the global market for cutter suction dredger cutterhead shaft bearings.
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Irish Marine Data Website
The Marine Institute of Ireland in Galway has established a new website for scientific data and information on Irish coastal and marine waters (www. marinedataonline. ie).
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NewsSurvey Ships Head for OI 06
At least six state of the art survey vessels from France, Sweden, Holland and the UK are scheduled to berth at the Royal Victoria Dock alongside the London ExCel Centre at next month''s biennial Oceanology International exhibition and conference from 21 to 23 March. Among them will be RV Triton, ...
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Hydro Survey Work Wins Prize
The first ever winner of the new CodaOctopus Prize is Katie Abbott BSc, who won the award for her Marine Geography dissertation which included data acquisition, processing and critical analysis. As part of her Marine Geography degree at Cardiff University, Katie undertook a year''s industrial placement as a hydrographic surveyor ...
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Royal Opening for WMTC 06
The Duke of Edinburgh is to open the World Maritime Technology Conference at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London on 6 March.
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NewsDeepOcean and Multraship Add Hydro Capability
The recently merged DeepOcean and Oceanteam Group of companies, now trading as DeepOcean out of Den Helder in the Netherlands, has renewed its arrangement with Multraship Towage & Salvage of Terneuzen for the charter of the latter''s 56.1m LOA vessel ''Multraship Commander''.
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SA Hydro Society Joins IFHS
The Hydrographic Society of South Africa has joined the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS) which has a worldwide individual and institutional membership in over 60 countries and member organisations in Australasia, Benelux, Denmark and the UK.
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New Trimble GPS Receiver
Trimble has introduced a new high-performance modular GPS receiver, the DSM 232, for dynamic real-time positioning at sub-metre and centimetric accuracies. Suitable for dredging as well as harbour and waterway operations, it can be used for positioning over large geographic areas either with or without a base station and external ...
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NewsSmall Isles, Big Resource as Alderney Explores Tidal Power
The States of Alderney, located eight miles from France, is not part of the UK or EU and has its own elected government which passes its own laws.
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Jobs Magic with Welsh Wave Dragon
KP Renewables plc (KPR) of London and Wave Dragon ApS of Copenhagen have entered into a joint development agreement which provides a framework for the two stage development, financing, construction and operation of up to 77MW of wave energy projects in Wales.
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Approval for Renewables Test Facility
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney has achieved a world first by gaining United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) accreditation for its unique testing facilities. These provide detailed and highly accurate data on the performance of devices developed to harness wave energy.
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NewsFirst Wave Hub Participants Chosen
The South West of England Regional Development Agency (RDA) named three companies this month which it has chosen as development partners for the proposed £ 15m Wave Hub project from 2007.
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NewsTidal Energy Turbine for Northern Ireland
Bristol UK based Marine Current Turbines Ltd (MCT) has been granted consent by the Environment & Heritage Service in Northern Ireland to install its next generation tidal energy device, the 1,000kW SeaGen tidal energy turbine, in Northern Ireland''s Strangford Lough. MCT is also investigating the feasibility of building a 12 ...
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NewsSoft Soils Site Investigation
When completed, Jamaica''s 234km Highway 2000 (H2000) toll road will link towns on the southern coast to the capital Kingston, with further branches to coastal resorts in the North, including Montego Bay. The majority of the H2000 roads will be constructed on weathered rock deposits. The toll road will be ...
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NewsLargest Sea Jetty for Port of Rotterdam
Construction work started earlier this month on what will be the largest sea jetty in the Port of Rotterdam.
