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News'The Bridge' to Navigational Experience
Navigating ships through changing weather and sea conditions, across vast oceans or along coastlines and in crowded harbours is an exciting job for professionals.
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Alphatron Marine Bridges Technology Gap for Jamaican Coastguard
Alphatron Marine of Rotterdam has delivered the first Alphabridge INS bridge to the Jamaican Coastguard vessel Cornwall , which is currently under build at Damen Shipyards in the Netherlands.
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NewsVirtual Navigation for German Water Police
Belgium based Barco , in cooperation with ELNA ElektroNavigation und Industrie and a third company named in-innovative navigation , has won a 1m contract to supply a new radar simulation training system to Wasserschutzpolizei-Schule (WSPS), the German Water Police Academy in Hamburg.
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NewsType Approval for Next Generation ECDIS
The Navmaster ECDIS developed by PC Maritime has been awarded type approval by DNV , certifying that it complies with IMO A817(19) and the latest edition of all associated specifications.
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NewsPort Monitoring Roll-out Continues
Of particular interest to many visitors to the Transas Marine UK stand at Seawork 2005 was the company''s recent installation of a port monitoring system at Portland Harbour inDorset UK.
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Irish Eyes on Lifeboat Training
The new National Maritime College of Ireland has begun training the country''s next generation of seafarers using a complete range of lifeboats manufactured by Survival Craft Inspectorate Ltd of Aberdeen.
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Money for New Rope at Seawork
Seawork regulars MarineCo Ltd had an unexpected but welcome experience at Seawork 2005. As the company''s Chris Dinham explained, ''A group of fishermen came onto the stand and, after the usual negotiation, handed me £ 750 in cash for rope to be delivered the following week. It''s very unusual to ...
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CCTV Security Solution for RNLI
A security system for the new £ 11m Lifeboat Crew Training College at the RNLI headquarters in Poole UK was planned and built fromthe outset, with local security specialists Meggitt Marsh Guardian Systems acting first as security consultants specifying requirementsthen acting as installer having won installation and maintenance contract in ...
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NewsA New Tug Fleet for BP at Coryton
When BP Shipping decided to establish their own three tug fleet at their refinery and terminal at Coryton in the Thames Estuary they chose an established and well developed design from Damen .
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NewsAcoustic Underwater Trials in Falmouth
Falmouth UK based BayMarine has successfully carried out acoustic sea trials on behalf of a major British defence contractor. The trials were carried out in 60m deep water in Falmouth Bay from Bay Marine''s multi-talented workboat Redeemer .
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NewsInternational Cooperation Saves Trapped Submariners
James Fisher Rumic Ltd , which operates the British Royal Navy ''s submarine rescue service, completed a successful four day operation to rescue the Russian Priz AS-28 submersible, saving the lives of seven Russian sailors trapped in the mini-submarine 625ft below the Pacific on the ocean floor off Russia''s far ...
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NewsSeawork Feedback Inspires Subsea Cleaner
Following a successful visit to Seawork 2005 , Surrey UK based Fraer Pump and Engineering have responded to customer requests and refined two existing products to develop a subsea cleaning system which can be deployed to remove harbour corrosion both above and below water. Many visitors to the stand at ...
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Marine Mapping Advances
SeaZone Solutions , the Metoc and Admiralty Holdings joint venture company, is set to launch SeaZone Hydrospatial , which it claims will be the most detailed and comprehensive maps of UK territorial waters containing information never before featured in nautical charts.
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NewsNew Atlas Sounder
Atlas Hydrographic in Bremen has extended its DESO range of survey echosounders with the introduction of a new advanced three channel system featuring a networked Windows interface with associated software.
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Subsea 7 Sells Survey Vessel
Global subsea contractor Subsea 7 of Aberdeen has sold its survey/ROV support vessel, DSND Surveyor , to Berkon Shipping NV in the Dutch Antilles for a reported US$3.5m.
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NewsGrating's Great Strides in Workboat Safety
The Irish Sea Pioneer is a self propelled jack-up marine construction unit owned and operated by Halliburton inLiverpool Bay UK, providing offshore support services to BHP Billiton . The vessel''s raised cargo rail system is essential to operations but was creating a trip hazard to crew working on deck.
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NewsLiverpool Lodges Application for Post-Panamax Box Terminal
The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company has lodged an application for a Harbour Revision Order to allow construction of a new post-Panamax container terminal at the Port of Liverpool, the UK''s third largest container port and the country''s major gateway for container trade with North America.
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NewsSeabed Investigation into Climate Change
Cornwall UK based Seacore has been awarded a £ 2.5m contract by the Natural Environmental Research Council on behalf of the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling . The company will perform a marine site investigation of the seabed at three offshore locations around the coast of the French Polynesian ...
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NewsMudflats Investigation Brings Relief
Kent County Council in the UK are proposing to build a road bridge across the mudflats of Milton Creek, a tidal waterway to the north of Sittingbourne that connects the town to the Swale and Thames Estuary. The bridge will carry the Sittingbourne Northern Relief Road at a point where ...
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NewsGPS Goes to Heart of Europe
Established UK tugs, dredgers, hopper barges and crane barges operator GPS Marine Contractors Ltd , based at Chatham Dock in Kent, is developing the business further and entering the marine contracting and services market in mainland Europe.
