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Jan de Nul Starts Trenching Work for Langeled Project
Work on excavating a trench to the landfall for the Langeled gas trunkline is well under way on the seabed off Easington on the east coast of the UK, with Jan de Nul ''s dredger J F J de Nul dredger excavating the trench.
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NewsEuropean Ports 'Could Become Bottlenecks of World Trade'
The 24th Bi-annual Conference of the International Association of Ports and Harbours (IAPH), which took place in Shanghai 21-27 May, marking the 50th anniversary of the organisation, concluded with a stark warning for European ports.
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Berthing Gains as Sovereign Harbour Grows
Extending a successful long term partnership, Sovereign Harbour has commissioned Walcon Marine to install pontoon equipment for a further 80 berths in its North Harbour at Eastbourne.
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Tidal Current Breakthrough in Orkney with 'Sea Snail'
The Robert Gordon University Sea Snail , designed as a support system for tidal current energy devices, was towed out of Stromness Harbour last month and successfully installed in Burra Sound, Orkney.
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NewsGreen Light for the World's First Commercial Wave Farm
Edinburgh based Ocean Power Delivery (OPD) signed an order last month with a Portuguese consortium led by Enersis to build the initial phase of the world''s first commercial wave farm to generate renewable energy from ocean waves.
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NewsSwedish Ports Building to Win
The Municipality of Gavle in Sweden is investing 6.5m in the Port of Gavle to create a new quay and for dredging in order to allow calls by larger container ships. Together with investments in new container cranes by Gavle Containerterminal AB , the works will result in a capacity ...
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Funding Secured
Plans have been approved by Aberdeenshire Council and Scottish Enterprise Grampian for a multi-million Pound marina at Banff on the Scottish coast.
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NewsCIRIA Project Provides New Solutions for ALWC
A new report from the Construction Industry Research Association (CIRIA) is offering ports and harbours new insights into, and new tools to fight, Accelerated Low Water Corrosion (ALWC).
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NewsRevised Standard for CP Systems Due Next Year
An updated and revised version of a European standard for cathodic protection of harbour structures, EN 13174, which will be of direct use for port and harbour engineers planning protection against ALWC or dealing with its effects, should be available early next year.
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WL Delft Hydraulics Leads Remote Sensing Project
WLDelft Hydraulics and partners Argoss, NLR and Van Oord NV have received funding from the National User Support Programme for Remote Sensing in the Netherlands for the Restscod-2 project, a project that follows-on from the recently completed Restscod-1 , which was conducted by the same project team.
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NewsBig Business in Bespoke Pontoons
Hampshire UK based pontoon innovator Intermarine is celebrating the completion of over £ 1.5 million of bespoke projects in the last 12 months at sites ranging from Scotland to Cornwall, with each designed to meet the specific environmental and operational requirements of a diverse group of clients.
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Navy Gravy for Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce has won a £ 137m long-term service and support contract for gas turbines which power 27 ships in service with the British Royal Navy as well as the French, Belgian and Royal Netherlands navies. The company will support Olympus and Tyne gas turbines for the next 12 years, when ...
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NewsSeawork Encounter Paints the Town
Williams Shipping has been appointed as agents for Jotun Paints following talks which were initiated on the Williams Shipping stand at Seawork 2004 .
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Growth Fuels Growth for SMM
Serving a growing global market for marine equipment valued at ? 70 billion per year, preparations for SMM 2006 are in full swing, with the final date for registration set for 30 November 2005.
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AMOT Wears Well
MAN B&W , which leads the global market for two stroke diesel engines with 75% market share, has entered into a cooperative agreement AMOT which places the AMOT XTS-W bearing condition monitoring system on the Extent of Delivery list for all new MAN B&W two stroke engines. The XTS-W system ...
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Saab Sees It Coming
Saab Transponder Tech has won a major order to supply shipboard Automatic Identification Systems to the Canadian Coast Guard .Under the contract, Saab''s licensed integrator/reseller ICAN Ltd will supply 105 Saab R4 AIS transponders for installation on a wide range of icebreakers, buoy tenders, fisheries patrol vessels and SAR cutters. ...
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Kalmar Extends Port Handling Interests
Heavy duty handling equipment manufacturer Kalmar , part of Kone Cargotec , has acquired the Dutch companies Peinemann Kalmar CV and Peinemann Kalmar Rental BV from parent organisation the Peinemann Group for an undisclosed sum.
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EC Approves Modal Shift to Water
The European Commission has given Italy approval for a 240m subsidy scheme for the next three years to encourage the transfer of heavy goods vehicles from road to sea. The EC will grant subsidies to road haulage companies which make use of existing or new maritime routes as alternatives to ...
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SMIT Profits Up for 2004
Having completed a strategic reorientation over recent years, Smit International NV has posted mixed but generally good overall results for 2004. The group''s Salvage Division experienced a high work rate throughout the year and recorded an excellent result while the Harbour Towage Division also did well. The Transport & Heavy ...
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NewsLast Severn Class Lifeboat Named
The RNLI ''s final Severn class lifeboat was named last month in a ceremony at Poole by outgoing engineering manager Bob Cripps, who was instrumental in introducing the all weather lifeboat into service in 1995. At 17m in length, the Severn remains the largest boat in the RNLI''s fleet.
