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EBRD Loan to Aid Reconstruction of Dubrovnik Harbour
As more and more cruise passengers flock to Dubrovnik, one of the most popular attractions on the Adriatic Sea, a ? 26.5m EBRD loan is to be used to help modernise Gruz Harbour to meet the growing demand. The loan is part of a plan by the Dubrovnik Port Authority ...
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NewsDOP On the Tops and Doing Just Swell
Damen Dredging Equipment (DDE) has delivered a specially designed DOP plain suction dredger to Dragon Oil inTurkmenistan, where it will work in heavy swell of up to 2m in the Caspian Sea keeping the access channel to the Port of Hazar clear. The custom built dredger was designed, built and ...
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NewsMGDuff Brings the Right Stuff to Seawork
MG Duff has been at the forefront of marine cathodic protection since the early 1950s and continues to be one of the largest suppliers of systems and services to the marine market in the UK and throughout the world. The company will be at Seawork 2005 showing its new cold-applied ...
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NewsVT Halmatic Sends the Fleet to Seawork
The new Pacific 24 RIB, VT Halmatic's next generation seaboat for the British Royal Navy, may make an appearance at Seawork 2005One certainty, however, appears to be the replacement of the VT Halmatic built Brownsea Island tourist ferry Maid of the Harbour by the current newbuild Spirit of Portsmouth, a ...
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NewsWind Farm Boat Hunger Satisfied at Seawork
Offshore wind farms are now in situ off the coasts of Britain and many more are expected over the next five years. The UK Government is supporting their construction in an effort to meet its own target of generating 10% of the national energy requirement using renewable sources by 2010. ...
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NewsKort Propulsion Report for Seawork and Celebrate 70th Year
January of this year saw Kent based Seawork exhibitor Kort Propulsion celebrate 70 years of operation in the United Kingdom.
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Compensation Boost
Increased levels of compensation will be available for victims of oil pollution from oil tanker accidents as a result of the 2003 Protocol adopted by a diplomatic conference at IMO headquarters in London and establishing an International Oil Pollution Compensation Supplementary Fund which came into existence on the third ...
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NewsPositive Spin for Circular Skimmer
Denmark based oil pollution response equipment specialists Ro-Clean Desmi have fared well at recent skimmer tests formulated by the US Coast Guard and carried out at the OHMSETT national testing facility in New Jersey.
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News'Sea Helper' is a First for Macduff Ship Design
The harbour tug Sea Helper is the first vessel of its class to be designed by Macduff Ship Design. Aberdeenshire Council in Scotland commissioned Macduff Ship Design to produce the design, contract/tender information, and act as owner''s project managers throughout the contract period.
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NewsLatest Fugro AUV Launched
Fugro in Aberdeen reports successful trials and launch of its new Hugin 3000 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Echo Surveyor, following acceptance tests at Kongsberg Maritime''s base in Horton, Norway.
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Canadian Hydrographic Association Joins IFHS
The Canadian HydrographicAssociation (CHA) has joined the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS), the recently established elective international body comprising member organisations of Australasia, Benelux, Denmark, the UK and US.
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INSS Contract Awarded to iXSEA
iXSEA of France has been awarded a contract by the Marine Institute of Ireland for supplyof navigational and positioning systems for use as part of the Irish National Seabed Survey (INSS) project, currently the worlds largest hydrographic survey venture covering an area of 450,000 square km. The project is ...
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Sonar Finds Hidden Beaches
Sonar studies of the Venice Lagoon have revealed submerged beaches that play a crucial role in preservation of its wetlands following surveys carried out by Southampton Oceanography Centre on behalf of CORILAS (Consortium for Co-ordination of Research Activities for the Venice Lagoon System).
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NewsAirborne Bathymetry In Rivers Breakthrough
In the first instance of a shallow water river environment being successfully mapped by airborne LIDAR survey technology, Woolpert Inc and Fugro Pelagos Inc have completed a survey of the Yakima River in the USA.
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News'QM 2' Ramps up Bridgetown Survey Requirement
The Port of Bridgetown in the Barbados has become one of the premier ports for the booming cruise ship industry operating out of Miami and Port Everglades. Major dredging works completed in May 2002 allow the port to accept vessels of up to 10m draught.
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NewsUK Dredging Secures New Contract
The Port of Bristol has awarded UK Dredging (UKD) a term contract to carry out the maintenance dredging of its dock entrances at Portbury and Avonmouth over the next three years.
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NewsMore Orders for Xbloc Armoured Units
Xbloc armoured units of the type developed by Delta Marine Consultants (DMC) in the Netherlands have been selected for a number of new projects in different locations around the world, according to company spokesperson Bas Reedijk.
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Breakwater Considered to Strengthen Sea Defences
A £ 50 million pound harbour and breakwater is being considered as one of a number of the proposals to strengthen the sea defences at Weston on the north Somerset coast in the UK.
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Port of Ngqura Taking Shape
Construction of South Africa''s newest harbour, Port of Ngqura, at Port Elizabeth, in the Eastern Cape, is progressing according to schedule, with approximately Rand 2 billion already having been spent on infrastructure.
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EU Funding Behind SEA-AHED
font-family: " Times New Roman" font-family: " Times New Roman" ">project, which has somehow been given the acronym SEA-AHED, has been funded by over ¢ 1.7 million from the EU''s Framework Programme.
