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Bowman to Make Polar Heat Exchangers
Following the closure of Polar Engineering , Birmingham UK based EJ Bowman have bought the majority of Polar Engineering' s pattern equipment together with the manufacturing rights.
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NewsNew Workboat Sterntube Seals from Wartsila
Wartsila Corporation has introduced a new family of face type seals specifically for water lubricated stern tubes.
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NewsWhen Thrust is a Must
Twin UltraJet 305 waterjets propel Garrett Cotter , a new 9.8m patrol boat for the Halifax Port Authority inCanada. Built in aluminium, the rapid response vessel is designed and manufactured by ABCO Industries Limited , also of Nova Scotia, and is powered by twin Cummins 370B diesel engines rated 355bhp ...
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TTS Finnish Handling Expansion
Sweden''s TTS Ships Equipment AB of Gothenburg, part of Norway''s TTS Marine ASA , has signed an agreement to purchase Finland''s Liftec Products Oy of Tammerfors. The company will be renamed TTS Liftec Products Oy .
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NewsCats' Cranes Speed Expansion
A 2,500 ton capacity crane mounted on an 84m LOA catamaran is helping the booming economic metropolis that is Shanghai meet its requirements for additional ports and coastal infrastructure.
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NewsCranes Upgrade Expands Thamesport Capacity
The UK''s Thamesport set about further boosting its productivity this month when it embarked upon an ambitious modification programme to five of its quayside cranes. The five post-Panamax cranes, which are now 15 years old, will be upgraded to enable them to handle the latest generation of ultra-large container ships ...
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NewsHeavyweight Winch Marks Anniversary
Germany based HATLAPA recently celebrated its 85th anniversary and in the same week shipped a 56 ton towing winch, the largest produced in the company''s history, from its home port of Uetersen.
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NewsWhen It's Cranes, It Pours
Handling equipment manufacturer Kalmar has received an order for five additional super post-Panamax ship to shore (STS) cranes from MSC Home Terminal in Antwerp.
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NewsEuropean Expertise in Chinese Newbuild
In January 2003 VOSTA LMG received an order from Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard for the design and supply of all dredging components for a trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) for the Chinese Harbor Authority Huanghua Port . The vessel was handed over in a festive ceremony on 11 November 2004, after ...
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News'Dredging: The Extremes' at CEDA Dredging Days
The Netherlands based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has issued a first Call for Papers to be presented at CEDA Dredging Days , a conference which traditionally takes place alongside the Europort exhibition.
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NewsNew DHMS Makes Dutch Debut
Based at Zierikzee in the Netherlands, Seatec Underwater Systems BV hasunveiled its latest Dredge Head Monitoring System . It is designed to monitor the dredging process on various types of dredgers and is able to store all relevant data.
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IHC Holland Management Buy-Out
The Dutch group IHC Caland has advised that negotiations with Rabo Participates (RaPar) is likely to lead to the sale of its shipbuilding activities.
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Royal Boskalis' Vision of Recovery for the Industry
Fiercely competitive pricing has been blamed by the dredging industry''s largest company, Royal Boskalis Westminster , for ''modest'' net results for 2004 of ? 20? 25mon a turnover of approximately ? 1 billion.
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NewsDanish Dredger Does Wind Farm Duty
Late last November Peter Madsen Rederi A/S of Denmark was awarded the contract to install the external J-tubes to the 30 offshore wind turbines being erected in the Thames Estuary at Kentish Flats UK.
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Primar & IC-ENC Agreement
The Norwegian Hydrographic Service and the UK Hydrographic Office , as operators of Primar Stavanger and the International Centre for Electronic Nautical Charts (IC-ENC) respectively, have signed a letter of intent on closer cooperation for distribution of products.
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2nd International Seabed Acoustics Workshop
German underwater specialist Innomar Technologie is hosting a 2nd international workshop on Seabed Acoustics , in Rostock-Warnemunde from 24-25 February. Following an opening address by Mecklenburg-Vorpommern''s Minister for Economic Affairs, F Dorok, there will be a series of presentations by speakers from Germany, Netherlands, Norway and Russia.
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NewsUnmanned Sub With No Engine
Spray , a novel unmanned glider-type submarine with no engine has recently completed extensive crossings of open seas measuring salinity, temperature and pressure in the Gulf stream between the surface and 1,000m depths every seven hours.
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Calls for Satellite Alernative
Concerns over what UK Shipping Minister David Jamieson has called the ''vulnerability'' of satellite navigation systems means that a terrestrial alternative is needed, he said. Jamieson made the comments during recent launch of a document setting out the UK and Ireland''s strategy for navaids to 2020. He announced that the ...
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Encouragment for Industry to Think Green
The British Marine Federation (BMF) has launched an Environmental Code of Practice for its members.
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China Harbour-Costain to Design Breakwater for LNG terminal
In early January, China Harbour-Costain announced that it had been awarded a US$170 million contract by Sempra LNG ''s Energia Costa Azul to design and construct the breakwater for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Baja California in Mexico. The 600m break water will serve to protect the receipt ...
