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Go Ahead for Dunmore East Harbour
Kirk McClure Morton ''s marine engineering department in Northern Ireland has been awarded a contract to carry out a nine month feasibility study into an upgrade for the Port of Dunmore East in County Waterford.
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NewsHalcrow to Advise on New Brunei Port
Halcrow in the UK has signed an agreement with the Brunei Economic Development Board (BEDB) to provide advisory services for the construction of the new Pulau Muara Besar port in Brunei.
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NewsEven Leavin' for Rotterdam Maritime
The 12th Rotterdam Maritime trade show, which takes place this year at the Ahoy Rotterdam exhibition and conference centre on 16-20 November, will be the final presentation of the event in its current format. As detailed elsewhere in this issue, Ahoy ECES purchased the Europort event from Amsterdam RAI last ...
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NewsWinch System Upgrade in Caspian Sea
The upgrade of the 10 point winch mooring system on board the pipe lay vessel Israfil Guseinov has been successfully completed to the satisfaction of operators McDermott Caspian Contractors Inc.
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News'Thunder Horse' Gets to Texas PDQ
Dutch heavy transport shipping company Dockwise further advanced the market for moving ultra-large and heavy items by sea when it delivered the largest semi-submersible Production & Drilling Quarters (PDQ) ever built to Texas last month.
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NewsMooring Bollard Eases Alongside at SMM
TTS Marine Cranes ASA of Norway launched a new product at SMM which promises to make mooring operations safer and more cost effective. The ship mounted TTS Winch Bollard mooring system can replace mooring winches, capstan, wrapping drums and bollard normally used for mooring.
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Crane Gain Lifts Lloyds British Testing Plc
Birmingham based lifting equipment specialist Lloyds British Testing plc has acquired the Swansea engineering business Rumney Crane , which provides lifting solutions for ports and harbours. Rumney is to be integrated into Lloyds British Testing and will be called Lloyds Rumney Crane Division .
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New Ship to Shore Crane for Felixstowe Extension
The UK Port of Felixstowe took delivery of its latest Ship to Shore Gantry Crane (SSGC) late last month when the second of an order of three SSCGs arrived from China.
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Syncrolift Upgrades Software
New software has been launched by Syncrolift Inc , part of the Rolls-Royce naval marine business in the USA that has installed 226 of its Syncrolift lifting platform systems worldwide. They provide an elevator mechanism to lift a large range of marine vessels from the water, transfer them to dry ...
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NewsECS Returns with CranePower
Kent UK based European Crane Services (ECS) resurfaced at the SMM Exhibition in Hamburg last month with the exclusive rights to sell Crane Power cranes in excess of 35 countries.
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Lifeboat Builder's Eastern Promise
Norwegian lifeboat and davit specialist Schat-Harding hasadvanced its strategy to expand market share with cargo ships built at Asian yards by taking over the lifeboat manufacturing plant and product range of China''s Beiyang Boatbuilding Co . The lifeboat factory at Qingdao currently produces about 100 boats per year from a ...
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NewsMaintenance Manual Breaks the Language Barrier
Survival Craft Inspectorate Ltd has introduced a unique, animated CD version of the operation and maintenance manual for its Safelaunch ® lifeboat release gear.
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NewsTake Care When Purchasing a Vessel
Although the purchase of a vessel(s) will be common practice and/or second nature to a number of MJ readers, nevertheless there are hidden pitfalls which, thankfully, very rarely come to light but if they do, are of critical importance - not least because they can expose the purchaser to a ...
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NewsPorts and Harbours Will Become the First Line of Defence
PORTS need to take much more responsibility for security, according to Pradeep Chawla of Anglo-Eastern Ship Management Ltd . Speaking at the recent International Transport Intermediaries Club Forum (ITIC), Chawla spoke out on behalf of seafarers saying that under the ISPS Code they had become the first line of defence ...
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Autotracker's Successful Trials
Subsea 7''s Integrated Remote Technologies Division in Aberdeen has successfully completed a second series of in-water trials of its Geosub AUV fitted with a custom-built Autotracker module for highspeed, low-altitude pipeline inspection. Sponsored by BP, the trials were carried out in Scapa Flow, Orkney following earlier ones in Peterhead Bay.
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New Admiralty ECDIS Service Due December
The UK Hydrographic Office is to launch its new Admiralty ECDIS service in December.
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NewsINSS Data Available
The Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI), in association with the Irish Marine Institute, wants to hear from any company or organisation with an interest in licensing data from the present Irish National Seabed Survey (INSS) project for future development or augmentation of products and services.
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New Simrad ECS Systems
Simrad of Norway has launched a new range of electronic chart systems, the CS50 and CS60 Series, designed for vessels operating on fixed routes such as Ro-Ro ferries and local supply craft; fast update rates also make them ideal for high-speed craft as well as survey, coastal and river vessels, ...
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NewsSmit Take Over Smit Panama and Increases Damen Order
Smit Harbour Towage has taken delivery of the first of a series of three new shiphandling tugs to be deployed in Panama. The first vessel, appropriately named Smit Panama , is one of two compact stern-drive tugs ordered from Damen Shipyards atGorinchem in April of this year. Shortly after Smit ...
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NewsAdsteam Order First Compact Damen ASD 2411 Tugs for Use in Europe
As part of a phased programme to upgrade its fleet in Britain Adsteam has placed an order with Damen Shipyards to build three new ASD 2411 tugs.
