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NewsCranes Ordered for Antwerp's New Terminal
Sweden headquartered Kalmar has two won orders from PSA/Hesse-Noord Natie for a total of eight super post-Panamax ship to shore (STS) container cranes for the Deurganckdok and Quay 913 in the port of Antwerp. With an outreach of 56m, these high speed, heavy duty cranes will be capable of handling ...
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NewsNew Crane Distributor Lifts Off
Italian crane manufacturer Amco Veba took part in seawork for the first time this year, represented in the UK by the new company Idle, managed by Stuart Gilligan.
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NewsCranes' Chains Change on Thames
West Midlands UK crane manufacturer J Barnsley Cranes (JBC) has won a rollover contract to service, refurbish or replace all the cranes, hoists and jibs it supplied for the Thames Barrier when London''s flood defence system was first constructed over 30 years ago.
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NewsSMM Launch for Wynn Marine
Wynstruments Ltd , now merged with B Hepworth & Co Ltd , will launch updated versions of its Straight line window wiper and a new digital control system at SMM 2004 .
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NewsEU Changes Upset UK Tonnage Tax
Draft EU Guidelines on state aid to maritime industries, due to be accepted by member states by the end of June, create uncertainty and problems for the UK Tonnage Tax Scheme according to shipping accountants and business consultants Moore Stephens London . The new guidelines, which will enter into force ...
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Norway Tightens Maritime Inquiries System
Norway is tightening up its maritime inquiries system with the introduction of a new Commission of Inquiry.
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NewsWijsmuller Divers Pump Oil from Wreck
On May 22 this year the large tanker Kaminesan and the vehicle carrier Hyundai No 105 collided in the Singapore Straits, at a position some 6km south east of the island of Sentosa.
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NewsUnderwater Search for Iconic Shipwreck
Russian and Danish divers used the first CE approved closed circuit breathing system last month during a four day underwater research mission in the Arctic''s Chukchi Sea. The Inspiration Closed Circuit Rebreathers (CCR) are able to reuse the oxygen left unused in each exhaled breath while they simultaneously remove CO ...
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Dredging Demand Slows
Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster has posted a modest net profit of ? 7.4m for the first half of 2004, reflecting both a global slowdown for the industry and Boskalis'' own re-organisational process which has cost ? 10.7m and some 450 jobs.
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NewsNew Software for Hard Cutting
Sliedrecht based dredging systems specialist IHC Systems BV has won an order from Belgian contractor Vlaamse Baggermaatschappiij NV toprovide an operational face lift for its 25 year old cutter suction dredger Vesalius . The vessel has been operating on the Spanish coast near Valencia but will be docked in the ...
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Ruco Software Contract
Marine Projects International of Middlesbrough has acquired EIVA NaviPac navigation software from specialist survey distributors, Ruco. It will be used by Andrews Survey personnel aboard MPI''s new vessel, Resolution, for various positioning tasks including installation of subsea foundations for a wind farm at Kentish Flats.
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NewsHydro4 Programme Announced
Nearly 30 papers by leading experts from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, UK and the US are to be presented at The Hydrographic Society ''s14th biennial international symposium in Galway, Ireland from 2-4 November.
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First Sale of New Marinus System to GSE
VT TSS of Watford reports the first sale of its new Marinus attitude heading and reference system, to Aberdeen-based GSE Rentals .
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SeaZone Free Seminars
SeaZone Solutions , the joint Metoc-UK Hydrographic Office marine data solutions provider of worldwide geographic information, is holding a series of free morning seminars on its activities and proposed developments.
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Cromarty Firth Port Authority Reveals Vision for the Future
A long term vision for Scotland''s Cromarty Firth, which sees the centre of gravity of port infrastructure moving closer to the mouth of the firth, has been revealed today by the Cromarty Firth Port Authority (CFPA).
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NewsDrill Time for Kent Sea Defences
Mackley Construction , a key supply chain member for the UK Environment Agency ''s National Framework Contractor Van Oord UK Ltd , is making substantial environmental, time and cost savings with the innovative first time use of two American E-Z Drill pedestrian controlled drill rigs, on a major sea defence ...
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NewsGothenburg's Monopile Challenge Met
Specialist UK marine contractor Seacore has successfully used a combination of reverse circulation drilling and vibratory pile driving techniques, in conjunction with novel and versatile pile handling equipment, to install, several weeks ahead of programme, tubular steel monopiles in extremely variable sea bed conditions along the main access channels to ...
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NewsFlood Strategy for Stour and Orwell Estuary
Halcrow has been commissioned by the UK''s Environment Agency to undertake a strategic review of the approach to the flood defence system within the Stour and Orwell Estuary complex on the Essex and Suffolk borders.
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NewsA Big HIT for Port of Immingham
Associated British Ports (ABP) has announced its largest ever investment in a terminal development, £ 44. m for a new coal facility at its Port of Immingham which will serve the UK''s electricity supply industry.
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Contract Awarded for Droylsden Canal Quarter
A contract to implement a large scale re-development project in the canal quarter in Droylsden, in the Tameside area of the UK, has been awarded to a Bangor-based company, Watkin Jones Ltd. Watkins Jones was selected as the preferred developer for the £ 100m, five-year East Manchester project in June. ...
