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NewsSmaller Newbuild from IHC Holland Grabs Attention
Recent newbuild dredger deliveries from the various Dutch specialist shipyards that comprise IHC Holland include the world''s most powerful cutter suction dredger for Belgium''s Jan De Nul and twin 16,000m 3capacity trailing suction hopper dredgers for Royal Boskalis Westminster .
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Cautious Optimism at Boskalis
At its shareholder AGM in the Netherlands last month, dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster reported that incoming orders and turnover thus far in 2004 were lagging behind last year but were not out of line with expectations.
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Dredge Deeper for 'Queen Mary 2'
Ever since its maiden voyage in January, Cunard ''s new flagship liner Queen Mary 2 has been challenging the dredged depths of many ports where it has been scheduled to call.
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NewsVOSTA LMG Delivers On Eastern Promise
The largest trailing suction hopper dredger ever built in China was launched last month at the Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai. Built for client Huanghua Port , the 5,000m 3dredger Shenhua benefited from a complete engineering package and dredging components supplied by Amsterdam based VOSTA LMG , which also had ...
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News'JFJ De Nul' is Ship of the Year
The seagoing, self-propelled cutter suction dredger JFJ De Nul , built by IHC Holland ''sKinderdijk yard for Belgian contractor Jan De Nul , has won the Netherlands'' prestigious Ship of the Year Award of the Royal Dutch Union of Technicians in Shipbuilding (KNVTS). Now the most powerful vessel of its ...
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Chart Training Package
Meridian Chartware of Norwich, a subsidiary of Norcom Technology, is developing an electronic chart training package and a low cost entry electronic chart plotter in a project also involving the UK Hydrographic Office and the Royal Yachting Association .
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NewsFugro Opts for Airborne Bathymeter
Dutch survey conglomerate Fugro, which maintains nearly 9,000 staff in over 60 countries, is to acquire an Optech International Shoals-1000T airborne Lidar bathymetry system under the auspices of its US subsidiary, Fugro Pelagos Inc of San Diego.
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Gardline Begins CHP Project
Great Yarmouth-based Gardline Hydro has begun a two-year Civil Hydrography Programme (CHP) to survey western approaches to the English Channel on behalf of the government body responsible for safety of navigation in domestic waters, the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA). Its purpose is to update Admiralty Charts andother publications.
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New ENC Standard
Packaging and distribution of electronic navigational charts are to be further standardised following a recent workshop sponsored by ChartWorld inHamburg attended by ECDIS manufacturers, ENC retailers and representatives of the International Hydrographic Bureau .
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NewsSimon Says Humber Sea Terminal
The London based Simon Group demonstrated prescient vision when in the late 1990s it set in motion planning for a deepwater ro-ro terminal in the River Humber.
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Oil Leak Deflates UK Port Figures
The British Government''s Department for Transport , which has recently rejected a proposed new container terminal at the Port of Southampton and must pass judgement on three more large schemes, has published provisional National Statistics on freight traffic through UK ports in 2003.
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MAREC 2004 Sees Seas of Opportunity Offshore
Governments have pledged that new and renewable energies will play an ever growing role in their national energy mixes.
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NewsSupport for Tenby RNLI
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution ''s new boathouse and slipway at Tenby in South Wales will be supported on a forest of tubular steel monopiles specialist marine civil engineering contractors Seacore has installed into the seabed rock.
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Marine Energy Challenge Assessing Projects
The Carbon Trust has chosen consulting engineers Halcrow Group Ltd , in partnership with engineering specialists Peter Brotherhood Ltd and Abbott Risk Consulting Ltd , as one of the main engineering consortia to be involved in its new Marine Energy Challenge (MEC) programme.
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NewsMarine Hubbub in South West UK
The South West of England Regional Development Agency (RDA) has appointed a project manager to take forward proposals to develop the Wave Hub , a proposal to kick start the region''s sea power industry.
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NewsGermans Expand Specialist Port Facilities
Specialist facility expansion in Germany''s two biggest seaports up to late 2005 is costing a total ¢ 60m, according to plans now revealed in Hamburg and the Weser ports complex of Bremen/ Bremerhaven.
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NewsThe Tide Turns Against Marine Corrosion
Corrosion is probably the single most serious cause of deterioration of reinforced concrete structures and is particularly prevalent in buildings and structures subjected to salts from the sea.
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NewsStemat Savours Successful Sinkings
The building consortium HSL Drechtse Steden wasresponsible for the design and construction of a new high speed rail line between Zwijndredcht and Moerdijk in Holland. This section of the route contains two submerged tunnels, one under the river Oude Maas and the other under the river Dordste Kil.
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NewsEssex Flood Defences Strategy Due
Consulting engineers Halcrow is in the final stages of a project on the Roach and Crouch estuaries in Essex.
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NewsModular Pontoons at seawork
The British company that earlier this year purchased the Eirfloat modular pontoon system manufactured and previously based in Ireland have got off to a flying start with a string of important orders. The company and the brand are now renamed Airfloat and will be exhibiting at seawork2004 .
