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NewsScotland Zones In On Marine Renewables
The UK Government and the Scottish Executive are planning to deliver a one stop shop approach for offshore renewable energy consents in waters around Scotland.
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ICS Sand Scrubbers at seawork
seawork exhibitor International Commercial Shipping (ICS) has recently established itself in the worldwide dredging and sand scrubbing business.
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NewsHeavenly Fenders for Port of Angels
Pier 400 is an all new facility built at the Port of Los Angeles in California USA. New berths and container areas are set to open, expanding on a first phase which was completed in August 2002. In total, Pier 400 adds six new berths which cater for vessels up ...
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NewsFugro Has a Boring Time in Poole
The proposed second crossing for Poole Harbour will span a 19m stretch of the Backwater Channel between Poole and Hamworthy. Designed to become a memorable landmark, the new bridge will feature two triangular bascules which, as vessels pass through, will rotate into the vertical position forming a visually dramatic twin ...
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NewsGeotextiles Secure Canal Bed at Minden
The Mittellandkanal is one of the most important navigable waterways in Germany, providing an east-west route for inland waterborne transportation. Ships'' draughts continue to increase and are currently anything up to 2.50 metres. This has created a problem for the Mittellandkanal at Minden West.
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BMT Inputs Boxport Design
British Maritime Technology ''sSingapore based subsidiary BMT Asia Pacific Pte Ltd hasrecently advised on the design of a major new deep water container terminal at Sepangar Bay in eastern Malaysia. The study considered where the terminal needed to be located to minimise dredging and enable ships to manoeuvre safely in ...
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NewsAggregates industry hits back at 'misleading' Marinet claims
The British Marine Aggregate Producers Association (BMAPA) has hit back at what it calls ''inaccurate and irresponsible claims'' made by environmental pressure group Marinet over the industry''s impact on the environment.
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NewsEdmund Nuttall Secures Port of Ipswich Expansion
Associated British Ports '' (ABP) Port of Ipswich has taken a step closer to expanding its ro-ro facilities after accepting a £ 3.5m tender from Edmund Nuttall Ltd to construct a second ro-ro berth at the port''s West Bank Terminal .
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Associated British Ports Promote Environmental Awareness
Associated British Ports (ABP) in the UK has teamed up with two of the UK''s foremost educational institutions for environmental sciences to undertake key research which, it hopes, will help the ports industry to develop innovative and cost-effective solutions to some of the environmental issues which face the ports industry ...
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Van Oord Deepens Entry Channel in South Korea
Van Oord in the Netherlands has been awarded contracts for the deepening of the entry channel to the Pusan New Port and for the delivery of sand for a nearby land reclamation project.
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NewsDamen Launches Standardised CSDs
Until it recently became Damen Dredging Equipment , the operation formerly known as De Groot Nijkerk had built well over 100 ''one-off'' stationary cutter suction dredgers over a period of 60 years. Now within the Damen Group , the company has launched a series of standard cutter suction dredgers which ...
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News'Terra Marique' Brings Load Work to seawork
Terra Marique the pioneering and innovative barge built by Damen Shipyards of the Netherlands for UK waterborne freight specialist Robert Wynn & Sons , will be perhaps the most unusual vessel amongst a fleet of some 63 working craft expected to participate in the floating exhibition at seawork2004 .
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NewsPolish Yard Bulges With Lengthening Work
Ship lengthening projects are coming in thick and fast at Poland''s Stocznia Nauta Shiprepair Yard , which has just finished the last of three Norwegian jobs and taken two more for Norway and Sweden.
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NewsGermany's SET Delivers New Ships For Old
Germany''s SET-Werften Group in Tangermunde on the River Elbe has created a pair of modern new double-hulled inland tankers from the bow and stern sections of two old ships and one new ship section.
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NewsAnother Step Forward for Carrousel Tugs
The construction of purpose built shiphandling tugs employing the unique Carrousel towing system took a major step forward with the announcement of a joint marketing agreement between Novatug and GE Marine .
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NewsShip Docking Modules to be Built in Europe
Seabulk International, Inc hasannounced the sale of a license for the construction of its patented Ship Docking Module (SDM) technology to European tug operator Remolques Y Servicios Maritimos, SL (REYSER) of Barcelona, in Spain.
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NewsRAmparts Tugs Roll Off the Production Lines
The delivery of new RAmparts series ASD shiphandling tugs, first introduced by Canadian designer Robert Allan in the autumn of 2001, continues to gather pace. Intended to offer owners and shipyards alike a series of high-performance tug designs, capable of competing with any other comparable vessels on the market, examples ...
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NewsIGT Lights Up Queen Mary 2's Controls
Hampshire UK based IGTIndustries has produced the data positioning consoles and propulsion and thrust controller panels for Cunard ''snew flagship Queen Mary 2 .
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Avoid Unnecessary Suffocation
A recent report from the Nautical International Marine Accident Reporting Scheme (MARS) described an incident in which four stevedores died.
