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NewsWave Buoys Bolster Coastal Defences
Wave measuring buoys which could help warn of an impending flood have been strategically placed around the UK coastline as part of a three year monitoring project.
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Turku Production to End
The Wartsila Corporation hasannounced plans to cease engine manufacturing at its plant at Turku in Finland following consultation with personnel representatives. The move to reduce surplus engine capacity within the Group will result in 425 redundancies. Manufacturing will cease by the end of this year and the Turku factory will ...
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ABP's Green Website
With a decision imminent on its application to build a new box terminal at Dibden Bay, Port of Southampton, Associated British Ports has launched a website dedicated to promoting its environmental policies, activities and objectives. Visitors to www.environment.abports.co.uk canlearn about ABP''s environmental responsibilities, the initiatives it has taken to improve ...
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NewsDerecktor's Fast Ferry Speeds to Alaska
M/V Fairweather , the 73m LOA high speed vehicle/passenger ferry built by Derecktor Shipyards in Connecticut USA, has concluded sea trials and made an 8,500 mile delivery voyage to its home port of Juneau, where it will commence service for the Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) next month.
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Volvo Penta US Honours
Volvo Penta ''s new D6-310 marine diesel engine has been honoured with the Editor''s Choice Award by the American magazine Motor Boating . The new generation D6-310 and D4-210 engines, displacing 5.5 and 3.7 litres respectively, were launched by Volvo Penta last autumn and are being installed in boats in ...
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Wynn/Win Situation
Marine window wiper specialist Wynn Marine unveiled a newstand-alone window wash system for ships’ windows recently. As a compact off the shelf module, the 5010 makes he design, purchase and installation of complete window washing systems more efficient and cost-effective, whether for newbuilds or retrofit projects.
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Modular System Lifts £1m Load
Lifting Gear Hire had to respond quickly to an emergency call from Montrose Harbour Port Authority when approximately 80m of the south quay unexpectedly collapsed into the water. Lifting Gear Hire''s Aberdeen UK branch worked with consulting engineers Babtie, providing specialist knowledge and equipment to restrain the remaining quayside and ...
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Powerful Xenon Bow Light
Norselight has developed its new BL35 MX xenon bow light in conjunction with several fast ferry operators and, following successful pilot projects, has placed it on the market. The powerful xenon light is similar to the headlights of a car and allows the navigator to see obstacles such as logs ...
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Felixstowe Lifts its Capacity
Ten new Rubber Tyred Gantry Cranes (RTGCs) and one Ship to Shore Gantry Crane (SSGC) have arrived at the UK Port of Felixstowe from Zhenhua Port Machinery Company (ZPMC) of Shanghai.
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All At Sea with Winch Repairs
Due to limitations imposed by the client''s busy seismic acquisition programme, Coventry UK based Metalock Engineering sent engineers to Ghana to in-situ machine two winch brake drums on the SRV Veritas Viking II while it was at sea en route to Cameroon.
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Big Bisso Lift Re-Opens Mississippi
America''s Bisso Marine has lifted the sunken OSV Lee III from the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River, which it was completely blocking following a pre-dawn collision in the middle of one of the world''s busiest deep draft waterways.
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Pier Collision Prompts Insurance Warning
The recent collision of UK south coast aggregates dredger Donald Redford with the Hythe Ferry Pier in Southampton Water has drawn attention to the limitation provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act and demonstrated the effect these have on both the ship owner and the property owner.
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NewsMarine Historic Environment Consultation Underway
A rare 17th Century 49cwt Prince Rupert patent gun, retrieved from the Stirling Castle , King Charles II''s great 70 gun man o'' war, was put on public display late last month at the UK''s Ramsgate Maritime Museum .
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Digital Video Proceedings UKHO Launches Admiralty Coastal Surveys
A new Anglo-Swedish joint venture ''which will help shape the future of tomorrow''s survey technology'', Admiralty Coastal Surveys , was officially launched by the UKHydrographic Office at last month''s Oceanology International event in London. Together with Airborne Hydrography AB and Topeye AB of Sweden, the UKHO plans to develop an ...
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QinetiQ Sonar Development
QinetiQ has announced the world''s first commercially available towed synthetic aperture sonar with integrated interferometric profiler, GeoSAS , which is to be marketed by GeoAcoustics (UK) of Great Yarmouth.
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NewsNew VT TSS Systems
Unveiled at OI 2004 were two new developments from VT TSS of Watford. The first, Marinus , is an attitude and heading reference system providing exceptional accuracy in extreme conditions for multibeam operations. Extending the company''s existing range of motion sensors, it is claimed to provide heading, heave, roll and ...
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Digital Video Proceedings
Proceedings of its UK Branch Scottish Region''s recent seminar on Digital Video for Offshore Survey & Inspection , held in association with the Society for Underwater Technology , are now available on CD for £ 15 from TheHydrographic Society .
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Marine Electronics Orders
Guernsey-based Marine Electronics reports Chinese and US orders for new titanium and aluminium versions of its Dolphin 6201 Obstacle Avoidance Sonar designed for navigation and pilotage of AUV''s and ROV''S.
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NewsHamilton Jet Double Anniversary at seawork
Hamilton Jet ''s European headquarters, Hamilton Jet UK Ltd , celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.
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NewsFirst UK Outing for the Dockmaster
The Hammelmann Dockmaster made its first ever appearance in a UK yard late last year. A major British ship repair yard won the multi million pound contract to completely refit a Royal Navy aviation training ship. The contract also called for 8000m 2of hull and topside surface to be UHP ...
