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NewsSatComs Extended to Smaller Vessels
One of the many exhibitors showing new marine communications equipment at Europort last month was France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications , which introduced Inmarsat Fleet 55 and 33 mobile satellite services. These mean that Inmarsat''s Fleet family of maritime communications is no longer restricted to the high seas or transoceanic ...
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NewsMcMurdo Launch Explosion at Europort
McMurdo Limited , the Portsmouth UK based manufacturer of marine electronic and safety equipment had an eventful Europort last month, revealing a new corporate branding and launching two new products plus a new website.
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NewsEuroport Debut for Satellite Vessel Tracking System
UK based operator of global satellite based telematics information services Satamatics travelled to Amsterdam to launch a new miniature SAT 101 mobile satellite terminal at Europort last month. The new terminal, with its integral GPS receiver enables port authorities and other coastal operators to track the location, speed and heading ...
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NewsTanker Giant Joins ECDIS Trial
Oil tanker operators Teekay Shipping is the latest shipping company to enrol for sea trials of the forthcoming Admiralty ECDIS Service , which is expected to launch in Spring 2004. Trials are being conducted to test and prove all aspects of the service ahead of launch. The service has been ...
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NewsHalf Way To Go For GAFIRS
In an unusual vessel supply contract supportive of their local rescue organisation, Portsmouth UK based Halmatic Limited has handed over a ''rolling chassis'' Pacific 30 RIB Rescue Boat to Gosport & Fareham Inshore Rescue Service (GAFIRS).
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NewsNew Player Delivers Divers' Lifeboat
Oceanwide Safety at Sea maybe a new name in the marine safety field but with 12 of its team coming from Mulder & Rijke and Schatt Harding , there is no shortage of experience among the staff. Founded in 2002, Rotterdam based Oceanwide S. a.S.
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CTG Delivers Subsea Buoyancy Tanks
Composite product specialist CTG has won a contract to supply 16 large carbon composite buoyancy tanks to Thales Geosolutions . The filament-wound carbon fibre epoxy tanks have been designed, developed and manufactured at CTG''s Banbury UK facility.
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NewsIndoor Diving Fun at Ocean Frontier Attraction
Europe''s largest indoor dive pool and techquarium has opened on the site of a former sewage works at Fort William in Scotland. The £ 2.5m Ocean Frontier attraction received funding from a variety of sources, including Lochaber Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise , and complements the £ 30m Fort ...
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NewsSales Surge for Shipwreck Oil Recovery System
JLMD Ecologic Group , the French company which has invented and patented the JLMD System for recovering fuel oil from sunken ships, has signed its first three orders for a total of 14 ships after only six weeks of marketing the new product.
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Digital Video Seminar
The Society for Underwater Technology and the Hydrographic Society in Scotland are convening a one-day seminar on Digital Video for Offshore Survey & Inspection , in Aberdeen on 15 January. It will examine latest developments from the perspective of operators and contractors, including likely benefits of integrating digital video methods ...
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NewsDuke of York Opens New UKHO Archive Centre
The UK Hydrographic Office ''snew £ 3.5m Ritchie Archive building at its Taunton headquarters was formally opened by Prince Andrew, Duke of York on 26 November in the presence of Chief Executive and National Hydrographer Dr Wyn Williams and invited guests.
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Fugro Buys Thales GeoSolutions
Fugro NV , the leading Dutch survey concern with over 250 offices in 57 countries, has acquired Thales GeoSolutions for a reported ? 147.5m.
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Knudsen to Launch Sounders
Canadian echosounder specialist Knudsen Engineering is to premiere two new systems at Oceanology International 2004 at London''s ExCel Centre next March.
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IMCA Survey Document
The London-based International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA), which has a worldwide membership drawn from more than 40 countries, has published a set of Terms & Conditions for Survey Support Services based on procedures originally set out in its Offshore Survey Contracting Principles document circulated in April 1999.
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NewsSeawalker With Diamonds On the Sole of Its Shoes
Cornwall UK based marine contractors Seacore has sold a Seawalker self contained eight leg walking jack-up platform to the Namibian mining company Namdeb foruse in mining diamonds in the shallow raging surf along the Namibian coastline.
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Danes Do UK Windfarm Deal
NEG Micon has concluded a major offshore agreement with the Danish utility Elsam concerning the Kentish Flats Offshore Windfarm off the English coast of Kent.
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NewsFelixstowe Applies for New Box Terminal
Hutchison Ports (UK) Ltd (HPUK) , on behalf of its subsidiary Port of Felixstowe, formally applied last month to Suffolk Coastal District Council for planning permission to reconfigure the southern part of the port.
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European Renewables Conference Set For Berlin
The European Conference for Renewable Energy - Intelligent Policy Options has been schedule for 19 to 21 January 2004 in Berlin.
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NewsKlaas Act at CEDA Dredging Days
The cutter suction dredger is the beast of the industry, called upon when the going gets extremely tough and it is necessary to cut through hard compacted soils or solid rock in works such as the deepening of harbours and fairways.
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NewsFacelift for St George's
The 675m long St George''s Bridge at Doncaster crosses the South Yorkshire Navigation Canal, River Don and the East Coast Main Line.
