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Dusseldorf Debut for Scania Yanmar
The first public display of the recent co-operation agreement signed by Scania Industrial and Marine Engines and Yanmar Marine was seen at the Dusseldorf Boat Show last month when a 12 litre, 720hp Scania engine in Yanmar livery was paraded for the leisure boat market. The agreement signed last October ...
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VTS Synergy on UK South Coast
Fleet Support Ltd has awarded a contract to supply and install new VTS at the UK''s Portsmouth Naval Base to STN Atlas Elektronik. The system is due for commissioning next month. Its facilities include two Atlas 9730 X-band Radars sited remotely at Fort Gilkicker and Shell Pier linked via microwave ...
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NewsManagement Buy-In at Blondecell
Three members of the management team and a private investor have purchased a controlling interest in Blondecell Ltd, the Hampshire UK based boatbuilder. Managing Director Nigel Crabbe, Commercial Director David Morland and Financial Director Gavin Brown join a Blondecell founder, Tony Brewer, who remains as Chairman.
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'Tricolor' Bunker Removal Resumes
Smit Salvage resumed operations earlier this month to remove bunkers from the sunken car carrier Tricolor in the English Channel. The salvage team had earlier been forced to discontinue operations due to hostile weather conditions.
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Type Approval for AIS Type FA-100
Germany''s Bundesamt fur Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH) has type approved and wheelmark approved Furuno''s recently announced AIS Type FA-100 against IEC61993-2, IEC61162 and IEC61108.
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NewsDivers Deliver Underwater Repairs
Underwater ship maintenance specialists UMC International''s Plymouth UK team has carried out a diagnostic underwater inspection of a reefer ship during a call to the Torbay anchorage. The ship was experiencing vibration and the owners wanted to know why.
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NewsMobdocks Beat Drydock for Thruster Repair
Antwerp based underwater contractors Hydrex won the SMM/Lloyds List 2002 Award for ''Innovation in Naval Shipbuilding and Marine Technology'' last autumn in Hamburg. A significant factor in their victory was the innovative double-Mobdock system, which has again been deployed to repair a container vessel while it was in port loading ...
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Multibeam Proceedings
Of likely interest to shallow water surveying enthusiasts are proceedings of a Hydrographic Society Southern Region multibeam workshop in Reading last November, attended by over 100 specialists from all sectors of industry.
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NewsVT TSS Launches New Pipe Tracker
VT TSS has developed a new TSS 440 pipe and cable tracker with a claimed tracking range of up to 50% more than its predecessor, the TSS 340.
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New Simrad Navaid
Simrad has introduced its GN33 B/W GPS Chart Navigator suitable for all sizes and types of commercial, fishing and coastal vessels. The company says it is the first GPS Navigator with an integral chart plotter to be accorded Wheel Mark approval by the German Maritime & Hydrographic Agency (BSH).
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Sakhalin Shallow Water Surveys
Romona Geosolutions, a joint venture offshoot of Chessington-based Thales GeoSolutions and its Russian partner, J/S Romona, reports successful completion of major shallow water bathymetric surveys off Sakhalin Island, adjacent to the Lunskoye oil field.
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U-Tows For China
WS EnviroTech of Selborne, Hampshire has delivered an advanced version of its U-Tow Mk 3 undulating marine data-gathering vehicle to the Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey in China following a delivery of two earlier systems to the Chinese State Oceanographic Administration (CSOA).
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NewsCentrum Piles Up a Production Record
Centrum Pile Ltd, formed by Aarsleff Piling in 2001, remains a wholly owned subsidiary of Aarsleff following the collapse last November of a proposed 50/50 joint ownership deal with Stent Foundations.
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NewsLargest Limpet Dam In Action at the Port of Felixstowe
John Martin Construction Ltd has recently undertaken some essential maintenance work at the Port of Felixstowe.
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NewsGoteborg Goes With the Changes
The Swedish Port of Goteborg''s board has approved the Port''s largest ever investment package, authorising some $45m for upgrading facilities at the Skandia Container Terminal to accommodate the largest boxships envisioned for the future.
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NewsSeacore Left High and Dry in Devon
Cornwall based Seacore Ltd has demonstrated the versatility of one of its Skate II series jack up platforms during the replacement and extension of a seawall outfall pipeline down steep cliffs and out to sea to help enhance the water quality at one of the UK''s premier surfing beaches at ...
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Tests Underway to Enhance Recycled Decking
Portsmouth UK based Plasti Ltd are conducting a series of tests in conjunction with Anglia Waterblast, Jotun and the Royal Military College at Shrivenham (part of Cranfield University) aimed at further enhancing the non-slip properties of their decking planks, which are manufactured from 100% recycled materials.
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Studies for Nile Delta Terminal
EGS (International) recently completed a one year programme of metocean measurements in Egypt for the BG Group. BG are developing a new terminal to the west of the Nile Delta which will export LNG.
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News'Amazone' in Africa for Pipeline Dredging Works
The Belgian DEME Group recently deployed its powerful sea-going cutter suction dredger Amazone to Nigeria for trench dredging at the Offshore Gas Gathering System (OGGS) landfall on the southern shore of Bonny Island. The OGGS project is a final piece in Shell Oil''s programme to phase out all gas flaring ...
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NewsFelixstowe Expansion Underway
Civil engineering contractors Costain began work earlier this month on a £ 28m project to extend Trinity Terminal at the UK Port of Felixstowe. The Port was granted the Harbour Revision Order to proceed with the works last October following a Public Inquiry earlier in 2002.
