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Briggs Lands Three Year APT Marine Services Contract
Briggs Marine Contractors Ltd have won the Marine Services contract with Associated Petroleum Terminals (Immingham) Ltd.
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News'Tricolor' Collisions Prompt Renewed Safety Calls
Following the initial collision which sank the car transporter Tricolor in the English Channel last month and two subsequent incidents where other vessels collided with the barely submerged hulk, Deep Sea and Coastal Pilots has renewed its call for ship owners and masters to seek help in the busy lanes ...
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ISU Offers New Thinking on Shelter for Ship Casualties
The International Salvage Union (ISU) is to help governments tackle the controversial issue of refuge for ship casualties, especially in cases threatening severe pollution.
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New Cranes Buoy Up Trinity House's Services
The Trinity Lighthouse Service''s programme of upgrading its vessels'' equipment continues to bring major benefits and greatly improve operational efficiency.
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NewsStemat in Irish Sea Jack-Up Delivery
With its recent successful installation of a large jack-up rig in the Irish Sea, Stemat Marine Services of Rotterdam has proved that with the right equipment in the right place at the right time, almost anything can be lifted. But there was little room to spare when the assembled Calder ...
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Lankhorst Ropes Deliver Benchmark Clarity
It is becoming increasingly more difficult to understand the difference in the quality of mooring ropes due to new products continuously coming onto the market, each highlighting different characteristics. A benchmark which is increasingly being used to measure the performance of ropes in the maritime industry is TCLL value.
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NewsJack-Up Lifts Marine Site Investigation
Seacore has made use of a new Commachio crawler based automatic drill rig in conjunction with its Skate 3 jack-up pontoon to carry out a combined onshore and nearshore site investigation project along the route of a proposed waste water treatment works pipeline and sea outfall at Portrush in Northern ...
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NewsBarge Handling Reachstacker
Verbrugge Terminals BV in Terneuzen, The Netherlands, handles about 1.8 million tonnes of forest products each year which largely originate in Sweden and are shipped to Verbrugge by ro-ro vessel.
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NewsDredger Contract for K Damen
Shipyard K Damen at Hardinxveld-Giessendam in The Netherlands has signed a contract to build a 3,880m 3capacity trailer suction hopper dredger for Scelveringhe Scheepvaart BV.
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NewsLargest CSD Newbuild Underway at Kinderdijk
Construction of the world''s largest self-propelled cutter suction dredger is now in full progress at IHC Holland''s Kinderdijk shipyard. The vessel for Belgian contractor Jan de Nul is due to be launched in May of this year with sea trials to follow in the autumn.
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De Groot Delivers Versatile CSD for Suez Canal Authority
De Groot Nijkerk Dredging Equipment is supplying the Suez Canal Authority with a complete assembly package for their type CZ450S cutter suction dredger. The pontoon is being built and the vessel assembled at the Port Said Shipyard in Egypt under the supervision of an engineer from De Groot''s parent Damen ...
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NewsGothenburg Fairway Dredging Gets New Year Start
Dutch dredging giant Boskalis starts work this month on a ¢ 30m project to broaden and deepen the entrance channels to the Port of Gothenburg in Sweden. The contract with the Swedish Maritime Organisation is called ''Safer Fairways to Gothenburg'' and will be completed in two phases by February 2004.
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News'Prince Madog' Available for Charter
RV Prince Madog, the Dutchbuilt research ship jointly operated by VT Ocean Sciences and the University of Wales'' School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor, is available for charter during this spring and summer for commercial survey, research and leisure use.
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Underwater GPS For Hire
Leading equipment distributor MK Services of Leighton Buzzard has acquired a proprietary GIB (GPS Intelligent Buoy) system from French company, Advanced Concept & System Architecture (ACSA), following successful trials of a unit in Weymouth last October.
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New Multiple Subsea Application ROV Series From Thales
Thales GeoSolutions of Chessington has developed what it calls new-generation ROV''s designed for multiple subsea applications from high-end survey work to drill rig support, the G3 series.
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Free ENC Trial for Three Months
Primar Stavanger, the international electronic navigational chart (ENC) co-ordinating centre operated by the Norwegian Hydrographic Service, is offering a free trial for vessels considering joining its service.
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NewsAccropodes Provide Solution for Scarborough Coast Protection Works
Edmund Nuttall Limited is approaching the mid-point of a £ 25.7m, 22 month coast protection project awarded to it by client Scarborough Borough Council (with DEFRA providing the major part of the funding).
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Latest Dredging Figures From BMAPA and Crown Estate
At the end of 2002 the British Marine Aggregate Producers Association (BMAPA) and the Crown Estate issued an annual report detailing the extent of UK dredging for the year 2001.
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NewsISU Calls for Faster Action on Places of Refuge
Following the loss of the tanker Prestige last month, other industry organisations have added their voices to the International Salvage Union''s call for more action on the controversial places of refuge issue.
