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NewsDe Groot Nijkerk Boosts Royal Boskalis' Dredging Capability
In order to meet the growing demand for sand required for infrastructure projects in the Netherlands, dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster has ordered a third dismountable deepwin dredger from De Groot Nijkerk.
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IHC Holland Lands DEME Order
Belgian contractors DEME have ordered a 5,400m 3capacity trailing suction hopper dredger from IHC Holland, which has contracted the construction of the vessel to its Rotterdam based subsidiary yard Van der Giessen de Noord.
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Farewell GLORIA
One of the UK''s major scientific successes of recent times, the GLORIA (Geological Long Range Inclined Asdic) sidescan sonar, has been retired from active service after having surveyed 5% of the world''s oceans.
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NewsUKHO Launches New ENC Service
The UK Hydrographic Office, which claims to be the world''s leading publisher of navigational information, has launched a new ENC (Electronic Nautical Chart) service designed to complement its present portfolio of Admiralty products and services. It packages ENC''s from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the UK on a ...
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NewsExpanded Ostuferhafen is Full of Eastern Promise
The German Baltic Port of Kiel has inaugurated an expanded Ostuferhafen complex after two and a half years of construction which has finally obliterated a WWII submarine bunker that threatened to strangle port expansion.
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New Canal Boat Marina Planned in British Midlands
Preliminary details of a new canal boat marina at the junction of the Trent and Mersey and Shropshire Union canals with moorings for up to 150 boats have been released by PB Developments of Knutsford, Cheshire, in the UK.
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Seacore Secures North Hoyle Wind Farm Contract
Cornwall UK based Seacore Ltd has won a major contract worth in excess of £ 5m to install 30 large diameter monopile foundations in the seabed and design, build and install a 50m high, fully instrumented monopile supported meteorological mast for the 60MW North Hoyle offshore windfarm.
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NewsHarbour Construction Keeps Terramare Busy
Terramare, the Finnish marine construction firm, reports that it is actively engaged in the construction of a harbour for SCA Graphic Sundswall AB, a Swedish pulp and paper mill company located in the west coast of Sweden.
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NewsImpounded Harbour Creates New Marina in South Wales
Dean & Dyball Construction in the UK has completed construction of a new marina at Burry Port Harbour in South Wales.
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NewsGallows Point Marina Gets Welsh Assembly Approval
The Welsh Assembly has approved an £ 8m project to develop a new marina at Beaumaris on the island of Anglesey at the eastern end of the Menai Strait, some five years after the project was first proposed and two years after it became the subject of a Public Enquiry.
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Nearshore Pipelines Conference Next Month
The issues of planning, design and construction surrounding nearshore pipeline projects, including estuary crossings and outfalls, are often significantly different from those concerning either cross-country or subsea pipelines, and they are of critical importance to the overall success of the project.
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Oil Recovery Specialists Unite
Lamor Corporation Ab, the Finnish manufacturer of oil recovery systems, has bought the whole scope of business of its Finnish competitor LMP Patents Ltd Oy, including 150 patents. The acquisition brings to an end patent disputes between the companies which have gone on for years, hampering the marketing of both.
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NewsFish Farm Workboat Delivers Feed with Speed
The first of the new design Typhoon 38 from Cornwall''s Cygnus Marine is at work for Bressay Salmon of the Shetland Isles.
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NewsSFC Solves a Pig of a Problem in Pipeline Maintenance
News Smith Flow Control (SFC) has helped Shell and its contractor Single Buoy Moorings (SBM) of Monaco solve a valve operating dilemma on Shell''s new FPSO for Nigeria.
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SMM Air-time with Radio Holland Group
The Radio Holland Group makes its SMM debut following its formation earlier this year. In March, a management buy-out of SRH Marine was realised, creating an independent international company in the maritime market.
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Public Inquiry Date Set for River Thames Port Development
A public inquiry will begin on 21 January next year examining P& O Ports'' proposal to build a major container port and ro-ro facility on London''s River Thames at the site of the former Shell Haven oil refinery.
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Bristol Survey Contract for Fathoms
Integrated subsea service specialists, Fathoms of Langport, Somerset, has been awarded a three-year contract by Bristol City Council for swathe bathymetry studies of the City Docks and sectors of the River Avon. It follows earlier work by the company at the beginning of last year covering pre and post-dredging surveys.
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Rope & Lifting Gear-related Awards
Mooring Ropes (1) Den Helder, Netherlands; (2) Ministerie van Defensie, Koninklijke Marine, Den Helder; (3) Mooring ropes. Fasteners, chain and springs. Cordage; (4) Lankhorst Touwfabrieken bv, NL-8607 AD Sneek; (6) 1
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IMCA Builds Lifting Appliance Incident Database
Crane operations are one of the most widespread aspects of the offshore industry and are common to marine, diving, survey and ROV operations. It was thus natural that the International Marine Contractors Association, which has divisions representing the interests of contractors involved in all four of these areas, should review ...
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Motion Damping for High Speed Craft
Vosper Thornycroft''s US based Maritime Dynamics Inc (MDI) has launched the MDI Motion Interceptor for trim and list stabilisation and motion damping of high speed vessels.
