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NewsFugro Puts DGPS Chart Updates on Web
Fugro has introduced a web service (www.surveyplanner.com) for updated coverage charts of its worldwide Differential GPS services, enabling users to produce customised maps for any location and service.
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Pangea Software for Italian HO
Pangea of Bologna, which specialises in design of static, dynamic and real-time geographical data management software, has completed delivery of 323 new sub-modules to the Italian Navy''s Hydrographic Office in Genoa. They will enable the Office to increase its chart production capacity while also improving current automation processes.
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Seabed Classification Software Demos
Atlantas Marine of Langport, Somerset is currently hosting a series of demonstrations of new seabed classification systems developed by Canadian software specialists, Quester Tangent.
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UKHO Dutch Licence Agreement
The UK Hydrographic Office has signed a licencing agreement with Nautical Information Services BV for direct electronic transmission of Admiralty Notices to Mariners to vessels at sea under the Digital Folio and Notice Service (DFANS).
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Coastal Erosion Comes Under Scrutiny
A newly developed model for predicting coastal erosion came under the spotlight at a recent conference at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London.
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English Nature: No Change on Marine Conservation Areas
English Nature, the statutory body responsible for advising the UK government on the designation of marine Special Areas of Conservation (marine SACs) has confirmed that it does not intend to alter the way it designates the areas, even though a study it has recently completed indicates that other countries in ...
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News'Unsinkable' Replacement Pontoon Brings Wapping Great Success
With its 40 year old pontoon prone to leaking and sinking, London''s Metropolitan Police were in need of an ''unsinkable'' replacement at the Wapping Boat Yard on the river Thames.
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seawork Exhibitor Wins Groyne Innovation Award
Portsmouth UK-based Plasti Ltd, which will be exhibiting at seawork2002, has won a prestigious Government SMART Development Award to develop, construct and install a beach groyne using patented composite piles in combination with other sustainable materials.
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HR Wallingford Studies Coastal Defence Materials
HR Wallingford, the UK-based marine engineering consultants, has begun work on a project which, it is anticipated, will be of considerable interest to marine contractors, builders, and local authorities who are involved in sea defence or river protection works.
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NewsIJmuiden's Third Harbour Gets Ready to RoRo
The Third Harbour at the Dutch port of IJmuiden is nearing completion and is expecting to receive business by the end of this year. Despite problems such as weak surface layers that were discovered only after digging had begun and the need to relocate a protected species of sand lizard, ...
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NewsTitan Surveys Possible Boxport Development
A trend has developed in the Americas to place container trans-shipment ports off the eastern seaboard of the goods-hungry USA. North-south trade along the Atlantic coast and east-west traffic with Europe utilise these facilities.
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NewsDutch JV Begins Installation Work on Offshore Wind Turbine Project
Two Dutch contractors - Mammoet and Van Oord ACZ - have revealed details of the jack-up barge they have built and started to use as a platform to serve the rapidly growing market in Europe for offshore wind turbine installation work.
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Droitwich Junction locks restored
The Inland Waterways Association (IWA) and Droitwich Canals Trust (DCT) have announced the completion of the restoration of Hanbury Locks on the Droitwich Junction Canal. The re-opening ceremony took place on 31 May when the first boat to pass through the Locks was steered by Tom Mayo who is thought ...
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NewsSA Port Development Project Planned
Coega Industrial Development Zone and Ngqura Port in the Eastern Cape in South Africa - which covers an area of 12,000ha of land adjacent to a proposed deep-water port providing serviced industrial sites with purpose-built infrastructure - have released preliminary details of a number of marine civils contracts which will ...
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ABPmer hosts dredging workshop
Representatives from major European ports were recently welcomed by Associated British Ports'' (ABP) Port of Southampton and ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) - ABP''s Southampton-based research subsidiary - for the eighth annual International Workshop on Dredging and Surveying.
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NewsHalmatic Cougar Mega-Order for Oman
Portchester UK-based Halmatic has secured a contract to build 20 Halmatic Cougar Enforcer 33 Ultra Fast Patrol Boats for the Royal Oman Police Coastguard.
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Superfast Ferries Takes EastPort Development Project Lead
Superfast Ferries has emerged as the front runner to operate a new passenger and freight service from the proposed £ 32m EastPort harbour development at Great Yarmouth UK. Superfast, part of the Athens-based Attica Enterprises Group, was one of four serious potential operators to submit proposals.
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NewsChannel Navigation Data Service for Busy Dover Strait
A contract worth over £ 1m to provide the MCA operated Channel Navigation Information Service (CNIS) system for the Dover Strait has been won by Norcontrol IT.
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News'Snowbird 6' Completes "Drive" Round the World
The Ice Challenger expedition has achieved its goal of becoming the first to cross the treacherous 24 miles of floating ice and open water which make up the Bering Strait between Wales in Alaska to the Russian land mass of Big Diomedes in a land-based vehicle.
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NewsMicro-Research Camera Moonlights on Marine Pollution
The Maritime & Coastguard Agency in Southampton has found an ideal camera for its aerial marine pollution surveillance work in the unlikely world of microscopic research.
