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  • DanEI-300T sensor and display unit
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    Electronic Inclinometer enhances tug safety

    2019-03-28T11:07:00Z

    Tug capsizes and near-capsizes, particularly those caused by towline girting are an area that ''MJ'' still reports on all too often.

  • Capella docking at Norderwerft for class and overhaul work (Photo: Broers).
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    Class docking for Germany's versatile Capella

    2019-03-28T10:43:00Z

    The German multi-purpose research and survey ship, Capella, was leaving Hamburg’s Norderwerft in April after more than two months of major class work and overhaul, writes Tom Todd.

  • 'Venus Clipper'
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    Monitoring system optimises performance

    2019-03-28T10:37:00Z

    Wight Shipyard, has installed Reygar’s BareFLEET cloud-based monitoring system on the latest fast ferry built for MBNA Thames Clippers to help optimise performance, reduce maintenance costs and enhance operational safety.

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    Boskalis adds Adelaide to bright order book

    2019-03-28T10:27:00Z

    Dutch dredging contractor Royal Boskalis Westminster has won a contract for the widening of the Port Adelaide Outer Harbour shipping channel in Australia.

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    IHC installations for Van Oord trailers

    2019-03-28T10:24:00Z

    Netherlands based vessel builder and dredging equipment manufacturer Royal IHC has won a contract to design and deliver complete dredging installations for two new LNG powered trailing suction hopper dredgers for Van Oord.

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    New generation water injection dredgers

    2019-03-28T10:22:00Z

    Dutch dredging and marine construction major Van Oord has ordered two of a new generation of water injection dredgers from the Kooiman Marine Group.

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    Jan de Nul dredging works at Port Hedland

    2019-03-28T10:20:00Z

    Australia’s Pilbara Ports Authority (PPA) has contracted Belgium’s Jan De Nul Group to dredge the channel and further enhance the safe and sustainable access to Port Hedland.

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    Record submissions for CEDA Dredging Days

    2019-03-28T10:16:00Z

    The Call for Papers deadline has passed for CEDA Dredging Days 2019 and the final abstracts have been chosen from a record number of submissions.

  • Flaskebekk beach, where this strange phenomenon has been occurring
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    Oslofjord’s ‘mini-tsunamis’

    2019-03-28T09:59:00Z

    Flaskebekk, a small community on the edge of the Oslofjord, regularly experiences what are being termed as ‘mini-tsunamis’, believed to be caused by large ships passing areas of the fjord with pronounced variations in water depth.

  • 'Global Symphony'
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    Kriegers Flak cabling contract confirmed

    2019-03-27T14:41:00Z

    Global Marine Group’s Global Offshore division will complete the inter array cable installation, burial, testing and termination at Vattenfall’s 72-turbine Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm.

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    Turkish VSAT+ deal

    2019-03-27T13:55:00Z

    IEC Telecom is to open-up the Turkish maritime and offshore markets to better value-added voice and data services through a new tie-up that will bring Thuraya’s highly respected VSAT+ maritime satellite service to the region.

  • F. Daniel Knight is a Shareholder at lawyers Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams, & Aughtry, P.C.
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    Three common contract law mistakes

    2019-03-27T13:26:00Z

    According to F. Daniel Knight a Shareholder at lawyers Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams, & Aughtry, P.C. in Houston, Texas, European companies doing business in the US make three common contract mistakes.

  • The award-winning Dometic PLB40
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    Design award for Dometic

    2019-03-27T13:07:00Z

    The PLB40 portable battery from Seawork exhibitor Dometic has received a distinction for high design quality in the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2019.

  • Hythe Shipyard facilities accommodate vessels of up to 950 tonnes and 11.5 metres in beam
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    Hythe Shipyard Seawork debut

    2019-03-27T12:49:00Z

    New commercial shipyard facility, Hythe Shipyard, has announced that it is exhibiting at the largest European commercial marine exhibition, Seawork, for the first time this year.

  • The vessel’s superstructure has been designed as an airtight citadel
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    35m high speed fireboat

    2019-03-27T12:12:00Z

    BMT Specialised Ship Design (formally BMT Nigel Gee), a subsidiary of BMT, has delivered a 35 metre aluminium firefighting vessel for Singapore.

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    PIANC appointment

    2019-03-27T11:51:00Z

    Offshore marine consultancy, Waves Group, has been appointed to PIANC’s International Working Group, “Guidelines for the Design of Fender Systems” (MarCom WG211).

  • Port of Dover is one of Britain's busiest harbours
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    Environmental monitoring for port of Dover

    2019-03-27T11:31:00Z

    Two British companies are combining their expertise to develop a comprehensive environmental monitoring system to be installed at the Port of Dover writes Dag Pike.

  • Visualization of the Elisa turbine under tow
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    First Spanish offshore turbine commissioned

    2019-03-27T10:52:00Z

    The installation and connection of the first offshore wind turbine in Spanish waters has been completed with the prototype now being operational writes Dag Pike.

  • SeaMade Offshore Wind Farm
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    SeaMade wins offshore wind deal award

    2019-03-26T12:39:00Z

    SeaMade Offshore Wind Farm has been presented with IJGlobal’s ‘European Offshore Wind deal of the year’ award for its swift and efficient financing process.

  • The station is situated on the Nab Tower Lighthouse, on the eastern approach to the Solent
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    Weather station set to improve pilot safety

    2019-03-26T11:51:00Z

    The port of Southampton, UK has installed a new hi-tech weather station on Nab Tower in the Solent.