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World’s largest seep-hunting survey
Fugro is deploying three of its multi-purpose offshore survey vessels, ‘Fugro Americas’, ‘Fugro Brasilis’ and ‘Fugro Gauss’ to help complete the world’s largest seep-hunting survey offshore Mexico on behalf of the Norwegian global geoscience data company, TGS.
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€60m Wadden Sea dike reinforcement project
The Noorderzijlvest district water board in the Netherlands has awarded the contract for the Eemshaven-Delfzijl dike reinforcement project to a consortium consisting of Boskalis and KWS Infra.
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NewsEuDA focus on environmental dredging
The Belgium based European Dredging Association (EuDA) has announced its 2016 Annual General Assembly Conference will take place in the Stanhope Hotel in Brussels on Tuesday, 15 November 2016 at 10.00.
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NewsEnvironmental Excellence Awards at WODCON
Four Environmental Excellence Awards in two categories, Environmental Dredging and Dredging for Coastal Reinforcement, were presented at the recent World Dredging Congress (WODCON) in Miami.
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NewsNew wireless Hyndsight camera
US-based Hyndsight Vision Systems has designed a new lightweight, waterproof wire free camera and monitor unit.
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NewsAlphabridge system for double-ended ferry
Marine electronics expert, JRC, and integrated bridge solution expert, Alphatron Marine, have delivered an AlphaBridge system to a new double ended passenger ferry being built at La Naval Shipyard in Bilbao, Spain.
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NewsNew range from Reintjes
Gearbox specialists Rientjes will showcase its new product range of Down Angle gearbox series, WVSA, at SMM.
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MMT TenneT survey agreement
Swedish hydrographic survey expert, MMT, has signed a four year framework agreement with the Dutch electricity company, TenneT.
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NewsDredging for Sustainable Port Development
The Netherlands based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has announced its next upcoming event as a one and a half day conference in Lisbon with a central theme of Dredging for Sustainable Port Development.
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NewsJan De Nul defies dredging slowdown
Belgian dredging and marine civils giant Jan De Nul has defied the global slowdown to boost turnover by 10 percent last year, with net profits of €265 million and a stable order book sitting on €2.7 billion.
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NewsSpinlock debut
UK marine safety equipment manufacturer Spinlock will make its show debut at SMM this year. The company is excited to be exhibiting at Europe’s leading commercial marine trade show where it will be displaying a complete range of new lifejackets and safety equipment for the commercial marine industry.
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NewsFerry converted to medical ship
Abels Shipyard in Bristol, UK is close to completing work on converting a harbour ferry into a medical ship to operate in South America.
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NewsTight schedule for ‘Tridens’ refit
Holland Shipyards were given just 4 ½ months to carry out a major refit on the fisheries research vessel ‘Tridens’ which is owned by the Dutch government department Rijkswaterstaat. The ‘Tridens’ is part of their Project Organization (PPO) and the Rijksrederij which is the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
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NewsCuring fuel line corrosion
German specialist for motor oils and additives Liqui Moly claims to have the ultimate range of products for fighting the curse of rust in the fuel tank and fuel lines of vessels.
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NewsCollateral lies
Recently a marine test case at the UK’s Supreme Court (Versloot v HDI Gerling) ruled that so called ‘collateral lies’ were no longer grounds in themselves for a whole insurance claim to be thrown out.
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Close Brothers turns 40
UK-headquartered marine finance company Close Brothers Aviation and Marine recently announced its 40th birthday. The business was founded in 1976 by Victor Cannock, starting out as ‘Air and General Finance Limited’, before being acquired by Close Brothers in 1989.
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NewsAKD on trans-border arrests
Netherlands-based law firm AKD says suppliers of goods and services to the international shipping industry, such as bunker suppliers, can modify the jurisdiction clauses in their standard terms to explicitly include the Rotterdam Court, thereby making it possible to apply to the Rotterdam Court to issue trans-border arrest orders against ...
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NewsImmigration and manning rules for workboats in UK and Europe
A recent case, where a vessel was at risk of detention by Border Force UK, has thrown up some interesting questions concerning work permits, visas, immigration and manning rules, according to UK-headquartered marine solicitors Davies Johnson.
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Sonardyne acoustics for Red Sea seismic surveys
Norwegian seabed seismic services company Magseis has selected acoustic positioning equipment from Sonardyne International in the UK to support current deep water ocean bottom seismic surveys of the Red Sea in partnership with BGP on behalf of Saudi Aramco.
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iXblue expands vessel fleet
iXblue, the specialist French navigation, positioning and imaging company, has extended its fleet of vessels with commissioning of ''FeliX'', a 25-metre catamaran designed for hydrographic, biological and oceanographic missions.
