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  • The windfarm will be located 8km off the East Yorkshire coast
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    Gardline to survey E.ON windfarm

    2013-05-03T15:22:00Z

    The UK’s Gardline Marine Sciences Limited’s (GMSL) wildlife department has been contracted by energy group, E.ON, to carry out construction phase environmental surveys for the Humber Gateway offshore windfarm off the East Yorkshire coast.

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    Port life publication

    2013-05-03T15:15:00Z

    The second edition of Harwich Ahoy!, an occasional publication on behalf of the Harwich Lifeboat station and crew, has just been published, with a web version available online at www.harwich-ahoy.co.uk

  • Tony Hanson: "This will have a positive affect on all markets"
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    Solace Global supports UK changes

    2013-05-03T11:09:00Z

    The UK''s private maritime securty company (PMSC), Solace Global Mariitme, is supporting the UK’s input for changes to the international management standards, BS EN ISO9001.

  • Teledyne TSS’s new gyro changeover system ensures that equipment such as DP control centres, ECDIS and voyage data recorders are never without a gyro input
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    New Teledyne TSS gyrocompass system

    2013-05-03T11:00:00Z

    Following recent recorded sales of equipment worth £1.7m to Seatronics in Aberdeen, Teledyne TSS of Watford UK has launched a new gyrocompass changeover system for protection of navigation equipment against sudden loss of heading input.

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    Novel pipeline tracking system

    2013-05-03T11:00:00Z

    Subsea cable and pipeline specialist Innovatum of Bury St Edmunds UK has developed a novel area survey system, or ‘Wing’, as a complement to its magnetic cable and tracking systems.

  • HMS Bulwark monitored more than 50 square miles of sea around the Olympic venue
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    Servowatch system monitored the Olympics

    2013-05-03T11:00:00Z

    The 2012 Olympics tested not just the athletic skills of sports people worldwide, but also the prowess of the organisers who had to make it a highly successful and memorable event for the participants and the global audience.

  • The 160m extension to the existing Hatston Pier attracted £3.2m in support from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and has resulted in a major support and logistics base strategically located for EMEC’s tidal energy test site
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    Scotland’s longest berth opens for renewables

    2013-05-02T16:20:00Z

    Scotland’s longest commercial deepwater berth has been created in Orkney with the completion of a new extension at Hatston Pier on the outskirts of Kirkwall.

  • As well as this restructure, BMT Surveys has launched a dedicated Risk & Quality division to reflect an industry demand for loss prevention
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    BMT restructures marine survey businesses

    2013-05-02T16:20:00Z

    BMT Group Ltd (BMT) has announced that marine surveying companies BMT De Beer and BMT Techmar became BMT Surveys on the 1 May.

  • The Triplex MDH 42 can lift, move and park heavy anchors up to 42 tonnes
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    Triplex contract with BOA Offshore

    2013-05-02T16:19:00Z

    Norwegian marine equipment provider, Triplex AS, has secured an order from BOA Offshore for its Multi Deck Handling (MDH) 42.

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    Fuels foil Fos

    2013-05-02T07:30:00Z

    Despite growth in deepsea containers and other key trades, total cargo throughput at the French port Marseilles Fos fell 9% to 20m tonnes to the end of March, a 2MT drop on the first quarter last year.

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    World Hydrography Day

    2013-05-02T07:30:00Z

    ‘Hydrography - Underpinning the Blue Economy’ is the theme chosen by the International Hydrographic Organization for this year’s UN World Hydrography Day on 21 June.

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    ENC web service launched

    2013-05-02T07:30:00Z

    French company Geomod and its UK partner OceanWise in Hampshire, which in collaboration with Valeport and Wood & Douglas is set to deliver a tidal monitoring, telemetry and display system with eight monitoring stations to the Port of London Authority, have launched an Electronic Navigational Chart web service for delivery ...

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    Stick with GPS

    2013-05-02T07:30:00Z

    Now available from Norwich UK based Norcom Technology is Navistick 4Gb, a USB dongle with a built-in GPS receiver and 4 Gigabytes of storage.

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    SP Gears acquired

    2013-05-01T19:56:00Z

    The Virginia USA based PT Group has acquired SP Gears, a British specialist gear manufacturer based in Orpington, Kent.

  • Incat’s new 24m catamaran passenger ferry for Sealink
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    New Incat Crowther ferry

    2013-05-01T19:55:00Z

    Australian naval architect, Incat Crowther, has designed a new 24m catamaran passenger ferry currently under construction for Sydney Harbour’s Sealink.

  • The vessels will be used for hydrographic surveys in the Congo River
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    Alu Marine completes survey vessels

    2013-05-01T16:32:00Z

    French shipbuilder, Alu Marine, has completed the construction of two 7.80m aluminium survey vessels for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

  • The two vessels were loaded direct from the water in Rotterdam
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    Workboat shipping solutions at Seawork

    2013-05-01T07:30:00Z

    First time Seawork exhibitor, PM SHIPPING GmbH, has successfully shipped many commercial workboats since its inception in 2010 but one of the more complex and demanding projects was the shipment of two 100 tonne patrol boats from Rotterdam to Lagos.

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    Italy propels Russia

    2013-05-01T07:30:00Z

    Eliche Radice S.p.A. became the first Italian company certified by the Russian River Register last month.

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    Tonnage fall

    2013-04-30T19:56:00Z

    The port of Antwerp handled 46,997,502 tonnes of freight in the first three months of this year, an increase of 1.4% compared with the same period in 2012.

  • Elebia Evo automatic crane hooks speed up the loading process and make it safer
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    New automatic crane hook at Seawork

    2013-04-30T15:57:00Z

    UK product solutions company, Red Plant, has introduced an innovative new automatic crane hook which promises to remove the risk associated with port operatives performing the dangerous duty of hooking or unhooking a load.