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    Drew Marine acquisition

    2013-02-14T17:15:00Z

    Drew Marine has completed the acquisition of Alexander/Ryan Marine and Safety Inc., and it will join the organisation under the name Alexander/Ryan Marine & Safety division of Drew Marine.

  • Shipdock operates ship repair facilities in Amsterdam and Harlingen
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    Damen Group acquires Shipdock

    2013-02-14T16:50:00Z

    Shipdock, a well known Dutch shipyard group with roots dating back to 1877, has been acquired by the Damen Shipyards Group.

  • Norfolk Tern is seen under build at the Aurora Yachts yard in China
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    Irish eyes will be smiling at Seawork

    2013-02-14T15:41:00Z

    Irish marine and commercial diving contractors Norfolk Marine Ltd will be exhibiting alongside the pontoon for the first time at Seawork 2013 with a 17.1m aluminium wind farm support vessel built in cooperation with Aurora Yachts of Dalian in China.

  • The vessel is intended for North Sea diving operations on a year round basis
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    Cooperation key to dive support vessel design

    2013-02-14T07:30:00Z

    Wärtsilä has signed a contract for the design of a new diving support vessel (DSV) to be built for Subsea 7, the seabed-to-surface engineering, construction, and services contractor to the offshore energy industry.

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    Dive support workboats add operational range

    2013-02-14T07:30:00Z

    Two dive support workboats arrived at the Hydrex headquarters in Antwerp in December. Both vessels can be used for a wide range of operations in Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and France.

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    Smartfind makes Miami debut

    2013-02-14T07:30:00Z

    McMurdo will introduce the Smartfind S20 Survivor Recovery System (SRS) at the 2013 Miami International Boat Show this month.

  • Graeme Kidd, managing director at S3
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    Windfarm work helps towards tripled turnover

    2013-02-14T07:30:00Z

    Aberdeen UK based Specialist Subsea Services (S3), a provider of ROV, survey and vessel services to the international energy industry, is celebrating a successful year since winning Subsea UK’s New Enterprise award last year.

  • Philip Bannerman: “We wanted to be closer to where our customers are.”
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    WTS taps into US offshore market

    2013-02-13T16:53:00Z

    Wilhelmsen Technical Solutions (WTS) has opened an office in Houston, Texas, to service growing demand in the offshore energy market in the US Gulf and South America.

  • Neil Mellenchip, business development manager, SeaKing Electrical
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    SeaKing completes West African upgrade

    2013-02-13T15:07:00Z

    UK based marine engineering company, SeaKing Electrical, recently completed a contract to upgrade an offshore support tug for Italy’s Andofe Shipping Management in the Republic of Congo, Western Africa.

  • Conquest MB1 has recently completed sea trials off the Dutch coast
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    Floating vessel to crane barge lift trials

    2013-02-13T07:30:00Z

    Offshore lifting trials with the crane barge Conquest MB1 and the cargo/supply vessel Abis Dublin have been successfully completed.

  • The windfarm will produce 1,290GWh per year
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    Renewables fund

    2013-02-12T17:17:00Z

    The Marguerite Fund, an equity fund set up by six major European financial institutions to invest in Greenfield and expansion projects, has acquired a 22.5% stake in the German Greenfield Butendiek offshore windfarm.

  • A Fibrelight Emergency Ladder was successfully deployed and tested lst month on board a MOL LNG vessel at the Isle of Grain
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    Wind turbine potential for emergency ladder

    2013-02-12T07:30:00Z

    A new development in emergency ladders, which has just been granted the SOLAS Certificate of Type Approval SAS S120038 by Lloyd’s Register, could be fitted to offshore wind turbines, providing a means of disembarking following damage to fixed ladders.

  • The artificial island plan was announced in what would be the nearby Belgian port of Zeebrugge
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    Artificial island for wind energy storage

    2013-02-12T07:30:00Z

    Belgian authorities have developed plans to create an artificial island off their coastline as a scheme to store wind energy power.

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    DONG to build windfarm off Yorkshire coast

    2013-02-12T07:30:00Z

    DONG Energy has announced plans build the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm off the Holderness UK coast.

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    Double digit Fos

    2013-02-12T07:30:00Z

    Container throughput at Marseilles Fos rose 13% in 2012, led by a 16% surge in deepsea volumes at the leading French cargo port.

  • CSI 2013 will bridge the interface between technical factors and human factors as they relate to fast craft crew safety
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    Crew Systems Integration Conference

    2013-02-11T18:00:00Z

    Dorset UK based fast response craft training provider FRC International is hosting the CSI 2013 - Crew Systems Integration Conference from 2 to 4 July 2013 at the RNLI Lifeboat College in Poole, UK.

  • 'Arctic Spirit'
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    Third LNG carrier for Damen Shiprepair Brest

    2013-02-11T15:52:00Z

    Damen Shiprepair Brest, one of the Damen Group’s 11 shipyards, recently welcomed the third LNG carrier, the ‘Arctic Spirit’, owned and managed by Bermuda based marine services company, Teekay.

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    Construction starts on Waasland canal berths

    2013-02-11T07:30:00Z

    Construction work has started on a new 645m quay at the head of the Waasland canal, in the Antwerp port area on the left bank.

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    MMT awarded a cable route survey contract

    2013-02-11T07:30:00Z

    Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission plc (SHE Transmission) has awarded MMT Sweden the HVDC cable re-route survey from Shetland to the Caithness landfall.

  • Mal Stein: convincing a conservative industry to try something new
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    The importance of communication

    2013-02-08T11:28:00Z

    Mal Stein of UK based marine electrical engineering specialists SeaKing knows the importance of communications.