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NewsEffective crew communication at Seawork
Savox Communications, which specialises in the provision of professional communication solutions which improve the effectiveness of individuals working in hazardous environments, will make its first appearance at Seawork this year.
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NewsFalmouth project wins local support
More than 1,000 people have signed a petition backing a £20m plan to dredge the entrance to Falmouth harbour to encourage cruise ships to use the port. The plan was blocked by the EU because of fears that dredging could destroy maerl beds.
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NewsClean energy for Korea
A European company is about to help Korea utilise the enormous potential of clean, CO2-free energy from the oceans.
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Gibraltar’s beaches to be replenished
Beach replenishment works are scheduled to take place at Catalan Bay and Sandy Bay in Gibraltar in the middle of this month in preparation for the forthcoming summer season.
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Swathe Services offers LiDAR capability
Equipment rental specialist Swathe Services of Saltash in Cornwall UK, which recently acquired a third Sonic 2024 broadband multibeam system from R2Sonic in California, is to provide an airborne LiDAR (light detection and ranging) service for coastal and shallow water mapping under a newly formed subsidiary, SAS Ltd.
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NewsDivers raise Normandy landing vessel
UK diving specialist Falmouth Divers Ltd has raised the former Normandy landing vessel Yarmouth Navigator, which sank with the loss of one life at the end of January 2011 in Cattewater, Plymouth UK.
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NewsISU Pollution Prevention Survey results
The International Salvage Union (ISU) has announced the results of its annual Pollution Prevention Survey for 2010, which show a significant decrease in the tonnages of pollutants salved by ISU members in 2010.
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NewsMPI Adventure arrives in the UK
The construction of offshore wind farms in European waters has received a significant boost with the arrival at the UK port of Harwich on Monday of the first of two dedicated wind turbine installation vessels (WTIV).
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NewsACES high with a green trump card
Bodewes Binnenvaart bv (part of the Damen Shipyards Group) has pioneered a unique way of meeting increasingly strict environmental standards while simultaneously saving on fuel costs - ACES.
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NewsFavourable winds blow into Grimsby
Centrica, the energy group whose businesses include British Gas, has signed a long term lease that will enable it to build an operation and maintenance base at Grimsby docks to serve its wind farms.
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NewsFast progress at German box terminal
Construction is “moving along fast” and on target at Germany’s €1bn deepwater JadeWeser Container Port (JWP) in Wilhelmshaven, now due to start first phase operation in August next year.
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Anglo-Swedish alliance
Marin Mätteknik AB (MMT) of Gothenburg, Sweden and NetSurvey of Banbury in the UK have merged their operations, having closely collaborated on various hydrographic survey assignments during the last six years.
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News€233m lock opens in Bremerhaven
Germany’s new €233m Kaiserschleuse ship lock in Bremerhaven has been inaugerated, giving easier access to car terminals and shipyards on the port’s inner harbours.
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NewsMARIN moves closer to DeepCWind
The Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN) is in the closing stages of testing three different floating wind turbine concepts for the DeepCwind Consortium (USA), led by the University of Maine.
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NewsHytech acquisition strengthens IHC Merwede
Netherlands based specialist vessel builder IHC Merwede acquired vessel equipment supplier Hytech on Tuesday, further securing its position in the offshore market.
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NewsSkrunda makes it an even SWATH dozen from A & R
Abeking & Rasmussen’s latest, the Latvian offshore patrol boat Skrunda, is the twelfth SWATH vessel built by the German yard since 1999, but the first of its type completed there for naval patrol service.
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New quay for the Tyne
A £3m West Quay has been built at A&P Tyne’s ship repair and fabrication yard, part of a massive investment programme undertaken by the Group in the past three years.
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NewsFurther harbour work at Ramsgate
Facilities at the south east UK port of Ramsgate are once again being upgraded with the installation of new breakwaters, pontoons and additional dredging work.
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NewsDeal delivers offshore renewables vessel
Aberdeen UK based SeaHold GeoShips Limited (GeoShips) has chartered its first new multi-purpose offshore vessel to support the growing offshore renewable energy market and the subsea sector.
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NewsConference on underwater pollution threats
An international conference, Wrecks of the World II: Evaluating and Addressing Potential Underwater Threats, will take place on 6 and 7 June in Maryland USA to investigate global pollution concerns.
