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Eredene Capital wins Indian project
UK based Eredene Capital Plc has won a bid to build and operate the container terminal at Ennore Port in Tamil Nadu in India. The estimated project cost of the Ennore Container Terminal is £207m.
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PD Ports confirms investment in Teesport
PD Ports has announced that it will channel significant investment into the first phase of expansion plans at Teesport in the UK, which will potentially involve some £29m of total investment.
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Durban Harbour project wins award
The South African Institution of Civil Engineering at Durban in South Africa has awarded Mott MacDonald of the UK its ‘Most Outstanding Civil Engineering Project Award’ for the widening of the entrance to Durban Harbour.
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DEME/Boskalis joint venture wins work in Mexico
Belgian dredging company DEME and Dutch dredging company Boskalis have been awarded an important contract in Mexico.
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NewsWalcon completes wind farm facility at Buxton Bight
Walcon Marine in the UK says work on the new Outer Harbour at Buxton’s Bight at Wells-next-the-Sea on the coast of Norfolk was recently completed.
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NewsThe BRAtt has arrived in style!
On 17 May delegates and visitors to the ITS 2010 Tug & Salvage Convention in Vancouver awoke to find the first prototype BRAtt training tug moored outside the Westin Bayshore Hotel.
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NewsThird catamaran for Sinbad Marine Services
Sinbad Marine Services, based in Killybegs, Co. Donegal, has just taken delivery of yet another new catamaran built by local boatyard Mooney Boats Ltd. This is the third catamaran built by Mooney Boats for Sinbad Marine Services in the past two years. This vessel is an addition to ...
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NewsBP wellhead efforts hoping for closure
Concerns that a new well head cap placed by BP on its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico could fail continue to delay testing.
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NewsSchools take up the Challenge for mariners’ charity
The Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society in the UK is calling on schools to take a Challenge and go walk about, at the same time as raising money for a good cause.
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NewsCory Riverside modernise Thames tug fleet - By Jack Gaston
The arrival of new purpose built tugs for what used to be referred to as the Thames ‘lighterage’ industry is an extremely rare occurrence.
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NewsSanmar deliver three specially adapted tugs to Lamnalco – by Jack Gaston
Sanmar Denizcilik Makine ve Ticaret Ltd, the Turkish tug owner and shipbuilder, has delivered three tugs to the Lamnalco Group.
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NewsRobert Allan and Voith introduce the RAVE – by Jack Gaston
Development in the towage sector continues to move on relentlessly. Just when it seems that every avenue in hull and propulsion design has been explored, yet another concept emerges.
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NewsWärtsilä and Robert Allan Ltd to cooperate – by Jack Gaston
Another announcement to delegates and the technical press at ITS 2010 highlighted the signing of a Letter of Intent by marine propulsion specialists Wärtsilä and Canadian ship design company Robert Allan Ltd to develop a Strategic Cooperation Agreement.
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NewsTOWLINES July 2010 – by Jack Gaston
Recently formed ALP Maritime Services BV of Rotterdam has set up a joint venture with Harms Bergung, Transport und Heavylift Gmbh & Co. KG. Hamburg based Harms has been active in the field of towage, offshore support/supply, salvage, heavy lift and heavy transport already for almost 160 years.
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NewsChinese giant blows into Scotland
SeaEnergy PLC say that its 80% subsidiary SeaEnergy Renewables Ltd (SERL) and Chinese company Nantong COSCO Ship Steel Structure Co. Ltd (NCSC) have signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement (SCA).
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NewsNew ISO standards to improve marine fuels
New editions of two ISO standards on marine fuels have been developed to meet higher international requirements for air quality, ship safety, engine performance and crew health.
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NewsTidal power regenerates Sunderland shipyards
The first of a new generation of tidal powered generators designed and built in the shipyards of Sunderland UK has set sail.
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NewsITS 2010 Vancouver
Delegates travelling to the International Tug & Salvage Convention and Exhibition ITS 2010 in May did so looking forward to this biennial event and what the host city of Vancouver, with its’ strong connections with the towage business, had to offer. They were not disappointed.
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NewsIce class tug gets warm bath for cold weather
The Neva escort tug being built by the Almaz Shipbuilding Company in St Petersburg is to be a universal emergency vessel for St Petersburg’s ecological services department. The Ice Class vessel will work in the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea and is thus equipped with deck equipment of ...
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NewsNew SARTs extend range for McMurdo
McMurdo Ltd’s Kannad Marine Safelink AIS SART has been granted the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Certificate of Type Approval. In accordance with MCA regulations, the SART can now be fitted to UK flagged vessels.
