Latest News – Page 890
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NewsMonitor your vessel’s requirements at Seawork 2010
The latest generation of Radamec DARAD monitor and alarm system has recently been fitted to Southampton based Hanson Aggregates dredger Arco Dart, replacing the aging Racal Decca system.
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News‘Building with Nature’ wins dredging paper award
Stefan Aarninkhof of Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster and his colleagues at EcosShape | Building with Nature, Jan van Dalfsen and Jan Mulder (Deltares) and Daan Rijks (DHV Consultants), won the CEC Best Paper Award for their work entitled ‘Sustainable Development of Nourished Shorelines’.
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NewsPiling success boosts pier maintenance project
Worthing Borough Council on the UK south coast is currently performing essential maintenance to the timber framed landing stage that surrounds the end of the West Sussex town’s approximate 150 year old Grade II listed pier.
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NewsDamen designs a pollution fighter for Vietnam
Damen’s new Multi Purpose Vessel, particularly suited for oil spill response, is set to enter service in the next few weeks in Vietnam after undergoing successful sea trials. Kitted with two large sweeping arms, this is the first time an oil spill response vessel of this type has been operated ...
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NewsJWP construction on target amid dispute over opening
Construction of Germany’s €1bn deepwater JadeWeser Port (JWP) at Wilhelmshaven on the North Sea is on track despite political wrangling over opening dates.
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NewsNew base is forerunner to planned Weser offshore port
Part of Bremerhaven Container Terminal is being leased to wind energy firm RWE Innogy as an interim construction and assembly base for offshore wind turbines until the Weser can build an offshore port by about 2015.
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NewsSwansea Dry Docks ‘Open for Business’
Following the successful use of Swansea Dry Docks for the refit and refurbishment of Saga Pearl II, now successfully cruising, and work on MV Julia, which is now plying the Fastnet Ferry Cork-Swansea overnight route, and emergency repair work on the 65m hopper dredger Heron, Harris Pye Group (HPG) has ...
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NewsSurvey contracts award for Barrow and Burbo Bank
BOWind has awarded the survey inspection and remedial works contract for the Barrow Offshore Wind Farm export cable to subsea cable specialists, Offshore Marine Management (OMM). OMM has also been awarded the cable surveys contract for Burbo Bank by developer DONG Energy.
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NewsWave Hub on course for summer deployment
Wave Hub, the pioneering marine energy project, is on course to be deployed this summer with fabrication of sub-sea cables and the hub itself nearing completion.
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NewsCFPA renews itself with offshore wind
Handling over 150 complete wind turbines units in the last five years, the operator of one of Scotland’s premier deepwater ports, Cromarty Firth Port Authority (CFPA), has established itself as a renewable energy centre for the import, logistics and storage of wind farm components
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NewsNavaids light first floating wind turbine
Tideland Signal has supplied Norway’s Statoil ASA with a comprehensive package of aids to navigation to warn shipping in the vicinity of its revolutionary Hywind floating wind turbine.
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NewsPolar Bear plans to prove global warming
Adventurer and TV personality Bear Grylls is planning his next epic RIB adventure, which will take place in August when he traverses Canada’s infamous North West Passage from east to west aboard an 11m Zodiac MACH II Hurricane RIB.
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NewsSecond dome goes down to plug Gulf spill
The second of BP’s spill containment domes was deployed yesterday in another to attempt to cap off the main oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. However, the action is not yet completed, and there will still be tense moments in the hook-up phase yet to come. The dome has ...
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NewsMilford Haven looks to the future
Milford Haven Port Authority (MHPA) in the UK announced the start of a series of consultations this week as part of a master planning process, the aim of which is to determine the future development requirements of the Port over the next thirty years.
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NewsSuperferry sails on Sunday
The first of the world’s two largest Superferries will sail the North Sea between Harwich and the Hook of Holland when Stena Line puts it into service on Sunday.
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NewsRapid response boat to Gulf of Mexico
With some 210,000 gallons of oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster still spilling into the Gulf of Mexico daily, Seattle USA based Kvichak Marine Industries has delivered a 30'' Rapid Response Skimmer to Environmental Safety & Health (ES&H) in Houma, Louisiana.
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NewsREMPEC holds regional workshop on MARPOL Implementation
The Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC) organized a regional workshop recently on the implementation of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL).
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NewsTriton heralds entry to new workboat markets
BWSeaCat Ltd is perhaps an unfamiliar name with many MJ readers, but 2010 has seen rapid growth for the Fareham UK based company which specialises in the design and build of commercial powered catamarans.
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NewsEngineering attempt readied to stem US oil spill
Today the world seems to be holding it’s breath to see if BP’s latest attempt to contain the oil gushing from the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico will work.
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NewsGlobal shortage of seafarers addressed
The increasingly severe shortage of seafarers and its future impact on the global maritime industry will be addressed at an international seminar at the headquarters of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in London on 11 May.
