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NewsMore Meercats emerge with company move
Seawork exhibitor Meercat Workboats Ltd is gearing up to deliver an expanded range of craft to shorter lead times following the move of their production facility to the historic No5 Boat Shop at Trafalgar Wharf in Porchester UK.
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NewsMarine electronics surge at Seawork
Marine electronics distributor C A Clase (UK) Ltd will present the new Nauticomp Centric GB Series of IMO approved display screens and the new KVH TracPhone FB150 satellite communications system for the first time at this year''s Seawork International.
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NewsNorth Sea Winches’ expanded range at Seawork
Specialist marine winch manufacturing company North Sea Winches will be exhibiting at Seawork for the 8th successive year in June following a busy time at the show last year and a string of orders resulting from direct contacts made there.
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NewsWaterjets for wind farm boats at Seawork
Seawork 2010 exhibitor Ultra Dynamics has now supplied three sets of twin UltraJet UJ377 Waterjet installations to South Boats for their New Mk II GRP 43/12m Wind Farm Support Vessel (WFSV) catamarans RRV Audrey, Offshore Response 1, and Spike Islander.
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NewsExpanded dredge pump range on show at Seawork
Italdraghe, with its UK agent Andrew Scott, will once again be exhibiting at Seawork and this year will be showcasing its newly expanded range of dredging pumps.
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Partrac in Sediview software agency agreement
Glasgow UK based marine environmental consultancy Partrac Ltd has made a worldwide agency agreement (excluding Australia) for Sediview software.
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MPA study published by Defra
A study led by ABPmer on options for taking account of social-economic factors in the planning of marine protected areas (MPA) networks, has been published by Defra in the UK.
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Abu Dhabi ‘on track’ with Mussafah dredging
The authorities in Abu Dhabi are reportedly on track to complete by US$409m project to construct a channel that will improve access to the Mussafah industrial zone by the middle of 2010.
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DHI sees key role for modelling software
DHI in Denmark says it believes its MIKE hydrodynamic modelling software has a key role to play in dredging operations where there may be contaminated sediment.
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News‘Simon Stevin’ to start work offshore Australia
Jan de Nul''s new mining and fallpipe vessel ‘Simon Stevin’ has departed for Australia for its first two rock dumping projects; a free span correction on the Pluto pipeline in 80m of water, and the construction of a pipeline crossing for the Reindeer pipeline over the Pluto pipeline.
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NewsJan De Nul Group awarded dredging project in Iraq
The Belgian Jan De Nul Group has signed a contract for the deepening of Umm Qasr Port in the southernmost tip of Iraq, near the border with Kuwait. The port is Iraq’s gateway to the Arabian Gulf and a lifeline for import of mixed cargo and bulk goods. Over the ...
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Birse Civils collect award for Stanah sea defences
The £1.2m Stanah Sea Defences project for the Environment Agency (EA) in the UK has been awarded a Project Excellence Award for ‘Health and Safety/Managing Environmental Risk’.
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NewsLondon Gateway dredging about to get under way
Although aspects of the project are still subject to review, dredging work for the London Gateway port project is to get under way in March, according to the dredging contractor who will be responsible for the project, DEME.
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NewsBand of workboats depart Felixstowe
The first phase of the Felixstowe South Reconfiguration (FSR) is almost complete, apart from the land-side works, and all the various dredgers, hopper barges, survey vessels and ancillary craft have now left the port.
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NewsWind farm jack-ups to Wärtsilä-IMS design
Wärtsilä, in consortium with IMS Ingenieurgesellschaft GmbH, has been engaged by RWE Innogy, the renewable energy arm of the German utility company RWE, as its designer to provide the basic design and consultancy services for a jack up crane vessel.
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NewsBorkum completes German Customs SWATH duo
The second of two 49.35m SWATH ships for German Customs has entered service after completion at the Nordseewerke Shipyard in Emden.
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NewsMarine power mapping project to proceed
A project to map offshore renewable energy potential around the coast of South West England was announced last week.
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NewsDredging exemptions to Marine (Scotland) Bill?
The Marine (Scotland) Bill (the Scottish Bill) is now at stage three of the parliamentary process, writes Rosie O’Donnell, an Associate in the Shipping Transport team of Brodies LLP, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
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NewsDutch coastline redrawn as Maasvlakte 2 takes shape - by Peter Barker
Dutch cartographers face the task of redrawing their maps of Holland due to the country growing in size by a few square kilometres. The Maasvlakte 2 port expansion project in Rotterdam has progressed steadily and what was until recently an offshore island reclaimed from the North Sea now connected to ...
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News£80m outer harbour at Great Yarmouth opens
Great Yarmouth''s new outer harbour at EastPort UK opened last month with global port group PSA International, grain business Gleadell Agricultural Ltd, and crushed rock supplier Stema Shipping (UK) Ltd all in place with a long term commitment to the multi-purpose outer harbour.
