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NewsDutch tide turns in the Westerschelde
The C-Energy consortium installed a support structure for the first Dutch tidal energy demonstration project last week. The project is located at the Marine Terminal of the Total Refinery within the municipality of Borsele in the Westerschelde. Over the next two months all electronics and the rotor will be installed.
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NewsFirst Ocean Cat launched this month.
A new design catamaran for the offshore wind market is due to be launched this month. The Ocean Cat, a 16m aluminium work catamaran designed by Marine Design International Ltd., is under construction at Mooney Boats in Killybegs for Sinbad Marine Services, and is part of the same design family ...
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NewsA simpler form of wave power
Trident Energy is a marine renewables energy company that has developed a unique and low cost system for converting sea wave energy directly into electricity.
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NewsLink up with linkspan experts at Seawork
Central to the revamping of Bologne as a major European hub port with fast Ro-Ro and passenger service turnaround is the new twin deck linkspan which will start to operate at the beginning of July.
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NewsNew harbour for Bremerhaven tugs
A new € 11m harbour with eight permanent berths for tugs and two emergency berths has been completed in Bremerhaven as a spin-off to the port’ s € 233m Kaiserschleuse development.
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NewsBritish D-Day engineer honoured in France
Wartime necessity occasionally inspires moments of genius and one of the great marine civil engineering innovations of World War 2 was the Mulberry Harbour, the landing bridges critical to success of the D-Day landings at Normandy in June 1944.
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NewsMalmo moves on port expansion
A major new European port project is just entering into construction, shrugging off the global credit crisis and aiming at the upswing.
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NewsFehmarn engineering plans go ahead
A start has been made on planning one of the world’ s largest fixed links with the appointment of two European engineering consultancy groups to plan both a bridge and a tunnel across the Baltic’ s Fehmarn Belt between Germany and Denmark, even though only one project will be chosen.
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NewsBAM Nuttall at work on Olympic site
Work is now well underway on a project that aims to create hundreds of new jobs on Portland UK after the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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NewsTake a stand against ALWC at Seawork
Accelerated Low Water Corrosion (ALWC), the devastating effect of the tiny charge from seawater interacting with pilings, is now well known. However it is also something that many ports would rather keep quiet about, although a recent British survey revealed that up to 90% of them have been affected.
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NewsWarnemünde completes new cruise shipping facility
The third and final stage of Rostock-Warnemü nde’ s new Berth 8 cruise shipping facility has been completed, just in time for the opening of this year’ s cruise shipping season which the port is hoping will set a new record.
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NewsConditions challenge wind farm cable layers
As senior project manager Peter Mckenzie-Midlane told MJ , CTC Marine Projects is operating in some ‘ challenging’ conditions on the Robin Rigg Offshore Wind Farm in the Solway Firth of Cumbria UK.
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NewsLonglife solution with new composite decking
There is something new afoot – or rather, underfoot. It comes in the shape of a composite timber decking product that, the manufacturer claims, is actually better than traditional wood.
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NewsDigitised data assists coastal water quality studies
Detailed marine mapping is being used to understand factors affecting the quality of water off the Yorkshire coast.
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NewsA patch in time and the catch is fine
Miko patches came to the rescue on recently when the 60m stern trawler MV Nybo was struck by another trawler whilst at anchor at Vadsø in the Varanger Fjord, Norway. The early morning collision resulted in the Nybo sustaining a 300cm by 40cm gash in its hull through which water ...
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NewsDredger in boxes transforms Lake Tanganyika
A Damen field service engineer has recently returned from his site visit to Kigoma, Tanzania where he presided over the assembly of a dredger of type DOP CSD350 and put it into operation. The dredger was able to start its job in the heart of Africa immediately, as it had ...
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NewsTOWLINES - June 2009
KBV003, the third of a trio of sophisticated emergency response vessels ordered from Damen Shipyards by the Swedish Coastguard, was launched on 18 May at the Galatz yard in Romania (see Maritime Journal – May 2009). The first vessel, KBV001, was ready to be handed over to its owners at ...
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NewsTransmission milestone for Seawork sponsor
Seawork exhibitor and Gala Dinner sponsor ZF Marine has supplied marine transmissions for two 69m vehicle/passenger catamaran ferries, Jazan and Farasan, for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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NewsMCA publishes 'Our Plans for 2009-10'
The UK’ s Maritime and Coastguard Agency announced the publication of its ' Our Plans for 2009-10' leaflet last Friday.
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Fast cat arrives for Ro-Ro breakthrough
LD Lines' brand new catamaran, Norman Arrow, arrived in the Dover Straits and the Port of Dover last month following completion of a three week delivery voyage from Hobart, Tasmania.
