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Mexican contract awarded to Jan de Nul
Mexicana De Dragados SA de CV, the Mexican branch of Belgium’ s Jan De Nul Group, has signed a contract with the port authorities of the Mexican Pacific ports of Ensenada, Mazatlan and Manzanillo for dredging work at the ports. Signed on 24 October, the contract has a total value ...
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NewsDEME wins orders worth ¢220m
Subsidiaries of Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering (DEME) in Zwijndrecht, Belgium, have secured contracts valued at more than € 220m in recent weeks.
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Defland Coast project gets under way
Van Oord in The Netherlands reports that the Defland Coast project has got underway. The Delfland Coast Consortium (Van Oord and Boskalis) began laying a pipeline on the beach at Hoek van Holland which was due to start pumping sand in late November/early December in order to create new dunes ...
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NewsVan Oord ensures easier and safer access to North Sea Canal
Dutch dredging and marine construction giant Van Oord has completed a project to deepen the navigable channel of the North Sea Canal in The Netherlands. Now, large ocean going vessels can once again pass each other on their way to and from the port of Amsterdam. A total of 4m ...
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NewsRefurbished Dockside Crane Honours Maritime Heritage
The protective coatings specialist Pyeroy Group has won a new contract to refurbish a 50 year old dock side crane as part of the £ 100 million Rochester Riverside regeneration project along the River Thames in Kent UK.
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News'Balmoral' Grows in Rapid Refit
November was a busy month for the former Norwegian Cruise Lines vessel ' Norwegian Crown' which sailed from New York to Hamburg to come off charter and be redelivered to owner Fred Olsen Cruise Lines.
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NewsUnderwater services secure historic Barbican
There is a rich seam of history attached to the Barbican in Plymouth UK. It is from here that Sir Francs Drake sailed to defeat the Spanish Armada and from the Mayflower Steps here that the Pilgrim Fathers sailed to the New World.
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NewsLondon meeting today aims to make offshore wind turbines economical
Energy companies, civil engineers, shipbuilders and regional development agencies meet in London today to discuss the feasibility of building clean energy wind farms in deep waters offshore of the UK.
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NewsCurrach conference next week in Irelands
The first ever conference on traditional boats and currachs in Ireland will take place in Ennis, County Clare on Saturday, 6 December 2008.
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NewsNew control centre boosts Humber safety
Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, opened the Port of Immingham’ s new Marine Control Centre on Monday, which was built following an investment of £ 750,000 by Associated British Ports (ABP), the owner and operator of the port.
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NewsBig boxster breaks Southampton record
The arrival of the CMA CGM Vela on Tuesday set a new terminal record for the largest declared containership to call at DP World Southampton.
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NewsQE2 grounds before final voyage
It seemed for a moment early on Tuesday morning that the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2 was putting off leaving its native land for retirement in Dubai.
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NewsQM2 completes Queens' busy week
It has been an eventful week for Cunard Line' s classic Queens QE2 and QM2. First the QE2 ran aground approaching the UK Port of Southampton early on Tuesday morning and today its big sister QM2 sails for Southampton after a major refit in Hamburg.
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NewsTimely conference adds value to Intermodal 2008
An ever stronger imperative is growing for environmentally sound and cost effective transport of goods to and from ports.
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NewsUK marine economy contributes £50bn to annual GDP
The Crown Estate in the UK, which manages the hereditary possessions of the Sovereign and delivered £ 211.4m of revenue directly to the Exchequer in the last tax year, has published its report titled Socio-economic indicators of marine-related activities in the UK economy.
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NewsPlea today for Scotland's marine energy
Scotland risks losing its position as the global leader in wave and tidal power unless rapid steps are taken to put in place vital infrastructure, the head of a green energy trade body have warned at a major conference today.
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NewsGlobal reach for Dutch dredging components
Netherlands based dredging and offshore vessel builder IHC Merwede have opened a new factory in China for heavy industrial components. The facility in Guangdong Province will serve both the Chinese and global markets.
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NewsAppledore strikers look for support
Following workers' strike action on Fridays and Mondays at Babcock Group' s Appledore Shipbuilders in the UK, Unite and GMB union delegates are looking for ' leverage' by getting the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions on their side.
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NewsFirst day at work for new Boskalis dredger
The latest vessel to join Royal Boskalis Westminster' s fleet of dredgers started its maiden dredge operation at the Harwich Maintenance Contract in Harwich Haven last month.
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NewsHadag takes 10th in series
Hamburg' s city owned Hadag ferry and excursion boat operator has marked ten years of operation by taking its tenth Class 2000 ferry, Wilhelmsburg, into service and placing orders for two more.
