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NewsFassmer Builds Research Ship for Fugro
Fassmer in North Germany is designing and building a state of the art 65m LOA geophysical survey vessel for Holland’ s Fugro Group, which is active worldwide in the collection and interpretation of data related to the earth’ s surface and sea beds.
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NewsAdriatic Coast Setting for Maritime Law Event
The International Legal Maritime Conference 2008 is being planned to take place in Ancona, Italy, one of the country' s largest Adriatic ports. The event is scheduled as part of an ongoing series of International Business Player conferences that are organised by the law firm Bacciardi and Partners of Pesaro ...
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NewsTTS Builds Key Port Structures
TTS Port Equipment is building a new passenger gangway as part of the ambitious new development at Port of Risavika in Stavanger, Norway. The port has acquired 400,000m2 of land for development, including a new ferry terminal for vessels with passenger and rolling cargo, a container terminal and an LNG ...
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NewsHutchison to Develop Plan for Irish Port
Bremore Ireland Port Ltd, the joint venture between Drogheda Port Company and Castle Market Holdings Ltd, has announced that it plans to develop a Port Master Plan with Hutchison Westports Ltd for the new € 300m deepwater port at Bremore in north County Dublin.
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Atkins Selected for New Chinese Port
Atkins has been selected to design a major new container port in China. The project is at Mei Shan Island, about 25 km northeast of Ningbo and will be potentially one of the most important bonded container ports in China. A manufacturing zone will also feature, as well as business, ...
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NewsMaltese Project Gets Go-Ahead
Malta' s House of Representatives has unanimously approved a motion to allow an extension of Malta Freeport through land reclamation. The motion also makes possible an extension of the lease of the facility to French group CMA CGM by 35 years to 65 years.
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Boskalis and Dredeco to Do Newcastle Dredging
Royal Boskalis Westminster and DEME Group' s Australian subsidiary Dredeco have secured a large scale joint venture dredging contract for the expansion of the coal export harbour at Newcastle in Australia.
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Expansion Plan for Cape Town Unveiled
Cape Town, South Africa' s second largest port, has launched a US$613m expansion project to increase terminal handling capacity and improve port infrastructure. The move comes after Cape Town posted a 13% increase in volume last year.
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DEME Secures Another Australian Project
DEME, the Belgian dredging contractor, has been awarded a contract to deepen a berth at Fisherman’ s Island, Gladstone in Queensland, Australia.
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NewsEMSA Oil Recovery Vessel Contracts Finalised
The European Marine Safety Agency (EMSA) has recently awarded contracts worth € 18.4m over three years that will see seven oil product tankers, three from the UK, two Spanish, one Maltese and one Greek, joining their fleet of oil recovery vessels to be made available at short notice in specific ...
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NewsHungry SludgeHammer Eats Marine Waste
The Liverpool based Bibby Line, which owns and operates ships, offshore units and floating accommodation barges, recently deployed a vessel of the latter type, ' Bibby Progress' , to Nigeria, where it was to house some 700 workers for a number of months.
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NewsSubsea Tracker Aids Windfarm Connections
An Easytrak USBL subsea tracking system from Great Yarmouth UK based Applied Acoustics is being used by integrated survey services company Gardline Environmental Limited, which is active in deep water, coastal and inland waterway environments.
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NewsEurope Seabed Resource Available Online
Maps and images of seabed habitat, geology and biological data in the seas around North West Europe can now be viewed online. This huge resource has been created by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee in a five nation project called, The Development of a Framework for Mapping European Seabed Habitats, ...
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NewsSeaOtter Succeeds Despite the Freeze
American environmental services company Clean Harbors has successfully completed two more inspection projects using their SeaOtter ROV.
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NewsROVism Brings Realism to Underwater Training
Marine Simulation LLC has released Volume One of the ROVsim Undersea Pilot Series, which is a collection of physics accurate, visually realistic and highly configurable ROV simulators intended for ROV and marine professionals and based on Marine Simulation' s ROVsim simulator.
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NewsUnderwater Thruster Removal Speeds Repair
To avoid the drydocking of a 126m LPG tanker, Hydrex was recently hired to remove the vessel’ s thruster and bring it to the manufacturer for repairs while it was berthed at Moerdijk in the Netherlands.
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NewsDutch Dredging Upgrades Survey System
Dutch Dredging, based at Sliedrecht in the Netherlands, has awarded Reson Rotterdam a contract to upgrade their existing Guidance and Monitoring Systems (GMS) on board the trailing suction hopper dredger Amazone) to that of PDS2000 Hopper.
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NewsSteady Progress on Thames Estuary Wind Farms
With no fewer than six offshore windfarm projects underway, the Thames Estuary is seeing a steady increase in activity as progress towards the construction phases gathers pace.
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NewsUK Consent for Walney Wind Farm
The UK Government’ s Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks has given consent for a major 450MW offshore wind farm project in the Irish Sea 14km from Walney Island, off the coast of Cumbria.
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NewsSeaGen Installation Set for Strangford Lough
New plans to install the word’ s first commercial scale tidal energy system in Northern Ireland’ s Strangford Lough were published earlier this month by tidal energy company, Marine Current Turbines Ltd.
