Marine Civils – Page 42
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NewsWinch contract awarded for Norway’s largest construction vessel
Aberdeenshire, UK-headquartered deck machinery specialist, ACE Winches, informs us that it has recently been awarded a spooling contract with Vard Group AS for Norway’s largest construction vessel.
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NewsRamboll to help berth ‘Sir David’
Danish marine engineering consultancy Ramboll has been appointed as Technical Advisor for British Antarctic Survey (BAS), to support projects in the Antarctic region and in the UK.
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NewsVolkerStevin begins work to further improve Colwyn Bay’s Waterfront
UK civil engineering firm VolkerStevin is now commencing the second phase of improvement works at the Colwyn Bay Promenade Enhancement project, after being awarded the project by Conwy County Borough Council in North Wales.
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NewsMega Jack European debut
UK heavy lifting specialist company ALE is making inroads into continental Europe, thanks to a project to open up Belgium’s Albert Kanaal to larger container vessels.
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NewsMorecambe flood protection project
Work on the first phase of a multi-million pound project to replace Morecambe, UK’s wave reflection wall being carried out by VBA joint venture, is progressing well.
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News‘MPI Discovery’ back on Rampion
MPI Offshore has announced that its wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), ‘MPI Discovery’, has recommenced work at the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm off the south coast of England.
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NewsPier hydrodemolition
Skanska AS Norway has used a robotic water cutter from Swedish company Aquajet in renovating structural parts underneath a pier in Oslo harbour; an operation that because of the tidal flow and an inaccessible subsurface working area would have been both difficult and dangerous to undertake by manual means.
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NewsDNV GL to provide installation engineering
Germany-headquartered classification society and marine engineering specialist DNV GL has been awarded a contract by COSCO Shipping Company Limited (COSCO SHIPPING) of China for the installation engineering services for the BorWin gamma high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter platform.
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Tunnel contracts signed
Femern A/S has on the 30th of May 2016 signed four major construction contracts worth almost DKK 30 billion with the international contractor consortia that will be responsible for the construction of the 18 km Fehmarnbelt tunnel between Rødbyhavn (Denmark) and Puttgarden (Germany).
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News1,400t upending tool
Netherlands-headquartered Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) has selected IHC IQIP to provide piling and handling equipment for its operations at the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm project in the UK.
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NewsPile Dredge Tool
Combining Dutch subsea engineering company Seatools’ key strengths of subsea equipment development and dredging expertise, the company launches its latest product: Pile Dredge Tool (PDT).
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NewsHeavy-duty handling
UK-headquartered Houlder has successfully delivered the first of two offshore Pile Upending Tools for the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm development, off the UK’s Sussex coast.
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NewsPosition reference system
Norway’s Kongsberg Maritime has expanded its established satellite position reference system portfolio with the introduction of a new system that integrates all available Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and all possible correction services.
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NewsFehmarnbelt tunnel preferred bidders appointed
On Friday, 4 March 2016, the Danish political parties behind the Fehmarnbelt link, a new 18km road and rail tunnel between Denmark and Germany, mandated Femern A/S to appoint the preferred bidders for the main tunnel contracts with the aim of entering conditional contracts no later than mid-May 2016.
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NewsVibro Lifting Tool deployment
In February the CV-320 upending Vibro Lifting Tool (VLT-U) from Netherlands-headquartered Cape Holland was used for installation of 13 piles at Kanaaldok B3 in the port of Antwerp.
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NewsThames Tideway Tunnel update
Work has started on the construction of one the UK''s largest civil engineering projects, the Thames Tideway Tunnel (aka the ''Super Sewer'') a 25km tunnel running under the River Thames through west and central London, which is designed to channel and control between 39 and 50 million cubic metres of ...
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NewsUnique lock gate project for Bremerhaven
Work is on schedule in Bremerhaven for the completion in March of a unique repair and overhaul project involving a trio of giant gates from the German port city’s most important sea locks.
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NewsGeorgia plans new deep-water port
Georgia''s Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development has announced that the Anaklia Development Consortium has been awarded the contract to build and develop a new deep sea port close to the town of Anaklia on Georgia''s Black Sea coast.
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NewsMooring components for first floating wind park
Offshore energy major Statoil has signed a contract with Spain’s Vicinay Marine to design, manufacture and deliver mooring components for the world’s first floating offshore wind park: The Hywind pilot park offshore Scotland.
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NewsMMT offshore OTEC contract
Sweden-headquartered MMT has announced the contract award for the underwater surveying prior to the potential construction of the OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) NEMO project by DCNS, a world leader in naval defence.
