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BP's Rotterdam Re-Focus
BP Marine is restructuring its ports portfolio to take greater advantage of the strategic location of Rotterdam. The restructure will involve its Dover - Calais contract business being serviced via Rotterdam barges.
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Hamburg Boxes Up
The Port of Hamburg has reported impressive first half figures showing container handling up by 14.3% to 4.8m TEU and the total volume of cargo handled up by 5% at 69.5m tons. Container handling at the Port has more than doubled since the most recent fairway deepening in the Lower ...
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NewsBoskalis and partners to build Khalifa Port
Royal Boskalis Westminster has received a letter of intent from Abu Dhabi Ports Company for the first construction phase of the new offshore Khalifa Port in Abu Dhabi.
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NewsRefurbished Quay Boosts Tyneside Tourism
The iconic Cunard liner ' Queen Elizabeth 2' berthed at the Port of Tyne on the only scheduled UK stopover of its 40th Anniversary voyage last month, thanks to a £ 4 million plus refurbishment of the Tyne Commission Quay by national regeneration agency English Partnerships.
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NewsBomb Threat Detection for Ports
Leicestershire UK based 3DX-Ray has produced a detailed technical brochure on its advanced portable x-ray system, TPXi-675, for bomb and threat detection in suspect packages.
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NewsThe Tide Turns to Bluetooth
TideM8 is a combination of the Ohmex TideM8 miniature tide gauge system and Trimble''s Juno hand held Mobile PC with integrated GPS. The system is a brand new design based on the ''Winstrument'' concept of an instrument using Bluetooth communications and Mobile PC equipment as the user interface.
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Carrousel Turns to Bigger Things
Ropes, stretchers and other materials incorporating the super strong polyethylene fibre DSM Dyneema are being tested on board the tug ''Multratug 12'', the first vessel to be equipped with the Carrousel towing system.
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NewsReflex Reaction Builds Bigger Frog
Aberdeen based marine transfer and lift solutions provider Reflex Marine responded to client requests in developing the Frog-6, a higher capacity version of the original, three-person Frog (Frog-3), for moving up to six people at a time by crane. The first Frog-6 units are in use in Indonesia and Reflex ...
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Big Ferries Prompt Kiel Terminal Revamp
The Port of Kiel''s answer to expected higher demand following the introduction of some of the world''s biggest cruise ferries has been the extension of its inner city Norwegenkai to serve Norway''s Color Line.
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NewsNew Terminal HITs It Big
Since it was opened in June 2000, Associated British Ports'' Humber International Terminal (HIT) has exceeded all throughput expectations, having recently handled its 50 millionth ton of cargo.
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NewsPoseidon Meets Demand on Berlin Waterways
It took East German shipyard Bolle just 21 weeks to build and deliver Poseidon, described as one of the most technically advanced and attractive passenger ships on the German capital''s waterways.
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News'Gambe d'Amfard' Begins Long Haul in Le Havre
owner Dragages Ports. The new 700 m3 grab hopper dredger, built by Damen Shipyards'' Galati yard in Romania, will undertake maintenance duties using either its grab crane or its trailing suction pipe at the port of Le Havre in France.
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NewsISU Pursues Environmental Salvage Awards
The Lloyd''s Salvage Group''s newly formed Subcommittee on Environmental Salvage met for the first time this summer, providing the International Salvage Union delegation with their first opportunity to put forward a detailed case for acceptance of the ISU proposals for Environmental Salvage Awards.
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GLAs Award e-Loran Contract
The General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) have awarded a fifteen year contract to VT Communications for the provision of an enhanced Loran (eLoran) radio navigation service to improve the safety of mariners in the UK and in Ireland.
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New Autopilot Provides Safer Navigation
As the successor to AP9 and the natural evolution of the AP50, the New Simrad AP50+, launched this summer, provides vast improvements in auto-steering performance, functionality and flexibility.
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NewsNew Buoys Light Australian LNG Terminal
Tideland Signal, the UK based aids to navigation specialist has supplied buoys and solar powered lanterns to guide tankers into the berths serving the new LNG terminal on the Burrup Peninsula near Karratha in Western Australia.
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Comanche Commands Attention
Aberdeen based ROV designer and manufacturer Sub-Atlantic has received a £ 1m order for two Comanche electric ROV systems from Bluestream Group international subsea contractor, Bluestream NL.
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NewsFirst Vessels for Svitzer's New Milford Haven Fleet Arrive
As the port of Milford Haven embraces a new commercial era with the imminent arrival of LNG, Svitzer UK are preparing for the massive increase in activity. In February Maritime Journal reported on the towage organisation''s plans to introduce one of the worlds most advanced tug fleets to serve operations ...
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NewsArchimedes Installation at EMEC Next Year
Scotland''s AWS Ocean Energy is to receive further support from the Carbon Trust in the development of its Archimedes Wave Swing, the world''s first submerged wave energy system. The support is part of the Marine Energy Accelerator Programme, the Carbon Trust initiative to accelerate the commercialisation of the marine energy ...
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Alphatron and JRC on Show at Europort
Alphatron Marine and Japan Radio Co. (JRC) will be exhibiting jointly at Europort Maritime this year.
