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CEDA Stakes Out Position on WFD
The Central Dredging Association (CEDA) participated in the recent Seminar ''Navigation and the EU Water Framework Directive'' which took place on 31 January in Brussels. CEDA provided input on a range of subjects relevant to the WFD and the dredging industry.
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NewsCat Sandwich Sails to Seawork
The international flavour of Seawork has been further enhanced with confirmation that Baltec Werft, one of Germany leading shipyards, specialised in working with high tech sandwich build technology, will be a first time exhibitor in Southampton this summer.
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NewsCar Carrier Captains Drive Digital NavComms
Wallenius Marine AB in Stockholm have placed a landmark order through Admiralty Distributor Nautic Center AB for over thirty complete sets of the recently launched Admiralty Digital Publications (ADP) portfolio developed by the UK Hydrographic Office.
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NewsBusy Sanmar Has Ten Tugs Under Construction
In keeping with other specialist tug builders the Turkish yard Sanmar Denizcilik Ltd is working hard to meet the current high demand for new tonnage.
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NewsLights Out for Old Buoys at Seawork
XJF Plastics has confirmed that it will be displaying an Eason Marine Class 2 Lightweight buoy at Seawork International this year.
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NewsSeawork Exhibitor Builds Wind Farm 'Xplorer'
The Northumberland UK based designer and builder of aluminium workboats Alnmaritec will be exhibiting one of their vessels on the floating pontton at Seawork 2007.
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News'A Turtle' Goes to the Bottom
A long period of anxiety for the residents on the remote island of Tristan du Cuhna came to an end on 11 February when the wreck of the errant oil rig ''A Turtle'' was finally scuttled by salvors in deep water well away from their coastline.
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PC Maritime Boosts ECDIS Sales
PC Maritime of Plymouth reports further sales of its Navmaster ECDIS units to three new customers, John H Whitaker (Tankers) Ltd of Hull, Scotline in Romford and Dublin based Irish Ferries.
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Boeing Going to Sea
The Boeing Company continues to grow the marine division of its wholly owned subsidiary Jeppesen with the purchase of digital maritime cartography, data services and navigational information providers C-Map.
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River Boat Expansion
Chester UK riverboat operator Bithell Boats, which has been providing passenger vessels and commercial services such as dredging on the River Dee for over 100 years, has expanded its operations to the River Ouse in York with the acquisition of YorkBoat.
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NewsBlank Bolsters Weser Terminal Expansion
Now supporting Bremerhaven''s ever increasing need for round the clock berth and basin dredging is the new ¢ 4.4m water injection dredger Hol Blank following its completion at Lloyd Werft.
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NewsBiggest Dredgers Yet for Jan De Nul
Family owned Belgian dredging giant Jan De Nul has overturned the current industry form book with an order for what will be by far the world''s highest capacity trailing suction hopper dredger.
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NewsUK Wind Farm Beyond Territorial Waters
The British government has granted planning permission for one of the world''s largest wind farms, which will also be the first UK offshore facility to be built outside of territorial waters.
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NewsOwners Beware of Inadvertent Pollution
The recent bad weather in which ''MSC Napoli'' was grounded in Lyme Bay UK has caused more than the usual headaches for port authorities trying to ensure that vessels do not pollute or become contaminated by pollution.
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NewsOsthafen Expansion Ends, Kaiserschleuse Rebuild Begins
The multi-million Euro expansion of Bremerhaven''s Osthafen car handling hub is ending late next month as work gathers speed on the ¢ 233 million rebuilding of the neighbouring Kaiserschleuse, a project described as the biggest of its kind in Europe.
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NewsSeawork Telemetry Beats Interference
Seawork exhibitor Ohmex have just released the ''LR'' modem, a new long range digital radio telemetry modem to complement its tide gauge and weather station products.
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NewsBBEx Victors Sail to Seawork
The winners of the ''Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award'' last month at Seawork''s sister event, the Boating Business Exhibition in Bournemouth, will bring their fast expanding network of online boat brokerages to Seawork this summer.
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NewsAuto-Dimming Range Lights for Esbjerg
A range light system supplied by Tideland Signal Limited to the Danish Lighthouse Authority (Farvandsvaesenet) for the port of Esbjerg is equipped with a range of auto-dimming facilities to provide appropriate light levels for all conditions from bright sunlight to fog and dark nights.
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NewsHigh Specification Survey Boat for Saudi Ports Authority
Isle of Wight based boat builders Cheetah Marine has made steady progress since founder Sean Strevens built a first GRP planing catamaran for his own use as a commercial fisherman in 1989.
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Dutch and Danish Assist Dredging Project in Mozambique
The Dutch government is to contribute US$18m to two emergency dredging projects.
