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ISU Members' Day
The Salvage problems surrounding ultra-large vessels will be the focus for the International Salvage Union''s Fourth Associate Members'' Day meeting in London on 7 March.
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NewsPlan to Protect Danube Delta from Flooding
The River Administration of the Lower Danube in Romania has awarded a DHV led consortium the contract for the design of the Sulina Channel Bank Protection project. The Sulina Channel runs through the Danube delta nature reserve and ensures the discharge of water and ice from the Danube River into ...
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NewsGiant Pontoon Cruises into Liverpool
The new cruise liner facilities will bring visitors alongside by Liverpool's famous Three Graces.The cruise market is presently growing at 10% per annum, and the UK has great potential to attract visitors providing the facilities are available to berth the ships. Liverpool is keen to exploit this opportunity and bring ...
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NewsSvitzerWijsmuller Win Major Milford Haven LNG Contracts
Towage services in the UK port of Milford Haven will be transformed with a fleet of nine powerful new tugs and six line handling vessels to be introduced bySvitzer Marine Ltd .
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Coordination of Contaminated Sediment Strategy
Port areas around the UK are being expanded to deal with ever increasing maritime trade. In order to maximise the economic advantages this presents, dredging of seabed sediments is being undertaken to provide safe operational navigable depths. The historical and contemporary industrial legacy has, however, created zones of contaminated sediments, ...
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NewsLarger Container Ships Require More Efficient Fenders
Changes in shipping patterns and ship dimensions are providing a number of challenges for suppliers of mooring systems. Until quite recently, the size of container ships was limited by the size of the locks of the Panama Canal, which offered the shortest route from Asia to the east coast of ...
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Competition Commission Reports on Svitzer-Adsteam Takeover
On 9 February the Competition Commission (CC) published its final report on SvitzerWijsmuller''s proposed takeover of Adsteam Marine Ltd. In the report the Commission will require SvitzerWijsmuller A/S to sell off one of the harbour towage operations in Liverpool if it goes ahead with the anticipated acquisition of Adsteam Marine ...
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NewsJan De Nul to Deepen Colombian Port
Jan de Nul has signed a contract with the Instituto Nacional de Vías (INVIAS) to dredge the access channel at the Port of Buenaventura in Colombia. The port is situated on the Pacific coast of Colombia and is considered one of the most important ports of the region.
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NewsMore New ETVs for the Spanish Coast
The first of two coastal protection vessels has been handed over to Spain''s Maritime Safety Authority SASEMAR. Named Don Inda, the vessel''s primary role is that of an emergency towing vessel (ETV) for tankers of unlimited size under adverse conditions. A bollard pull of about 220 tons makes these vessels ...
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NewsCEDA Dredging Days at Europort Maritime
The Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has announced that CEDA Dredging Days 2007 will return to the Ahoy Rotterdam exhibition centre, where the conference and exhibition will again be held in conjunction with Europort Maritime 2007 on 6 through 9 November.
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NewsNoordhoek Expands Subsea Capabilities
Dutch subsea contractor Noordhoek Offshore BV has purchased a MacArtney Focus - 2 ROTV system to complement the existing fleet of survey platforms and ROV''s. The ROTV will enable Noordhoek to provide a broader range of additional services to the market. In order to optimise vessel utilisation and provide continuity ...
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NewsWWF Calls for Protection of UK 'Marine Hotspots'
A WWF report out last month identifies for the first time, the most important marine locations in the UK in urgent need of protection. The wealth of sea life existing off UK shores and surrounding waters is gradually being degraded by the impacts of human activity. According to the ...
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NewsOcean Business Offers Demo at Sea
Ocean Business 2007 (The ocean technology training and procurement forum) brings a new ocean technology exhibition with in-classroom and on-water training and demonstrations to the national Oceanography Centre in Southampton UK on 27-29 March. An offshore survey conference will take place alongside the exhibition, in which over 100 companies will ...
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BSH Digitises its Library of Nautical Material
Germany''s Shipping & Hydrographic Agency, BSH, is planning to digitise its entire library of nautical material in what it says will be the world''s first system of its type, one which will later be adopted by other hydrographic offices.
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BP and Shell Rig Moving Contracts for NCS Survey
Positioning and subsea specialists NCS Survey in Aberdeen, which claims to be Scotland''s largest independent survey contractor after only being in business for 18 months, has secured major rig moving contracts from both BP and Shell Exploration & Production.
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Boat Tanks Online
Hampshire UK based Tek-Tanks, which builds custom water, waste and fuel tanks from High Density Polyethylene (HDPE), has produced an easy to read guide explaining everything boat operators need to know about selecting and designing their tanks.
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Big Ship Salvage at ISU Members' Day
The salvage problems surrounding ultra-large vessels will provide the timely focus for the International Salvage Union''s Fourth Associate Members'' Day meeting in London on 7 March.The meeting will be attended by representatives of a high proportion of the ISU''s 43 associate members and 53 full members.
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News'Jetsed' Success on Battersea Shoal
Van Oord''s water injection dredger Jetsed arrived in London late last year to dredge the Battersea shoal, which had been moving into the fairway for some time, causing several vessels to ground there in 2005.
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NewsDredging Seminar Success in Bahrain
The International Association of Dredging Companies recently conducted another successful event when the 27th IADC Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation took place in Manama, Bahrain. The IADC has been conducting week long seminars especially developed for professionals in dredging related industries regularly since 1993.
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NewsSmall Civils Award for Cowes Breakwater
A new breakwater for The Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes has won the British Construction Industry Small Civil Engineering Project Award at a ceremony held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
