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NewsTidal Energy Turbine for Northern Ireland
Bristol UK based Marine Current Turbines Ltd (MCT) has been granted consent by the Environment & Heritage Service in Northern Ireland to install its next generation tidal energy device, the 1,000kW SeaGen tidal energy turbine, in Northern Ireland''s Strangford Lough. MCT is also investigating the feasibility of building a 12 ...
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NewsDutch Pilots Get Second SWATH
The Dutch pilots'' association Nederlands Loodwezen BV has taken delivery of Perseus, the second of a potential six SWATH pilot tenders. The naming and commissioning in Rotterdam was attended by Princess Margriet, the sister of Holland''s Queen Beatrix, other Dutch officials and officials from Belgium and Germany.
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Jobs Magic with Welsh Wave Dragon
KP Renewables plc (KPR) of London and Wave Dragon ApS of Copenhagen have entered into a joint development agreement which provides a framework for the two stage development, financing, construction and operation of up to 77MW of wave energy projects in Wales.
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NewsDredging 'Under Represented in Water Framework Directive
The European Seaports Organisation (ESPO) has expressed concerns about the level of attention given to dredging in the development of the EU''s Water Framework Directive (WFD). As ESPO noted recently, dredging is of vital importance to many of the European Union''s ports, harbours and waterways, providing and maintaining adequate water ...
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NewsIncreasing Demand for IHC Dredgers
Prolific Dutch dredger builders IHC Holland Merwede have made a flying start on 2006 with new orders booked to the value of ?250m. The orders suggest that IHC shipyards at Kinderdijk, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Sliedrecht, Delfgauw, Goes and Litostroj (in Slovenia) will be utilised through most of 2007.
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Irish Marine Data Website
The Marine Institute of Ireland in Galway has established a new website for scientific data and information on Irish coastal and marine waters (www. marinedataonline. ie).
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NewsVikoma Take Delivery of Three Workboats for Pollution Control
Oil pollution control and recovery equipment designer and manufacturer Vikoma International Ltd has taken delivery of three identical 18m steel boom-laying workboats, designed and constructed by Portchester UK based commercial and military workboat builder VT Halmatic.
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Seacore Secures Control of Seacone
Cornwall UK based marine civil engineering contractors Seacore Ltd has acquired from Lankelma CPT Ltd its 50% shareholding in Lankelma Seacore Offshore, the offshore cone penetrometer testing contractor formed by Lankelma and Seacore in 2002. Seacore now holds 100% of the shares in the specialist offshore geotechnical investigation company, which ...
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Lamor Wins EMSA Spill Response Contract
Finnish environmental protection specialist Lamor Corporation AB has been awarded an international tender by the EU funded European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) for improving oil spill response readiness in the entire Baltic Sea. The three year stand-by response readiness contract is worth more than 4m and will result in Lamor ...
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NewsTug of War for Ferry Contract Ends
The small Rean Shipyard in Sassnitz on the Baltic has been chosen out of ten EU shipyards to build the new ?470,000 German river cable ferry Else for local authorities in North Germany. The award ends a contract tug of war among shipyards, five of them in Germany, and reflects ...
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Navaids Restored In the Congo
Sussex UK based Tideland Signal Ltd has supplied a complete package of solar powered lanterns and associated equipment under a $500,000 contract to restore the aids to navigation in the Congo River and on the Popular Republic of Congo''s 170km coastline after decades of instability and damage.
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NewsFirst Wave Hub Participants Chosen
The South West of England Regional Development Agency (RDA) named three companies this month which it has chosen as development partners for the proposed £ 15m Wave Hub project from 2007.
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Neptune Is King at Humber Ceremony
The first of a new fleet of pilot launches commissioned by Associated British Ports'' Humber Estuary Services was officially named Humber Neptune in a ceremony at the Port of Grimsby''s 5 Quay late last month.
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Carrier's New Name
With a view towards becoming a global leader in outbound logistics for finished vehicles by 2010, Wallenius Wilhelmsen Lines has renamed itself Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics with effect from last month. The company deploys 60 vessels serving trade routes to five continents. Global revenue was expected to reach $2.8bn in 2005 ...
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NewsMaritime Careers Sighted on Essex Exercise
Pupils from six schools in Essex UK have been praised for the way in which they dealt with a ''disaster at sea'' in a special exercise staged within the Haven Gateway.
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NewsContainer Capacity Drive at Port of Hamburg
The City of Hamburg and the newly founded Hamburg Port Authority published their latest Port Development Plan last year, which forecast a rise of containerised cargo volume to 13m TEU by 2010 from what has proven to be a record setting 8.1m TEU in 2005.
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NewsDutch Deal for Largest India Built CSD
Amsterdam based VOSTA LMG has received a contract from Indian partner shipyard Mazagon Dock Limited for the supply of an engineering and component package for a 1,500kW cutter suction dredger (csd) which will be the largest such vessel ever to be built at an Indian shipyard. The order for Mazagon ...
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NewsUK Research Guides Hurricane Bridge Repairs
The UK civil engineering hydraulics consultancy HR Wallingford has been contracted by the Federal Highways Administration (FHWA) in Washington DC to apply prediction methods for wave forces developed at Wallingford to US bridges damaged last year by hurricanes Katrina and Ivan.
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Bow Wow in Trondheim
The Norwegian Engineering Feat of the Year Award for 2005 was presented to Ulstein Design AS at a recent seminar in Trondheim for their Ulstein X-BOW hull design.
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NewsBoskalis CEO Describes 'Unique' Dredging Market
Robert van Gelder, CEO of Netherlands based international dredging contractor Royal Boskalis Westminster, says 2005, and particularly the second half of 2005, was a remarkable year for the sheer volume of work that came to the marketplace. He added that looking ahead to 2006 and beyond, there has never been ...
