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Dutch Shiprepair Cooperation
IMCA Group, the parent company of Amsterdam Ship Repair, has announced its decision to decline from all industrial activities and toconcentrate instead on real estate development. However, the present managers of the yard have confirmed that business will continue as usual under the old name of Shipdock, with which many ...
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NewsInternational Cooperation Saves Trapped Submariners
James Fisher Rumic Ltd , which operates the British Royal Navy ''s submarine rescue service, completed a successful four day operation to rescue the Russian Priz AS-28 submersible, saving the lives of seven Russian sailors trapped in the mini-submarine 625ft below the Pacific on the ocean floor off Russia''s far ...
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NewsPort Monitoring Roll-out Continues
Of particular interest to many visitors to the Transas Marine UK stand at Seawork 2005 was the company''s recent installation of a port monitoring system at Portland Harbour inDorset UK.
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Van Oord Consortium Wins Extension Project
Netherlands based Van Oord has been awarded a contract for the extension of the coal terminal and port basin at the Port of Richards Bay , South Africa. The client is the National Ports Authority of South Africa . The project will be executed in cooperation with several local companies ...
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NewsFlexcrete Completes High Profile Marine Project in Qatar
Flexcrete , the British company that specialises in repairing and protecting concrete structures, has completed an important project in Doha in the Middle East. The project saw the company coat a sea wall spanning 500m in Doha, the capital of Qatar on the east coast of the peninsula in the ...
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First Commercial Order for New Futura
Things have moved so fast after the prototype development of Germany’ s new environmentally safe Futura Carrier river/sea vessel that the first commercial order has now been announced.
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NewsRacons Contract for US Coast Guard
Tideland Signal of Houston, Texas has won a three year contract to supply SeaBeacon 2 System 6 racons to the US Coast Guard .
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NewsSeawork Feedback Inspires Subsea Cleaner
Following a successful visit to Seawork 2005 , Surrey UK based Fraer Pump and Engineering have responded to customer requests and refined two existing products to develop a subsea cleaning system which can be deployed to remove harbour corrosion both above and below water. Many visitors to the stand at ...
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Change of Venue Lifts ShipRepair Exhibition
China’ s Cosco Shipyard Group and Malaysian Marine & Heavy Engineering have joined a growing list of new exhibitors attracted by the change of location for the ShipRepair & Conversion 2005 exhibition and conference. The event leaves London for the first time in its 13 year history to take place ...
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NewsSeabed Investigation into Climate Change
Cornwall UK based Seacore has been awarded a £ 2.5m contract by the Natural Environmental Research Council on behalf of the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling . The company will perform a marine site investigation of the seabed at three offshore locations around the coast of the French Polynesian ...
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CCTV Security Solution for RNLI
A security system for the new £ 11m Lifeboat Crew Training College at the RNLI headquarters in Poole UK was planned and built fromthe outset, with local security specialists Meggitt Marsh Guardian Systems acting first as security consultants specifying requirementsthen acting as installer having won installation and maintenance contract in ...
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Doubled Capacity at Russian Port
P& O Ports has reached agreement with joint venture partner Transportation Investment Holdings Limited (TIHL) to double the size of its port operations at Vostochny in Russia. Vostochny is located at the eastern end of the Trans Siberian Railway, which provides competitive transit times for cargo from Asia to Europe, ...
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Water Transport Call for Papers
With European road transport becoming ever more stifled by congestion, coastal ships and inland transport by waterways could become a more viable alternative in some instances. The Royal Institution of Naval Architects has issued a call or papers for a conference on the subject which will take place in London ...
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Buyout Secures Testbank
A secondary buyout has delivered the Southampton UK based Testbank Ship Repair and Boiler Company to a team led by its managing director and technical director, with the financial support of many senior employees. The company employs 42 staff at its facility in the Western Docks, providing vessel repair, welding, ...
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Smitwijs Towage Stays in Business
During a recent series of meetings, the shareholders of SmitWijs Towage , comprising Smit International (50%) and Svitzer-Wijsmuller (50%), have reconfirmed their commitment to the ocean towage business and their efforts to remain a market leader in this sector.
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Data Buoys Debut
Surrey UK based Planet Ocean has announced a new ''off the shelf'' range of data buoy platforms for environmental instrumentation in all operational conditions. Starting with the low cost 1.24m DB-124 inshore buoy and rising to the open ocean 3m DB-300 model, all in the range incorporate high specification radar ...
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NewsMultraship Purchases Bulgarian Tug Fleet
Multraship Towage & Salvage ofTerneuzen has purchased the Bulgarian towage and salvage operator Bourgas Tug Services (BTS). BTS provides harbour towage, local salvage and line handling services in and around the Bulgarian port of Bourgas. It has a fleet of four tugboats ranging from 1,500 to 4,300bhp and 50 employees.
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NewsMudflats Investigation Brings Relief
Kent County Council in the UK are proposing to build a road bridge across the mudflats of Milton Creek, a tidal waterway to the north of Sittingbourne that connects the town to the Swale and Thames Estuary. The bridge will carry the Sittingbourne Northern Relief Road at a point where ...
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News'The Bridge' to Navigational Experience
Navigating ships through changing weather and sea conditions, across vast oceans or along coastlines and in crowded harbours is an exciting job for professionals.
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NewsA New Tug Fleet for BP at Coryton
When BP Shipping decided to establish their own three tug fleet at their refinery and terminal at Coryton in the Thames Estuary they chose an established and well developed design from Damen .
