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Veripos Establishes Peruvian DGPS Service
Aberdeen-based Veripos has extended the South American sector of its global Differential GPS service with establishment of new facilities in Peru serving offshore users in the Pacific region. They comprise two land-based reference stations at the coastal cities of Chiclayo and Lima providing rapid update rates and low data latency, ...
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Ship Design Online
In order to broaden its customer base, Macduff Ship Design haslaunched a comprehensive website at www. macduffshipdesign. com .Aimed at both the fishing and commercial marine markets, the site highlights all of the company''s services together with a photographic gallery showing the many and varied vessels it has designed since ...
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NewsCygnus to Protect the 'Warrior'
During the recent drydocking of the historic warship HMS Warrior , the Warrior Preservation Trust requested that Selman Marine Design Ltd carry out an ultrasonic hull survey from the waterline to the keel for both their historical records and to identify areas of concern.
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Record Cruise Season
The Cromarty Firth Port Authority will welcome the world''s largest cruise liner, Queen Mary 2 , this summer as part of a record breaking cruise season in which 32 different liners will make 47 calls between 16 April and 18 September.
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NewsCorporate/NGO Initiative to Protect High Seas
The global shipping and logistics company Wallenius Wilhelmsen has signed a three year agreement with the conservation organisation WWF to preserve and promote the conservation of marine life on the high seas.
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NewsThe First Damen Compact Tug in Europe
Damen Shipyards have delivered Adsteam Ferriby , the first of their new compact shiphandling tugs to arrive in Europe. The new ASD Tug 2411 entered service with the fleet of Adsteam Marine Ltd on the south bank of the Humber at Immingham in April.
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Top Class Container Ships
Lloyds Register will class the world''s largest declared capacity container ships, four 10,000teu vessels to be built in Korea at Hyundai Heavy Industries for China Ocean Shipping Corporation (COSCO).
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NewsSterntube Seal Change for 'Endurance'
Coventry UK based Metalock Engineering is seldom called upon to demonstrate its expertise in deep hole drilling in-situ but it was put to the test recently, enabling Deep Sea Seals to retrofit new sterntube seals to HMS Endurance , the British Royal Navy ''s ice patrol and research vessel.
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Car Goes Up at Southampton
As a result of rapid growth in deep sea car trade which has seen volumes more than double since 2000, the ABP Port of Southampton is to get a second multi-deck car park.
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Grid Unlocked by Charge Cap?
The British Government''s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has announced a decision to cap transmission charges payable by electricity generators in the Western and Northern Isles of Scotland. The cap ensures that renewable energy generators in the far north of Scotland will not pay disproportionately to use the grid ...
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Kone Cargotec Buys MacGregor
Kone Cargotec , the cargo handling business of KONE Corporation , has purchased the entire share capital in global marine cargo flow solution and service provider MacGregor International AB from the Swedish companies Industri Kapital and Gambro . The transaction was completed last month.
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NewsSCUBAR Do the Business
Berkshire Fire and Rescue Services in the UK have put the SCUBAR Underwater Scope to good use during recent trials by using it to check for bodies in a car which had crashed off the road into a waterway.
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NewsNew Funding Brings Tidal Stream Energy Project Closer
Bristol UK based Marine Current Turbines has received £ 3.85m from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to help fund their SeaGen tidal energy project. The grant to Sea Generation Ltd , a wholly owned subsidiary of Marine Current Turbines , will go towards developing and testing the device ...
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NewsDutch Deliver Doubled Bottom Time
Dutch subsea contractor Noordhoek Offshore BV is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year by introducing the unique new TUP Diving System, designed and built in-house in consultation with its subsidiary Seatec Underwater Systems BV .
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New Technical Director Joins Boatbuilders VT Halmatic
RNLI engineering manager Professor Bob Cripps has joined boat builders VTHalmatic as technical director with effect from the 9th of this month.
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Have a Blast On the Quayside
XLentcleaning journeys from Canterbury UK to Seawork, where it will be giving demonstrations of its Farrow System method of removing surface coatings on the quayside. XLentcleaning is a licensed operator of the Farrow System, which enables the removal of protective coatings such as marine anti-fouling from fibreglass without damaging the ...
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NewsIsambard Kingdom Brunel's Birthday Big in Bristol
A year long programme of celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 2006 has been announced by Bristol Cultural Development Partnership (BCDP). The Brunel 200 programme will celebrate Brunel''s life, times and legacy with exhibitions and publications as well as arts and educational ...
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Newsiicorr Secures ALWC Work
Corrosion control specialists iicorr in Aberdeen says it has secured contracts worth around £ 400,000 to carry out corrosion control work for a number of Scottish ports including those at Orkney, Wick, Barra and Lochinver.
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MOBi-lert to Raise the Alarm at Seawork
The prestigious Safety at Sea Award at the 17th Seatrade Awards Ceremony Dinner in London last month went to the MOBi-lert Recovery System, an active crew monitoring system dedicated to preventing the loss of life at sea.
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AIS Chartware for Felixstowe
Fugro Survey ''s GeoSoft Solutions division , also based in Great Yarmouth, has received an order from the Port of Felixstowe for installation and client specification development of its ChartViewAIS technology.
