All News articles – Page 1103
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EH Hassekk & Sons Extend Their Port Handling Territory
From the first day of this month, EH Hassell and Sons Ltd of Stoke on Trent UK has become the nominated distributor for the range of Sennebogen Green Line Material handlers for all industries in the UK as well as port sector distributorship in Ireland.
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News'Duke of Normandy' to be replaced
Jersey Harbours , in the UK Channel Islands, are to have a sophisticated new flagship, a 26m Damen Shoalbuster tugdesigned to undertake a wide range of duties in the locality.
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NewsInnovation Sparks DieselElectric Ferry
The double ended ferry Dokter Wagemaker has been built by the Damen Group in Romania and was delivered last month for finishing to their Schelde yard at Vlissingen in the Netherlands. The vessel for Texels Eigen Stoomboot Onderneming NV (TESO) will be deployed from June on the Den Helder to ...
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NewsDevelopment Threat to River Support Services
One of the last working boatyards on London''s River Thames is threatened by development.
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Mott MacDonald to Provide Design Services for Wind Farm
Mott MacDonald has been appointed as a sub-consultant by AREVA T&D Systems inStafford in the UK to provide electrical design services for an offshore wind farm to be built 7km off the coast of Walney Island in Cumbria.
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NewsDEFRA Funds 'Planning System for the Sea'
Government Ministers in the UK have given their backing to a pilot project which could lead to a new, plan-led approach for protecting and managing Britain''s seas in a more sustainable way.
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NewsNew DHMS Makes Dutch Debut
Based at Zierikzee in the Netherlands, Seatec Underwater Systems BV hasunveiled its latest Dredge Head Monitoring System . It is designed to monitor the dredging process on various types of dredgers and is able to store all relevant data.
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NewsDanish Dredger Does Wind Farm Duty
Late last November Peter Madsen Rederi A/S of Denmark was awarded the contract to install the external J-tubes to the 30 offshore wind turbines being erected in the Thames Estuary at Kentish Flats UK.
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NewsWhen It's Cranes, It Pours
Handling equipment manufacturer Kalmar has received an order for five additional super post-Panamax ship to shore (STS) cranes from MSC Home Terminal in Antwerp.
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NewsEuropean Expertise in Chinese Newbuild
In January 2003 VOSTA LMG received an order from Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard for the design and supply of all dredging components for a trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) for the Chinese Harbor Authority Huanghua Port . The vessel was handed over in a festive ceremony on 11 November 2004, after ...
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Long Running Maritime Charity
Opportunities to run with Paula Radcliffe and simultaneously support seafarers and their families are still available to participants in next spring''s Flora London Marathon . Those running and raising sponsorship on behalf of the maritime charity King George''s Fund for Sailors (KGFS) will benefit sailors who served in WWII, orphaned ...
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News'Dredging: The Extremes' at CEDA Dredging Days
The Netherlands based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has issued a first Call for Papers to be presented at CEDA Dredging Days , a conference which traditionally takes place alongside the Europort exhibition.
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NewsCats' Cranes Speed Expansion
A 2,500 ton capacity crane mounted on an 84m LOA catamaran is helping the booming economic metropolis that is Shanghai meet its requirements for additional ports and coastal infrastructure.
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NewsCranes Upgrade Expands Thamesport Capacity
The UK''s Thamesport set about further boosting its productivity this month when it embarked upon an ambitious modification programme to five of its quayside cranes. The five post-Panamax cranes, which are now 15 years old, will be upgraded to enable them to handle the latest generation of ultra-large container ships ...
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IHC Holland Management Buy-Out
The Dutch group IHC Caland has advised that negotiations with Rabo Participates (RaPar) is likely to lead to the sale of its shipbuilding activities.
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NewsElsflether Stays Busy With Small Ship Work
German small ship repair and conversion centre Elsflether Werft on the Weser has seen its slipways full of late with a variety of small ships in for work ranging from routine maintenance and repair to complex engine exchange.
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China Harbour-Costain to Design Breakwater for LNG terminal
In early January, China Harbour-Costain announced that it had been awarded a US$170 million contract by Sempra LNG ''s Energia Costa Azul to design and construct the breakwater for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Baja California in Mexico. The 600m break water will serve to protect the receipt ...
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NewsPropulsion Breakthrough Launched in London
Volvo Penta invoked memories of the 1959 New York Boat Show at the London Boat Show earlier this month, where it unveiled its ''revolutionary'' new IPS (Inboard Propulsion System).
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Fos Box Rise
Container throughput at the French Port of Marseilles-Fos hasrisen by 9% through the first ten months of 2004 for a total of 765,000 teu. East-west trade was up by 10% to 492,000 teu while north-south trades via Marseilles improved to 8%, exceeding 272,000 teu. After a slow start to the ...
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Bowman to Make Polar Heat Exchangers
Following the closure of Polar Engineering , Birmingham UK based EJ Bowman have bought the majority of Polar Engineering' s pattern equipment together with the manufacturing rights.
