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Royal Boskalis' Vision of Recovery for the Industry
Fiercely competitive pricing has been blamed by the dredging industry''s largest company, Royal Boskalis Westminster , for ''modest'' net results for 2004 of ? 20? 25mon a turnover of approximately ? 1 billion.
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Hamburg Booming
By the beginning of December 2004, the Port of Hamburg had already matched the previous year''s record cargo handling volume of 106,283 million tons and was heading for a year end figure of approximately 115 million tons, an increase of 8.5%.
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NewsSoundBuoy Launch Boosts Boat Noise Compliance
From this month, noise testing has become necessary as the amended EU Recreational Craft Directive (RCD) has come into force. For the first time, upper limits for boat noise are specified. Compliance with the new RCD will be optional for the first 12 months, but from next January it will ...
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NewsMore Daewoos to Choose at London Boat Show
As promised, WaterMota Ltd turned up at the London Boat Show earlier this month with two new engines from value for money Korean manufacturer Daewoo . The engines are so popular with commercial operators that the Benelux distributor has reported the sale of 35 units over the Christmas period.
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Hurricane Season Necessitates Heavy Lift by Bisso
America''s Bisso Marine Co Inc has completed the successful salvage of a 105 Class Liftboat from 258ft of water in the Gulf of Mexico. The liftboat, which was believed to have sunk in much shallower water in the mid 1980''s, was discovered to be on top of a 20in pipeline ...
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NewsWheel of Fortune Year for Beta Marine
Beta Marine has reported a successful trading year in 2004, with over 1,800 propulsion engines and marine gensets sold to over 50 distributors worldwide. Beta''s range of small propulsion engines from 10 to 90hp are based on Kubota diesels, which are also used in the company''s small genset range from ...
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Titan Beats Time Before Barge Breaks Up
The 6,000 ton container barge Guantanamo Bay Express departed Jacksonville, Florida recently under tow from the Spence on a scheduled service to the US Naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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NewsBP Award Tug Management Contract to Targe
Targe Towing Ltd , based in Montrose, Scotland, has been awarded a management contract to operate a new tug fleet to be based at the BP Coryton oilrefinery in the Thames Estuary.
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NewsMore Ramparts ASD Tugs on the Stocks Worldwide
Towards the end of 2004, Vancouver based naval architects and tug designers Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) were awarded a contract to design a new series of high-performance ship-handling tugs for the Chinese Port of Ningbo .
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NewsHythe improve US Army LT series tugs
The United States Army - Combat Equipment Battalion atHythe on Southampton Water is in the process of carrying out a unique reconstruction programme on a series of powerful twin-screw tugs. All six of the tugs concerned are just 10 years old but during their relatively short working lives have been ...
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Brunei EDB Appoints Halcrow for Port Study
Brunei has launched a global campaign to find a partner for its planned US$1.7 billion deepwater port, which is a major plank in the tiny Asian nation''s economic diversification plan.
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NewsHeavyweight Winch Marks Anniversary
Germany based HATLAPA recently celebrated its 85th anniversary and in the same week shipped a 56 ton towing winch, the largest produced in the company''s history, from its home port of Uetersen.
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NewsHydraulic Modelling Alive and Well at HR Wallingford
HR Wallingford in the UK has unveiled details of a major investment it has made in a new modelling hall that covers an area more than 11,000m 2.Responding to record demand for hydraulic modelling, HR Wallingford is replacing its well-known modelling hall that has served engineers in the UK and ...
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Calls for Satellite Alernative
Concerns over what UK Shipping Minister David Jamieson has called the ''vulnerability'' of satellite navigation systems means that a terrestrial alternative is needed, he said. Jamieson made the comments during recent launch of a document setting out the UK and Ireland''s strategy for navaids to 2020. He announced that the ...
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Primar & IC-ENC Agreement
The Norwegian Hydrographic Service and the UK Hydrographic Office , as operators of Primar Stavanger and the International Centre for Electronic Nautical Charts (IC-ENC) respectively, have signed a letter of intent on closer cooperation for distribution of products.
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NewsLockheed Grabs a SLICE of the Action
Lockheed Martin turned up at last month''s Workboat Show in New Orleans with a new $25 million contract for the detailed design, construction, test and delivery of two Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull (SWATH) variant crew transport vessels for Mexico''s national oil company PEMEX .
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NewsExpansive Bond Celebrates 30 Years
2005 sees Essex UK-based Bond Instrumentation and Process Control enter into its 30th year of trading on a high after a busy end to 2004.
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2nd International Seabed Acoustics Workshop
German underwater specialist Innomar Technologie is hosting a 2nd international workshop on Seabed Acoustics , in Rostock-Warnemunde from 24-25 February. Following an opening address by Mecklenburg-Vorpommern''s Minister for Economic Affairs, F Dorok, there will be a series of presentations by speakers from Germany, Netherlands, Norway and Russia.
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Seafarers UK Pledges £100,000 for Tsunami Sufferers
UK based maritime charity Seafarers UK is donating £ 100,000 towards rebuilding the seafaring communities affected by the Tsunami disaster, on the Indian and Sri Lankan coasts.
