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Success Rewarded for HCT
PD Ports '' agreement with Associated British Ports (ABP) to operate the Hull Container Terminal , due to expire next month, has been extended until further notice. The announcement follows the announcement in May that record numbers of containers had been handled at HCT in the year ending 31 March ...
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German SWATH Programme Hits a Snag
Electrical problems during sea trials have delayed the delivery of Planet , Germany''s biggest SWATH vessel. The word from Nordseewerke (NSW) in Emden is that handover might not now take place before the end of the year.
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NewsNew Gardline Vessel
At Hydro4 , Gardline Environmental announced an extension to its inshore survey capability with the acquisition of Coastal Surveyor , a specialist vessel equipped with a comprehensive suite of equipment which includes a Simrad EM3000 multibeam system, sidescan sonar, sub-bottom profiler and magnetometer.
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NewsShiprepair's Future Present for Training
A West Country UK shiprepair and conversion yard is continuing to invest in the future of high quality skills by welcoming its latest intake of new apprentices to the yard. The 13 new recruits, all from West Cornwall and aged between 16 and 18, spent their first week in September ...
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NewsHebburn Village Nurtures FPSO Refit
A&P Tyne has successfully re-delivered the FPSO Haewene Brim to Holland''s offshore specialist Bluewater following an extensive upgrading to its process plant alongside a hull maintenance refit. The contract was won in a partnership between A&PTyne Ltd and McNulty Offshore Contractors Ltd of South Shields UK, who were the prime ...
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Multraship and Titan Join Forces in Romania
Terneuzen-based Multraship Salvage has started work on a three-month project to remove the wreck of the 4,497gt Rostok from the Romanian River Danube.
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NewsFirst Survey Vessel Simulator
The official trial of the world''s first Survey Vessel Simulator, manufactured by Transas for the Russian Ministry of Defence''s Directorate of Navigation and Oceanography ''s Kedr development project has been completed successfully.
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Felixstowe In Safe Hands
Adsteam Felixstowe is celebrating a certificate of recognition for achieving the highest safety record possible in the last 12 months. The ship assist crews at Felixstowe were congratulated by Adsteam operations director Ken Marshall for 12 months without any time lost through injury. This is the first time that Felixstowe ...
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Federation of Societies Formed
The International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS), a newly constituted organisation serving the worldwide interests of hydrography at all levels of expertise, has been formally established as the successor body of the Hydrographic Society.
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NewsOrders for French Fast Oil Recovery System are Taking Off
By the end of this year, four ships equipped with the JLMD fast oil recovery system will be sailing the seas. The first, a tanker belonging to Italian shipowner Navigazione Montanari , was launched and christened on 15 September.
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NewsEC Gives Go for Galileo
The European Commission adopted a communication last month on moving to the deployment and operational phases of the European satellite radio navigation system.
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NewsVOSTA LMG Flourishing in the East
Amsterdam based dredger builder and dredging components supplier VOSTA LMG has won an ''Engineering and Components'' contract for a packaged CSD500 cutter suction dredger from a partner in Malaysia. The contract includes the design of the dredger, critical components such as the dredge pump, cutter head and ladder, operator cabin, ...
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Drop Tested SART Meets New SOLAS Regs
The S.701 SART being used by Viking Life Saving Equipment claims to be the first in the world to use non-hazardous battery packs and meets SOLAS requirements for liferafts.
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Dredging Strategy for Port of London Unveiled
A new publication detailing the approach to maintenance dredging in the Port of London area has been published.
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NewsDredging Instrumentation Gets Major System Upgrade
Damen Dredging Equipment (formerly De Groot Nijkerk ) has carried out a major renovation of the dredging instrumentation on board two of UMA ''s trailing suction hopper aggregates dredgers, City of Cardiff and City of Chichester .
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NewsDouble Trouble for the Historic Elbe
A massive project to completely restore the ocean going tug Elbe to its original 1959 condition suffered a serious blow for the second time this year. Back in July the tug was struck and sunk at her Rotterdam moorings by a ship manoeuvring at an adjacent berth. The vessel was ...
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NewsInput Now on Water Framework Directive
The recently implemented EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) applies to all water bodies, including rivers, lakes, coasts and estuaries, and hence anyone who earns their living within these catchments needs to know about its implementation.
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NewsSeafloor Mappers Delight In Detail
Fugro Survey Ltd and AOAGeophysics Inc have mapped the Cap de Creus canyon head northeast of Barcelona in the Gulf of Lion, acquiring a dataset with a hull-mounted multibeam system. The map data acquired during the summer clearly shows a wide range of active geological processes, from mass wasting and ...
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NewsJohn Deere Diesels for Dredgers
IMS , a division of Liquid Waste Technology LLC , has opted to install John Deere engines on its entire Versi-Dredge product line.
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NewsDredge Monitoring Gives Shipwreck the Deep Six
The Dutch maritime authority Rijkswaterstaat has reacted decisively to the wreck of the Assi Eurolink , which was restricting the navigable depth of the critical Friesland Junction shipping channel.
