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Coastline of England and Wales 'Becoming Steeper'
The coastline of England and Wales has become steeper and is undermining coastal defences against flooding and erosion, according to research published by Dr Nigel Pontee, a senior coastal scientist at Halcrow in the UK.
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Big Box Load Is Beautiful
On 27 September, the pushboat Riad left Rotterdam''s ECT Delta Terminals with a record load of 652TEU. All of the 415 containers on board were full, to be unloaded in Rotterdam and feedered on to Antwerp.
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NewsNavaids Show Way to Rebuilt West Bay
Tideland Signal is supplying a range of aids to navigation equipment for the £ 16.8m redevelopment of West Bay Harbour in Dorset UK which was seriously damaged by storms in 1995.
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News'Battler' a New Tug for the Clyde
Clyde Marine Services Ltd , based in the Victoria Harbour at Greenock in Scotland, has improved its ability to provide towage services considerably with the addition of a new Damen Stan Tug 1906 . Named Battler , the vessel was handed over to her owners during the last few days ...
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NewsBattered Buoy Makes Case for Plastic
New plastic marine navigation buoys placed recently in the Caribbean proved their durability in the toughest of circumstances when one was run over by a high speed ocean cruiser.
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'City Barge' Potential Nurtured
A special inland navigation vessel which can transport 144 TEU of boxes as well as big bags and pallets has been developed to bring and collect cargo to and from companies and manufacturers in the Amsterdam and North Sea Channel area.
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NewsBahrain Repair Yard In Top Gear
The Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard (ASRY) of Bahrain has consolidated outstanding results from the first half of the year with a successful third quarter in which business and sales figures were up by some 7% on the previous quarter.
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MAIB Reports on Vessel Brush with Denmark's Bad Buoy
The British Government''s Marine Accident Investigation Branch has published its report into the contact of a British cargo ship with a navigation buoy in Denmark''s Drogden Channel earlier this year. At 0755 on 29 January 2004, the UK registered general cargo vessel Scot Venture made contact with Number 16 buoy ...
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NewsBack-up Power for Goteborg's New Beacons
Goteborg Hamm AB , operator of the Port of Goteborg in Sweden, has ordered Saft''s new design Sunica. plu s low maintenance rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries to provide reliable back-up power for the 34 new solar powered fairway beacons that will mark the main access channels approaching the port.
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Supplier's E-Commerce Award
Martek Marine , the Rotherham UK based supplier of safety monitoring systems to the global marine industry, has won Best Use of Teleworking at the 2004 DTI/InterForum E-Commerce Awards ceremony in London last month. The company makes extensive use of voice over internet (VOIP) and Virtual Private Networking (VPN) to ...
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NewsIADC Award Winner 'Dredging in a Sensitive Environment'
Dr Elijah Ohimain, a biologist working in Nigeria, has won this year''s IADC Award at the World Dredging Congress (WODCON), held in Hamburg in late September.
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NewsAutomated Mooring System for Dover
The Port of Dover in the UK is to be the first European port to install an automated mooring system using vacuum technology developed by Mooring Systems Limited (MSL), following the signing earlier this year of a European licensing agreement between MSL and Cavotec Group Holdings NV in the Netherlands.
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NewsArmon Hard at Work on Spanish Emergency Vessels
The Vigo based shipyard of Astilleros Armon is now deeply engaged in the construction of two 56m twin-screw tugs to be operated by the Spanish maritime rescue authority, Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Maritima (Sasemar).
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NewsArmon Produce Four More Jewels for Belgium
URS - Towage & Salvage Union Ltd of Antwerp are by no means strangers to the Spanish shipyard of Astilleros Armon SA , in Navia. The last eight shiphandling tugs, six Voith tractors and two stern drive vessels, built for the Belgian company started life in their yard. Therefore it ...
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A&P Birkenhead Land Deal
Ship repairers A&P Birkenhead and Reddington Finance Ltd have reached an agreement for the sale and leaseback of some of A&P''s land at Birkenhead. A&P Birkenhead retains ownership of the drydocks but some surplus land will be sold to the property developers. A&P believes the arrangement will enable it to ...
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Dredging D-Day Looms for Port of Antwerp
A report compiled by the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) following a two year study into the deepening of the River Scheldt has found that such works would not have a negative impact on the environment or security. The river, with its estuary and a navigation channel running ...
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NewsCoastal Surveillance and VTS Antennas
Atlas Elektronic GmbH has selected Easat to supply parabolic reflector antennas for the Kuwait Sea Surveillance project. The contract to supply a 5.5m reflector antenna builds upon other recent successes supplying antennas for a coastal surveillance system in Estonia as well as elsewhere in Europe and in Asia.
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NewsWorldwise Revamp an Established Anchor-handler Design
Two very similar anchorhandling tugs are currently under construction, to a design produced by WorldWise Marine Engineering BV , for two very different owners in very different parts of the world.
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NewsDesign Award for Robert Allan Ltd.
Canadian naval architect and tug designers Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) of Vancouver, was one of the winners announced in October in the ''Business Effectiveness'' category at the Singapore Design Awards 2004 .
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Aker Shakes the Cruise World
Finland''s Aker Yards Group has merged its two shipyards in that country, Kvaerner Masa - Yards Inc and Aker Finnyards Inc , into a new company called Aker Finnyard s.
