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Oil Leak Deflates UK Port Figures
The British Government''s Department for Transport , which has recently rejected a proposed new container terminal at the Port of Southampton and must pass judgement on three more large schemes, has published provisional National Statistics on freight traffic through UK ports in 2003.
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NewsEssex Flood Defences Strategy Due
Consulting engineers Halcrow is in the final stages of a project on the Roach and Crouch estuaries in Essex.
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NewsSafe Switches for Ministry of Defence Lift Systems
Man-machine safety systems specialist Schmersal UK Ltd has won an order to supply a total of 150 of its AZM415 double solenoid locking switches to Industrial & Marine Lift Services (IMLS) for the refurbishment of double gated lifting systems for two UK Ministry of Defence supply ships. The order is ...
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NewsSafe RNLI Decking Solution at seawork
When the RNLI decided to install a new pontoon at its Harwich station, safety was uppermost of its concerns.
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News'JFJ De Nul' is Ship of the Year
The seagoing, self-propelled cutter suction dredger JFJ De Nul , built by IHC Holland ''sKinderdijk yard for Belgian contractor Jan De Nul , has won the Netherlands'' prestigious Ship of the Year Award of the Royal Dutch Union of Technicians in Shipbuilding (KNVTS). Now the most powerful vessel of its ...
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NewsSee How Daewoo Do It at seawork
Seawork exhibitor WaterMota isgoing from strength to strength supplying Daewoo engines for workboat applications across the British Isles. In terms of both volume and variety, WaterMota''s achievements with the Daewoo brand are nothing short of stunning.
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NewsDamen Launches Standardised CSDs
Until it recently became Damen Dredging Equipment , the operation formerly known as De Groot Nijkerk had built well over 100 ''one-off'' stationary cutter suction dredgers over a period of 60 years. Now within the Damen Group , the company has launched a series of standard cutter suction dredgers which ...
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'Crescent Highway' Paves Road to Security in MCA Trial
Crescent Marine Services , part of the Southampton based Crescent Group , has been specifying the ultra-compact ''Ocean Alert'' Ship Security Alert System (SSAS) from the global satellite based telematics information services provider Satamatics.
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NewsCranes Get A Lift In Tilbury
One of the most challenging aspects of a massive logistics exercise currently underway at the UK Port of Tilbury was carried out late last month with the barge transport of three large ship to shore container cranes.
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NewsHigh Performance Couplings for New OSVs
West Yorkshire UK based Renold Hi-Tec Couplings has been awarded a contract to supply high performance DCB 838.0 rubber in compression shaft couplings for marine propulsion systems to be installed in a fleet of anchor handling tug/supply vessels.
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NewsNew Kit for Underwater Corrosion Monitoring
Specialist test equipment manufacturer Buckleys (URVAL) Ltd has launched a Marine Survey Kit to enhance its existing underwater corrosion analysis range.
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Newsseawork Debut for Cooney Marine
Kettering UK based Cooney Marine may be new to seawork but certainly not to the RNLI , to whom they have sold some 25 marine cranes. The company invests heavily in the latest production facilities and its highly specialist workforce manufactures stainless steel products without compromise whether for OEM or ...
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NewsUlstein Converts Normand Cutter
Norway''s Ulstein Verft has re-delivered the 12,100gt cable-layer Normand Cutter after extensive conversion into a dual-purpose pipe-laying and construction ship and just three years after first delivering her to Solstad.
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Contracts Double for VTMS
VTMS Ltd (Vessel Traffic Management Systems) of Leicester UK have signed two major navigation aids maintenance contracts. For a five year period VTMS will, on behalf of Forth Ports PLC, service and maintain their buoys and beacons in the rivers Forth and Tay.
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Wind Farm Consultation
The British Government has stated that it will not site wind farm developments where they could present any danger to navigation.
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P&O Sale Completed
P&O has completed the sale of part of its Irish Sea ferry operations and related assets to Stena AB and has received approximately £ 50m in cash. P&O has acquired P&O''s Fleetwood - Larne route, including the ferries European Leader , European Pioneer , and European Seafarer as well as ...
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Scandlines Refits Set for Propeller Performance Comparison Trial
MAN B&W Diesel AS of Denmark has been awarded the contract to supply the new MAN B&W Kappel Controllable Pitch Propeller blades as part of Scandlines'' extensive refurbishment of the ferries M/F Prins Joachim and M/F Kronprins Frederik.
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NewsSheerlegs Teamwork Combine on Precision Lift Operation
Smit Heavy Lift has undertaken a series of lifts in the Port of Rotterdam discharging the Chinese cargo barge Sainty 1 , which was laden with 18 inland vessels and barges. This was the fourth such discharge of its type, performed on behalf of Chinese shipbuilders STIG .
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NewsFinnish Fusion for VTMS and Coastal Surveillance
AIS technology innovator Saab TransponderTech AB andVTMS solutions provider Navieelektro ky have reached co-operative agreement to promote their products for the VTMS and Coastal Surveillance Systems market.
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Coastal Surveillance for Poland
Atlas Elektronik, BAR Systems'' Bremen based German subsidiary, has received a ? 5morder from the Polish Border Guard for a coastal surveillance system. The pilot scheme will provide surveillance of the Polish coastline from the Russian border to the Hel peninsula, north of the Gdansk Bight. Further extensions to the ...
