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NewsDutch Expertise Goes East
Damen Dredging Equipment (formerly De Groot Nijkerk ) has delivered a knock-down package for a Type CZ600 monohull cutter suction dredger to Middle East dredging and reclamation contractor Gulf Cobla LLC . The Khaleej Bay was designed in close cooperation with the owners, who also supervised the building at the ...
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New Rock Dumping Record Established by Van Oord
A new rock dumping record has been established by Van Oord ''s flexible fallpipe vessel Tertnes, the vessel having completed the protection of a cable crossing in water depths of 887m.
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NewsSeacore Digs In At Girvan
Cornwall UK based Seacore has successfully completed the construction of a new wastewater sea outfall pipeline at Girvan, on the exposed west coast of Scotland, about 100km south of Glasgow.
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NewsRNLI Delivery Marks Souter Return
Isle of Wight UK based Souter Marine has emerged from a recent change of ownership to deliver the 43rd Severn Class Lifeboat to the RNLI last month. Following the completion of crew training, the Donald and Barbara Broadhead, ON 1276 , will be stationed at Rosslare Harbour, Co Wexford in ...
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NewsGermany's SET Delivers New Ships For Old
Germany''s SET-Werften Group in Tangermunde on the River Elbe has created a pair of modern new double-hulled inland tankers from the bow and stern sections of two old ships and one new ship section.
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News'Island Fox' Delivers Workboat Training
In response to ever increasing demand for workboat training, Scotland''s Seatrek Training has added the 45ft twin engined Nelson Island Fox to its training fleet. The new Category 2 coded acquisition offers increased scope for larger vessel training and will be used to deliver all Seatrek''s RYA Advanced Powerboat, Coastal ...
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NewsLiverpool Water Witch In seawork Debut
One of the most versatile port and harbour workboats available will make its seawork debut at seawork2004 , when first time exhibitor Liverpool Water Witch brings one of its innovative craft to the Exhibition''s floating pontoon.
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HNS Convention Sneaking Up On Ports
London law firm Lawrence Graham says shipping is focusing on complying with ISPS requirements while another soon to be enforced Convention, which will have major ramifications for all aspects of shipping, goes largely unnoticed. Writing in the latest issue of Shipping Lawgram , the firm''s shipping partner Imogen Rumbold says ...
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NewsWindfarm Investigation Completed
A geotechnical survey in the Thames Estuary has been conducted by Fugro Engineering Services (FES) to collect data to be used in the final foundation design for the monopiles at the base of each of 30 turbines which will comprise the Kentish Flats windfarm.
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Metoc Buys Compass Data Systems
Technical and project management specialists Metoc of Liphook has strengthened its portfolio of marine and coastal data services with the acquisition of Compass Data Systems , also in Hampshire, which is a leading supplier of software and consultancy for processing of oceanographic data.
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NewsBusy Days at Dublin Port
The largest container ship ever to be handled in an Irish port called at Marine Terminals in Dublin Port last month after the facility had received a 23m make-over. The 2,450 teu MSC Peggy , at 208m LOA and drawing 9m, was comfortably accommodated at Marine Terminals Limited ''s(MTL) 570m ...
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NewsPolish Yard Bulges With Lengthening Work
Ship lengthening projects are coming in thick and fast at Poland''s Stocznia Nauta Shiprepair Yard , which has just finished the last of three Norwegian jobs and taken two more for Norway and Sweden.
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NewsShip Docking Modules to be Built in Europe
Seabulk International, Inc hasannounced the sale of a license for the construction of its patented Ship Docking Module (SDM) technology to European tug operator Remolques Y Servicios Maritimos, SL (REYSER) of Barcelona, in Spain.
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Study Reveals the Economic Potential of Bristol Port
A major study has been published which assesses the potential for economic growth at Bristol Port over the next 25 years. The study, commissioned by the South West Regional Development Agency , looks at the current role of the port and the contribution it makes to the local and regional ...
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News'Oranje' Ready for Boom
Oranje , the second of two new 16,000m3 capacity trailing suction hopper dredgers for Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster , was launched recently at the Merwede Shipyard at Hardinxveld-Giessendam in the Netherlands. The sister ship Prins der Nederlanden was launched in August 2003.
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NewsCCTV Security for Trinity House Boats
As part of their overall ISPS Code security plan and safety management system, the UK''s Trinity House lighthouse and navaids service has called on advice from Hernis Scan Systems , the Norwegian company that specialises in integrated CCTV systems.
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NewsBilge Cleaning System Meets IMO Regulations
Sweden based Marinfloc AB claims to be the first and only company currently manufacturing an Emulsion Breaking Bilge Water Cleaning System (EBBWCS) that gives shipowners and shipyards a solution to fulfil the new IMO environmental regulations for newbuilding which come into force on 1 January 2005.
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NewsPings Can Only Get Better
When Raymond Ruth, Director of Aberdeen UK based Ruco Limited , saw Sonotronics EMT pingers on show at the recent Oceanology International exhibition in London he immediately saw their potential.
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Mowlem Begins Sandquay Improvement
Mowlem Civil Engineering , part of international construction and support services group Mowlem Plc , has begun work extending and improving the Sandquay Base in Dartmouth for client VT Integrated Services , part of the VT Group Plc .
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NewsBathside Bay Inquiry Opens
On the same day last month that the British Government rejected Associated British Ports '' plans for a new container terminal at Dibden Bay in Southampton, the Public Inquiry got underway into the proposed development of a new greenfield site deepwater container port at Bathside Bay in Harwich.
