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NewsUK Port Rumbles Near Eruption
The British Government has responded to the House of Commons'' Transport Select Committee''s wide ranging report on ports, saying it would be ''unacceptable'' to hold up key decisions on port expansion until a national ports plan had been formulated. The Government response in fact argued against the introduction of such ...
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Seacore/ Eidesvik Joint Venture
Cornwall UK based Seacore Ltd and Norway''s Eidesvik Subsea AS have signed an exclusive agreement to jointly provide offshore drilling services to the site investigation and mineral coring industries.
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New ECA ROV
French ROV specialists ECA of Toulon have announced development of a new 3,000m depth-rated system, the Alistar 3000. Designed for deepwater inspection tasks, it is claimed to offer operators greater flexibility and faster operation compared with other systems requiring important infrastructure and equipment aboard a ship.
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NewsPilot Dredging Project Underway
A pilot project that the British Marine Federation (BMF) and other marine organisations involved in it hope will enable them to streamline the consents process for much need dredging in marinas, harbours and waterways in the UK has got underway.
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NewsNo Trouble with Double Rubble
UMC International ''s Fujairah team have recently provided a permanent solution for corrosion damage to the flat bottom hull plating of a tanker that was more extensive than had been budgeted for.
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NewsTimely Dolphin Repair
Repairs were required after a small bulk carrier lost steerage and collided with one of the berthing dolphins at the Immingham Oil Terminal , one of the UK''s major oil importing terminals.
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NewsMarina Gets to Grips with New Decking
Sileby Marina in Leicestershire UK has chosen the new fibreglass non slip decking product, DeckGrip from FibreGrid Limited , as a replacement to their old timber decking boards.
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Happy New Name for De Groot
Dutch dredger builder and dredging equipment supplier De Groot Nijkerk , which has been a member of the Damen Shipyards Group for some 13 years, has received a name change to Damen Dredging Equipment , effective from the first of last month. The company''s staff and products remain the same ...
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LNG Port Warns of Customs Withdrawal
An influential group of visiting MPs has been warned that the security of Pembroke Port in Wales UK could be compromised if a decision to withdraw customs officers from the port is implemented.
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Cosalt on Fire
Cosalt Safety & Protection has set up a new team in the UK''s south west to handle the design, supply, installation and commissioning of fixed fire suppression systems, particularly to the newbuild market, in both the UK and Europe. The Falmouth Docks based facility is part of the company''s drive ...
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NewsConversion Creates Specialised Tanker
Germany''s Koetter-Werft hascompleted the conversion of the inland waterways tanker Eiltank 4 into a 1350dwt Class C double hulled vessel, its latest for Duisburg shipping company Reederei Jaegers .
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NewsMarine Construction Day Returns to seawork
The seventh annual seawork exhibition and conference takes place in the ABP Port of Southampton from 22-24 June 2004. Recognised as the key forum for the commercial maritime industry, seawork2004 promises to be the most rewarding ever for participants, visitors and conference delegates alike.
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NewsConcept ROV at Oceanology International
The result of more than a year of research, development and testing will be revealed on Stand 546 at Oceanology International when Ac-Cess and their engineering partners at All Oceans debut the AC-ROV.
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Multraship Completes Salvage of Toxic Containers
Netherlands-based Multraship Salvage has successfully completed an operation to recover three containers loaded with toxic cargo lost overboard in the North Sea from the Ethiopian vessel Andinet . The operation to recover the containers, which were lost twenty miles north of the Dutch coast, off Texel, on 21 December 2003, ...
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Solent Surveys Completed
High-resolution swathe, sidescan sonar and magnetometer surveys in the Solent between the Isle of Wight and Hampshire have been successfully completed by Gardline Environmental on behalf of Southern Water and its consultants, J P Kenny . The Great Yarmouth company was retained to identify and map recent damage to a ...
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NewsSanta Delivers for Poole Harbour Commissioners
Poole UK based Wessex Marine enters into its 10th Anniversary year having capped 2003 in style with the Christmas handover of a new Targa 25 patrol boat to Poole Harbour Commissioners .
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Clydeport Takes Planning North
With the four major container terminal planning applications under consideration in the UK all situated in the South East, Scottish West Coast ports operator Clydeport has revealed its intention to submit a planning application this year for a brownfield container terminal development at Hunterston.
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NewsMarina Development Scheme on Clyde Estuary in Scotland
Work on a new marina on the Clyde estuary in Scotland could get underway in 18 months time.
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NewsGlobal Navigation System Gets Closer to Lift-Off
The development and implementation of Galileo , Europe''s global navigation system, is moving towards its design and demonstration phase with testing equipment placed along the Danube and in several UK ports.
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NewsChinese Lifeboats Cross to Europe
In a recent visit to China, where they lectured on fast rescue at Shanghai Maritime University , researchers from Sweden''s Landsort Maritime visited an emerging cluster of lifeboat and rescue boat builders in the city of Jiangyin, some 150km up the Yangtze River.
