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NewsNearshore Component to Longest Pipeline Survey
Corrintec have commenced their longest ever subsea pipeline cathodic protection survey programme in the Gulf of Mexico. The survey, commissioned by PEMEX and operated by Oceanografia, will cover a total of 4,620km over a period of 54 months concentrating on pipelines within the South West sector of the Bay of ...
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NewsHigh Pressure Pump for Hull Cleaning
A new range of mobile high-pressure water jetting systems developed by Calder at its Worcester UK factory will take to the road with fully computerised controls that automatically decelerate the engine to tickover when the lance trigger is released. This feature makes the new systems more economical to run, saving ...
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NewsRo-Clean Desmi Delivers Oil Skimming Catamaran
Ro-Clean Desmi have delivered a 10m Pollkitten, the smallest in their range of Pollcat anti-pollution boats, to the CEPSA oil refinery at Spain''s rapidly expanding port of Algeciras. Within five days of delivery the Balim was mobilised for an oil spill incident in Algeciras Bay, collecting 2,000 litres of spilled ...
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Suez Canal Contract
Atlas Hydrographic, based in Cairns, Australia and Bremen, Germany, has been awarded a contract worth more than ¢ 500,000 by the Suez Canal Authority in Ismailia for supply of multibeam echosounding facilities and associated equipment. According to the company, the equipment will be primarily used aboard a survey launch for ...
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United Kingdom Short Sea Shipping Bureau Shaping Up
A UK Short Sea Shipping Bureau is one step closer to becoming a reality according to the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (ICS).
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NewsDredging Input Breeds More Purrfect Cat
Caterpillar introduced a major upgrade to its 3500B series range of marine propulsion and auxiliary engines at SMM in Hamburg last month.
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NewsSuper Quiet Vessel Marks 'Technological Breakthrough'
Norway''s Soviknes Shipyard, part of the Aker Brattvaag Group, has delivered a completely new multipurpose offshore vessel design which is said to represent a ''technological breakthrough'' in several areas.
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NewsEuro High Speed Ro-Ro Breaks Cover at SMM
Rolls Royce and Spanish shipbuilder Izar announced plans at SMM for a new European High Speed Cargo Vessel (EHSCV) to provide a cost effective shortsea shipping alternative to road transport in Europe.
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NewsInternational Dimension Boosts Rotterdam Maritime
The Rotterdam Maritime Trade Fair has grown significantly from its origins as a primarily inland shipping show for a domestic Dutch audience. The 11th Rotterdam Maritime, to be held at the Ahoy'' exhibition centre from 12-16- November, has become a truly international event on the maritime calendar with representation coming ...
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NewsNew MCA Boat From Halmatic Makes a Splash
Portchester UK based Halmatic is providing a new fleet of eight boats for the Maritime & Coastguard Agency .
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NewsBespoke Cofferdams Enable Rapid Underwater Repair
Antwerp based underwater contractors Hydrex have developed the capability to produce bespoke mobile mini-drydocks (mobdocks) to effect major repairs underwater to vessels which would otherwise require drydocking.
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Ballast Nedam Sells Interest in Ballast Ham Dredging
The Dutch construction group Ballast Nedam has reversed its earlier position and decided to sell its one-third interest in joint venture Ballast Ham Dredging to majority co-owner Hollandsche Beton Groep The decision resolves an enduring dispute concerning a ''change of control'' clause in the shareholders agreement which created Ballast Ham ...
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NewsKroeger bags contract for sophisticated research ship
North Germany''s Kroeger Shipyard , part of the Luerssen Group and a specialist research vessel builder, has now won the contract to build the sophisticated 93.6m long, 17.8m wide ice-strengthened research ship Maria S. Merian .
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STN Atlas Takes SMM Orders Haul
Hamburg based STN Atlas Marine Electronics were rewarded for their journey across town to SMM Debeg 3400 UAIS last month with an order to retrofit their new systems to ''s worldwide fleet of 77 container vessels. Installation commences early next year.
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NewsThe Arrival of Jack James
The arrival of the new tug/ workboat Jack James to J Butcher & Sons Ltd of Portsmouth passed quietly and without clamour on the 6 September. Within a day or two the new tug had joined the fleet and was busy shiphandling.
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NewsThe New 'Anglian Princess' Hosts Pool of London Reception
Anglian Princess, the new flagship for Klyne Tugs (Lowestoft) Ltd, entered service with the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) in September and was host to an important event for the agency in the Pool of London on the last day of the month.
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NewsIt's All Go for New Name MarineCo
Mid-Lothian, Scotland based Environmental Engineering has changed the name for the marine section of their business to MarineCo UK Ltd. The move follows feedback from participation in their first ever exhibition this summer, seawork2002 in Southampton.
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NewsContractor/ Military Co-Operation Raises Lost Aircraft
Briggs Marine Contractors have played a key role in the recovery of an RAF aircraft which crashed into the River Humber near the town of Brough in Yorkshire UK.
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NewsVOSTA and STN Sign Dredging Partnership Agreement
VOSTA.LMG, the Amsterdam based dredger builder and dredging components supplier, has signed a partner agreement with Hamburg based STN Atlas Marine Electronics under which the two companies will co-operate in the development and worldwide marketing of automated dredging systems.
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Former East German Workboat is Sold to the Adriatic
The latest but probably not the last chapter in the life of a remarkable German workboat has just been written in Rostock where Fairplay has sold the last tug in what used to be the former GDR state-owned Technical Fleet.
