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NewsSMM Launch for New Navigation Products
Transas will exhibit under the motto Safety. Quality. IT. at SMM 2002. Transas'' Stand 11101 in Hall 11 will present a concentration of the latest IT developments in marine navigation and simulation.
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LARS Launch
In a move to bring control of the quality and cost of Hydrovision and Seaeye''s ROV handling systems in house, Hydrovision have designed a range of Launch and Recovery Systems (LARS) suitable for all of the group''s ROVs and trenching systems.
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Hatch Re-Pad
Among the latest vessels to benefit from the retrofit of MacGregor Flexipad hatch cover bearing pads is P&O Nedlloyd''s 4,230 TEU container ship Jervis Bay which had all steel pads replaced by Flexipads in June.
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NewsLong Silence for Halyard
Portsmouth UK based Halyard has just celebrated the production of its 10,000th 3m length of filament wound GRP tube. Laid end to end they would stretch for 30km.
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NewsNew Wall Thickness Gauges Launched
Manchester UK based Elcometer Instruments Ltd has launched two new precision ultrasonic wall thickness gauges which are designed to provide accurate thickness measurements on thin materials and are capable of measuring substrate thickness without removing paint or other coatings from the surface to be measured.
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NewsFirst Tidal Turbine Installation Underway
Seacore will begin construction this month on the foundations of Marine Current Turbine''s tidal turbine in the Bristol Channel. The £ 1.5m single rotor prototype will be the first ever ''free stream'' underwater turbine, generating 300kW of electricity.
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Farewell to Ton Kooren - President of the Kotug Group
On the 2nd of August 2002, after a period of 25 successful years as founder and President of Kotug International B.V. , Mr Ton Kooren resigned from the Kotug Group.
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Farewell GLORIA
One of the UK''s major scientific successes of recent times, the GLORIA (Geological Long Range Inclined Asdic) sidescan sonar, has been retired from active service after having surveyed 5% of the world''s oceans.
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Thermal Imaging Enhances Fire Safety Training
The recent fires aboard DFDS Seaways'' Princess of Scandanavia, extinguished by crew members before severe damage was caused or lives placed at risk is a reminder of the importance of fire safety training at sea.
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NewsUKHO Launches New ENC Service
The UK Hydrographic Office, which claims to be the world''s leading publisher of navigational information, has launched a new ENC (Electronic Nautical Chart) service designed to complement its present portfolio of Admiralty products and services. It packages ENC''s from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the UK on a ...
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NewsExpanded Ostuferhafen is Full of Eastern Promise
The German Baltic Port of Kiel has inaugurated an expanded Ostuferhafen complex after two and a half years of construction which has finally obliterated a WWII submarine bunker that threatened to strangle port expansion.
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'The World' Lifted by Dreggen
Munck Cranes AS has recently bought a majority shareholding in Dreggen Cranes AS, which is located with offices and production facilities by the seaside in Bergen, on the west coast of Norway. Nonetheless, Dreggen will continue as an independent company delivering a complete range of cranes and lifting equipment for ...
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NewsTitanic Team Knuckles Down for 'Jason II'
The team of engineers and scientists who built the miniature remote-controlled submarine Jason Junior used in the investigation of the wreck of the Titanic has developed an advanced new ROV that will be deployed by a specially adapted Effer crane provided by the UK''s European Crane Services (ECS).
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Sea Japan Dispute
Asian national maritime sensitivities have surfaced with reports of a dispute between South Korea and Japan over the the 200 year-old name of the body of water separating them, the Sea of Japan.
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NewsDiesel Injectors Readied for Pressure Drop
Germany''s Kistler has marketed new long-life pressure transmitters designed for use in diesel engine injectors and hydraulic systems and are equally suitable for heavy oil engines and for rapid pressure drops.
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Sheen Will Be Seen by Floating Oil Spill Detector
A new wireless oil sheen detector for harbours and offshore oil terminals uses satellite and/or cellular link to alert shore based operators within minutes to the presence of oil.
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IHC Holland Lands DEME Order
Belgian contractors DEME have ordered a 5,400m 3capacity trailing suction hopper dredger from IHC Holland, which has contracted the construction of the vessel to its Rotterdam based subsidiary yard Van der Giessen de Noord.
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NewsHigh Demand for New Distress Light
A new generation of marking and distress lights has been launched by Jotron (UK) Ltd.
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NewsFish Farm Workboat Delivers Feed with Speed
The first of the new design Typhoon 38 from Cornwall''s Cygnus Marine is at work for Bressay Salmon of the Shetland Isles.
