All News articles – Page 699

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    USBL sales big in Japan

    2013-07-31T12:15:00Z

    Applied Acoustics has sold its 300th USBL system through Toyo Corporation, its exclusive and long standing Japanese distributor.

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    Antwerp LNG subsidy

    2013-07-31T12:15:00Z

    Antwerp Port Authority has received positive news from the European Commission concerning its application for a subsidy for LNG.

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    12,000 digital charts on one DVD

    2013-07-31T12:15:00Z

    The UK Hydrographic Office plans this summer to supply on a single DVD its Admiralty Vector Chart Service (AVCS), with 12,000 digital charts.

  • ACCF’s 11.5m GRP fast personnel ferry
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    Positive response for French boatbuilder

    2013-07-29T17:50:00Z

    The French boatbuilder ACCF exhibited for the first time at Seawork this year with a vessel on the floating pontoons.

  • AEGIR-Marine has been nominated for the 'Infosys Business of the Year Award'
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    AEGIR-Marine represents Netherlands

    2013-07-29T17:32:00Z

    Stern tube seal specialist, AEGIR-Marine, is to represent the Netherlands as a ‘National Champion’ in the 2013/14 European Business Awards (EBAs).

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    New saturation system a rescue success

    2013-07-29T07:30:00Z

    Integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solution provider Unique Hydra has had a fine result with its first nine man saturation system.

  • The Reach and Rescue telescopic pole system extends to provide a reach of up to 17m
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    Rescue device in pole position

    2013-07-29T07:30:00Z

    Ever since it developed the world’s first liferaft survival kit over 60 years ago, serving the maritime industry has been part of BCB Marine’s DNA.

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    World Maritime Day theme proposal

    2013-07-29T07:30:00Z

    The IMO Council has endorsed a proposal by IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu to adopt ‘IMO Conventions: Effective Implementation’ as the World Maritime Day theme for 2014.

  • Reef Despina is Reef Subsea’s second construction vessel mobilised to West Africa
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    Subsea construction surge

    2013-07-29T07:30:00Z

    Reef Subsea’s Norway based subsea services division has secured a third subsea construction contract in West Africa and is now sending a second vessel to the region.

  • Minesto’s marine power plant, Deep Green, moves subsea in various ocean environments
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    Simulator for underwater marine power plant

    2013-07-26T16:07:00Z

    Swedish marine energy technology company Minesto has developed a simulator to aid the development of its Deep Green anchored flying underwater vehicle marine power plant.

  • Damen won third prize in the Top 100 'greenest' companies competition
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    Damen wins prize for ‘green’ tug

    2013-07-26T13:47:00Z

    Damen Shipyards Group has won third prize at a competition for the Top 100 Dutch ‘green’ companies for its ASD Tug 2810 Hybrid.

  • Cougar XT Compact fitted with Innovatum’s Smartrak system will bring more power to survey work inshore in strong currents and tidal flows
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    Compact ROV for shallow water survey work

    2013-07-26T07:30:00Z

    Innovatum makes the world’s smallest system for the location, tracking and survey of submarine pipelines and cables.

  • The Deepsea Challenger is launched. SubConn connectors can be seen interfacing the transparent oil filled battery array. Image courtesy of James Cameron
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    Connectors crucial to ‘Deepsea Challenger’

    2013-07-26T07:30:00Z

    Filmmaker and explorer James Cameron recently handed over the Deepsea Challenger, the only human occupied vehicle currently able to access the very deepest parts of the ocean, to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in the USA.

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    New CEDA publication

    2013-07-26T07:30:00Z

    The Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has issued the latest in a series of information papers, entitled ‘Ecosystem Services and Dredging and Marine Construction’.

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    More ‘Room for the River’ work for Boskalis

    2013-07-26T07:30:00Z

    Royal Boskalis Westminster NV has been awarded a contract by the Vallei en Veluwe district water board for the construction of the Veessen-Wapenveld high-water channel in the province of Gelderland, the Netherlands.

  • 'Jati Six'
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    Strategic Marine delivers crewboat

    2013-07-25T18:14:00Z

    Western Australia based shipbuilding company Strategic Marine, has delivered the ‘Jati Six’ crew transfer vessel for Malaysian based Dinasti Jti Sdn Bhd.

  • Astrid was approaching Kinsale harbour when its engine failed to start
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    RNLI rescues tall ship crew off Ireland

    2013-07-25T17:55:00Z

    A rapid response by the RNLI resulted in 30 people surviving without injury when the Dutch tall ship Astrid hit rocks and sank on Ireland’s Cork coast on Wednesday.

  • Nunavut is the Canadian region with potentially the most to gain from the ‘great melt’
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    ‘North American Arctic Marine Corridor’

    2013-07-25T17:55:00Z

    A new policy brief issued this week says Canada’s federal government must prepare the country’s northern communities for the ‘New Arctic’.

  • MoorMaster is a vacuum-based automated mooring technology that eliminates the need for conventional mooring lines
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    Largest ever MoorMaster order in Europe

    2013-07-25T17:54:00Z

    Switzerland headquartered global engineering group Cavotec secured a significant order last week for its MoorMaster automated mooring technology at a new bulk handling application in Norway.

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    RESOLVE expands European presence

    2013-07-25T07:30:00Z

    RESOLVE Salvage & Fire (Europe), Ltd, the European emergency response subsidiary of USA based RESOLVE Marine Group, Inc, has added a new office at 23, Austin Friars, London, expanding the company’s UK operations base.