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  • HMS Bulwark monitored more than 50 square miles of sea around the Olympic venue
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    Servowatch system monitored the Olympics

    2013-05-03T11:00:00Z

    The 2012 Olympics tested not just the athletic skills of sports people worldwide, but also the prowess of the organisers who had to make it a highly successful and memorable event for the participants and the global audience.

  • Teledyne TSS’s new gyro changeover system ensures that equipment such as DP control centres, ECDIS and voyage data recorders are never without a gyro input
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    New Teledyne TSS gyrocompass system

    2013-05-03T11:00:00Z

    Following recent recorded sales of equipment worth £1.7m to Seatronics in Aberdeen, Teledyne TSS of Watford UK has launched a new gyrocompass changeover system for protection of navigation equipment against sudden loss of heading input.

  • As well as this restructure, BMT Surveys has launched a dedicated Risk & Quality division to reflect an industry demand for loss prevention
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    BMT restructures marine survey businesses

    2013-05-02T16:20:00Z

    BMT Group Ltd (BMT) has announced that marine surveying companies BMT De Beer and BMT Techmar became BMT Surveys on the 1 May.

  • The 160m extension to the existing Hatston Pier attracted £3.2m in support from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and has resulted in a major support and logistics base strategically located for EMEC’s tidal energy test site
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    Scotland’s longest berth opens for renewables

    2013-05-02T16:20:00Z

    Scotland’s longest commercial deepwater berth has been created in Orkney with the completion of a new extension at Hatston Pier on the outskirts of Kirkwall.

  • The Triplex MDH 42 can lift, move and park heavy anchors up to 42 tonnes
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    Triplex contract with BOA Offshore

    2013-05-02T16:19:00Z

    Norwegian marine equipment provider, Triplex AS, has secured an order from BOA Offshore for its Multi Deck Handling (MDH) 42.

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    Stick with GPS

    2013-05-02T07:30:00Z

    Now available from Norwich UK based Norcom Technology is Navistick 4Gb, a USB dongle with a built-in GPS receiver and 4 Gigabytes of storage.

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    Fuels foil Fos

    2013-05-02T07:30:00Z

    Despite growth in deepsea containers and other key trades, total cargo throughput at the French port Marseilles Fos fell 9% to 20m tonnes to the end of March, a 2MT drop on the first quarter last year.

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    ENC web service launched

    2013-05-02T07:30:00Z

    French company Geomod and its UK partner OceanWise in Hampshire, which in collaboration with Valeport and Wood & Douglas is set to deliver a tidal monitoring, telemetry and display system with eight monitoring stations to the Port of London Authority, have launched an Electronic Navigational Chart web service for delivery ...

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    World Hydrography Day

    2013-05-02T07:30:00Z

    ‘Hydrography - Underpinning the Blue Economy’ is the theme chosen by the International Hydrographic Organization for this year’s UN World Hydrography Day on 21 June.

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    SP Gears acquired

    2013-05-01T19:56:00Z

    The Virginia USA based PT Group has acquired SP Gears, a British specialist gear manufacturer based in Orpington, Kent.

  • Incat’s new 24m catamaran passenger ferry for Sealink
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    New Incat Crowther ferry

    2013-05-01T19:55:00Z

    Australian naval architect, Incat Crowther, has designed a new 24m catamaran passenger ferry currently under construction for Sydney Harbour’s Sealink.

  • The vessels will be used for hydrographic surveys in the Congo River
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    Alu Marine completes survey vessels

    2013-05-01T16:32:00Z

    French shipbuilder, Alu Marine, has completed the construction of two 7.80m aluminium survey vessels for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

  • The two vessels were loaded direct from the water in Rotterdam
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    Workboat shipping solutions at Seawork

    2013-05-01T07:30:00Z

    First time Seawork exhibitor, PM SHIPPING GmbH, has successfully shipped many commercial workboats since its inception in 2010 but one of the more complex and demanding projects was the shipment of two 100 tonne patrol boats from Rotterdam to Lagos.

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    Italy propels Russia

    2013-05-01T07:30:00Z

    Eliche Radice S.p.A. became the first Italian company certified by the Russian River Register last month.

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    Tonnage fall

    2013-04-30T19:56:00Z

    The port of Antwerp handled 46,997,502 tonnes of freight in the first three months of this year, an increase of 1.4% compared with the same period in 2012.

  • Elebia Evo automatic crane hooks speed up the loading process and make it safer
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    New automatic crane hook at Seawork

    2013-04-30T15:57:00Z

    UK product solutions company, Red Plant, has introduced an innovative new automatic crane hook which promises to remove the risk associated with port operatives performing the dangerous duty of hooking or unhooking a load.

  • The Hubba can provide broadband connection up to 20 miles offshore
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    Buzz Marine expands range

    2013-04-30T12:37:00Z

    The UK’s broadband solutions company, Buzz Marine, has added a new internal unit to its range, the free standing Hubba, designed for portable onboard 3G broadband reception.

  • The French Government organised an towing exercise with the ETV Abeille Bourbon and the giant container ship CMA CGM Marco Polo
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    TOWLINES

    2013-04-30T07:30:00Z

    Smit Lamnalco has placed an order with Sanmar Shipyard in Turkey for the construction of two 34m long RAstar 3400 escort tugs with a bollard pull in excess of 85 tonnes astern, intended specifically for LNG terminal operations. The tugs will feature electric frequency controlled escort winches, lights and other ...

  • Harry Wilson
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    Just don’t mention retirement

    2013-04-30T07:30:00Z

    “If you had to come down to one point that makes the biggest difference in this industry I''d say it''s the relationships,” says Harry Wilson of UK Docks Marine Services.

  • The prototype BRAtt (left) tries out the push knees on the new Suncor V a steel BRAtt 880–SU
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    The little Bratts are alive and well

    2013-04-30T07:30:00Z

    That new variants of the ultra-compact BRAtt are ‘turning heads and filling important industry niches’ is the latest news from British Columbia.