All News articles – Page 793
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NewsBig berthing at Isle of Grain jetties
As vessel sizes steadily increase, so too do the pressures exerted on port infrastructure.
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NewsThames being made ready for Jubilee Pageant
Port of London Authority (PLA) crews are laying over three miles of mooring chains for vessels taking part in the Thames river pageant, which takes place on 3 June to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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Alliance for HR Wallingford and UK Port Advisers
HR Wallingford and UK Port Advisers have announced an alliance aimed at improving service to clients and enhancing their offerings to market in both the UK and overseas.
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ARCADIS and EC Harris win Abu Dhabi project
ARCADIS, the international design, consulting, engineering and management services company based in The Netherlands, has announced that, together with its subsidiary EC Harris, it has won a three-year framework contract with Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) to provide business planning, master planning, design, engineering, programme management and training services.
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Morley Announce £17m Coastal Defences
A £ 17 million coastal defence scheme in the UK is to get more than £ 12 million in Government grant aid, Floods Minister Elliot Morley has announced.
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NewsMore than 390,000 tons of rock has now been delivered to site, and the Side Stone Dumping Vessel (SSDV) Frans is on site to install the foundations for the south breakwater.
TTS has designed, supplied and installed a tailor made linkspan for the Port of Rothesay in Scotland. The linkspan, part of the Rothesay Pier Ferry Berth Improvement Project, meets the stringent classification regulations required by Lloyd’ s Register.
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Orders for Unique System and Sonardyne
Unique System (UK), part of Unique Maritime Group based in Sharjah, UAE, has expanded its inventory of rental equipment with acquisition of 6G acoustic positioning systems worth over £1m from Sonardyne International.
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NewsNew UIS for Rijkswaterstaat
The survey department of the Netherlands’ Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) has taken receipt of its first integrated Underwater Inspection System (UIS) from CodaOctopus.
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Survey success for windfarm off IoW
Following the success of the preliminary geotechnical coring programme in 2010, Fugro has successfully performed a detailed geophysical survey of Navitus Bay for Eneco Round 3 Development Ltd.
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NewsSurvey for longest HVDC link in the world
Statnett SF and National Grid International Ltd have awarded MMT (Sweden) the marine survey contract for the NSN Seabed survey, a power transmission link between Norway and the UK.
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Gardline US subsidiary expands operations
Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, the US subsidiary of UK based Gardline Group with offices in New Jersey and Houston, has expanded its marine data collection facilities with the addition of geotechnical services using globalised expertise provided by Gardline Geosciences of Great Yarmouth.
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NewsRijkswaterstaat enhances shallow water survey
Great Yarmouth UK based GeoAcoustics Ltd has delivered four GeoSwath systems to the Netherlands'' Rijkswaterstaat (RWS), the arm of the Dutch Ministry of Transportation and Water Management whose responsibilities include the construction and maintenance of waterways and flood prevention.
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Pay as you sail EBCs
Navigational chart distributor Datema Delfzijl in Holland has launched a new ‘ pay as you sail’ ENC distribution system, ENCtrack, that for the first time will allow users to pay for chart licences starting from the time their vessels enter chart coverage areas, and not from the time that cells ...
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Valeport underwater positioning development
A fresh approach to problems of underwater positioning is possible with its new VA500 Altimeter, say oceanographic and instrumentation specialists Valeport of Totnes, Devon UK.
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Survey & inspection platform development
Offshore Marine Management (OMM), which has offices in Bristol, Cambridge and Hamburg, says it is developing an advanced integrated vehicle for survey and inspection operations down to depths of 100m.
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IHO XVIIIth Conference
The inter-governmental International Hydrographic Organization in Monaco, representing 80 member countries, is to hold its five yearly conference from 23 to 27 April.
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Russia completes GLONASS constellation
Russia’s GLONASS satellite navigation system now has a full orbital constellation of 24 satellites following successful launch of the final unit from the Plesetsk spaceport at the beginning of October.
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French port commissions
Cadden of Nantes in France, specialist suppliers of electronic systems to domestic hydrographic and oceanographic concerns, is to provide Rouen Harbour and the ferry port of Caen with purpose designed integrated systems for installation on two new survey vessels commissioned by the authorities.
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NewsCoastline completes vibrocoring for Hanson
MV Flatholm was on site 24/7 during the aggregates vibracoring campaign.The scope of the first works comprised 58 core locations off Norfolk UK. The specialist geotechnical survey vessel MV Flatholm was mobilised and the work was completed using Coastline’s high powered vibrocore, ‘C-Core-HP’, in 5m configuration. The average overall recovery ...
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South west coastal monitoring surveys
Coastline Surveys of Falmouth UK is to provide single beam and bathymetric surveys of UK south west regions.
