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  • Palfinger Marine-und Beteiligungs-GmbH (PMB) is tapping into the market segment of large marine cranes with its PFM range.
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    Research ship obtains five cranes

    2011-04-13T16:41:00Z

    Palfinger Marine''s development department has entered the world of offshore crane systems with the design of the first Palfinger ‘Heavy Duty Foldable’ marine crane for a modern research ship.

  • ‘MV Shapinsay’ is being lengthened and given new engines at Macduff Shipyards.
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    Orkney ferry fleet targets upgrade

    2011-04-12T13:05:00Z

    The Scottish Government has pledged funds towards the estimated £1.5m upgrade of MV Shapinsay, the ferry serving the Orkney islands route from Kirkwall to Shapinsay.

  • Wight Ryder I being lifted at the Trafalgar Wharf facility.
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    Shiplift nets high speed contract for yard

    2011-04-12T12:35:00Z

    A five year maintenance contract with the Isle of Wight ferry operator Wightlink has added its weight to the growing prospects of a Portsmouth UK based ship repairer.

  • Port Solent near Portsmouth is one of five marinas run by Premier Marinas to be supplied by WP Marine.
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    Beating diesel bug if ‘not at sea’

    2011-04-11T16:58:00Z

    The UK’s Premier Marinas group has awarded a major fuel supply contract to regional fuels and lubricants distributor WP Marine.

  • With marine energy on the rise in Scotland, Aberdeen makes an ideal venue for All-Energy 2011.
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    Spotlight on power sees All-Energy shine

    2011-04-11T16:14:00Z

    All-Energy, the UK’s largest renewable energy exhibition and conference, has just got even larger.

  • The Enginei bridge display enables tug masters to be continuously aware of their fuel consumption.
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    Tug fleet finds fuel economy savings

    2011-04-11T10:42:00Z

    Svitzer Tugs is expanding fuel efficiencies throughout its fleet by fitting Enginei fuel monitoring systems from Royston Limited.

  • The Turbine B rotor assembly is lifted for the Beatrice Wind Farm Demonstrator Project in Scotland’s Moray Firth. The project included two 5MW turbines, the world’s largest at the time. Photo: Beatrice – Talisman Energy
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    Scottish plans for wind energy

    2011-04-07T10:57:00Z

    Plans for developing Scotland’s offshore wind potential have been unveiled with publication of Blue Seas – Green Energy, the Sectoral Marine Plan for Offshore Wind Energy in Scottish Territorial Waters.

  • An elevated pipeline section crossing Seaton’s Harbour Road has now been lagged to reduce noise levels.
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    Pipeline noise delays dredging works

    2011-04-07T10:55:00Z

    Westminster Dredging’s commencement last week of pumping for dredged material through a seaside town in Devon UK was halted by the client when noise levels exceeded expectations.

  • ‘Halunder Jet’ carries about 580 passengers on the nearly four hour journey between Hamburg/Cuxhaven and Heligoland.
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    Biggest Bight cat sails through check

    2011-04-07T10:54:00Z

    The biggest and most modern catamaran in the German Bight, Halunder Jet, has had a two week overhaul and class check at Bremerhavener Dockbetrieb (BREDO).

  • A Floating Container Storage & Transhipment Terminal (FCSTT).
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    Floating boxport plan for Scapa Flow

    2011-04-07T10:53:00Z

    An innovative plan for a floating container port that could be located at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands could bring enormous benefits to Scotland’s economy.

  • The dredger’s retractable amphibious undercarriage is allowing it to pioneer a range of new soft terrain applications.
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    Amphibious excavator’s dredging options

    2011-04-06T13:42:00Z

    Surrey UK based Land & Water Plant is well known for developing innovative new plant that operates in sensitive environments.

  • A Damen field service engineer surveys the on-site assembly of the dredger.
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    Dredger rides the rails to Kazahkstan

    2011-04-06T13:11:00Z

    Damen Dredging Equipment has delivered from stock a CSD500 model cutter suction dredger to Kazakhstan.

  • An AUV photo of the landing gear of the lost Air France flight on the ocean floor.
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    AUVs locate lost Air France flight

    2011-04-06T12:32:00Z

    After two years, one of the strangest and most worrying puzzles of recent times, the loss of Air France Flight 447, may be about to be solved with the finding of the wreckage some two and a half miles down.

  • Takaaki Kimura, senior managing executive officer of Yamaha Motor and Volvo Penta CEO Göran Gummeson shake hands at the Miami Boat Show 2011.
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    Yamaha and Volvo Penta make progress

    2011-04-05T15:41:00Z

    AB Volvo Penta and Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd have decided to set up joint working groups to evaluate the potential for deeper collaboration between the companies.

  • Henning Jorgensen from BUKH, left, concludes the new agreement with WaterMota MD Mike Beacham.
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    See the new SeasAll engines at Seawork

    2011-04-04T10:38:00Z

    Devon UK based marine engine and generator specialist WaterMota has signed an agreement with Danish based BUKH enabling it to sell SOLAS approved engines.

  • Wessex will be showing a Targa 35 in police identity at Berth Number One on the Seawork pontoon.
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    Quality for Marine Police at Seawork

    2011-04-02T09:00:00Z

    Poole UK based Wessex Marine has earned its long service medal as one of the only exhibitors at Seawork to participate every year since the event’s origin.

  • More than 7,000 visitors are again expected to attend Europe’s premier commercial marine exhibition and conference.
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    Set sail for another successful Seawork

    2011-04-01T09:00:00Z

    The Seawork International Commercial Marine Exhibition and Conference returns to its familiar quayside location in the UK Port of Southampton for the 14th consecutive year this summer.

  • This HPTIV can operate in year around weather conditions with an operational water depth range of 4.5m to 50m.
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    Joint development wind turbine vessel

    2011-03-31T11:19:00Z

    Marine power solutions provider Wärtsilä and oil and gas services company Aker Solutions will be combining their expertise to develop a new and environmentally sound concept for offshore wind farm installation vessels.

  • A cannon is seen on the seafloor at the wreck site of the warship ‘Coronation’.
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    Action on illegal diving at shipwrecks

    2011-03-31T11:18:00Z

    English Heritage has issued a warning that action will be taken against anyone illegally accessing, damaging or removing items from protected historic wrecks.

  • The ‘Schwedeneck’ is seen in drydock for conversion works at the Peene facility of P + S Werften in Wolgast.
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    Naval vessel converts to research usage

    2011-03-31T11:17:00Z

    The German Navy’s long serving military research auxiliary Schwedeneck is being converted into a modern, multi-purpose research ship at the Peene facility of P + S Werften in Wolgast.