All News articles – Page 885
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New base is forerunner to planned Weser offshore port
Part of Bremerhaven Container Terminal is being leased to wind energy firm RWE Innogy as an interim construction and assembly base for offshore wind turbines until the Weser can build an offshore port by about 2015.
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Swansea Dry Docks ‘Open for Business’
Following the successful use of Swansea Dry Docks for the refit and refurbishment of Saga Pearl II, now successfully cruising, and work on MV Julia, which is now plying the Fastnet Ferry Cork-Swansea overnight route, and emergency repair work on the 65m hopper dredger Heron, Harris Pye Group (HPG) has ...
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Survey contracts award for Barrow and Burbo Bank
BOWind has awarded the survey inspection and remedial works contract for the Barrow Offshore Wind Farm export cable to subsea cable specialists, Offshore Marine Management (OMM). OMM has also been awarded the cable surveys contract for Burbo Bank by developer DONG Energy.
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Wave Hub on course for summer deployment
Wave Hub, the pioneering marine energy project, is on course to be deployed this summer with fabrication of sub-sea cables and the hub itself nearing completion.
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CFPA renews itself with offshore wind
Handling over 150 complete wind turbines units in the last five years, the operator of one of Scotland’s premier deepwater ports, Cromarty Firth Port Authority (CFPA), has established itself as a renewable energy centre for the import, logistics and storage of wind farm components
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Navaids light first floating wind turbine
Tideland Signal has supplied Norway’s Statoil ASA with a comprehensive package of aids to navigation to warn shipping in the vicinity of its revolutionary Hywind floating wind turbine.
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Milford Haven looks to the future
Milford Haven Port Authority (MHPA) in the UK announced the start of a series of consultations this week as part of a master planning process, the aim of which is to determine the future development requirements of the Port over the next thirty years.
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Second dome goes down to plug Gulf spill
The second of BP’s spill containment domes was deployed yesterday in another to attempt to cap off the main oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. However, the action is not yet completed, and there will still be tense moments in the hook-up phase yet to come. The dome has ...
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Polar Bear plans to prove global warming
Adventurer and TV personality Bear Grylls is planning his next epic RIB adventure, which will take place in August when he traverses Canada’s infamous North West Passage from east to west aboard an 11m Zodiac MACH II Hurricane RIB.
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Superferry sails on Sunday
The first of the world’s two largest Superferries will sail the North Sea between Harwich and the Hook of Holland when Stena Line puts it into service on Sunday.
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Rapid response boat to Gulf of Mexico
With some 210,000 gallons of oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster still spilling into the Gulf of Mexico daily, Seattle USA based Kvichak Marine Industries has delivered a 30'' Rapid Response Skimmer to Environmental Safety & Health (ES&H) in Houma, Louisiana.
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REMPEC holds regional workshop on MARPOL Implementation
The Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC) organized a regional workshop recently on the implementation of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL).
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Triton heralds entry to new workboat markets
BWSeaCat Ltd is perhaps an unfamiliar name with many MJ readers, but 2010 has seen rapid growth for the Fareham UK based company which specialises in the design and build of commercial powered catamarans.
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Forth Ports rejects third proposal
The Forth Ports board in the UK has voted unanimously to reject the latest proposal of £14.00 per share from the Northstream consortium that includes competitor Peel Ports. Two previous bids were for £13.40 and £12.85 per share.
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European Parliament report highlights maritime issues
A European Parliament report highlighting the importance of the maritime transport sector to Europe’s economy, authored by European Conservatives and Reformists member Peter Van Dalen MEP, was adopted yesterday.
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Engineering attempt readied to stem US oil spill
Today the world seems to be holding it’s breath to see if BP’s latest attempt to contain the oil gushing from the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico will work.
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Global shortage of seafarers addressed
The increasingly severe shortage of seafarers and its future impact on the global maritime industry will be addressed at an international seminar at the headquarters of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in London on 11 May.
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New Noordhoek vessel completes trials - by David Goodfellow
Dutch bathymetric and acoustic specialists Noordhoek Survey of Zierikzee has completed trials of their third subsea ROV survey vessel, ‘Noordhoek Pathfinder’, prior to its deployment in the North Sea for geophysical and hydrographic surveys as well as pipeline and geotechnical investigations.
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Multibean sonar for ABP Southampton - by David Goodfellow
Associated British Ports Southampton has commissioned a Reson SeaBat 7101 multibeam sonar for shallow water hydrographic and engineering surveys of port confines.
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Gardline wind farm survey - by David Goodfellow
Great Yarmouth UK based Gardline Hydro has been awarded a contract by RWE npower renewables for geophysical surveys of the Atlantic Array Offshore Wind Farm site in the Bristol Channel.