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Black Sea base delivers successful salvage
Multraship Salvage and SVITZER Salvage have refloated the Russian flag cargo ship ''Irtysh 1'' after it had ran aground on the rocky coastline off the Bulgarian Black Sea coast near Bourgas.
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£22m of new funding for wave and tidal energy
Marine energy will be ready for mass scale deployment and an important new commercial UK industry by 2020 said the Carbon Trust earlier this month.
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Salvors remove navigational hazards in Haiti
A TITAN Salvage team is working in Haiti to remove navigational hazards following the devastating earthquake, including the collapsed Washington gantry crane, in Port-au-Prince for the U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), in an effort to increase the cargo throughput in the heavily damaged port.
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Stena Line invests £200m in new Scottish port
Stena Line is investing some £200m in a new ferry port facility at Loch Ryan in Scotland on a 28 acre brownfield site two miles north of Cairnryan.
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Peene deepening opens access for bigger ships
Local German authorities have completed the deepening of a 23.7km stretch of the northern Peene River to allow bigger ships to reach Wolgast.
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Scientists awarded €5m for dredging research - by David Foxwell
Two scientists based in Brighton on the south coast of the UK and a Franco-British partnership have been awarded €5 million to find safe disposal methods for dredged marine sediments.
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An 'Illustrious' refit for Royal Navy flagship
HMS Illustrious arrived at Rosyth on Monday in preparation for a 13 month docking period to start next month, in a £40m contract awarded under the Surface Ship Support Alliance (the alliance between the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), Babcock and BAE Systems).
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Cuxhaven gets new flood defence barriers
The German North Sea port of Cuxhaven has completed the construction and installation of two new flood barriers which together cost €19m and are the hub of flood defences costing the city about €31m up to 2012.
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‘Amfibus’ trialled on River Clyde
UK Transport group Stagecoach trialled an innovative amphibious bus which can operate on both water and roads on the River Clyde on Monday.
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LiDAR monitors Corsican coastal erosion
A new bathymetric survey of the Corsican coastline has been commissioned to provide detailed information about ongoing coastal erosion on the Mediterranean island as well as to assess the impact of manmade structures both on future erosion and navigation safety.
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Funding for ‘Motorways of the Sea’
The European Commission gave its green light last week for public financing from France and Spain to the Fres Mos project. It will link the French port of Nantes-Saint Nazaire with the Spanish port of Gijon, and will be operated by GLD Atlantique.
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Jan De Nul launches ‘Zheng He’ in Croatia
Belgian dredging giant Jan De Nul continued its major fleet expansion on Saturday with the launch of the cutter suction dredger ''Zheng He'' at the Uljanik Brodogradiliste d.d. Shipyard in Pula, Croatia.
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Workboats breakthrough for IPS propulsion system
Five years after Volvo Penta’s Inboard Performance System (IPS) was launched, Estonian shipyard Baltic Workboats will design and build a 16m fast pilot boat equipped with twin IPS1050 units.
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Successful inland shipping trial on Ouse
Some 1,200 tons of Pulverised Fuel Ash (PFA) from Yorkshire’s Drax Power Station in the UK was carried for its entire journey by water freight late last month in a trial which is expected to set the stage for more shipments later this year.
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Carbon monoxide poisoning awareness urged
UK gas safety charity, The CORGI Trust, and The Port of Liverpool Police force were recently urging foreign vessel crew members arriving into UK ports, and all personnel working on vessels, to be aware of the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning.
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‘Mulberry harbour’ devised for Haitian relief
The Crowley Maritime Corporation, working under contract with the U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), unloaded Haiti relief cargo in Rio Haina, Dominican Republic last week. Fifty-six of the 68 20foot containers loaded with water and meals-ready-to-eat (MREs) were trucked across the border into Haiti.
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‘Future Energy’ alights in London
The UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Miliband, spoke at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi last week to highlight the UK’s leading role in meeting the global challenge of combating climate change with renewable energy.
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Ships services contract for Maasvlakte 2 dredging
Wilhelmsen Ships Service has secured a contract to provide ships agency services to dredging contractor Van Oord at Maasvlakte 2, the major port expansion project in Rotterdam.
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Bird survey launches Round 3 activity
Gardline Marine Sciences Ltd of Great Yarmouth in the UK is one of the first companies to benefit from the Round 3 offshore wind farm site allocation announced this month.
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Offshore wind opportunities at Humber Gateway
Local marine and renewable energy businesses are to hear first hand about the supply chain opportunities that will be available if the Humber Gateway offshore wind farm gets planning consent later this year.