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NewsTidalStream's turbine validated in deep water tests
Two British engineers have developed a breakthrough design that could within five years begin to generate substantial amounts of cheap electricity from deepwater tidal flows. TidalStream Ltd reported last month that their unique turbine platform design, code named Triton, has successfully undergone validation testing at the deep-water test basin at ...
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UK water depth data from Seazone
Detailed water depth data for seas around the UK is now available from UK Hydrographic Office subsidiary SeaZone of Bentley in Hampshire, which has spent the last two years acquiring and processing hydrographic survey information from a variety of sources to create a definitive database of underwater terrains. Over 12,000 ...
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NewsGlare free working for new pilot cutter
Tyneside UK based Solar Solve Marine didn’ t need a pilot cutter to guide them to this order for five of their well known Solasafe anti glare roller sunscreens. However, they ended up on one anyway as the screens were for the wheelhouse of the Port of Tyne’ s new ...
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New Cosalt website
Marine safety equipment supplier Cosalt has launched a new website to give its customers quick and easy access to information about the company and its expanding range of products and services for the marine, industrial and offshore markets. The new website can be found at www.cosalt.com. Cosalt recently divided its ...
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NewsNew integrated control system for 'Solitaire'
Kongsberg Maritime has completed an extensive midlife upgrade of Allsea' s Solitaire, which at an overall length of 300m is the largest pipe laying vessel in the world.
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NewsTouchscreen control and monitoring
A screen to put your ship' s systems under finger-tip monitoring and control has been launched onto the market.
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NewsNorwegian contract for MMT
Marin Mä tteknik AB (MMT) of Gothenburg has been awarded this year’ s Mareano survey contract covering bathymetric data acquisition and processing over an area of almost 5,000 sq/km of Norway’ s coastal and ocean regions.
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NewsDEME provides details of Middle East contract
DEME in Belgium says that, amongst several new assignments in the Middle East, an important contract has been awarded to Dredging International, a DEME Group company, for site preparation dredging and reclamation at Ruwais, 275km from the city of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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NewsRAL influence continues to spread
Barely a month goes by without news of more tugs being completed to designs from the Vancouver based design team of Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) naval architects. Among those designs are those that are now well established and others that are quickly gaining favour in various sectors of the towage ...
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Van Oord wins contract to construct revetments in Zeeland
Van Oord in The Netherlands has won a contract to design and construct revetments along the channels of the eastern and western arms of the river Scheldt in the Dutch province of Zeeland. The work will mainly involve depositing steel and phosphorous slag and quarry stone.
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NewsLonglife solution with new composite decking
There is something new afoot – or rather, underfoot. It comes in the shape of a composite timber decking product that, the manufacturer claims, is actually better than traditional wood.
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NewsWarnemünde completes new cruise shipping facility
The third and final stage of Rostock-Warnemü nde’ s new Berth 8 cruise shipping facility has been completed, just in time for the opening of this year’ s cruise shipping season which the port is hoping will set a new record.
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Port of Tyne simulates tug collision
The Port of Tyne’ s marine department were put through their paces recently during a successful emergency training day. Held at South Tyneside College’ s marine simulator, the exercise scenario involved a simulated incident, played out in real time involving a collision between a tug attending a large car carrier ...
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Seawork Coastal & Ports Surveying Conference
The latest developments in coastal and port hydrography are the subject of a one day conference during this year’ s Seawork event in Southampton, on Thursday 18 June. Proceedings are jointly sponsored by The Hydrographic Society UK, The Society for Underwater Technology and the UK Harbour Masters Association, all of ...
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NewsSinking dredger salved off UK coast
The Netherlands based salvage specialist Multraship Salvage successfully salved a sinking dredger off the coast of Kent in the UK last month.
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New charting deals
Kelvin Hughes, the UK’ s largest Admiralty Chart Agent as well as a leading manufacturer of navaids, has been appointed by the Japanese Hydrographic Association as official distributor for all Japanese W Series paper charts, sailing directions and special publications issued by the Japanese Coast Guard.
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NewsA patch in time and the catch is fine
Miko patches came to the rescue on recently when the 60m stern trawler MV Nybo was struck by another trawler whilst at anchor at Vadsø in the Varanger Fjord, Norway. The early morning collision resulted in the Nybo sustaining a 300cm by 40cm gash in its hull through which water ...
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NewsFirst Ocean Cat launched this month.
A new design catamaran for the offshore wind market is due to be launched this month. The Ocean Cat, a 16m aluminium work catamaran designed by Marine Design International Ltd., is under construction at Mooney Boats in Killybegs for Sinbad Marine Services, and is part of the same design family ...
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NewsCold weather cable a flexible friend
Climate change is a reality that will have an effect on us for years to come. Controversial as it seems, the reduction of the Arctic ice has made changes that will make it possible to work in this region in a way which was not imaginable 20 years ago. Nevertheless ...
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NewsConditions challenge wind farm cable layers
As senior project manager Peter Mckenzie-Midlane told MJ , CTC Marine Projects is operating in some ‘ challenging’ conditions on the Robin Rigg Offshore Wind Farm in the Solway Firth of Cumbria UK.
