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NewsRamsgte digs deep for wind farm vessels
While many ports are suffering in the current economic downturn Ramsgate is busy preparing for new customers, including work to accommodate the construction and support vessels associated with the Thanet Offshore Wind Farm and a potential new fast ferry service to France.
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NewsDon't get swamped by the data tide
A new, user friendly marine-information ' cruncher' has just been launched onto the market, promising to make the tidal wave of data that maritime organisations are now expected to manage much simpler.
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NewsNew hearts for Dart workboats
Three workboats operated by Dart Harbour and Navigation Authority in the UK have been repowered with Perkins Sabre engines. They are Lynx, a pilot boat that doubles as the harbour launch, Hercules, the authority’ s largest vessel and floating crane that, in addition to its moorings duties, is also available ...
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NewsA success story for Damen and Smit
When Damen Shipyards at Gorinchem in the Netherlands first introduced their series built Damen ASD Tug 2810 in 2004 it was recognised by many as a harbour tug with some potential but now, some five years later, it can be considered a ‘ success’ story! During those few years over ...
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NewsRefitted river cruiser ready to sail
The Mayflower Garden is the oldest operating vessel in the City Cruises fleet on London’ s River Thames, having been built in 1974 by Thomas Hughan of Greenwich. In 2007 the owners considered they had a choice of either selling the vessel or undertaking a major refit. The latter course ...
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NewsFour (very) mobile cranes for Forth Ports
Four Sennebogen 870 Mobile Specials have been delivered to Forth Ports PLC in the UK.
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NewsSubsea crane for fibre rope handling
Cargotec’ s MacGregor has developed technology for handling lightweight fibre rope and is about to install the world’ s first subsea crane which uses it.
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NewsShipRepair & Conversion returns to London
ShipRepair & Conversion returns to London this month, running from 28-30 April at the Olympia in London.
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NewsDredging consultancy defies the downturn
Despite the economic climate the work load at specialist dredging and coastal consultants Anthony D Bates Partnership (ADBP) remain buoyant. The Somerset UK based company is undertaking a wide variety of projects in the UK, Ireland and overseas at the start of what looks like being another very busy year.
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NewsShipyard completes 'formidable' refit
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Fort Rosalie is a fleet stores ship, which means it has a primary role of supplying fuel, food, munitions and just about anything else needed by the Royal Naval fleet while on operations at sea.
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NewsPort of Poti rehabilitation project completed
Delta Marine Consultants (DMC) has confirmed that the first phase of the rehabilitation of the main breakwater at the Port of Poti, Georgia, has recently been completed.
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Dredging Cloudburst
Andrew Scott’ s Cloudburst has accepted appointment as UK sales representative for Italian dredger manufacturer Italdraghe Sp A. Cloudburst will represent Italdraghe’ s full range of cutter suction dredgers and dredging pumps as well as accessory dredging equipment such as backflow pipelines, riddling plant and support vessels. Italdraghe is exhibiting ...
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China to have world's longest immersed tunnel
COWI has signed a contract to provide the preliminary design for a combined bridge and tunnel link in China. The immersed tunnel will be based on the same tunnel concept which was chosen for the Øresund fixed link between Denmark and Sweden and the Busan-Geoje link in Korea.
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Norway to provide updated charts on demand
The Norwegian Hydrographic Service (NHS) in Stavanger plans to introduce a ‘ Print on Demand’ facility for its updated charts, beginning next year.
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News'Napoli' recovery chains in place
The operation to remove the stern section of the container vessel ‘ MSC Napoli’ from the UK’ s Devon coast has reached its second milestone. Following a successful test, the project team, led by Global Response Maritime B.V. of The Netherlands, has completed positioning all 12 lifting chains under the ...
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NewsSmit increases its market share in Canada
In mid March Smit International signed an agreement to acquire all of the shares in the Minette Bay Ship Docking Ltd in Prince Rupert, Canada. The tug company operates a three tug fleet in the increasingly busy port of Prince Rupert and provided ship docking services at the Ridley Island ...
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NewsSanmar are busy with deliveries
Over the past month or so the Turkish tug owner and tug builder Sanmar Denizcilik Ltd of Istanbul has been exceptionally busy with the trials and delivery of new tugs. One of the most noteworthy completions is that of the very first vessel to be built to the new ‘ ...
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NewsLNG breakthrough with European Ro-Ro ships
Rolls-Royce Marine reported a strong financial performance for 2008 at a media presentation held in London last month. Some £ 2.2bn in revenue fulfilled expectations, an order book standing at £ 5.2bn was more than triple that of 2005, and profits were up 62% on 2007.
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CML booked up
Southampton UK based GRP and FRP moulder Composite Mouldings Ltd (CML) is defying recessionary conditions with an order book nearly full until 2011. The company has done all the mouldings for the Camarc designed 15m HMS patrol boat for the UK Ministry of Defence, in partnership with Holyhead Marine, and ...
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NewsGet your boat seen at Seawork
Seawork exhibitor Echomax will be launching a brand new radar target enhancer (RTE) at this year’ s show.
