All News articles – Page 951

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    EC identifies offshore wind energy's potential

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    The European Commission (EC) has issued a Communication on Offshore Wind Energy which identifies the importance of that industry to the Community.

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    Mobile simulator training for dredge masters

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    Although the dredging market has had a skills gap for quite some time, there are now fewer barriers to training crew.

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    Security Dorset

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    Dorset Police and Poole Harbour Watch in the UK are working together to make the county’ s marine community even safer as the dark winter nights draw in.

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    Safety first for lightweight dive support vessel

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    The first of two aluminium dive support vessels being built by Seawind Marine in Appledore, North Devon UK has now been delivered to its owner in Scotland.

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    A solid foundation for deepwater wind

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    Energy companies, civil engineers, shipbuilders and regional development agencies met in London last month to discuss the feasibility of building clean energy wind farms in deep waters offshore of the UK.

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    Dedicated Denmark-Norway ro-ro in New Year

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    Seatruck Ferries Ltd and Federicia Shipping have announced the a new ro-ro trailer cargo service to be called Fredericia-Moss, which will run   between Fredericia in Denmark and Moss in Norway. The first sailing will be from Fredericia on Monday 5 January, 2009.

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    Divers dedicated to marine mammal rescue

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    Participating at the UK’ s recent Emergency Services Show 2008 was British Divers Marine Life Rescue, a registered charity which has over 5,000 volunteer marine mammal medics across England, Wales and Scotland.

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    A Flag Day for Sanmar with a new design

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    Turkish tug builders and tugowners Sanmar Denizcilik Makine ve Ticaret Ltd, of Istanbul, celebrated in fine style at the flag change ceremony for the first vessel of their new Sanmar Eskort 80 series.

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    Dales hails record

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    Dales Marine Services continues a record breaking year by completing its first contract for James Fisher Tankships. The £ 300,000 project involved repair and maintenance work to 4,842 ton tanker ' Chartsman' in the Dales dry dock facility at Aberdeen Harbour UK. Over a three week period Dales painted the ...

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    Great graphics with low cost simulator

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    UK based software developer and supplier PC Maritime has launched a new engine room simulator that can run on a standard PC.

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    Great Yarmouth's 'wave wall' completed

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    The final precast units supplied by Macrete, the specialist Northern Ireland based precast concrete engineers, have been lowered into place recently for the 1,000m wave wall being constructed by BAM Nuttall Ltd (which was known as Edmund Nuttall until October of this year) for the new deep water harbour being ...

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    Dales Marine complete Lord of the Isles

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    Dales Marine Services has successfully completed a £ 300,000 contract at its Aberdeen facility for general annual maintenance and other work on the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry, Lord of the Isles, which operates on Scotland’ s west coast.

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    Defland Coast project gets under way

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    Van Oord in The Netherlands reports that the Defland Coast project has got underway. The Delfland Coast Consortium (Van Oord and Boskalis) began laying a pipeline on the beach at Hoek van Holland which was due to start pumping sand in late November/early December in order to create new dunes ...

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    Divex celebrates double century manufacturing milestone

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    International diving equipment technology company Divex is celebrating a double century manufacturing milestone after completion of its 200th Divers Environmental Conditioning System, known as the ECS.

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    Kiel breaks ground for third passenger terminal

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    Construction has begun in Kiel of the € 16m Schwedenkai Terminal, the third ferry and cruise ship handling facility in the Baltic port city which says it is Germany’ s most popular cruise ship destination.

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    New rescue boat is first of class

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    The German sea rescue service, DGzRS, is expected to take delivery by year’ s end of the first of a new series of 20m Fassmer rescue cruisers, which close the gap between the organisation’ s small lifeboats and ocean going sea rescue cruisers.

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    Replenishing beaches on the Essex coast

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    The dredger/pumping station Sliedrecht 27 has been repositioned to Jaywick, near Clacton on the Essex coast, where it has been deployed as a booster station on a € 13m beach nourishment contract for the UK Environment Agency.

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    Building stable beaches - a new tool to help

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    HR Wallingford in the UK has developed a new software package, in ArcGIS, to help coastal engineers model artificial beaches. The Beach Design and Management Tool (BDMaT) allows engineers to apply the necessary parabolic equations computationally, saving much laborious number crunching and giving a visual display of the results. BDMaT ...

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    A barrage too far

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    A new report from the House of Lords European Union Committee suggests that Britain will be unable to reach its target for 20% renewable energy by 2020 without ' wholesale changes on all fronts' to its current strategy. The report said the proposed barrage across the Severn near Bristol, which ...

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    Mercy Ships' Ball

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    Mercy Ships, the international charity that provides free medical and humanitarian services in the world' s poorest countries, will hold a celebratory ball in January marking the end of its 30th anniversary year. The event is on 31 January 2009 at London' s Landmark Hotel. If interested in attending, becoming ...