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Building stable beaches - a new tool to help
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
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
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 ...
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NewsCammell Laird back in business
One of the most illustrious names in British industry, Cammell Laird shipyard, made a high profile return to trading last month.
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Mexican contract awarded to Jan de Nul
Mexicana De Dragados SA de CV, the Mexican branch of Belgium’ s Jan De Nul Group, has signed a contract with the port authorities of the Mexican Pacific ports of Ensenada, Mazatlan and Manzanillo for dredging work at the ports. Signed on 24 October, the contract has a total value ...
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NewsNew response vessel contract awarded
The effectiveness of EU Member States when responding to oil pollution incidents was further enhanced in November with the award of three year contracts valued at € 3.5m by the European Maritime Safety Agency to two European shipowners to provide standby oil spill recovery vessels for the Black Sea and ...
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NewsSurf's up at Boscombe's artificial reef
Europe’ s first artificial surf reef is being built in Boscombe, Bournemouth and is set to put Bournemouth firmly on the UK surf map. It will act as a ramp, pushing waves upwards, doubling their size and improving their quality for surfers. As a result, the number of good surfing ...
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New harbour for Aran Islands completed
A new harbour costing € 14m has been completed on one of the Aran Islands, which lie in the mouth of Galway Bay on the west coast of Ireland.
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NewsHolographic radar spots approaching pirates
A novel application of Cambridge Consultants’ holographic radar technology to the ' MV Powerful' and the ' Sirius Star' could have enabled their crews to take early defensive action against the pirates that attacked them last month.
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NewsWave Hub managing contractor appointed
The South West Regional Development Agency (RDA) in the UK has selected JP Kenny, part of international energy services company John Wood Group PLC, as its engineering and management contractor for the design, procurement and construction of the ‘ Wave Hub’ renewable energy project off the coast of South West ...
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NewsMustang corrals another Chinese duo
Mustang Marine (Wales) Ltd has consolidated its breakthrough sale of a 19.5m pilot cutter to China’ s Tianjin Port Tug-boat & Lighter Company, part of the Tianjin Port Authority, by landing a contract to build two more of that model for the same client.
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News'Ocean Careers' becomes an annual event
) The Ocean Careers initiative aims to interest more young people in marine science careers.The long term competitiveness of European shipping and related maritime industries in world markets, and the adaptation of the entire seaborne transport system to the challenges of the 21st century are at the heart of this ...
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NewsMarine works expand Albert Quay facilities
Total E& P UK has expanded its logistics support facility at Aberdeen Harbour in a move significantly improving efficiency, flexibility and safety of operations.
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NewsMagnetic attraction aids Northern Divers
Northern Divers Ltd appreciated the convenience of their new Norwegian Miko magnets during a recent repair job at Immingham.
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NewsChange needed says European Environment Agency
Some 80% of the greenhouse gas emissions in Europe still come from the energy sector, warns a report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) released recently.
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NewsSoil reinforcement keeps U-Boat afloat
The new site for a WWII German U-boat, U-534, planned as a new tourist attraction on Merseyside in the UK, was reinforced by the swift installation of Tensar’ s TriAx geogrid to prevent the exhibit from sinking into the Mersey mud. Adopting this solution also saved the considerable cost and ...
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NewsFairmount achieve complete ownership of their five 'super tugs'
Fairmount Marine BV, a member of the Fairmount Group of Companies and wholly owned by Louis Dreyfus Armateurs SAS, has announced that the purchase by and the delivery to the Fairmount Group of all five Fairmount class super tugs has been successfully completed. All five tugs, built originally using finance ...
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NewsVan Oord ensures easier and safer access to North Sea Canal
Dutch dredging and marine construction giant Van Oord has completed a project to deepen the navigable channel of the North Sea Canal in The Netherlands. Now, large ocean going vessels can once again pass each other on their way to and from the port of Amsterdam. A total of 4m ...
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Hydro8 proceedings available
Proceedings of last month’ s Hydro8 Symposium in Liverpool, which featured 60 exhibitors and drew over 350 delegates from 18 countries, are now available direct from the event’ http://www.ths.org.uk' , ' 1228125156717' , ' ); } return false
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News'Green tugs' will get a substantial boost in 2009
The subject of achieving a true ‘ Green’ tug is one that has been studied and discussed with increasing frequency over the past couple of years and the year 2009 will see the very first tangible result.
