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NewsFirst day at work for new Boskalis dredger
The latest vessel to join Royal Boskalis Westminster' s fleet of dredgers started its maiden dredge operation at the Harwich Maintenance Contract in Harwich Haven last month.
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NewsA Lodestar is born
The first marine Attitude Heading and Reference System (AHRS) that used ' strap down' inertial sensors has received IMO Wheelmark approval. The ' strapdown' part of the system is particularly important because it means that sensors are directly attached to the body of the Sonardyne Lodestar unit, resulting in greater ...
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NewsFrench harbour fleets receive an eight tug boost
The first six tugs of an eight vessel series have been deployed around the French harbour tug fleets now operated by the Boluda Group. An order was originally placed with the French shipyard Chantier Piriou of Concarneau for the construction of these vessels by Les Abeille, the harbour towage division ...
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BMT raises its Hi-Q
The UK' s BMT Group, whose companies have wide and varied involvement in the maritime industries, has acquired Basingstoke based procurement and business change specialist Hi-Q Systems.
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NewsUK Treasury reviews rocketing port tax bills
A critical stage in the battle being waged by businesses based at British docks against the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) took place last month when the VOA appeared before the Treasury Committee to explain why it has issued massive, unexpected rates demands, backdated to 2005, which could have a crippling ...
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UK insurers behind on treating customers fairly?
A study by accountant and business consultant Moore Stephens suggests that while some progress has clearly been made in the effort to meet the FSA' s Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) deadline, there remain serious doubts about whether the UK insurance industry will be able to put in place the necessary ...
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Internet based survey service
Fugro, the Dutch survey conglomerate operating worldwide in over 50 countries, has launched an internet based remote access service, Fugro' s Advanced Navigation System (FANS). It enables remote connections to offshore survey systems, either from land based offices or other vessels within working areas, while facilitating quality controlled monitoring and ...
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NewsCleveleys Coastal Protection Scheme wins BCI award
A £ 20m coastal protection and environmental enhancement scheme at Cleveleys seafront in the UK has won an award in the British Construction Industry (BCI) Awards. After being shortlisted in five different categories, the project picked up the Environmental Award for the way it ' transformed a dilapidated 1920s seafront ...
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NewsNorway extend domain of VTS area
The new Kongsberg Norcontrol IT VTMIS at Vard in northern Norway, called the C-Scope, has been extended to provide coverage of southern Norway, the North Sea and Svalbard.
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Zaya appoints contractor for Nurai Island development
Zaya, a United Arab Emirates (UAE) based real estate developer, has announced the appointment of Van Oord as contractor for the dredging and marine works element of its premiere property project, Nurai Island.
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NewsWatchmate offers new anti-collision solution
Bristol based Marine Electronic Services Ltd has come up with an ingenious device called WatchMate, which connects directly to an AIS receiver or transponder and displays an easy to interpret list of targets that are within range to help prevent collisions.
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NewsDamen push ahead with a massive tug and barge project
Damen Marine Services (DMS) in the Netherlands have broken new ground with the delivery of the first of a series of unique pusher tugs. DMS Blackbird is purpose designed to form part of an Articulated Tug and Barge (ATB) unit and, when necessary, fulfil a range of other functions.
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UKHO AVCS partnering agreements
The UK Hydrographic Office has signed major partnering agreements with Kelvin Hughes and Transas under which the two manufacturing companies are to pre-load its Admiralty Vector Chart Service (AVCS) facilities on their respective ECDIS units.
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Green Party to challenge new East Anglian aggregates dredging
The Green Party in the UK is to challenge proposed aggregates dredging off the East Anglian coast. Councillor Rupert Read of Norwich, the Green Party lead candidate for Eastern Region in the 2009 Euro-elections, has announced that the Green Party will be challenging the new aggregate dredging licences being sought ...
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NewsMarine broadband addresses workboat market
A new service targeted at small commercial vessels aims to provide entry level broadband which can deliver SMS, voice and IP data up to 150kbps.
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NewsResearch facility will add to Xbloc effectiveness
Delta Marine Consultants (DMC) in The Netherlands has opened a 2-D wave flume facility equipped with a wave generator to assist with ongoing research work on the Xbloc, its popular armoured coastal defence unit. The flume facility is 25m long, 0.6m wide and 1m high and is capable of generating ...
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NewsITS 2008 Singapore - the Papers are available
In recent weeks the ITS 2008 Complete Book of Papers and Discussions has been arriving on the doorsteps and in the offices of many of the representatives from the Towage and Salvage industries that attended the highly successful 20th Tug & Salvage Convention held in Singapore in May of this ...
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NewsHadag takes 10th in series
Hamburg' s city owned Hadag ferry and excursion boat operator has marked ten years of operation by taking its tenth Class 2000 ferry, Wilhelmsburg, into service and placing orders for two more.
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NewsSubmerged oil spills under review
BMT Cordah is carrying out a study on behalf of the UK' s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) to review methods and technologies for responding to oil that becomes submerged or sinks following spillage at sea.
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NewsWOAC issues piracy recommendations
The United Kingdom Warlike Operations Area Committee (WOAC) responded on Tuesday to the extraordinary security situation in the Gulf of Aden; the establishment of the Maritime Security Patrol Area defined by the Commander of CTF 150 and the adoption of resolutions concerning Somalia by the UN Security Council.
