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NewsSeaOtter Succeeds Despite the Freeze
American environmental services company Clean Harbors has successfully completed two more inspection projects using their SeaOtter ROV.
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NewsEMSA Oil Recovery Vessel Contracts Finalised
The European Marine Safety Agency (EMSA) has recently awarded contracts worth € 18.4m over three years that will see seven oil product tankers, three from the UK, two Spanish, one Maltese and one Greek, joining their fleet of oil recovery vessels to be made available at short notice in specific ...
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NewsUK Consent for Walney Wind Farm
The UK Government’ s Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks has given consent for a major 450MW offshore wind farm project in the Irish Sea 14km from Walney Island, off the coast of Cumbria.
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NewsChinese New Year for Rotterdam Salvors
Severe gales around the coasts of Britain and western Europe late in January and early February presented the emergency services and salvors with a number unusual and potentially difficult challenges.
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NewsClimate Change Comedy on the South Coast
To launch National Science Week in the UK next month, the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and The University of Southampton have managed to persuade two great comedians to give a lighter side to science and to climate change, at 19:30 on 10 March at the Nuffield Theatre.
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Expansion Plan for Cape Town Unveiled
Cape Town, South Africa' s second largest port, has launched a US$613m expansion project to increase terminal handling capacity and improve port infrastructure. The move comes after Cape Town posted a 13% increase in volume last year.
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NewsFassmer Builds Research Ship for Fugro
Fassmer in North Germany is designing and building a state of the art 65m LOA geophysical survey vessel for Holland’ s Fugro Group, which is active worldwide in the collection and interpretation of data related to the earth’ s surface and sea beds.
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NewsTTS Builds Key Port Structures
TTS Port Equipment is building a new passenger gangway as part of the ambitious new development at Port of Risavika in Stavanger, Norway. The port has acquired 400,000m2 of land for development, including a new ferry terminal for vessels with passenger and rolling cargo, a container terminal and an LNG ...
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NewsROVism Brings Realism to Underwater Training
Marine Simulation LLC has released Volume One of the ROVsim Undersea Pilot Series, which is a collection of physics accurate, visually realistic and highly configurable ROV simulators intended for ROV and marine professionals and based on Marine Simulation' s ROVsim simulator.
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NewsModern Bridge Maintains Heritage Style
Faced with a failing jack-arch bridge over the Birmingham Canal in Smethwick, Sandwell Borough Council and their engineering consultants Jacobs UK Ltd. have opted for a radical solution.
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NewsPassenger Bridge for Malaga Terminal
TEAM, which designs and manufactures of boarding bridges for cruise and ferry terminals, has signed a contract with Malaga Cruceros S.A. to deliver a boarding bridge this summer for the cruise terminal ‘ Estacion Maritima de Levante’ in the Port of Malaga. The terminal was inaugurated on 23 December 2007.
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Boskalis and Dredeco to Do Newcastle Dredging
Royal Boskalis Westminster and DEME Group' s Australian subsidiary Dredeco have secured a large scale joint venture dredging contract for the expansion of the coal export harbour at Newcastle in Australia.
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NewsBoskalis to Deepen Entrance Channel at Port of Melbourne
Royal Boskalis Westminster has confirmed that it has acquired a major contract for deepening the entrance channel to the Port of Melbourne in Australia. The project will be executed in an alliance with the Port of Melbourne Corporation, and the work will take some two years. The value of the ...
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Salvors Back IMO Emergency Response Guidelines
Salvors have welcomed the International Maritime Organization’ s (IMO) adoption of Guidelines on the Control of Ships in an Emergency.
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NewsEurope Seabed Resource Available Online
Maps and images of seabed habitat, geology and biological data in the seas around North West Europe can now be viewed online. This huge resource has been created by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee in a five nation project called, The Development of a Framework for Mapping European Seabed Habitats, ...
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Atkins Selected for New Chinese Port
Atkins has been selected to design a major new container port in China. The project is at Mei Shan Island, about 25 km northeast of Ningbo and will be potentially one of the most important bonded container ports in China. A manufacturing zone will also feature, as well as business, ...
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NewsArmourstone Users Meet in Norfolk
Registration is now open for the 15th annual Armourstone Users Group meeting, which takes place on 12 and 13 March in Norfolk UK.
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DEME Secures Another Australian Project
DEME, the Belgian dredging contractor, has been awarded a contract to deepen a berth at Fisherman’ s Island, Gladstone in Queensland, Australia.
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NewsSubsea Tracker Aids Windfarm Connections
An Easytrak USBL subsea tracking system from Great Yarmouth UK based Applied Acoustics is being used by integrated survey services company Gardline Environmental Limited, which is active in deep water, coastal and inland waterway environments.
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NewsAdriatic Coast Setting for Maritime Law Event
The International Legal Maritime Conference 2008 is being planned to take place in Ancona, Italy, one of the country' s largest Adriatic ports. The event is scheduled as part of an ongoing series of International Business Player conferences that are organised by the law firm Bacciardi and Partners of Pesaro ...
