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DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

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…

1st December 2008

Mexican contract awarded to Jan de Nul

1st December 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Subsidiaries of Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering (DEME) in Zwijndrecht, Belgium, have secured contracts valued at more than € 220m in recent weeks.

1st December 2008

DEME wins orders worth ¢220m

1st December 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

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…

1st December 2008

Defland Coast project gets under way

1st December 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

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…

1st December 2008

Van Oord ensures easier and safer access to North Sea Canal

1st December 2008

SECURITY

SECURITY

Preventing unauthorised access to secure sites is a vital requirement for many industries, including at maritime locations such as boatyards and cargo storage areas in ports.

1st December 2008

Lock-outs to lock-ups for ports

1st December 2008

SECURITY

SECURITY

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.

1st December 2008

Security Dorset

1st December 2008

SECURITY

SECURITY

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…

1st December 2008

Holographic radar spots approaching pirates

1st December 2008

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

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

1st December 2008

Great graphics with low cost simulator

1st December 2008

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

It started with disaster in 1981. The failure of evacuation procedures on Alexander Kielland rig in the North Sea cost 123 lives, but that incident has helped to drive Norwegian safety innovation…

1st December 2008

New torpedo lifeboat hits the waves

1st December 2008

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

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

1st December 2008

Mobile simulator training for dredge masters

1st December 2008