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DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DEME in Belgium has announced that  the Qatar based joint venture company MEDCO, a partnership between Qatari company UDC, the Qatari Government and DEME Group company Dredging International, is to be part…

29th May 2008

DEME to participate in Qatar-Bahrain Causeway

29th May 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The councillor for spatial planning at Krimpen aan den IJssel in the Netherlands drove the first pile last month for the new completion quay at IHC Krimpen Shipyard. The ceremony launched a…

29th May 2008

First pile for new quay at IHC Krimpen Shipyard

29th May 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Delta Marine Consultants (DMC), the company behind the Xbloc armoured unit used in shore defence projects, is developing a new  environmentally friendly version of the Xbloc, which it has dubbed the ‘…

29th May 2008

First Eco Xbloc produced

29th May 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Belgian dredging contractor Jan de Nul was awarded a number of contracts last month, including one to execute  dredging and deepening works for the Barra do Riacho terminal at Aracruz in Brazil,…

29th May 2008

Large number of contracts for Jan de Nul

29th May 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The Directorate General for Public Works and Water Management has awarded Van Oord Nederland  a contract to carry out maintenance dredging in Witte Tonnen Vlije and Brabantsche Vaarwater (parts of the  Oosterschelde…

29th May 2008

Van Oord wins maintenance dredging contracts

29th May 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Dutch dredging contractor Royal Boskalis  Westminster has been appointed to extend the harbour at Port of Felixstowe  in the UK.

29th May 2008

Boskalis to extend Port of Felixstowe in UK

29th May 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Working in collaboration with shipping company Erria, Grontmij Carl Bro has been awarded a contract for the renovation of a ferry route on the world’ s largest artificiallycreated lake, Lake Volta in…

29th May 2008

Grontmij Carl Bro renovates ferry route

29th May 2008

SECURITY

SECURITY

Dutch marine equipment manufacturer Vetus has introduced two new security systems which will report unauthorised entry to or removal of a boat.

29th May 2008

Dutch deliver boat security systems

29th May 2008

SECURITY

SECURITY

Norwegian marine monitor and computer specialist Hatteland Display has signed a long term agreement valued at some € 500,000 annually to provide its recently upgraded Series 1 Maritime Multi Display (MMD) for…

29th May 2008

Monitor upgrade for marine surveillance systems

29th May 2008

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) has chosen an Orion Inertial Navigation System from Teledyne TSS and supplied by ROMOR Atlantic Ltd to use when conducting surveys of the St Lawrence River shipping…

29th May 2008

Inertial navigation keeps shipping channel clear

29th May 2008