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KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible…

22nd February 2008

Echosounder bonanza at Seawork

22nd February 2008

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

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…

21st February 2008

Subsea Tracker Aids Windfarm Connections

21st February 2008

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

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…

21st February 2008

Europe Seabed Resource Available Online

21st February 2008

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

American environmental services company Clean Harbors has successfully completed two more inspection projects using their SeaOtter ROV.

21st February 2008

SeaOtter Succeeds Despite the Freeze

21st February 2008

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

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…

21st February 2008

ROVism Brings Realism to Underwater Training

21st February 2008

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

To avoid the drydocking of a 126m LPG tanker, Hydrex was recently hired to remove the vessel’ s thruster and bring it to the manufacturer for repairs while it was berthed at…

21st February 2008

Underwater Thruster Removal Speeds Repair

21st February 2008

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Dutch Dredging, based at Sliedrecht in the Netherlands, has awarded Reson Rotterdam a contract to upgrade their existing Guidance and Monitoring Systems (GMS) on board the trailing suction hopper dredger Amazone) to…

21st February 2008

Dutch Dredging Upgrades Survey System

21st February 2008

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

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.

21st February 2008

UK Consent for Walney Wind Farm

21st February 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

New plans to install the word’ s first commercial scale tidal energy system in Northern Ireland’ s Strangford Lough were published earlier this month by tidal energy company, Marine Current Turbines Ltd.

21st February 2008

SeaGen Installation Set for Strangford Lough

21st February 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

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.

21st February 2008

Modern Bridge Maintains Heritage Style

21st February 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Registration is now open for the 15th annual Armourstone Users Group meeting, which takes place on 12 and 13 March in Norfolk UK.

21st February 2008

Armourstone Users Meet in Norfolk

21st February 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

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…

21st February 2008

Boskalis to Deepen Entrance Channel at Port of Melbourne

21st February 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

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…

21st February 2008

Passenger Bridge for Malaga Terminal

21st February 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

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,…

21st February 2008

TTS Builds Key Port Structures

21st February 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Bremore Ireland Port Ltd, the joint venture between Drogheda Port Company and Castle Market Holdings Ltd, has announced that it plans to develop a Port Master Plan with Hutchison Westports Ltd for…

21st February 2008

Hutchison to Develop Plan for Irish Port

21st February 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

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…

21st February 2008

Atkins Selected for New Chinese Port

21st February 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Malta' s  House of Representatives has unanimously approved a motion to allow an extension of Malta Freeport through land reclamation. The motion also makes possible an extension of the lease of the…

21st February 2008

Maltese Project Gets Go-Ahead

21st February 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

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.

21st February 2008

Boskalis and Dredeco to Do Newcastle Dredging

21st February 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

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%…

21st February 2008

Expansion Plan for Cape Town Unveiled

21st February 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DEME, the Belgian dredging contractor, has  been awarded a contract to  deepen a  berth  at Fisherman’ s Island, Gladstone in Queensland, Australia.

21st February 2008

DEME Secures Another Australian Project

21st February 2008