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DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Dredging is underway in the first phase of construction work on the Port of Marseilles Authority’ s Fos 2XL container terminal project. Due in service by 2010, two new terminals are being…

16th December 2007

Pearl River Heads Marseilles Expansion

16th December 2007

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Having gained new orders to the value of € 650m during the summer, Dutch dredger builder IHC Holland Merwede (which announced a name change to IHC Merwede at Europort Maritime last month)…

16th December 2007

Newbuild Boom Continues for Renamed IHC

16th December 2007

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Just twenty years ago, in an era of tapes, magnetic disks and manufacturers extolling their latest solid state microprocessor-controlled wonders, we had data loggers doing 100 soundings a second and programmers writing…

16th December 2007

Technology Tops the Charts

16th December 2007

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

When Smit Salvage started operations to remove the wrecked stern section of ' MSC Napoli' from Lyme Bay on the UK Devon Coast in early November progress was brisk. Within one week…

16th December 2007

Salvors Cant Place Contract with the Weather

16th December 2007

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

British company Marine Current Turbines, the developer of SeaGen, the world’ s largest and most advanced tidal stream energy system, has signed an agreement with Canada’ s Maritime Tidal Energy Corporation to…

16th December 2007

UK Tidal Energy Welcomed in Canada

16th December 2007

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Classification society DNV had granted an approval in principle for a new offshore wind energy concept developed by Dutch offshore design company Sea of Solutions in close cooperation with partner Sparcs Products. 

16th December 2007

Oilfield Technology for Offshore Wind

16th December 2007

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

St Petersburg in Russia has been announced as the setting for 2008 Congress of the International Harbour Masters' Association (IHMA). Hosted by the St Petersburg Maritime Port Administration with the support of…

16th December 2007

To Russia with the IHMA

16th December 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Following the successful installation of Hernis Scan Systems' integrated surveillance systems onboard the Trinity House vessels ' Patricia and ' Mermaid' , Hernis has supplied its Hernis 400 system for the new…

11th December 2007

Cameras Keep Watch on Galatea

11th December 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Americ' s Markey Machinery has supplied of the second DEPCF-52 75hp electric hawser winch for a series of Nichols Brothers Shipyards built 6,800hp tugs. 

11th December 2007

System Software Drives Smarter Winch

11th December 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Following a successful eight month sea trial on its Cosmerry Lake VLCC, Cosco Dalian found that, in comparison with steel wire mooring lines, ropes made with Dyneema enabled a reduction in mooring…

11th December 2007

Lighten Up for Easier Mooring

11th December 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Marine Travelift Inc has sold its very first self-propelled transporter onto the US market. The Marine Travelift TM 40C was purchased by Tiger Point Marina and Boat Works of Jacksonville in Florida. 

11th December 2007

Lift Efficiency Boosts Tiger Bay

11th December 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

In ceremonies on the Van der Velden Marine Systems stand at Europort Maritime in Rotterdam last month, the wraps were pulled off an Effer 130 4S marine crane to signify the signing…

11th December 2007

Crane gain at Europort Maritime

11th December 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The Port of Hamburg’ s biggest container terminal operator, Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), has turned to Kalmar to supply three more crane blocks with its automatic stacking crane (ASC) system…

11th December 2007

Hamburg Automates to Boost Capacity

11th December 2007

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Over the past two decades the towage industry has seen phenomenal changes in almost every sector and every aspect of the business. The industry has a history traceable with some accuracy to…

11th December 2007

Tugs & Towing – 20 Years On

11th December 2007

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Environmental experts from all over Europe and overseas will be gathering in Vienna for the first European congress for environmental technology and renewable energies, Envietech, which will run from 31 January to…

6th December 2007

Renewable Energy Congress Planned for Vienna

6th December 2007

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The Dartmouth-Kingswear Floating Bridge Company, operator of the town’ s Higher Ferry across the River Dart, has signed a contract with Pendennis Shipyard for the construction of a replacement vessel to be…

6th December 2007

Contract Signed for New Dartmouth Ferry

6th December 2007

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

As the ROV market is expanding rapidly, many ROV operators are forced to focus mainly on their direct operational performance, leaving them struggling with the maintenance and support for their valuable systems.…

1st December 2007

Mobile ROV Repair Saves the Day

1st December 2007

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

The new Sentinel Diver Detection System from Sonardyne International successfully completed a four-day series of intensive trials at the US Naval Underwater Warfare Center, Newport, Rhode Island during October. Although full details…

1st December 2007

Sentinel Satisfies In Underwater Warfare Trials

1st December 2007

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

When a fishing line and net became stuck between the seal rings of a 168m container ship, the underwater repair company, Hydrex, flew a highly qualified diving team to Salalah, Oman, to…

1st December 2007

Impossible Underwater Repair Now Routine

1st December 2007

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

On a momentous day in 1987, Maritime Journal leapt into the lives of anyone interested or involved in any aspects of the maritime oriented disciplines, and little did we know then that…

1st December 2007

So What is New in Diving 20 Years on? By Roger OKane

1st December 2007