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Pile driving has begun on new quaysides in Bremen’ s Europahafen, part of a € 13.3m civil engineering development project to transform the historic Überseestadt docklands district into an office and leisure…

25th January 2008

Bremen Dockland Transformation Underway

25th January 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Major changes in the way the UK' s Port Ramsgate is run could be in the pipeline. In 2006 the Department for Communities and Local Government published a report entitled ' Opportunities…

24th January 2008

Changes at Port Ramsgate

24th January 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The International Association of Dredging Contractors (IADC) will hold its 30th International Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation on 16-20 June this year at Delft in the Netherlands.

24th January 2008

IADC Dredging and Reclamation Seminar

24th January 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The Netherlands based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) continued its campaign to involve students and young professionals more closely with the industry when it announced the winners of the CEDA Dredging Days 2007…

24th January 2008

CEDA Encourages the Next Generation

24th January 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Dutch shipbuilders IHC Merwede celebrated the Christmas season by launching the 9,000m3 capacity trailing suction hopper dredger ' Breydel' from its Kinderdijk yard on 22 December. Named after 14th century Flemish freedom…

24th January 2008

Belgian Folk Hero Arrives at Christmas

24th January 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The Port of Rotterdam Authority has announced its intention to award the contract for the Maasvlakte 2 port extension project to a consortium consisting of Dutch dredging and marine construction majors Van…

24th January 2008

Maasvlakte 2 Awarded to Van Oord and Boskalis

24th January 2008

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Ireland' s Safehaven Marine have just launched the first of class vessel to their latest design.

24th January 2008

Orca II at Home in the Waves

24th January 2008

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Macduff Ship Design was awarded a contract last month to provide a complete design and drawing package for the construction of two 13m twin screw harbour tugs, to be built by Boustead…

24th January 2008

Fair Maid Delivers On Eastern Promise

24th January 2008

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Southampton UK based Meercat Workboats  has sold the latest of their road transportable multi-role vessels to Østlandets Plast og Dykk Service AS.

24th January 2008

Latest Meercat Moored in Fjord

24th January 2008

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Small ship building specialist Fassmer in Germany has delivered one of its biggest newbuildings ever, the 76m Ro-Pax ferry ' Aline Sitoe Diatta for Senegal.

24th January 2008

Fassmer Delivers Biggest Newbuild to Senegal

24th January 2008

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Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary for State for Transport will be the headline speaker for a one day conference on the theme of UK Ports Policy: Reaching Conclusions.

24th January 2008

Conference Examines UK Ports Policy

24th January 2008

SHORTSEA & FERRY

SHORTSEA & FERRY

Members of the UK passenger boat industry will gather in London on 6 March 2008 for the first national conference in the history of the industry. Opportunity, Challenge and Change: The Future…

23rd January 2008

Passenger Boat Industry Launches Conference

23rd January 2008

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

A strategic alliance between Rolls-Royce and UCT Coatings Inc. is bringing new technology to the marine market and is about to start work on a $7m U.S. Navy research contract.

23rd January 2008

$7m Research Into Propulsion System Coatings

23rd January 2008

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

While diesel-electric propulsion continues to garner converts in North America, it is a more usual system in Europe.

23rd January 2008

Diesel Electric On the North Sea

23rd January 2008

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Caterpillar Marine Power Systems began delivering upgraded C versions of the popular MaK M 25 series of marine engines from the first of this month. Since it was introduced in 1996, more…

23rd January 2008

Evolution Guides Cats New MaK

23rd January 2008

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

The venerable Lister marine engine which has powered so many inland waterway craft returns to the UK market in versions capable of running on up to 100% bio-diesel fuel (B100) through an…

23rd January 2008

Lister Petter Back with Bio-Diesel

23rd January 2008

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Dutch ferry operator Teso is claiming to be the first shipping company in the world to make use of   environmentally benign GTL diesel-type fuel. The company' s ferry ' Dokter Wagemaker'…

23rd January 2008

The Dokter Seeks Emissions Cure

23rd January 2008

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In just over a week two ships escaped serious damage, or worse, in incidents in the English Channel. When the news broke early on the morning of 2 January that the 90,465grt…

23rd January 2008

Narrow Escape for Two Ships in Channel

23rd January 2008

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Regulations and systems designed to protect the marine environment raise crucial investment, procedural and safety issues for the shipping industry, but they also chart a course towards business retention, cost savings and…

23rd January 2008

Green Ships Sail to Rotterdam

23rd January 2008

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Members of the UK passenger boat industry will gather in London on 6 March 2008 for the first national conference in the history of the industry. Opportunity, Challenge and Change: The Future…

23rd January 2008

Passenger Boat Industry Launches Conference

23rd January 2008