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PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Glasgow-based marine consultants Partrac Ltd are seeing acontinued and rising interest in sediment stability instruments, the CohesiveStrength Meter (CSM).

1st October 2007

Growing Interest in Sediment Stability

1st October 2007

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Royal Boskalis Westminster has received a letter of intentfrom Abu Dhabi Ports Company for the first construction phase of the newoffshore Khalifa Port in Abu Dhabi.

1st October 2007

Boskalis and partners to build Khalifa Port

1st October 2007

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Dutch dredging and marine contractor Van Oordhas secured a number of important contracts in recent weeks.

1st October 2007

Major Order for Van Oord Confirmed

1st October 2007

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Aninnovative approach to strengthening sand dunes has been implemented at Blython Englands north east coast, which involves a number of 2.5 tonne sandbagshaving been buried into the dunes. The work along a…

1st October 2007

UK First for Sand Dune Protection

1st October 2007

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

TheEnvironment Agency (EA) in the UK has announced that £ 13.2m will be spent onessential repairs and improvements to hundreds of sites and structures along EAmanaged rivers this winter.

1st October 2007

Record Works Plan for UK Waterways

1st October 2007

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Plansfor a £ 1.6m project to protect homes and businesses from flooding in Ceredigionin Wales have gone on display. The scheme, funded by the Welsh AssemblyGovernment, will attempt to reduce the risk…

1st October 2007

Ceredigion Flood Defence Plans Unveiled

1st October 2007

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

At the 9th International Conference on Nearshore andEstuarine Cohesive Sediment Transport Processes (INTERCOH)  at Brest inFrance  last month, researchers from HR Wallingford  delivered resultsfrom broad ranging studies in estuary processes. Amongst these…

1st October 2007

Mixing It In Marine Environments

1st October 2007

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Work to develop facilities at Cairnryan for ferriesacross the Irish Sea is continuing, with Royal Haskoning taking a leading rolein the project. Once complete, the development will reduce the crossing timefor Stena…

1st October 2007

Green Light for New Ferry Facilities

1st October 2007

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

Sheffield UK based Hodge Clemco has completed theinstallation of a new £ 600,000 turn-key preparation and finishing facility in anew buoy maintenance unit at Trinity House in Harwich, Essex.

1st October 2007

New Buoy Maintenance Facility at Harwich

1st October 2007

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

The General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) have awarded afifteen year contract to VT Communications for the provision of an enhancedLoran (eLoran) radio navigation service to improve the safety of mariners inthe UK and…

1st October 2007

GLAs Award e-Loran Contract

1st October 2007

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

Tideland Signal, the UK based aids to navigation specialisthas supplied buoys and solar powered lanterns to guide tankers into the berthsserving the new LNG terminal on the Burrup Peninsula near Karratha in…

1st October 2007

New Buoys Light Australian LNG Terminal

1st October 2007

SECURITY

SECURITY

Sentry, a fast unmanned reconnaissance and surveillancecraft developed by QinetiQ, that brings together military design requirementswith a compact waterjet propelled platform, was publicly demonstrated for thefirst time on QinetiQs stand at Defence…

1st October 2007

Unmanned 50 Knot Harbour Security Craft

1st October 2007

SECURITY

SECURITY

The French cross-channel ferry Port of Calaissaw more than 11m passengers through its facilities last year whilst freighttraffic also increased by a remarkable 11.8% to nearly 2m trucks. 

1st October 2007

Thermal Imaging for Calais Port Security

1st October 2007

SECURITY

SECURITY

Security specialist Octavian Security has beenappointed by the GBA Group to provide manned guarding services for a number ofits vehicle import terminals across the UK.

1st October 2007

Gurkhas Driving Port Vehicle Security

1st October 2007

SECURITY

SECURITY

Leicestershire UK based 3DX-Ray has produceda detailed technical brochure on its advanced portable x-ray system, TPXi-675,for bomb and threat detection in suspect packages.

1st October 2007

Bomb Threat Detection for Ports

1st October 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Hamburg based SAM Electronics has introduced a new low costIMO compliant S-VDR, the SAM 4330, which is designed for retrofitting to cargovessels of all types and sizes.

1st October 2007

SAM Plays It Again

1st October 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Two new electronic charting services developed by the UKHydrographic Office (UKHO) will be launched at Europort Maritime in Rotterdamnext month.

1st October 2007

ENC Services Launched at Europort Maritime

1st October 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Following on from the success of the GMR 18, launched tenmonths ago, Garmin has added a new radar, the GMR 24, to its marine electronicsproduct range. The new 24 unitfeatures 4kW of…

1st October 2007

Garmins Adds New Radar to Range

1st October 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Alphatron Marine and Japan Radio Co. (JRC) will be exhibitingjointly at Europort Maritime this year. 

1st October 2007

Alphatron and JRC on Show at Europort

1st October 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

As the successor to AP9 and the naturalevolution of the AP50, the New Simrad AP50+, launched this summer, providesvast improvements in auto-steering performance, functionality and flexibility.

1st October 2007

New Autopilot Provides Safer Navigation

1st October 2007