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SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

Of the 60 workboats of all types on Seawork 2005 s floating pontoon, none was so fearsome yet popular as the prototype Offshore Raiding Craft built on Anglesey by Holyhead Marine Services…

1st August 2005

Mean Marine Machine Seen at Seawork

1st August 2005

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

One of the many significant transactions officially acknowledged at Seawork 2005 saw Scotlands Macduff Ship Design conclude a design and project management deal with Irelands Drogheda Port Company for a 13.7m Environmental…

1st August 2005

DroghedaMacduff Deal at Seawork

1st August 2005

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

AC-CESS Co UK Ltd , which designs and manufactures the next generation AC-ROV , achieved multiple sales at the Seawork 2005 exhibition. With one order for multiple units of its mini ROV…

1st August 2005

AC-CESS for All at Seawork

1st August 2005

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

New ranges of software for seabed classification were unveiled at Seawork 2005 byYeovil based Atlantas Marine, UK and Irish distributors for the developers, Quester Tangent ofCanada. They included QTCMultiview for classifying sediment…

1st August 2005

Atlas Reveals New Products at Seawork 2005

1st August 2005

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Southampton UK based hydrographic surveyors Emu Ltd have taken delivery of a Reson SeaBat 8101 multibeam echosounder. The integrated multibeam system is also comprised of Reson PDS2000 data acquisition and processing software,…

1st August 2005

Reson to Be Cheerful

1st August 2005

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Over 300 delegates are expected at the 4th International Conference on High Resolution Surveys in Shallow Water , in Plymouth from 12-15 September.

1st August 2005

Shallow Survey 2005

1st August 2005

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

On prominent display at Seawork 2005 was the WinChart flat-panel ECDIS system from Gosport based Chartwork , the UK subsidiary of Norwegian software specialists, Navtech.

1st August 2005

Approval Sought for WinChart ECDIS

1st August 2005

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

On the Ohmex stand, director Ted Read reported strong interest from Dutch dredging contractors in the Lymington companys latest Mk 4 Tidalite portable tide gauge system, three of which have recently been…

1st August 2005

Ohmex Tide Gauge Orders

1st August 2005

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Rt Hon the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH, Chancellor of the University of Oxford has officially opened the new Froude Modelling Hall at HR Wallingford in the UK.

1st August 2005

Froude Modelling Hall Inaugurated at H R Wallingford

1st August 2005

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Short term work to rebuild The Hinge at East Head in the UK has been completed.

1st August 2005

Short Term Work is Completed at East Head

1st August 2005

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Royal Haskoning in the Netherlands has put forward an innovative solution in the form of an offshore artificial island designed to provide protection to coastlines that are in danger of being eroded.

1st August 2005

Artificial Reefs Could Protect Dutch Coast

1st August 2005

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Van Oord Nederland has signed a joint venture contract to execute the River Meuse Border Project .

1st August 2005

Agreement on River Meuse Border Project

1st August 2005

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

Specialist incident response company DV Howells Ltd hasbeen awarded a major contract to store the equipment and run the teams that would be drafted in by the UK government in the event…

1st August 2005

UK Pollution Response Contract Award

1st August 2005

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

Finland based oil spill response equipment manufacturer the Lamor Corporation understands that effective rapid response can mitigate against environmental damage and reduce clean-up costs dramatically. With that in mind, Lamor has been…

1st August 2005

Rapid Response Rescues Turkish Reservoir

1st August 2005

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Since the development of Fleetwood, from around 1830, a ferry has operated across the River Wyre to Knott End on Sea. The early ferries were powered by oar or sail. In 1892…

1st August 2005

New Wyre Ferry Brings Year Round Service

1st August 2005

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Fleet Support Limited (FSL) has docked the Royal Navy Type 23 Frigate HMS Richmond at the start of an 18 month refit programme. The project is the first refit contract in Portsmouth…

1st August 2005

Major Refit Work Returns to Portsmouth

1st August 2005

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

A fully laden bulk carrier arrived at the port of Ventspil in Latvia last winter with serious propeller damage and requested Antwerp based Hydrex to carry out an inspection and the needed…

1st August 2005

Blade Repair In a Cold Climate

1st August 2005

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

German inland shipyard Kö tter-Werft has been bursting at the seams of late with specialist repair and conversion, particularly the lengthening, of small inland motor ships.

1st August 2005

Busy Time for Specialist Small Ship Yards

1st August 2005

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Over the last decade, United Marine Dredgings 1990 built City of London and City of Westminster have averaged over 1 million tons a year of marine aggregate delivered back into the UK…

1st August 2005

Major Refit for Aggregate Dredgers

1st August 2005

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The first of a new breed of offshore support tug appeared in May 2005 when, Seabulk Angola was delivered by Labroy Shipbuilders of Singapore.

1st August 2005

Seabulk Angola Represents a New Breed of Anchor-handler

1st August 2005