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A new trimodal container terminal just opened on the German Rhine at Ludwigshafen will, officials hope, eventually take 400 truck consignments a day off the countrys congested roads and onto inland ships…

1st November 2004

New Tri-modal Rhine Terminal Will Help to Reduce Truck Congestion

1st November 2004

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Lowestoft UK based underwater services contractor UTEC and partners Nutec West Africa Ltd have secured a contract to install a 2km long outfall pipe as part of the $95 million Kolre Lagoon…

1st November 2004

UTEC At Work Off Africa

1st November 2004

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Damen Dredging Equipment (formerly De Groot Nijkerk ) has carried out a major renovation of the dredging instrumentation on board two of UMA s trailing suction hopper aggregates dredgers, City of Cardiff…

1st November 2004

Dredging Instrumentation Gets Major System Upgrade

1st November 2004

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The UKs largest animal feed importer has begun importing molasses through a new £ 350,000 dedicated facility at the Port of Cardiff .

1st November 2004

Molasses Passes Through Cardiff

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Fugro Survey Ltd and AOAGeophysics Inc have mapped the Cap de Creus canyon head northeast of Barcelona in the Gulf of Lion, acquiring a dataset with a hull-mounted multibeam system. The map…

1st November 2004

Seafloor Mappers Delight In Detail

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In a period of 24 hours last month, three times as much new wind power capacity (300MW) was approved in Scotland and Wales than was built during the whole of last year.…

1st November 2004

A Hot Wind Blows

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Finlands Aker Yards Group has merged its two shipyards in that country, Kvaerner Masa - Yards Inc and Aker Finnyards Inc , into a new company called Aker Finnyard s.

1st November 2004

Aker Shakes the Cruise World

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Electrical problems during sea trials have delayed the delivery of Planet , Germanys biggest SWATH vessel. The word from Nordseewerke (NSW) in Emden is that handover might not now take place before…

1st November 2004

German SWATH Programme Hits a Snag

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On 27 September, the pushboat Riad left Rotterdams ECT Delta Terminals with a record load of 652TEU. All of the 415 containers on board were full, to be unloaded in Rotterdam and…

1st November 2004

Big Box Load Is Beautiful

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Ship repairers A&P Birkenhead and Reddington Finance Ltd have reached an agreement for the sale and leaseback of some of A&Ps land at Birkenhead. A&P Birkenhead retains ownership of the drydocks but…

1st November 2004

A&P Birkenhead Land Deal

1st November 2004

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Terneuzen based Multraship Salvage has completed the lifting of the 79m trailing suction hopper dredger Thor R , which sank in the mouth of the Danish port of Esjberg on 26 September.

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Multraship Completes Danish Dredger Salvage at Esjberg

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Scotland based Alfred Cheyne Engineering Ltd (ACE Winches) continue to demonstrate their ability to deliver large winch packages in short delivery times.

1st November 2004

ACE Set the Pace in Winch Delivery

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Members of the British Shippers Council (BSC) have expressed extreme concern that their supply chains are at breaking point due to the growing pressures of port congestion.

1st November 2004

FTA Considers Dire Port Congestion Options

1st November 2004

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A report compiled by the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) following a two year study into the deepening of the River Scheldt has found that such works would not have…

1st November 2004

Dredging D-Day Looms for Port of Antwerp

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The Fridtjof Nansen Shipyard in east Germany has applied for bankruptcy proceedings after Greenpeace paid only part of the ¢ 1.4m price for its newbuilding Beluga 11 , saying the ship had…

1st November 2004

Beluga 11 Yard Goes Bankrupt Over Cost Row With Greenpeace

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Martek Marine , the Rotherham UK based supplier of safety monitoring systems to the global marine industry, has won Best Use of Teleworking at the 2004 DTI/InterForum E-Commerce Awards ceremony in London…

1st November 2004

Suppliers E-Commerce Award

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IMS , a division of Liquid Waste Technology LLC , has opted to install John Deere engines on its entire Versi-Dredge product line.

1st November 2004

John Deere Diesels for Dredgers

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The European Commission adopted a communication last month on moving to the deployment and operational phases of the European satellite radio navigation system.

1st November 2004

EC Gives Go for Galileo

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It is unusual to visit the offices of a marine industries company or enter the wheelhouse of a workboat and not find a well examined copy of Maritime Journal on the reception…

1st November 2004

Maritime Journal Celebrates Milestone with Bumper 200th Issue

1st November 2004

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Published this month in association with the National Maritime Museum atGreenwich UK, this stunning coffee table book does just what it says on thecover, presenting 5,000 Years of Maritime Adventure in a…

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