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DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Ever since its maiden voyage in January, Cunard s new flagship liner Queen Mary 2 has been challenging the dredged depths of many ports where it has been scheduled to call.

1st June 2004

Dredge Deeper for Queen Mary 2

1st June 2004

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Until it recently became Damen Dredging Equipment , the operation formerly known as De Groot Nijkerk had built well over 100 one-off stationary cutter suction dredgers over a period of 60 years.…

1st June 2004

Damen Launches Standardised CSDs

1st June 2004

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The seagoing, self-propelled cutter suction dredger JFJ De Nul , built by IHC Holland sKinderdijk yard for Belgian contractor Jan De Nul , has won the Netherlands prestigious Ship of the Year…

1st June 2004

JFJ De Nul is Ship of the Year

1st June 2004

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Meridian Chartware of Norwich, a subsidiary of Norcom Technology, is developing an electronic chart training package and a low cost entry electronic chart plotter in a project also involving the UK Hydrographic…

1st June 2004

Chart Training Package

1st June 2004

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Dutch survey conglomerate Fugro, which maintains nearly 9,000 staff in over 60 countries, is to acquire an Optech International Shoals-1000T airborne Lidar bathymetry system under the auspices of its US subsidiary, Fugro…

1st June 2004

Fugro Opts for Airborne Bathymeter

1st June 2004

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Great Yarmouth-based Gardline Hydro has begun a two-year Civil Hydrography Programme (CHP) to survey western approaches to the English Channel on behalf of the government body responsible for safety of navigation in…

1st June 2004

Gardline Begins CHP Project

1st June 2004

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Packaging and distribution of electronic navigational charts are to be further standardised following a recent workshop sponsored by ChartWorld inHamburg attended by ECDIS manufacturers, ENC retailers and representatives of the International Hydrographic…

1st June 2004

New ENC Standard

1st June 2004

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The London based Simon Group demonstrated prescient vision when in the late 1990s it set in motion planning for a deepwater ro-ro terminal in the River Humber.

1st June 2004

Simon Says Humber Sea Terminal

1st June 2004

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The British Governments Department for Transport , which has recently rejected a proposed new container terminal at the Port of Southampton and must pass judgement on three more large schemes, has published…

1st June 2004

Oil Leak Deflates UK Port Figures

1st June 2004

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Governments have pledged that new and renewable energies will play an ever growing role in their national energy mixes.

1st June 2004

MAREC 2004 Sees Seas of Opportunity Offshore

1st June 2004

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution s new boathouse and slipway at Tenby in South Wales will be supported on a forest of tubular steel monopiles specialist marine civil engineering contractors Seacore has…

1st June 2004

Support for Tenby RNLI

1st June 2004

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Carbon Trust has chosen consulting engineers Halcrow Group Ltd , in partnership with engineering specialists Peter Brotherhood Ltd and Abbott Risk Consulting Ltd , as one of the main engineering consortia…

1st June 2004

Marine Energy Challenge Assessing Projects

1st June 2004

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The South West of England Regional Development Agency (RDA) has appointed a project manager to take forward proposals to develop the Wave Hub , a proposal to kick start the regions sea…

1st June 2004

Marine Hubbub in South West UK

1st June 2004

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Specialist facility expansion in Germanys two biggest seaports up to late 2005 is costing a total ¢ 60m, according to plans now revealed in Hamburg and the Weser ports complex of Bremen/…

1st June 2004

Germans Expand Specialist Port Facilities

1st June 2004

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Corrosion is probably the single most serious cause of deterioration of reinforced concrete structures and is particularly prevalent in buildings and structures subjected to salts from the sea.

1st June 2004

The Tide Turns Against Marine Corrosion

1st June 2004

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Consulting engineers Halcrow is in the final stages of a project on the Roach and Crouch estuaries in Essex.

1st June 2004

Essex Flood Defences Strategy Due

1st June 2004

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The British company that earlier this year purchased the Eirfloat modular pontoon system manufactured and previously based in Ireland have got off to a flying start with a string of important orders.…

1st June 2004

Modular Pontoons at seawork

1st June 2004

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The UK Government and the Scottish Executive are planning to deliver a one stop shop approach for offshore renewable energy consents in waters around Scotland.

1st June 2004

Scotland Zones In On Marine Renewables

1st June 2004

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

seawork exhibitor International Commercial Shipping (ICS) has recently established itself in the worldwide dredging and sand scrubbing business.

1st June 2004

ICS Sand Scrubbers at seawork

1st June 2004

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Pier 400 is an all new facility built at the Port of Los Angeles in California USA. New berths and container areas are set to open, expanding on a first phase which…

1st June 2004

Heavenly Fenders for Port of Angels

1st June 2004