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SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

UMC International recently designed and applied an innovative underwater temporary shaft sealing system, which allowed the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) to successfully undertake afloat modifications to the design of the inboard…

1st June 2004

Underwater Shaft Sealing Averts Drydock

1st June 2004

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Applied Acoustic Engineering of Great Yarmouth UK has launched a new ultra-short baseline (USBL) tracking system which it designed as an economical solution for tracking a variety of underwater targets including ROVs,…

1st June 2004

Follow That Diver With Easytrak

1st June 2004

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Figures released by the UKs Maritime and Coastguard Agency show that diving related incidents dealt with by HM Coastguard last year had their highest total in the last 12 years, with 12…

1st June 2004

Twelve Year High for Diving Incidents

1st June 2004

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

A large vessel laden with cargo was sailing through the English Channel in April when it was involved in a collision and went into the port of Le Havre in need of…

1st June 2004

Underwater Repairs in Le Havre

1st June 2004

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

The Poseidon atmosphere full face mask, equipped with the high performance Poseidon Jetstream OP Regulator , can be used both as a positive pressure mask and as a demand valve.

1st June 2004

New Mask

1st June 2004

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

UK Dredging (UKD) , Associated British Ports dredging arm, was one of the first companies with UK flagged vessels to conform to the new maritime security laws which come into force on…

1st June 2004

UK Dredging Achieves Early ISPS Compliance

1st June 2004

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Recent newbuild dredger deliveries from the various Dutch specialist shipyards that comprise IHC Holland include the worlds most powerful cutter suction dredger for Belgiums Jan De Nul and twin 16,000m 3capacity trailing…

1st June 2004

Smaller Newbuild from IHC Holland Grabs Attention

1st June 2004

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

At its shareholder AGM in the Netherlands last month, dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster reported that incoming orders and turnover thus far in 2004 were lagging behind last year but were not…

1st June 2004

Cautious Optimism at Boskalis

1st June 2004

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