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ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Due to limitations imposed by the clients busy seismic acquisition programme, Coventry UK based Metalock Engineering sent engineers to Ghana to in-situ machine two winch brake drums on the SRV Veritas Viking…

1st April 2004

All At Sea with Winch Repairs

1st April 2004

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Americas Bisso Marine has lifted the sunken OSV Lee III from the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River, which it was completely blocking following a pre-dawn collision in the middle of one…

1st April 2004

Big Bisso Lift Re-Opens Mississippi

1st April 2004

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

The recent collision of UK south coast aggregates dredger Donald Redford with the Hythe Ferry Pier in Southampton Water has drawn attention to the limitation provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act and…

1st April 2004

Pier Collision Prompts Insurance Warning

1st April 2004

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

A rare 17th Century 49cwt Prince Rupert patent gun, retrieved from the Stirling Castle , King Charles IIs great 70 gun man o war, was put on public display late last month…

1st April 2004

Marine Historic Environment Consultation Underway

1st April 2004

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

A new Anglo-Swedish joint venture which will help shape the future of tomorrows survey technology, Admiralty Coastal Surveys , was officially launched by the UKHydrographic Office at last months Oceanology International event…

1st April 2004

Digital Video Proceedings UKHO Launches Admiralty Coastal Surveys

1st April 2004

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

QinetiQ has announced the worlds first commercially available towed synthetic aperture sonar with integrated interferometric profiler, GeoSAS , which is to be marketed by GeoAcoustics (UK) of Great Yarmouth.

1st April 2004

QinetiQ Sonar Development

1st April 2004

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Unveiled at OI 2004 were two new developments from VT TSS of Watford. The first, Marinus , is an attitude and heading reference system providing exceptional accuracy in extreme conditions for multibeam…

1st April 2004

New VT TSS Systems

1st April 2004

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Proceedings of its UK Branch Scottish Regions recent seminar on Digital Video for Offshore Survey & Inspection , held in association with the Society for Underwater Technology , are now available on…

1st April 2004

Digital Video Proceedings

1st April 2004

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Guernsey-based Marine Electronics reports Chinese and US orders for new titanium and aluminium versions of its Dolphin 6201 Obstacle Avoidance Sonar designed for navigation and pilotage of AUVs and ROVS.

1st April 2004

Marine Electronics Orders

1st April 2004

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The construction of a new marina at Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria – which seemed at to be risk because of a funding crisis at the UK’ s Northwest Development Agency (NWDA) now looks…

1st April 2004

Extensive Work Required for Barrow Port Project

1st April 2004

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

The MarCom Working Group 43 at PIANC on ‘ Minimising Harbour Siltation’ is conducting a worldwide search for techniques which have been developed and applied (or at least tested) with a view…

1st April 2004

PIANC Group Seeks Techniques for Reducing Siltation in Harbours

1st April 2004

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Dermot Ahern TD, the Irish Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, has announced a 6.5m upgrade of Clogherhead port in County Louth.

1st April 2004

Ahern Announces Go-ahead for Clogherhead Development

1st April 2004

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

A new form of aggressive, localised corrosion that has occurred in unprotected marine structures constructed from steel over the past 20 years or so is to be the subject of a new…

1st April 2004

Joint Project Will Address ALWC

1st April 2004

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DEME Environmental Contractors (DEC) and Dredging International (DI) have received a contract for the design and execution of an important remediation project at two lakes near the city of Hultsfred in Sweden.

1st April 2004

DEC to Clean up Swedish Lakes

1st April 2004

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Consulting engineers Kirk McClure Morton have been appointed by the Department of Communications, Marine & Natural Resources in Ireland for the provision of engineering services related to the design of an extension…

1st April 2004

KMM Appointed to Design Dunmore East Harbour

1st April 2004

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

With the introduction of the new 415GM genset engine, Perkins Sabre now offers seven genset engines with net engine power outputs spanning from 13.5kWm to 161kWm.

1st April 2004

New Genset Extends Perkins Sabre Range

1st April 2004

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

With power ratings of up to 6,000kW, Schottel Rudderpropellers (SRP) have proven themselves worldwide for over five decades as mechanical azimuth drives for all sectors of the shipping world and the offshore…

1st April 2004

Combi Drive Launch Crowns Record Year

1st April 2004

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Volvo Penta has delivered 34 diesel engines for tugboat installations in the Ukraine since May of 2001. The latest delivery to this increasingly important market was for the tug 814 Bakai, launched…

1st April 2004

Complete Power packages for Ukraine Tugs

1st April 2004

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Trelleborg Industrial AVS has designed a new mounting system to eliminate excessive engine movements in a fleet of twin-engined multi-hulls operated by City Cruises plc on the River Thames in London.

1st April 2004

Mounting a Challenge to Movement

1st April 2004

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

The new fast ferry for Spanish operator Fred Olsen will be driven by four 20V 8000 engines from MTU Friedrichshafen. The 126m long trimaran will be built at the Austal shipyard in…

1st April 2004

MTU Power for Fast Ferry

1st April 2004