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ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The Hospitalers of St John are a charitable organisation with historic links to the St Johns Ambulance Service.

1st June 2002

Hospitalers of St John Give Disabled a Lift

1st June 2002

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Recognising that lower height deck hatches constitute less of an obstacle on deck, Dutch equipment supplier Vetus Den Ouden has introduced a range of hatches called Genius which feature complete aluminium frameworks…

1st June 2002

Down the Hatch with Vetus

1st June 2002

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

After many years of development by Kalmar Industries and Patrick Stevedores, the two companies now expect the worlds first automated straddle carrier system to be operational on Berth 7 at Brisbanes Fisherman…

1st June 2002

Brave New World to Debut in Brisbane

1st June 2002

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

American manufacturer Jeamar Winches Inc is now offering a series of double drum winches in a variety of configurations.

1st June 2002

Double Drum Remote Control American Winches

1st June 2002

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Rolls-Royce business Syncrolift Inc has won a $32 million order to provide a ship lifting system at a new Indian naval base. The shiplift, the first of its kind in India, is…

1st June 2002

$32 Million Indian Lift Contract for Rolls-Royce

1st June 2002

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

seawork2002 exhibitor Westminster Dredging is part of a consortium which has just scooped the Best Environmental Project Award 2002 for the first Public Private Partnership (PPP) flood defence scheme to be let…

1st June 2002

The Best Environmental Project Award for PPP Flood Defence

1st June 2002

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

A large order of dredgers, dredging support craft and dredging equipment left the Netherlands early May bound for Nigeria. The delivery represents a major success for the combined forces of IHC Hollands…

1st June 2002

IHC Yards in Jumbo Dredging Delivery

1st June 2002

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Royal Boskalis Westminster nv has won an order for broadening and deepening the entrance channels to Swedens Port of Gothenburg in a dredging contract valued at more than ?30m. The client is…

1st June 2002

Boskalis Wins Gothenburg Harbour Dredging Contract

1st June 2002

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Great Yarmouth-based Svitzer has successfully completed the first stage of Mauritius continental shelf survey operations in the West Indian Ocean using its specialist hydrographic vessel LEspoir.

1st June 2002

Svitzer Successfully Completes EEZ Surveys

1st June 2002

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Fugro has introduced a web service (www.surveyplanner.com) for updated coverage charts of its worldwide Differential GPS services, enabling users to produce customised maps for any location and service.

1st June 2002

Fugro Puts DGPS Chart Updates on Web

1st June 2002

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Pangea of Bologna, which specialises in design of static, dynamic and real-time geographical data management software, has completed delivery of 323 new sub-modules to the Italian Navys Hydrographic Office in Genoa. They…

1st June 2002

Pangea Software for Italian HO

1st June 2002

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Atlantas Marine of Langport, Somerset is currently hosting a series of demonstrations of new seabed classification systems developed by Canadian software specialists, Quester Tangent.

1st June 2002

Seabed Classification Software Demos

1st June 2002

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The UK Hydrographic Office has signed a licencing agreement with Nautical Information Services BV for direct electronic transmission of Admiralty Notices to Mariners to vessels at sea under the Digital Folio and…

1st June 2002

UKHO Dutch Licence Agreement

1st June 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A newly developed model for predicting coastal erosion came under the spotlight at a recent conference at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London.

1st June 2002

Coastal Erosion Comes Under Scrutiny

1st June 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

English Nature, the statutory body responsible for advising the UK government on the designation of marine Special Areas of Conservation (marine SACs) has confirmed that it does not intend to alter the…

1st June 2002

English Nature: No Change on Marine Conservation Areas

1st June 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

With its 40 year old pontoon prone to leaking and sinking, Londons Metropolitan Police were in need of an unsinkable replacement at the Wapping Boat Yard on the river Thames.

1st June 2002

Unsinkable Replacement Pontoon Brings Wapping Great Success

1st June 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Portsmouth UK-based Plasti Ltd, which will be exhibiting at seawork2002, has won a prestigious Government SMART Development Award to develop, construct and install a beach groyne using patented composite piles in combination…

1st June 2002

seawork Exhibitor Wins Groyne Innovation Award

1st June 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

HR Wallingford, the UK-based marine engineering consultants, has begun work on a project which, it is anticipated, will be of considerable interest to marine contractors, builders, and local authorities who are involved…

1st June 2002

HR Wallingford Studies Coastal Defence Materials

1st June 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Third Harbour at the Dutch port of IJmuiden is nearing completion and is expecting to receive business by the end of this year. Despite problems such as weak surface layers that…

1st June 2002

IJmuidens Third Harbour Gets Ready to RoRo

1st June 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A trend has developed in the Americas to place container trans-shipment ports off the eastern seaboard of the goods-hungry USA. North-south trade along the Atlantic coast and east-west traffic with Europe utilise…

1st June 2002

Titan Surveys Possible Boxport Development

1st June 2002