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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

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Two Dutch contractors - Mammoet and Van Oord ACZ - have revealed details of the jack-up barge they have built and started to use as a platform to serve the rapidly growing…

1st June 2002

Dutch JV Begins Installation Work on Offshore Wind Turbine Project

1st June 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Inland Waterways Association (IWA) and Droitwich Canals Trust (DCT) have announced the completion of the restoration of Hanbury Locks on the Droitwich Junction Canal. The re-opening ceremony took place on 31…

1st June 2002

Droitwich Junction locks restored

1st June 2002

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Coega Industrial Development Zone and Ngqura Port in the Eastern Cape in South Africa - which covers an area of 12,000ha of land adjacent to a proposed deep-water port providing serviced industrial…

1st June 2002

SA Port Development Project Planned

1st June 2002

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Representatives from major European ports were recently welcomed by Associated British Ports (ABP) Port of Southampton and ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) - ABPs Southampton-based research subsidiary - for the eighth…

1st June 2002

ABPmer hosts dredging workshop

1st June 2002

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

Trinity House Lighthouse Service returns to seawork to launch new life cycle services for coastal asset owners from Stand 137. Trinity House will also have their 20m launch THL Vectis moored alongside…

1st June 2002

Trinity House Launches Life Cycle Services at seawork2002

1st June 2002

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

The French designer and manufacturer of navaids, Mobilis, returns for seawork2002 with a selection of their buoys, solar lights, mooring and anchoring systems, aluminium towers and lighthouses up to 30m in height.

1st June 2002

Mobilis Clearly Visible at seawork

1st June 2002

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

After a long winter of development, the hampshirebased navaids supplier Hydrosphere UK Ltd will launch a new range of low cost navigation and regulatory buoys on Stand 126 at seawork2002.

1st June 2002

Buoyant Hydrosphere Lights Up Exhibition

1st June 2002

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Iridium is a system of 66 satellites cross-linked in space and orbiting just 485 miles above Earth. Because the low-orbiting Iridium satellites are much closer to Earth than other systems (the geo-stationary…

1st June 2002

Fixed Satellite Phones Reach Small Boat Market

1st June 2002

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Transas completed its first VTS projects in Africa last month with the installation of navi-Harbour 3000 VTS systems in the Moroccan ports of Jorf Lasfar and Mohammedia. Transas won these orders following…

1st June 2002

First African VTS Installations for Transas

1st June 2002

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Kelvin Hughes has secured contracts to supply navigational systems for a series of Chinese vessels.

1st June 2002

Navigation Systems Breakthrough for Chinese Newbuild Projects

1st June 2002