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PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Ecosse Subsea Systems (UK) has won its third seabed clearance contract on a major wind farm construction project. The subsea engineering specialist has started offshore operations on the Westermost Rough development, located…

13th August 2014

Ploughing the seabed for energy

13th August 2014

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Increases in cargo, passengers and mackerel landings helped the UK’s Port of Lerwick achieve forecast traffic levels in the half-year to June, 2014, compared with the same period in 2013.

13th August 2014

Lerwick on target

13th August 2014

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Partrac, a UK-based marine data acquisition specialist, has completed the first tidal energy turbulence survey for the Carbon Trust-managed Turbulence in Marine Environments (TiME) project.

13th August 2014

Tidal turbulence measured

13th August 2014

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

2013 proved a good year for the Port of Cork, which has reported an increase in traffic volumes from 9.05 million tonnes in 2012 to 9.12 million tonnes in 2013. Turnover amounted…

12th August 2014

Cork buoyant

12th August 2014

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Netherlands-based Lankhorst Ropes is exhibiting at SMM 2014 where it will present innovations in stronger and safer maritime ropes and through-life support.

12th August 2014

Lankhorst Ropes at SMM

12th August 2014

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A 45m high pipe-lay tower belonging to IHC Engineering Business (IHC EB) has left the UK’s Port of Tyne destined for Rotterdam.

12th August 2014

IHC’s awkward load

12th August 2014

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OSD-IMT, the UK division of Offshore Ship Designers (OSD), has developed a range of new designs of offshore wind-farm service operation vessels (SOVs).

12th August 2014

New windfarm SOV designs

12th August 2014

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Rohr International Dredge Holdings, Inc. has acquired Eurl Rohr France, including its current backlog, inventory and all associated intellectual property (IPR). Rohr France, which is based in Betting, France, was a Rohr…

12th August 2014

French acquisition

12th August 2014

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Over the past three months, a specialist diving team led by experienced Thames Estuary diver Steven Ellis, have undertaken 10 planned dives of one of Englands most important 17th century shipwrecks located…

12th August 2014

The wreck of the ‘London’

12th August 2014

SECURITY

SECURITY

In view of the increasing demand for security of merchant ships and maritime trade, Raytheon Anschütz, a German-based manufacturer of Integrated Bridge Systems, has developed the ShipGuard shipborne security solution.

12th August 2014

Raytheon Anschütz ShipGuard

12th August 2014