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HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Now in its 20th year for construction of specialist power catamarans, Cheetah Marine of Ventnor on the UK’s Isle of Wight reports the commissioning of two new hydrographic survey vessels by Heuvelman…

25th February 2010

Cheetah catamarans for Dutch and UK customers

25th February 2010

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Fugro Survey’s first new geophysical survey vessel since the early 1980s, ‘Fugro Searcher’, has been launched in readiness for sea trials before beginning service in March.

25th February 2010

New Fugro survey vessel launched

25th February 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Britains last steam tug-tender, ‘Daniel Adamson’, has got the crucial go ahead to operate from Liverpool Cruise Liner Terminal.

25th February 2010

Lottery funding for restoration of historic tug-tender

25th February 2010

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Leisure and commercial boaters could soon benefit from more accurate depth information, thanks to a research and development project awarded to a European consortium.

25th February 2010

Community sourced positioning project for Europe

25th February 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Multraship Salvage and SVITZER Salvage have refloated the Russian flag cargo ship Irtysh 1 after it had ran aground on the rocky coastline off the Bulgarian Black Sea coast near Bourgas.

25th February 2010

Black Sea base delivers successful salvage

25th February 2010

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Marine energy will be ready for mass scale deployment and an important new commercial UK industry by 2020 said the Carbon Trust earlier this month.

18th February 2010

£22m of new funding for wave and tidal energy

18th February 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

A TITAN Salvage team is working in Haiti to remove navigational hazards following the devastating earthquake, including the collapsed Washington gantry crane, in Port-au-Prince for the U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), in an…

18th February 2010

Salvors remove navigational hazards in Haiti

18th February 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Local German authorities have completed the deepening of a 23.7km stretch of the northern Peene River to allow bigger ships to reach Wolgast.

18th February 2010

Peene deepening opens access for bigger ships

18th February 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Two scientists based in Brighton on the south coast of the UK and a Franco-British partnership have been awarded €5 million to find safe disposal methods for dredged marine sediments.

11th February 2010

Scientists awarded €5m for dredging research – by David Foxwell

11th February 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The German North Sea port of Cuxhaven has completed the construction and installation of two new flood barriers which together cost €19m and are the hub of flood defences costing the city…

11th February 2010

Cuxhaven gets new flood defence barriers

11th February 2010