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ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Cargotec’ s Kalmar division has delivered four new ship to shore (STS) cranes and nine other new container handling machines to the Port of Vuosaari at Helsinki in Finland.

1st January 2009

Lifting gear galore for new Port of Vuosaari

1st January 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Four new gantry cranes have arrived safely at their new home in Hamburg' s Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB) following the close supervision of their construction by Hamburg Port Consulting (HPC).

1st January 2009

Crane construction oversight in China

1st January 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The MacGregor Group’ s Offshore division has received orders for four remotely controlled deck handling manipulator systems (DHMS) for the two Island Offshore AHTS vessels, Island Valiant and Island Vanguard.

1st January 2009

MacGregor do deck handling double

1st January 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The Yacht Leg and Cradle Company has introduced the Motor Boat Dolly to its range of products which may make motor boat movement more efficient, onshore.

1st January 2009

Hello Dolly for a quayside cradle

1st January 2009

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The UK’ s Westminster Dredging recently demonstrated the most efficient way of delivering dredged aggregate to a coastal defence project straight from the ship to the site, a process that removes the…

1st January 2009

Beach replenishment delivers environmental bonus

1st January 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The UK Hydrographic Office has signed a new bilateral agreement with China’ s Maritime Safety Agency (MSA) under which it is to distribute all 257 Electronic Nautical Chart (ENC) cells covering Chinese…

1st January 2009

UKHO Chinese agreement

1st January 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The Italian Hydrographic Institute in Genoa, the official nautical charting agency of the Italian Navy since 1872, has selected CARIS HIPS and SIPS geospatial software for processing of all its survey data.…

1st January 2009

Caris survey software for Italy and the UK

1st January 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Fugro in the Netherlands is to launch G2 on 1 February, a new satellite based precise positioning service combining data from both the US GPS constellation and the Russian Glonass network for…

1st January 2009

New Fugro GNSS positioning service

1st January 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

William Heaps, Assistant Marine Advisor & Hydrographic Manager of Associated British Ports (ABP), has been elected chairman of the six member International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS) in succession to Commander Paul…

1st January 2009

IFHS elects new chairman

1st January 2009

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

A pulsating procession of African singers, dancers and drummers drew a large crowd to the stand of Golden Arrow Marine on opening day of the London International Boat Show earlier this month.…

1st January 2009

The drums speak of a propulsion revolution

1st January 2009