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HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Concerned that graduates from survey courses recruited into the offshore industry do not necessarily have the requisite levels of knowledge to begin a successful career, the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has…

20th March 2008

IMCA Guidelines for Graduate Surveyors

20th March 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

PD Ports (PDP) in the UK has  announced that it has received formal planning approval for its Northern Gateway Container Terminal (NGCT) at Teesport in the North East of England.

20th March 2008

PD Ports Gets Go Ahead for NGCT

20th March 2008

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Professor Kees d’ Angremond, a leading consultant on coastal engineering, has called for major change in the way countries and corporations plan, execute and manage coastal development.

20th March 2008

Call for Change in Coastal Management

20th March 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Van Oord and Boskalis in The Netherlands, represented by Van Oord' s  managing director John van Herwijnen and Boskalis CEO Peter Berdowski,  have signed the contract for the Maasvlakte 2 port expansion…

20th March 2008

Boskalis and Van Oord Sign Contract for Maasvlakte 2

20th March 2008

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

TTS has been chosen by Stena Line BV to deliver adjustable upper and lower deck linkspans at Hoek van Holland to serve two new vessels now building at AkerYards in Germany as…

20th March 2008

TTS to Supply Linkspans for New Stena Vessels

20th March 2008

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Projected sea level increases, more intense rainfall and stronger wind speeds are expected to increase flood risk in the future, and understanding the level of risk from waves overtopping seawalls or other…

20th March 2008

New Wave Overtopping Calculation Tools Launched

20th March 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

In a series of technical tours run in conjunction with the PIANC-COPEDEC VII conference discussed above, participants learned valuable lessons about how projects like Sama Dubai’ s Lagoons, Dubai Maritime City, Palm…

20th March 2008

Experts Dazzled by Dubais Coastal Vision

20th March 2008

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The General Lighthouse Authorities of the United Kingdom and Ireland have applauded the US decision last month to implement Enhanced Loran (eLoran) in the US as a complement to the Global Positioning…

20th March 2008

GLAs Applaud US eLoran Decision

20th March 2008

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

A marine course at South Tyneside College in the UK is helping to address skills shortages training which could help save shipping companies thousands of pounds in staffing costs.

20th March 2008

Bright Sparks Address Skills Shortage

20th March 2008

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

With the training and retention of mariners a continuing issue for the shipping community, it comes as good news that ex-fireman cadet Peter Sommerfield has recently qualified in the UK as a…

20th March 2008

Worlds Most Mature Cadet Qualifies

20th March 2008