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SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

One of the significant boatbuild transactions taking place at Seawork 2007 saw South Boats Special Projects Limited sign a £ 2.2m contract with MPI Offshore Ltd for two new designs of wind…

1st August 2007

Seawork Success Secures Second Production Line

1st August 2007

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Commercial marine insurance providers Navigators & General (N& G), members of the British Marine Federation (BMF), have launched a new Commercial Marine Combined insurance product offering a tailored one stop solution for…

1st August 2007

Combined Commercial Marine Insurance Launched

1st August 2007

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

A legislative proposal before the Lower House of Parliament in the Netherlands would revise the national Shipping Act to bring legislation into line with the EU Inland Waterways Directive (2005/44/EC).

1st August 2007

EU Waterways Directive Sparks Dutch Debate

1st August 2007

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Outsourcing to a freight audit company seems to be a solution to the problem of increased obscurity in financial control.

1st August 2007

Shippers saving billions on freight spend

1st August 2007

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

The ethical savings and investment bank Triodos is making its first ever investment in marine renewable energy as a contributor towards £ 7.5m of new funding for Marine Current Turbines Ltd (MCT),…

1st August 2007

New Funding for Tidal Turbines

1st August 2007

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Hydrometric and oceanographic instrumentation specialists Valeport of Totnes have completed a major sound velocity equipment replacement and upgrade programme for the French Navy’ s Hydrographic & Oceanographic Service (SHOM) fleet of survey…

1st August 2007

Anglo-French Contracts for Valeport

1st August 2007

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Swiss based pipelay specialists Allseas Group has commissioned Sonardyne International’ s wideband deepwater Long BaseLine acoustic positioning systems, initially to support field wide operation of its fleet of vessels due to be…

1st August 2007

Sonardyne Acoustics for Allseas Group

1st August 2007

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The fiercely competitive multibeam system market now has another contestant, Odom Hydrographic Systems of Baton Rouge in the USA.

1st August 2007

Odom Enters Multibeam Market

1st August 2007

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The UK National Physical Laboratory at Teddington is once more hosting three Seiche professional development courses on underwater acoustics from 10 to 14 September.

1st August 2007

Underwater Acoustics Courses

1st August 2007

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The first project in Europe to make use of the Xbloc interlocking armoured sea defence unit has recently been completed.

1st August 2007

First Xbloc Project in Europe Completed

1st August 2007