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DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Recent newbuild dredger deliveries from the various Dutch specialist shipyards that comprise IHC Holland include the worlds most powerful cutter suction dredger for Belgiums Jan De Nul and twin 16,000m 3capacity trailing…

1st June 2004

Smaller Newbuild from IHC Holland Grabs Attention

1st June 2004

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

At its shareholder AGM in the Netherlands last month, dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster reported that incoming orders and turnover thus far in 2004 were lagging behind last year but were not…

1st June 2004

Cautious Optimism at Boskalis

1st June 2004

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Ever since its maiden voyage in January, Cunard s new flagship liner Queen Mary 2 has been challenging the dredged depths of many ports where it has been scheduled to call.

1st June 2004

Dredge Deeper for Queen Mary 2

1st June 2004

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Until it recently became Damen Dredging Equipment , the operation formerly known as De Groot Nijkerk had built well over 100 one-off stationary cutter suction dredgers over a period of 60 years.…

1st June 2004

Damen Launches Standardised CSDs

1st June 2004

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The seagoing, self-propelled cutter suction dredger JFJ De Nul , built by IHC Holland sKinderdijk yard for Belgian contractor Jan De Nul , has won the Netherlands prestigious Ship of the Year…

1st June 2004

JFJ De Nul is Ship of the Year

1st June 2004

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Meridian Chartware of Norwich, a subsidiary of Norcom Technology, is developing an electronic chart training package and a low cost entry electronic chart plotter in a project also involving the UK Hydrographic…

1st June 2004

Chart Training Package

1st June 2004

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Dutch survey conglomerate Fugro, which maintains nearly 9,000 staff in over 60 countries, is to acquire an Optech International Shoals-1000T airborne Lidar bathymetry system under the auspices of its US subsidiary, Fugro…

1st June 2004

Fugro Opts for Airborne Bathymeter

1st June 2004

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Great Yarmouth-based Gardline Hydro has begun a two-year Civil Hydrography Programme (CHP) to survey western approaches to the English Channel on behalf of the government body responsible for safety of navigation in…

1st June 2004

Gardline Begins CHP Project

1st June 2004

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Packaging and distribution of electronic navigational charts are to be further standardised following a recent workshop sponsored by ChartWorld inHamburg attended by ECDIS manufacturers, ENC retailers and representatives of the International Hydrographic…

1st June 2004

New ENC Standard

1st June 2004

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The London based Simon Group demonstrated prescient vision when in the late 1990s it set in motion planning for a deepwater ro-ro terminal in the River Humber.

1st June 2004

Simon Says Humber Sea Terminal

1st June 2004