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PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A major £6m quay upgrade for the UK’s Montrose Port Authority (MPA) has now been completed in a move that will enhance the harbour’s capacity for handling larger cargo and oil and…

15th October 2014

Montrose upgrade

15th October 2014

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Early in September, a team of Canadian underwater archaeologists discovered the wreck of the HMS Erebus in the eastern stretches of the Queen Maud Gulf off the coast of Canada.

15th October 2014

Underwater technology aids search for Franklin expedition shipwrecks

15th October 2014

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The importance of hydrography and its role in an increasingly geospatially enabled world took centre stage at the 5th Extraordinary International Hydrographic Conference in Monaco recently. UK specialist, OceanWises director, John Pepper…

14th October 2014

OceanWise addresses 5th EIHC

14th October 2014

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

International Maritime Organization (IMO) Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu has welcomed the recently-published report of the Global Ocean Commission (GOC), ‘From Decline to Recovery: A Rescue Package for the Global Ocean’, and its call…

14th October 2014

IMO Secretary-General welcomes Global Ocean Commission report

14th October 2014

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Reef Subsea has signed a service agreement with the Port of Blyth, UK for a new storage, maintenance and mobilisation facility as part of the company’s continued growth plan. The new facility…

14th October 2014

Reef Subsea expands into Blyth

14th October 2014

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

The smooth running of the well-established global regime for compensation from oil pollution from ships may be under serious threat, due to a decision by governments to wind up the 1971 International…

14th October 2014

ICS legislation concern

14th October 2014

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Unique Hydra, a division of Unique Maritime Group, an integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solutions provider, has announced that it has been selected by Ultra Deep Solutions to design, build and integrate…

14th October 2014

DSCV Contract

14th October 2014

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

The latest Seahawk B46 has been launched – to be operated out of Looe, Cornwall, UK. Designed by Gary Mitchell, the Seahawk B46 has been built for Richard Chapman who will also…

14th October 2014

14m GRP trawler launched

14th October 2014

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Denmark- based EIVA has been appointed as an authorised VideoRay Service Centre. EIVA is an engineering company with more than 35 years’ experience in the offshore construction and survey industry. EIVA is…

13th October 2014

EIVA and VideoRay

13th October 2014

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

As first reported in last month’s ‘Maritime Journal’, the UKs Burgess Marine has supplemented its established shiprepair business and Trafalgar Yacht Management subsidiary by moving into new build with the acquisition of…

13th October 2014

Burgess expands into new build

13th October 2014

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Drydocks World, an international service provider to the maritime, oil, gas, and energy sectors, has signed an agreement with Petrofac to build the BorWin3 high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter platform in…

13th October 2014

Convertor platform go-ahead

13th October 2014

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

United Kingdom Major Ports Group (UKMPG) has unveiled a new Manifesto – Ports4Prosperity – in a bid to ensure UK ports get the government support they need.

13th October 2014

Manifesting support for UK ports

13th October 2014

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Damen Shipyards Group has delivered the first ASD tug 2810 in a four-vessel contract with ARC Towage, which will be used to provide gas terminal berthing services in Trinidad and Tobago.

10th October 2014

Damen tug leaves for Trinidad

10th October 2014

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

US-based The Maritime Aquarium has christened a US$2.7m hybrid-electric catamaran – said to be the only research vessel in the world running on hybrid-electric propulsion.

9th October 2014

US$2.7m hybrid-powered catamaran christened

9th October 2014

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Rolls-Royce has secured a contract to supply waterjets for two Spanish Police Guardia Civil 20m Patrol boats in Spain. These vessels will be built by Astilleros Gondan Shipyard.

9th October 2014

Jet propulsion for Spanish police patrol vessels

9th October 2014

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

DP World London Gateway has won the ‘Construction and Engineering Project of the Year’ award at the UK’s national Transport Awards 2014.

9th October 2014

UK transport project of the year

9th October 2014

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has extended its useful ‘Facts About’ series by making a new download available referencing backhoe dredgers.

9th October 2014

IADC adds to Facts About series

9th October 2014

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

A German court decided earlier this month to delay the deepening and widening of the navigation channel of the Lower and Outer Elbe into the Port of Hamburg.

9th October 2014

Further delay for Elbe dredging

9th October 2014

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The UKs Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) is looking into why 14 yachts moored outside Medway Yacht Club in Kent were struck and badly damaged by a dredger passing too close by…

8th October 2014

Dredger strikes moored yachts

8th October 2014

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Moray Offshore Renewables (MORL) has completed the installation of its meteorological mast in its offshore wind zone in Scotland, marking the start of its Moray Firth offshore wind generation project.

8th October 2014

MORL completes offshore meteorological installation

8th October 2014