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FUTURE FUELS

FUTURE FUELS

Antwerp Port Authority is continuing its focus on LNG with the aim of setting up a permanent bunkering station at the port by the beginning of 2016.

30th July 2014

Antwerp moves towards permanent LNG station

30th July 2014

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Imagine robots that patrol beneath port waters, able not just to notice and then identify security threats, but also able to keep tabs on water pollution, silting up of vulnerable areas and…

30th July 2014

Robot patrols for ports?

30th July 2014

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

My eureka moments are always 2.00 in the morning, says Martin Jackson of Marine and Industrial Transmissions. I get the ideas down with the help of a notepad and pen - and…

30th July 2014

Martin Jackson: An individual approach

30th July 2014

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

One of the UK RNLI Eastern regions busiest stations has had a new pontoon installed for its all weather lifeboat.

30th July 2014

New pontoon for Harwich lifeboat station

30th July 2014

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Italy based dredger and dredging equipment manufacturer Italdraghe will be showcasing its BDC dredging head for excavators and a BDC 200 on its stand at SMM in Hamburg next month.

30th July 2014

Dredging heads in the spotlight at SMM

30th July 2014

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Belgium based DEME Group is maintaining a healthy order book of some €3bn thanks to new orders, well spread worldwide across dredging, energy related and environmental activities. The total value of these…

30th July 2014

DEMEs healthy €660m order book

30th July 2014

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

HR Wallingford has submitted an independent response to a call for evidence from the UK Airports Commission. It called for evidence to inform study outputs for feasibility work on an inner Thames…

29th July 2014

Airport proposal puts Thames habitat at risk

29th July 2014

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The South African company Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has named its 750m3 grab hopper dredger, ‘Italeni’, during a special ceremony hosted by the shipbuilder IHC Merwede in the shipyard of IHC…

29th July 2014

Grab dredger delivery for South Africa

29th July 2014

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The Dutch Section of Young CEDA hosted an event recently at the Delft University of Technology to give students and young professional an insight into working in the dredging industry.

29th July 2014

Young CEDA events in Delft and Hamburg

29th July 2014

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Dutch dredging majors Boskalis and Van Oord are in a consortium which been awarded work associated with the expansion of the Singapore Tuas Mega Port development.

29th July 2014

Dutch dredging at home and abroad

29th July 2014

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Acquisition of common datasets by leading multibeam manufacturers has begun in Plymouth Sound and Wembury Bay in readiness for final comparison studies at the 7th International Conference on High-Resolution Shallow Water Surveys,…

29th July 2014

Data acquisition for shallow survey 2015 begins

29th July 2014

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Kongsberg Norcontrol IT has played its part in helping to enhance sea border protection in the EU through automatic identification and tracking of vessels suspected of involvement illegal activity.

29th July 2014

Kongsberg helps enhance sea border protection

29th July 2014

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Vietnamese survey organisation, Thien Nam Positioning JSC, has commissioned a Ranger 2 Ultra Short Baseline (USBL) acoustic positioning system from Hampshire-based Sonardyne International.

29th July 2014

Ranger 2 USBL for Vietnamese surveys

29th July 2014

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The 82-member inter-governmental International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) in Monaco is to host a 5th Extraordinary International Conference from 6-10 October which will formally open with an address by Prince Albert II.

29th July 2014

IHO conference

29th July 2014

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Hamburg-based maritime software company SevenCs has announced official release of its new series of ENC production software first previewed at Oceanology International in London last March.

29th July 2014

ENC production software released

29th July 2014

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

France’s second largest port at Le Havre has commissioned CARIS Bathy Database and Spatial Fusion Enterprise processing suites for management and distribution of bathymetric data for which its hydrographic department conducts approximately…

29th July 2014

CARIS bathymetric software for Le Havre

29th July 2014

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Digital navigation specialists Jeppesen of Norway has been awarded a two-year contract with an optional three year extension to develop and implement an Integrated Hydrographic Management System (IHMS) for the Maritime &…

29th July 2014

Jeppesen management system for Singapore

29th July 2014

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Next year’s Offshore Energy exhibition will be held on 13 and 14 October 2015 at Amsterdam RAI.

29th July 2014

Offshore Energy 2015

29th July 2014

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The UAE based Unique Maritime Group (UMG), a leading integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solutions provider, has obtained a pivotal strategic equity investment from UK based Blue Water Energy.

28th July 2014

Unique gets strategic energy investment

28th July 2014

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

BMT SMART, a subsidiary of BMT Group, is set to showcase its performance monitoring portfolio at SMM in Hamburg this September.

28th July 2014

Collecting data the SMART way

28th July 2014