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HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

GNSS positioning specialist Veripos, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary following acquisition by Hexagon AB of Sweden for a reported £90m, has moved to new purpose-built headquarters in Dyce, Aberdeen.

29th April 2014

Veripos Moves to New HQ

29th April 2014

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Dutch dredger designer, Holland Dredge Design, is a relatively new kid on the block, having been about for only two years, but it has a solid reputation having been built on the…

29th April 2014

A solid reputation for dredgers

29th April 2014

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

“There’s no point in building a boat for tomorrow based on today’s technology,” says Bob Cripps of Longitude Consulting Engineers, part of LOC Group. “A design has to have room to evolve.”

29th April 2014

Bob Cripps: Growing the industrys future

29th April 2014

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Environment Agency (EA) has completed a health check on the UK’s flood defences following the wettest winter on record.

28th April 2014

UK’s flood defences receive a health check

28th April 2014

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

For residents of the UK and large parts of Europe, the winter of 2013/14 will be remembered for long periods of exceptionally high winds. Bad news for some, music to the ears…

28th April 2014

The windy winter blows fair for London Array

28th April 2014

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Fugro OSAE of Bremen, Germany, has been awarded a €3.6m contract by the Norwegian Hydrographic Service for surveys over an area of 13,200 square km in the Barents and Norwegian Seas.

28th April 2014

€3.6m Norwegian Hydrographic Service Contract for Fugro

28th April 2014

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

On 21st February 2014 the Uzmar Shipyard, also known as ‘Workboat and Tug Factory of Turkey’, held a launching ceremony for the KOC Musaned-2, the second of a total of six line…

28th April 2014

UZMAR launches another ‘Smart’ line handling tug for KOC

28th April 2014

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The days of the print-only “media pack” are numbered. A new animated video now tells advertisers in the European commercial marine industry why Maritime Journal should be their preferred channel to communicate…

28th April 2014

MJ gets animated

28th April 2014

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

The UK”s Atlantis Marine Power is returning to Seawork for the first UK showing of Kohler’s all-new J and C series generators.

28th April 2014

Seawork première for new Kohler generators

28th April 2014

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A new environmentally-friendly solution for scour protection at the base of wind turbines has been unveiled by UK-based Offshore Marine Management (OMM) and Geofabrics Australasia.

25th April 2014

New sustainable scour protection unveiled

25th April 2014

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

Education, training, consultancy and research provider, Warsash Maritime Academy (WMA), part of Southampton Solent University, will be at Seawork 2014 with its new learning app.

25th April 2014

New WMA app at Seawork

25th April 2014

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Cavotec has won three MoorMaster orders totalling more than €28m for use at lock, roro ferry and bulk handling applications in Australia, Canada and Denmark.

24th April 2014

Cavotec wins largest order yet

24th April 2014

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

A recent visitor to the Port of Rotterdam was the 36m luxury motor yacht Lars, a vessel that started life as the ice class tug Zeeleeuw.

24th April 2014

LARS visits the Netherlands

24th April 2014

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The global hydrographic equipment market is expected to be worth in excess of $2.9bn by 2020, according to an assessment by research analysts MarketsandMarkets (M&M) of Dallas.

24th April 2014

Global Equipment Market Worth $2.9 Billion by 2020

24th April 2014

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Suzuki Marine will be showcasing new models and boat packages at Seawork International this year – including the new innovative DF30A and DF25A outboards.

24th April 2014

Suzuki to showcase new motors at Seawork

24th April 2014

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

Some of commercial boat buildings well known names are joining forces to offer a range of catamarans and mono hulls for windfarm support, ferry, survey, pilot boat and enforcement sectors, and will…

24th April 2014

Top trio combine to meet all demands

24th April 2014

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Netherlands-based Tree C technology BV is to develop and supply a Fall Pipe Vessel (FPV) simulator for Jan De Nul Group’s headquarters in Luxembourg.

23rd April 2014

New simulator for Jan De Nul

23rd April 2014

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

SMIT Rebocadores do Brasil (Rebras) of Rio de Janeiro has taken delivery of the first two, of a series of six RAmparts 2500 tugs designed by Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) and built…

23rd April 2014

Six RAmparts 2500 tugs for Smit Rebras

23rd April 2014

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

America’s CSA Ocean Sciences Inc (CSA) has created a new GeoPortal for tasks associated with streamling the planning, science and operations for oil spill response.

23rd April 2014

Oil spill response tool

23rd April 2014

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Hydrography - More Than Just Charts is the theme chosen by the International Hydrographic Organization in Monaco for this year’s UN World Hydrography Day on 21 June.

23rd April 2014

World Hydrography Day

23rd April 2014