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PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Royal Boskalis Westminster NV has been awarded a contract by the Vallei en Veluwe district water board for the construction of the Veessen-Wapenveld high-water channel in the province of Gelderland, the Netherlands.

26th July 2013

More ‘Room for the River’ work for Boskalis

26th July 2013

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Filmmaker and explorer James Cameron recently handed over the Deepsea Challenger, the only human occupied vehicle currently able to access the very deepest parts of the ocean, to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution…

26th July 2013

Connectors crucial to ‘Deepsea Challenger’

26th July 2013

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Innovatum makes the world’s smallest system for the location, tracking and survey of submarine pipelines and cables.

26th July 2013

Compact ROV for shallow water survey work

26th July 2013

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Western Australia based shipbuilding company Strategic Marine, has delivered the ‘Jati Six’ crew transfer vessel for Malaysian based Dinasti Jti Sdn Bhd.

25th July 2013

Strategic Marine delivers crewboat

25th July 2013

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

A rapid response by the RNLI resulted in 30 people surviving without injury when the Dutch tall ship Astrid hit rocks and sank on Ireland’s Cork coast on Wednesday.

25th July 2013

RNLI rescues tall ship crew off Ireland

25th July 2013

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Switzerland headquartered global engineering group Cavotec secured a significant order last week for its MoorMaster automated mooring technology at a new bulk handling application in Norway.

25th July 2013

Largest ever MoorMaster order in Europe

25th July 2013

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

RESOLVE Salvage & Fire (Europe), Ltd, the European emergency response subsidiary of USA based RESOLVE Marine Group, Inc, has added a new office at 23, Austin Friars, London, expanding the company’s UK…

25th July 2013

RESOLVE expands European presence

25th July 2013

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The UK’s Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) will host the tenth in its series of ‘Breakwaters’ specialist conferences in Edinburgh on 18-20 September.

25th July 2013

Marine engineering in Edinburgh spotlight

25th July 2013

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Scotland’s Cromarty Firth Port Authority’s £20m port expansion has taken a major step forward in meeting its 2015 completion target, with ground investigation works now underway.

25th July 2013

Port expansion progress at Cromarty Firth

25th July 2013

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Land and Water Services were contracted by Dredging International (part of the LORDI joint venture for the port construction) to complete two phases of the London Gateway Port project.

25th July 2013

Tight timing ensures inter-tidal works success

25th July 2013

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Belgian underwater repair specialist, Hydrex, has appointed a UK agent as part of its expanding network “to keep up with demand”.

24th July 2013

Hydrex appoints UK agent

24th July 2013

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

It was with some sadness that news was received that deepsea tug Global Change, formerly London (ex; Smit London etc) was beached prior to being scrapped on 26 June at Alang in…

24th July 2013

TOWLINES

24th July 2013

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The ‘super tug’ Fairmount Glacier, from the fleet of Rotterdam based Fairmount Marine, has delivered rig Falcon 100 safely offshorePointe-Noire, Congo.

24th July 2013

‘Super- tug’ in trans-Atlantic rig delivery

24th July 2013

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Netherlands based towage and salvage specialist Multraship has further strengthened its multipurpose fleet with the addition of the ASD tug Multratug 20.

24th July 2013

Multraship expands fleet with ‘Multratug 20’

24th July 2013

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The delivery voyages of the tugs Svitzer Neso and Svitzer Nixie from Singapore to Newcastle in Australia were contracted by Svitzer to Redwise Maritime Services of the Netherlands.

24th July 2013

Redwise delivers Svitzer duo to Newcastle

24th July 2013

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

A UK boatbuilder has launched its latest DNV class 24m workboat which will now begin extensive sea trials before being handed over to its new owners.

23rd July 2013

New workboat launch

23rd July 2013

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Royal Boskalis Westminster NV has completed US Private Placement notes with 24 institutional investors to complete the “last part of financing for the acquisition of Dockwise”.

23rd July 2013

Private placements for Boskalis

23rd July 2013

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Hyak Maritime, marine equipment and vessel owners based in Dover, Delaware, USA, have taken delivery of the ‘line haul’ tug Hawaii, the first of a pair designed by Seattle based naval architects…

23rd July 2013

Hawaii the first of two ‘line haul’ tugs for Hyak Marine

23rd July 2013

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

C-Nav, the US GNSS differential Precise Point Positioning organisation with European bases in Norway, Russia and the UK, has developed a real-time tidal measurement package, C-Tides.

23rd July 2013

C-Nav tide measurement package

23rd July 2013

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Scholarships worth in total £17,500 are available for students embarking on University College London MSc courses on Surveying and Hydrographic Surveying, beginning this September.

23rd July 2013

UCL student scholarships

23rd July 2013