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HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Unchartered wrecks including a 150m vessel at a depth of 22m have been recorded by the Royal Navy’s hydrographic ship, HMS Echo.

31st July 2013

Royal Navy Libyan surveys

31st July 2013

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The UK Hydrographic Office plans this summer to supply on a single DVD its Admiralty Vector Chart Service (AVCS), with 12,000 digital charts.

31st July 2013

12,000 digital charts on one DVD

31st July 2013

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Antwerp Port Authority has received positive news from the European Commission concerning its application for a subsidy for LNG.

31st July 2013

Antwerp LNG subsidy

31st July 2013

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The French boatbuilder ACCF exhibited for the first time at Seawork this year with a vessel on the floating pontoons.

29th July 2013

Positive response for French boatbuilder

29th July 2013

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Stern tube seal specialist, AEGIR-Marine, is to represent the Netherlands as a ‘National Champion’ in the 2013/14 European Business Awards (EBAs).

29th July 2013

AEGIR-Marine represents Netherlands

29th July 2013

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The IMO Council has endorsed a proposal by IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu to adopt ‘IMO Conventions: Effective Implementation’ as the World Maritime Day theme for 2014.

29th July 2013

World Maritime Day theme proposal

29th July 2013

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Ever since it developed the world’s first liferaft survival kit over 60 years ago, serving the maritime industry has been part of BCB Marine’s DNA.

29th July 2013

Rescue device in pole position

29th July 2013

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solution provider Unique Hydra has had a fine result with its first nine man saturation system.

29th July 2013

New saturation system a rescue success

29th July 2013

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Swedish marine energy technology company Minesto has developed a simulator to aid the development of its Deep Green anchored flying underwater vehicle marine power plant.

26th July 2013

Simulator for underwater marine power plant

26th July 2013

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Damen Shipyards Group has won third prize at a competition for the Top 100 Dutch ‘green’ companies for its ASD Tug 2810 Hybrid.

26th July 2013

Damen wins prize for ‘green’ tug

26th July 2013

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has issued the latest in a series of information papers, entitled ‘Ecosystem Services and Dredging and Marine Construction’.

26th July 2013

New CEDA publication

26th July 2013

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