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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

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The Hydrographic Society UK, which represents organisations and individuals of the domestic hydrographic profession and associated disciplines in addition to maintaining an extensive overseas membership in nearly 50 countries, has elected 15…

23rd July 2013

Hydrographic Society UK Fellowship Awards

23rd July 2013

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The first ‘European Offshore and Energy’ exhibition is set to take place in 2014 to introduce the industry’s latest product innovations, solutions and services.

22nd July 2013

European Offshore & Energy 2014

22nd July 2013

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

“A great win for Kent, a great win for renewable energy and a great win for Britain”, were the closing words of UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech at the inauguration this…

22nd July 2013

High profile inauguration for London Array

22nd July 2013

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

After many months of rumour and speculation, the German deepsea tug Oceanic has finally been sold by Bugsier Reederi und Bergungs GmbH & Co KG of Hamburg.

22nd July 2013

Oceanic – the ‘Grand Old Lady’ is sold

22nd July 2013

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Underwater positioning specialist iXBlue is to install its latest SAMS-DT 6000 deep tow synthetic aperture mapping sonar aboard a new survey ship currently being completed by Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea for…

22nd July 2013

Multi-mission sonar for new research vessel

22nd July 2013

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Hemisphere GNSS, the US-Canadian company, has launched a new high performance receiver for heading, positioning, heave and attitude operations in what it calls challenging and dynamic environments, Crescent Vector H200.

22nd July 2013

New GNSS compass module

22nd July 2013

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Bromborough UK based Osiris Projects, which claims to have successfully completed over 600 projects in the UK and northern Europe from inland surveys to multi-parameter seabed mapping projects, is to add a…

22nd July 2013

Osiris Projects adds to survey fleet

22nd July 2013

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

In the Dutch section of the North Sea are four wrecks of sunken ships that are forming an obstruction to shipping.

20th July 2013

Dutch wrecks removal

20th July 2013

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Launch and Recovery Systems (LARS) are evolving to meet a changing market.

20th July 2013

A bigger, more comfortable reach

20th July 2013