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PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Peel Ports has named international property and infrastructure group Lend Lease as principal contractor for Liverpool2, its new £300m deepwater container terminal at the Port of Liverpool.

3rd October 2012

Peel Ports names contractor for Liverpool2

3rd October 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The UK’s Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has officially launched what is said to be Europe’s most ambitious manmade coastal nature project.

3rd October 2012

Work starts on Europe’s largest coastal reserve

3rd October 2012

KEY DEALS

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The topic for this years Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology’s (IMarEST) annual President’s Day Lecture has been selected: The Marine Engineering, Science and Technology of Saving Lives at Sea.

2nd October 2012

IMarEST lecture: saving lives at sea

2nd October 2012

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Houlder and Southampton based design consultancy BMT Nigel Gee have announced that their jointly developed Turbine Access System (TAS) has successfully completed offshore trials.

2nd October 2012

Houlder’s TAS successfully completes trials

2nd October 2012

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Husky and Sheepdog, the last two ‘Dog’ class tugs originally built for the Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service (RMAS), have been sold by Serco, the current contractor for Marine Services to the UK…

2nd October 2012

The last two ‘Dogs’ leave Naval service

2nd October 2012

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE 2nd October 2012

TOWLINES

2nd October 2012

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On November 12 2012 at 15:00 in the Sun Room of the SS Rotterdam, German maritime navigation software developer SevenCs will launch its new ENC Encryptor in the context of the IHO…

2nd October 2012

SevenCs in Rotterdam

2nd October 2012

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Ocean Signal, UK manufacturer of communications and safety at sea equipment, has appointed MS Service, based in St Petersburg, as its Russian distributor. The announcement follows the Ocean Signal range of SafeSea…

2nd October 2012

Russian appointment at SMM

2nd October 2012

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America’s SeaRobotics Corporation has teamed with a private equity group led by Ocean Investments Capital to fund the expansion of the company’s core business, including the production of Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs),…

2nd October 2012

Funding boost for USVs

2nd October 2012

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Essex UK based construction contractor S Walsh & Sons Ltd (SWS) has recently been expanding its marine management division, buying new and adapted vessels to serve on a variety of projects on…

2nd October 2012

Expanding tug fleet for River Thames work

2nd October 2012

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Dutch offshore cranes company Kenz Cranes has delivered a new 400 tonne boom hoist offshore pedestal crane to the jack-up vessel Seajacks Leviathan in Amsterdam.

1st October 2012

Successful delivery from Kenz cranes

1st October 2012

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Captain Peter Meyer, a well known and respected figure in the towage and salvage industry, has retired after 40 years with Hamburg based Bugsier Reederei. Peter started with the company as a…

1st October 2012

TOWLINES

1st October 2012

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Isle of Wight UK based South Boats Special Projects, which has built some 100 WFSVs since 2005 for a variety of operators, has recently completed a £1m research project comparing hull form…

1st October 2012

The future of WFSV hull design

1st October 2012

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The new AAW-150 anchor winch has been specially designed by Hercules Hydraulics for offshore wind farm vessels and is built almost entirely from non-ferrous materials, keeping the weight down to less than…

1st October 2012

Lightweight winch for windfarm workboats

1st October 2012

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Fugro Renewable Services launched the ‘Inclinocam’, a real-time inclination monitoring service supporting smart, safe offshore pile installations at the Husum Windenergy Exhibition.

1st October 2012

Inclination monitoring launched at Husum

1st October 2012

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Gurit and HAWART Sondermaschinenbau GmbH have agreed to closely cooperate in the areas of mould and transport systems production for wind energy rotor blades to leverage the strengths of both companies to…

1st October 2012

Turbine blades coooperation in Germany

1st October 2012

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KEY DEALS

Tognum, the specialist for propulsion and power solutions, has equipped its subsidiary SKL Motor GmbH in Magdeburg for standardized reconditioning of MTU engines and components and is thus renaming the company MTU…

1st October 2012

Tognum reconditions MTUs

1st October 2012

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The manufacturers of ECDIS equipment are to publish information on the latest versions of the software used to operate their equipment, in order to help clarify certain anomalies that had been identified…

1st October 2012

ECDIS clarifications

1st October 2012

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

UK Aids to Navigation company, Hydrosphere UK Ltd, has supervised the successful build of four high visibility navigation buoys supplied to Belfast Harbour in Ireland, to mark the deepwater approach to the…

29th September 2012

Belfast receives Hydrosphere safety

29th September 2012

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KEY DEALS

More than 5,000 participants and 300 exhibitors are expected at the 34th annual RenewableUK conference and exhibition in Glasgow on 30 October through 1 November.

28th September 2012

34th RenewableUK conference and exhibition

28th September 2012