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PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Two coastal protection projects in Italy have recently been completed thanks to the effective long distance pumping power of Italdraghe booster stations.

19th July 2012

Coast protection projects completed with booster stations

19th July 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Dutch dredging and marine contractor Van Oord has been awarded a significant dredging contract in Darwin Harbour in the Northern Territory of Australia.

19th July 2012

Van Oord wins Ichthys dredging contract

19th July 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Beach recharge work got underway on the south coast of the UK near Chichester towards the end of June and is due to continue for approximately four months.

19th July 2012

Coastal defence works off UK south coast

19th July 2012

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The second of four Damen Stan Patrol Vessels 4207, built by the Pashaliman Shipyard in Vlorë, has been delivered to the Albanian Coastguard.

18th July 2012

Second Damen patrol vessel for Albania

18th July 2012

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Wärtsilä is to provide dual-fuel engines for two environmentally sustainable tugs being built for CNOOC Energy Technology and Services Limited (CETS) – the first in China to be fuelled liquefied natural gas…

18th July 2012

Wärtsilä supply dual-fuel engines

18th July 2012

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

The London based Centre for Economics and Business Research has produced a report, commissioned by Mainstream Renewable Power, aimed at providing clarity when debating the economic benefits of offshore wind.

18th July 2012

Selling the economic benefits of offshore wind

18th July 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Royal Haskoning and DHV, two of the best known consulting engineers working in the marine and ports and harbours sectors, have announced that they have merged and will now be known as…

18th July 2012

Royal Haskoning and DHV confirm merger

18th July 2012

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

“How has my working life developed? It’s been a mixture of exciting and frustrating”, says Geir Larsen, MD of Norway based innovative power solutions provider In Power.

18th July 2012

Inspired by brilliant ideas

18th July 2012

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

The HTECH A25cab (prototype) on show at Seawork 2012 is one of the five models in a semi-custom line designed for professional use by HT Engineering of Keuruu, Finland.

18th July 2012

Prototype on the pontoon

18th July 2012

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

The demand for rapid crew transportation to and from wind farms, combined with the increasing distances between the wind farm arrays and the shore has resulted in the design and build of…

18th July 2012

Keeping it quiet on the Seawork pontoon

18th July 2012

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Ravestein has developed a special jack up platform, with extras, that has a better ability to deal with wind and waves and can work in depths of 40m.

18th July 2012

Rough weather jack-up cuts windfarm costs

18th July 2012

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

As energy operations move towards deeper waters, mooring lines become heavier, more difficult and more hazardous to handle.

18th July 2012

The big pull to deeper waters

18th July 2012

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

UK based communications and safety specialist, Ocean Signal Ltd, has appointed Dublin based Martek Ltd as its Irish distributor.

17th July 2012

Ocean Signal gets Irish distributor

17th July 2012

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Fugro OSAE GmbH of Bremen in Germany has been awarded an allocation of the Baltic Sea and Bothnian Survey for the years 2012-13, consisting of a 7,100km² segment worth €2.1m.

17th July 2012

MONALISA motivates Baltic and Bothnian surveys

17th July 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Controversy has dogged Germany’s first deepwater container terminal, the JadeWeserPort (JWP) since the beginning and it is not loosening its grip.

17th July 2012

Controversial JWP clears final hurdles

17th July 2012

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Ferguson Modular, providers of accommodation and workspace modules, recently invested in state of the art plant equipment to improve operations.

17th July 2012

Picking up the blocks made easy

17th July 2012

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

There is a growing need for efficient solutions for items which make the most of deck space, such as moveable davits, on both wind farm construction vessels and offshore energy support craft.

17th July 2012

Moveable davits maximise deck space

17th July 2012

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Cargo handling capacity at Associated British Ports’ (ABP) Port of Hull has received a boost following the delivery of a new £1.7m Liebherr LHM 180 mobile harbour crane.

17th July 2012

Mobile harbour crane lifts Hull handling

17th July 2012

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The Port of Rotterdam says that it has moved one step closer to realising its plan to become an LNG port filling station.

16th July 2012

Rotterdam LNG a step closer

16th July 2012

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

Hampshire UK based marine measurement systems specialist OSIL has introduced its new Oil in Water Monitoring buoy, a rapid deployment option for localised spill events and preventative monitoring.

16th July 2012

New oil in water monitoring buoy

16th July 2012