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SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) set up an industry wide workgroup during 2011 to develop guidance on hyperbaric evacuation.

21st May 2012

Common interfaces for hyperbaric evacuation

21st May 2012

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

A specialist north-east UK oil and gas industry support and training facility has developed a new software package to control diving system equipment certification and maintenance to industry standards.

21st May 2012

New diving safety software launched

21st May 2012

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Liverpool Community College has launched a purpose built maritime academy to help young people into the diving industry.

21st May 2012

College commits to diver training academy

21st May 2012

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

ASV Ltd and Marine Electronics Ltd have formed a new working partnership agreement under which ASV will provide its C-CAT 2 autonomous surface vehicle for use with the advanced new 3D interferometric…

21st May 2012

Partnership to enhance shallow water survey

21st May 2012

INSURANCE, LEGAL & FINANCE

INSURANCE, LEGAL & FINANCE

The question of whose terms of trading apply in a contract remains one of the most common causes of dispute between commercial contracting parties.

21st May 2012

Navigating the Standard Terms minefield

21st May 2012

INSURANCE, LEGAL & FINANCE

INSURANCE, LEGAL & FINANCE

Charterers’ Liability insurance is an insurance designed to cover the charterer(s) of a vessel in respect of claims arising out of negligence based claims surfacing out of legal and contractual obligations and…

21st May 2012

Charterers’ Liability blowing in the wind

21st May 2012

INSURANCE, LEGAL & FINANCE

INSURANCE, LEGAL & FINANCE

It is not just technology, security is in the minds of any European investment these days, and the financial backup given by the Dutch government has helped IHC Merwede land an important…

21st May 2012

Security and guarantees for Dutch orders

21st May 2012

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

An amazing haul of 28 flint hand axes, dated by archaeologists to be around 100,000 years old, have been unearthed in gravel from a licensed marine aggregate dredging area 13km off Great…

21st May 2012

Dredging Industry Assists Mammoth Discovery

21st May 2012

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Damen Dredging Equipment has handed over the split hopper dredger Omvac Diez to its owner Canlemar following successful sea trials.

21st May 2012

Dutch dredging equipment for Omvac Diez

21st May 2012

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Birse Civils has commenced its annual protection of Lincolnshire’s coastline and flood defence for the UK Environment Agency as part of its Lincshore 2010-2015 Framework Contract.

21st May 2012

Lincshore coastal protection dredging resumes

21st May 2012

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has expanded its useful series of free to download ‘Facts About’ PDFs with ‘Facts About Selecting a Destination for Dredged Material’.

21st May 2012

‘Facts About’ dredged material destination

21st May 2012

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Amsterdam based Niron Staal has secured orders for advanced equipment in its core markets of dredging and offshore to a value of some €2m.

21st May 2012

Signs of market recovery for Niron Staal

21st May 2012

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Volunteers at the Dutch National Museum of Dredging were presented with a supply of Damen fleece vests during the winter to support the outdoor activities of the Museum.

21st May 2012

Cold weather gear for museum volunteers

21st May 2012

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

International hydrographic cooperation in support of safe navigation is the theme chosen by the International Hydrographic Organization for this year’s UN World Hydrography Day on 21 June.

21st May 2012

World Hydrography Day

21st May 2012

MONITORING & CONTROL

MONITORING & CONTROL

Sealite has launched its next generation of the GSM Monitoring & Control System, which enables authorities to efficiently monitor the status of their AtoN assets via mobile phone and Sealite’s secure Online…

21st May 2012

Monitoring of AtoNs by mobile phone

21st May 2012

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

Aids to navigation specialist Tideland Signal has won a further order to supply eight of its SB-2200 polyethylene buoys complete with MaxLED-200 lanterns to the new LNG port at Soyo in the…

21st May 2012

Buoys and lanterns for Angola LNG Project

21st May 2012

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Ocean Safety’s Aberdeen depot is now fully operational, just one month after it opened, to service the growing demand for safety equipment from the expanding offshore renewables market.

21st May 2012

Renewables drive safety expansion

21st May 2012

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

(France - UK) Engineering software solutions provider Desktop Engineering (DTE), an accredited business partner of Dassault Systèmes, has created a new team that will focus on the marine and offshore sector, and…

21st May 2012

Desktop workboat design

21st May 2012

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

“The job of being a Harbour Master could, if you wanted it to, be really easy, said Captain Bob Baker, the new president of the UK Harbour Masters Association.

21st May 2012

Working at saying ‘yes’

21st May 2012

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Work on extending operational areas at the Port of Kiel’s Norwegenkai Terminal has now been completed.

21st May 2012

Kiel completes Norwegenkai expansion works

21st May 2012