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SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

Underwater lifting bag and buoyancy specialists JW Automarine will be celebrating 40 years in the business at Seawork 2012.

15th March 2012

Celebrating 40 years at Seawork 2012

15th March 2012

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

Following on from a highly successful Seawork 2011, where it confirmed orders for more than £28m worth of wind farm support vessels, market leader South Boats will bring four newbuilds to the…

14th March 2012

South Boats brings four to Seawork pontoon

14th March 2012

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Vestas’ plans to build a wind turbine manufacturing facility at the UK port of Sheerness have moved a step closer with submission of a planning application to Swale Borough Council.

14th March 2012

Turbine production at Sheerness moves closer

14th March 2012

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A Damen Fast Crew Supplier 1605 will be built for the first time in Ecuador by Astilleros Navales Ecuatorianos (Astinave) shipyard.

14th March 2012

Damen supplier built in Ecuador

14th March 2012

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Marine Software Ltd is supplying Marine Planned Maintenance software to Briggs Marine Contractors, to include 18 vessels and separate shore side maintenance equipment.

14th March 2012

Marine Planned Maintenance

14th March 2012

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London headquartered, employee owned marine engineering company Houlder has been shortlisted for a National Council for Work Experience (NCWE) Work Placement of the Year Award.

13th March 2012

Award Shortlist

13th March 2012

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Norway based E-navigation company NAVTOR has announced what it claims is a market first, with the launch of its ‘Pay As You Sail’ (PAYS) DNV approved NAVTOR ENC Service.

13th March 2012

Pay as you sail

13th March 2012

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Finland’s Boomeranger Boats has won a European tender to deliver three high speed RIB’s to Malta armed forces.

13th March 2012

RIBs for Malta

13th March 2012

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The Maritime Environmental Protection Committee of the United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO) has granted Siemens Final Approval for its Sicure ballast water management system.

13th March 2012

Balast water approval

13th March 2012

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Damen Shipyards Gorinchem and Afai Southern Shipyard in China have been contracted to build a 35 m ferry for Liuzhou Yinliu Hotel Management.

13th March 2012

Chinese ferry for Damen

13th March 2012

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An interim report on the Rena cargo ship grounding has revealed that the crew may have been taking a short cut which caused the incident.

12th March 2012

Rena report reveals short cut

12th March 2012

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The UK’s Delta Power Group is delivering its second batch of RIBs to the Irish Coastguard shortly as part of a total fleet upgrade.

9th March 2012

Delta power Irish Coastguard

9th March 2012

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Offshore Marine Management (OMM) has completed a GIS-based data study for the first stage of Forewind’s planned Round 3 Dogger Bank offshore wind farm development.

9th March 2012

GIS cuts cost

9th March 2012

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Netherlands based engineering consultancies DHV and Royal Haskoning have announce their intention to merge.

9th March 2012

DHV and Haskoning merge

9th March 2012

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The development of a new software tool to help in the fight against substandard shipping has begun under the auspices of the SafeMed II Project.

9th March 2012

SafeMed software tool

9th March 2012

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Port based businesses in the UK facing unfair and unexpected backdated business rates bills can breathe a sigh of relief, Local Government Minister Bob Neill said last month.

8th March 2012

Port rates fiasco finally brought to an end

8th March 2012

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HRH The Princess Royal officially opened Macduff Ship Design’s new office in Scotland last week.

8th March 2012

Royal launch for Macduff’s new design office

8th March 2012

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More than a dozen marine businesses in Cornwall UK have boosted their workforce through Cornwall Marine Network’s unique Apprenticeship Scheme.

8th March 2012

Apprenticeship scheme

8th March 2012

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DP World chairman Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem visited London Gateway late last month, the UK’s new deepwater container port and what will become Europe’s largest logistics park.

7th March 2012

First quaywall revealed at London Gateway

7th March 2012

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The training course Environmental Aspects of Dredging will next be presented in Delft, The Netherlands on 19 and 20 April 2012, organised by the Postgraduate Academic Programme of the Delft University of…

7th March 2012

Dredging training course

7th March 2012