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ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

A German containership en route to the Caribbean suffered a serious collision while transiting the North Sea, damaging steering gear and causing a leak which measured the height of the port side…

29th September 2011

Emergency winch department to the rescue

29th September 2011

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

A new company with an impressive production floor has been officially launched.

29th September 2011

Bigger is better for winch manufacturer

29th September 2011

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Certex UK customers now have access to one of the largest test benches in Northern Europe, thanks to new equipment installed recently in Denmark.

29th September 2011

Denmark’s big lift for Northern Europe

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Dutch company Van Oord has proposed construction of an artificial island in the Caspian Sea near the resort of Avaz in Turkmenistan, as its area manager Johannes Hafkenscheid said in an interview…

29th September 2011

Artificial island proposed for Turkmenistan

29th September 2011

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Markey Machinery introduced its new line of innovative Abandonment and Recovery (A&R) winches in time for the 2011 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC).

29th September 2011

Abandonment & Recovery winches range launched

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A network of coastal tidal and wave monitoring stations maintained by EMU Limited recorded the progress of the waves caused by a minor tsunami along the south coast of the UK at…

29th September 2011

Minor tsunami monitored off UK coast

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The first ever floating jetty project on England’s Lake Windermere has been completed by Falmouth based Marine Designs Ltd, part of the A&P Group.

29th September 2011

First floating jetty for Lake Windermere

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Hamburg based port and logistics group Buss has processed the first cargo ship at its newly acquired multi-purpose Orange Blue Terminal in the Dutch North Sea deepwater port of Eemshaven.

29th September 2011

Capacity expansion at strategic terminal

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The final construction countdown has begun at the JadeWeser Port (JWP) container terminal in Wilhelmshaven, now due on stream in a year, but rail link development could be delayed.

29th September 2011

Countdown rolls for Germany’s JWP terminal

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Royal Boskalis Westminster has won a contract for the construction of a new port terminal TX2 at Superporto do Açu in Brazil.

29th September 2011

Boskalis acquires € 200m port contract

29th September 2011

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Following the great success of the two previous Tugnology conferences, delegates are eagerly awaiting Tugnology ‘11, to be held in the Antwerp Hilton on 17 and 18 May.

29th September 2011

Antwerp hosts Tugnology ‘11 next month

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Royal Boskalis Westminster in The Netherlands has been selected by Chatham Rock Phosphate Limited (CRP) to undertake the detailed design of its offshore rock phosphate nodule project at Chatham Rise.

29th September 2011

Boskalis wins contract for seabed mining deal

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Visualisation work undertaken by ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) in association with Archipelago is being used to engage with local communities and visitors to the Dorset coast about coastal change.

29th September 2011

ABPMer helps visualise coastal changes

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A significant grant from the European Fisheries Fund (EFF) is being used towards the regeneration of Southwold Harbour on the coast of Suffolk in the UK.

29th September 2011

Grant funded harbour work gets underway

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Construction of Maasvlakte 2, the massive expansion of the Port of Rotterdam, is proceeding according to schedule, says the port.

29th September 2011

Maasvlakte project on schedule

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Dutch dredging and marine contractor Van Oord has been awarded a contract for the infield cabling and cable burial of the DanTysk offshore wind farm project 70km off Sylt, Germany.

29th September 2011

Van Oord wins infield cable project

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Van Oord in The Netherlands reports that the new Marine Facade passenger terminal on Vasilyevsky Island in St Petersburg, Russia is now up and running. The new passenger terminal will receive cruise…

29th September 2011

Dutch dredge for St Petersburg terminal

29th September 2011

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The UK Hydrographic Office, which is presently seeking buyers for its German SevenCs and ChartWorld subsidiaries with a combined turnover of €5m, is to open its first overseas office in Singapore.

29th September 2011

UKHO heads for Singapore

29th September 2011

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

International Transport Contractors (ITC), a member of the Tschudi Group, based in the Netherlands has sold two of their traditional ‘S-Wind’ class ocean going deepsea tugs.

29th September 2011

ITC sell the oceangoing tugs Suhaili and Simoon

29th September 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A major dredging operation is underway at the Port of Tyne UK to deepen the river to accommodate even bigger ships at the Port’s multi-functional berth, Riverside Quay.

29th September 2011

Dredging takes Port of Tyne supersize

29th September 2011