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OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Swedish energy company Vattenfall has revealed details of its plans to extend the Kentish Flats offshore wind farm as it consults the local community and prepares the Statement of Community Consultation document.

17th March 2011

Consultation for Kentish Flats extension

17th March 2011

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The University of Rostock will soon take delivery of a €150,000 multi-purpose research boat, which will join a refurbished research cutter in biological research and training duties in the Baltic.

17th March 2011

New research boat for university

17th March 2011

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

At last years Seawork, Red7 Marine bought a tug off the shelf from Damen. This year the East Anglia based marine construction and subsea group are displaying their own tug, under the…

17th March 2011

Joint project tug on show at Seawork

17th March 2011

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Hansestadt Rostock, the fourth and biggest passenger ferry in service with Rostock excursion operator Dieter Schütt, has gone into operation on the Warnow River in eastern Germany.

17th March 2011

Another Rhine ferry for Warnow River

17th March 2011

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

In the past, marine licenses were often delayed by the necessity for the physical receipt and passing on of a number of pieces of paper, which often created log-jams in a complex…

17th March 2011

Getting rid of the paper log jams

17th March 2011

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

A well known training company has said that the need for product specific ECDIS training is becoming clearer as unskilled operators may even be increasing the possibility of incidents.

16th March 2011

Lack of skills may be increasing risk

16th March 2011

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

In only 90 days, Tideland Signal Limited has manufactured and supplied a total of 84 polyethylene buoys to guide navigation in a newly dredged 63.5km channel.

15th March 2011

Navigation buoys for Abu Dhabi’s channel

15th March 2011

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

FLAGSHIP, a part EU funded maritime transport project, has successfully delivered the first advanced emergency situation management tool for fire and flooding with integrated ship to shore real time reporting.

14th March 2011

An emergency management tool FLAGSHIP

14th March 2011

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Kongsberg Maritimes simulation division and Norway’s Vestfold University College have signed a framework agreement to further explore projects of joint interest for research and development of maritime simulators.

14th March 2011

The human touch for maritime simulators

14th March 2011

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Lifeboat manufacturer and service provider Schat-Harding has said that IMO and some parts of the shipping industry need to move more quickly towards a consensus on vital lifeboat safety issues.

14th March 2011

Call for consensus on lifeboat hooks

14th March 2011

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Workers at the A&P Group in the UK have secured the impressive sum of £9,000 for charity, simply by working safely on site.

14th March 2011

Safety first for A&P benefits charity

14th March 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

PD Ports has commenced the ground works at its Teesport container handling facilities on the North East coast, as part of a multi-million pound expansion project.

14th March 2011

PD ports starts work on Teesport facilities

14th March 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Port of Rotterdam Authority in the Netherlands says around 190m cu/m of sand has now been put in place for the project to form new land which will be protected on…

14th March 2011

Soft sea defence take shape at Maasvlakte 2

14th March 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) has developed a free tool for those marine conservation planners that are running Marxan software in parallel with ESRI ArcGIS 10, the latest upgrade of the…

14th March 2011

ABPmer develops too for marine planners

14th March 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Forth Ports Plc has confirmed that Kirkcaldy Harbour in the UK is to reopen to cargo vessels after more than two decades out of use.

14th March 2011

Kirkcaldy Harbour to re-open

14th March 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Maintenance dredging of the visitor berths at Sparkes Marina on the south coast of the UK got under way early in March.

14th March 2011

Maintenance dredging enhances marina

14th March 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Van Oord in the Netherlands has confirmed that it has signed a contract with the Ministry of Transport of Azerbaijan for the new Baku International Sea Trade Port in the Alat settlement…

14th March 2011

Van Oord wins contract in Azerbaijan

14th March 2011

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Mott MacDonald is playing an ongoing role in a project to help manage and protect the coast of Felixstowe in the UK from coastal erosion. The client for the project is Suffolk…

14th March 2011

Ongoing role for Mott MacDonald at Felixstowe

14th March 2011

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Classification society Det Norske Veritas (DNV) has recently published a Joint Industry Project (JIP) report into offshore wind turbine foundation structures.

10th March 2011

Foundation designs under the spotlight

10th March 2011

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The Goliath crane ordered by Babcock for the final assembly of Britain’s new Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers at Rosyth arrived at the dockyard last week.

10th March 2011

UK’s largest crane arrives at Rosyth

10th March 2011