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TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

David Gray Parrot, 65, founder and former chief of Titan Salvage, passed away on 15 February after a long and courageous battle with cancer.

13th October 2010

David Parrot, founder of Titan Salvage, passes away – by Jack Gaston

13th October 2010

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Following the recent influx of new tonnage, URS of Antwerp has sold the twin screw tug Holland to Russian operators.

13th October 2010

Towlines September 2010 – By Jack Gaston

13th October 2010

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Foss Maritime Company, the builder and operator of the worlds first true hybrid shiphandling tug, will soon add a second hybrid vessel to its Southern California fleet.

13th October 2010

Campbell Foss will become the next Foss ‘Hybrid’ – By Jack Gaston

13th October 2010

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

An extensive vessel replacement and fleet expansion programme initiated by the Crowley Maritime Corporation, the largest towage and Maritime Services Group in the USA, is continuing unabated.

13th October 2010

Crowley doubles the order for Ocean Class tugs – By Jack Gaston

13th October 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

METS, the world’s largest trade exhibition of equipment, materials and systems for the international marine leisure industry, returns to the Amsterdam RAI exhibition centre on 16 – 18 November.

13th October 2010

Get set for METS’ biggest show ever

13th October 2010

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

A global audience of well over 300 delegates is expected at Hydro 2010, the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies’ 17th biennial European hydrographic conference at Warnemünde on the Baltic coast from 2-5…

13th October 2010

Germany stages Hydro 2010

13th October 2010

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Pelydryn, the Welsh airborne Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) company headed by former UK national hydrographer Dr Wyn Williams, has completed two major surveys for the Irish INFOMAR (Integrated Mapping for the…

13th October 2010

Pelydryn completes Irish surveys

13th October 2010

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Evert Flier has been appointed director of the Norwegian Hydrographic Service in Stavanger, which is also responsible for administration of the international non-profit electronic nautical chart centre, Primar Stavanger.

13th October 2010

New Norwegian and UK hydrographers

13th October 2010

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Instrumentation specialist Valeport of Devon UK has teamed with Oceanscience in California to develop an underway sound velocity (SV) profiling system enabling surveyors to secure fast, high quality profiles without ever having…

13th October 2010

Valeport US venture

13th October 2010

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Yateley UK based Sonardyne has supplied SapuraAcergy of Kuala Lumpur with ranges of its new 6G (sixth generation) acoustic positioning systems for use in projects throughout South East Asia under a contract…

13th October 2010

£1m Malaysian order for latest Sonardyne systems

13th October 2010

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Baltic, a powerful new Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV), entered service on the Baltic coastline of Germany in July, shortly after being delivered by Astilleros Armon at Vigo in Spain.

12th October 2010

Baltic: An impressive new ETV for the German coast

12th October 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Construction has begun on the new Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth UK, 28 years to the day after the historic vessel was raised from its watery grave in the Solent.

12th October 2010

Work begins on Europe’s biggest new maritime museum

12th October 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Belgian dredging and marine civils contractor Jan De Nul says it is the lowest bidder for the construction of a new lock in Ivoz-Ramet on the river Meuse, upstream from Liège.

11th October 2010

Jan de Nul low bidder for lock on River Meuse

11th October 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Flood disasters in many parts of the world have brought into sharp focus new research spearheaded by the University of Leicester on the behaviour of rivers during periods of high flow. Using…

11th October 2010

Research examines sediment flow and behaviour of rivers

11th October 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Mott MacDonald in the UK has been appointed by the Rijkswaterstaat in The Netherlands to provide technical and spatial management for two Room for the River projects on the Rhine river basin.

11th October 2010

Mott MacDonald in ‘Room for the River’ project

11th October 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The board of directors of Antwerp Port Authority in Belgium has approved the long term financial plan (2011-2025), representing an amount of €1.6bn.

11th October 2010

Antwerp Port invests €1.6bn

11th October 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The Maasvlakte 2 Project Organisation in The Netherlands and the Next Generation Infrastructures Foundation (NGInfra) have announced the recent signing of a cooperation agreement for a period of five years under the…

11th October 2010

Maasvlakte 2 Project Organisation cooperation agreement

11th October 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

It has emerged that the cost of dredging and removing silt from the harbour at Dunmore East harbour at Waterford in Ireland will be some €6m, higher than originally hoped.

11th October 2010

Dunmore dredging made more costly by contamination

11th October 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Sean Connick TD, Ireland’s Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, has announced that funding has been approved for harbour development projects in local authority owned harbours under…

11th October 2010

Irish government provides funds for fishing harbours

11th October 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The annual SOLFIRE Search and Rescue Exercise took place in the UK’s Eastern Solent late last month and was successful for testing the contingency plans of the various emergency services which would…

11th October 2010

SOLFIRE exercise highlights rescue organisation cooperation

11th October 2010