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PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

DEME in Belgium says it currently has a total of six cutter suction dredgers working together in Abu Dhabi on the Ruwais site for Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC).

15th July 2010

Six cutter suction dredgers at work on ADNOC project

15th July 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

DHI Group in Denmark says it recently completed the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for what will be the world’s largest wind farm when completed.

15th July 2010

EIA for world’s largest windfarm completed

15th July 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

UK based Eredene Capital Plc has won a bid to build and operate the container terminal at Ennore Port in Tamil Nadu in India. The estimated project cost of the Ennore Container…

15th July 2010

Eredene Capital wins Indian project

15th July 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

PD Ports has announced that it will channel significant investment into the first phase of expansion plans at Teesport in the UK, which will potentially involve some £29m of total investment.

15th July 2010

PD Ports confirms investment in Teesport

15th July 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The South African Institution of Civil Engineering at Durban in South Africa has awarded Mott MacDonald of the UK its ‘Most Outstanding Civil Engineering Project Award’ for the widening of the entrance…

15th July 2010

Durban Harbour project wins award

15th July 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Belgian dredging company DEME and Dutch dredging company Boskalis have been awarded an important contract in Mexico.

15th July 2010

DEME/Boskalis joint venture wins work in Mexico

15th July 2010

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

On 17 May delegates and visitors to the ITS 2010 Tug & Salvage Convention in Vancouver awoke to find the first prototype BRAtt training tug moored outside the Westin Bayshore Hotel.

15th July 2010

The BRAtt has arrived in style!

15th July 2010

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Sinbad Marine Services, based in Killybegs, Co. Donegal, has just taken delivery of yet another new catamaran built by local boatyard Mooney Boats Ltd. This is the third catamaran built by Mooney…

15th July 2010

Third catamaran for Sinbad Marine Services

15th July 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Concerns that a new well head cap placed by BP on its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico could fail continue to delay testing.

15th July 2010

BP wellhead efforts hoping for closure

15th July 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society in the UK is calling on schools to take a Challenge and go walk about, at the same time as raising money for a good cause.

15th July 2010

Schools take up the Challenge for mariners’ charity

15th July 2010

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The arrival of new purpose built tugs for what used to be referred to as the Thames ‘lighterage’ industry is an extremely rare occurrence.

14th July 2010

Cory Riverside modernise Thames tug fleet – By Jack Gaston

14th July 2010

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Sanmar Denizcilik Makine ve Ticaret Ltd, the Turkish tug owner and shipbuilder, has delivered three tugs to the Lamnalco Group.

13th July 2010

Sanmar deliver three specially adapted tugs to Lamnalco – by Jack Gaston

13th July 2010

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Development in the towage sector continues to move on relentlessly. Just when it seems that every avenue in hull and propulsion design has been explored, yet another concept emerges.

12th July 2010

Robert Allan and Voith introduce the RAVE – by Jack Gaston

12th July 2010

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Another announcement to delegates and the technical press at ITS 2010 highlighted the signing of a Letter of Intent by marine propulsion specialists Wärtsilä and Canadian ship design company Robert Allan Ltd…

9th July 2010

Wärtsilä and Robert Allan Ltd to cooperate – by Jack Gaston

9th July 2010

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Recently formed ALP Maritime Services BV of Rotterdam has set up a joint venture with Harms Bergung, Transport und Heavylift Gmbh & Co. KG. Hamburg based Harms has been active in the…

8th July 2010

TOWLINES July 2010 – by Jack Gaston

8th July 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

SeaEnergy PLC say that its 80% subsidiary SeaEnergy Renewables Ltd (SERL) and Chinese company Nantong COSCO Ship Steel Structure Co. Ltd (NCSC) have signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement (SCA).

8th July 2010

Chinese giant blows into Scotland

8th July 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

New editions of two ISO standards on marine fuels have been developed to meet higher international requirements for air quality, ship safety, engine performance and crew health.

8th July 2010

New ISO standards to improve marine fuels

8th July 2010

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

The first of a new generation of tidal powered generators designed and built in the shipyards of Sunderland UK has set sail.

8th July 2010

Tidal power regenerates Sunderland shipyards

8th July 2010

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Delegates travelling to the International Tug & Salvage Convention and Exhibition ITS 2010 in May did so looking forward to this biennial event and what the host city of Vancouver, with its’…

6th July 2010

ITS 2010 Vancouver

6th July 2010

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The Neva escort tug being built by the Almaz Shipbuilding Company in St Petersburg is to be a universal emergency vessel for St Petersburg’s ecological services department. The Ice Class vessel will…

6th July 2010

Ice class tug gets warm bath for cold weather

6th July 2010