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HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

London’s ExCel is once more the venue for this year’s biennial Oceanology International event from 9-11 March.

25th February 2010

Oceanology International returns to London

25th February 2010

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Introduced in December, Admiralty E-Navigator is the UK Hydrographic Office’s new integrated digital catalogue, product viewer and passage planning aid for organising, updating and consolidating all paper and digital information needed for…

25th February 2010

Admiralty E-Navigator introduced

25th February 2010

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Now in its 20th year for construction of specialist power catamarans, Cheetah Marine of Ventnor on the UK’s Isle of Wight reports the commissioning of two new hydrographic survey vessels by Heuvelman…

25th February 2010

Cheetah catamarans for Dutch and UK customers

25th February 2010

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Fugro Survey’s first new geophysical survey vessel since the early 1980s, ‘Fugro Searcher’, has been launched in readiness for sea trials before beginning service in March.

25th February 2010

New Fugro survey vessel launched

25th February 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Britains last steam tug-tender, ‘Daniel Adamson’, has got the crucial go ahead to operate from Liverpool Cruise Liner Terminal.

25th February 2010

Lottery funding for restoration of historic tug-tender

25th February 2010

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Leisure and commercial boaters could soon benefit from more accurate depth information, thanks to a research and development project awarded to a European consortium.

25th February 2010

Community sourced positioning project for Europe

25th February 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Multraship Salvage and SVITZER Salvage have refloated the Russian flag cargo ship Irtysh 1 after it had ran aground on the rocky coastline off the Bulgarian Black Sea coast near Bourgas.

25th February 2010

Black Sea base delivers successful salvage

25th February 2010

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Marine energy will be ready for mass scale deployment and an important new commercial UK industry by 2020 said the Carbon Trust earlier this month.

18th February 2010

£22m of new funding for wave and tidal energy

18th February 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

A TITAN Salvage team is working in Haiti to remove navigational hazards following the devastating earthquake, including the collapsed Washington gantry crane, in Port-au-Prince for the U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), in an…

18th February 2010

Salvors remove navigational hazards in Haiti

18th February 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Local German authorities have completed the deepening of a 23.7km stretch of the northern Peene River to allow bigger ships to reach Wolgast.

18th February 2010

Peene deepening opens access for bigger ships

18th February 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Two scientists based in Brighton on the south coast of the UK and a Franco-British partnership have been awarded €5 million to find safe disposal methods for dredged marine sediments.

11th February 2010

Scientists awarded €5m for dredging research – by David Foxwell

11th February 2010

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The German North Sea port of Cuxhaven has completed the construction and installation of two new flood barriers which together cost €19m and are the hub of flood defences costing the city…

11th February 2010

Cuxhaven gets new flood defence barriers

11th February 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

UK Transport group Stagecoach trialled an innovative amphibious bus which can operate on both water and roads on the River Clyde on Monday.

11th February 2010

‘Amfibus’ trialled on River Clyde

11th February 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

HMS Illustrious arrived at Rosyth on Monday in preparation for a 13 month docking period to start next month, in a £40m contract awarded under the Surface Ship Support Alliance (the alliance…

11th February 2010

An Illustrious refit for Royal Navy flagship

11th February 2010

MONITORING & CONTROL

MONITORING & CONTROL

A new bathymetric survey of the Corsican coastline has been commissioned to provide detailed information about ongoing coastal erosion on the Mediterranean island as well as to assess the impact of manmade…

4th February 2010

LiDAR monitors Corsican coastal erosion

4th February 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The European Commission gave its green light last week for public financing from France and Spain to the Fres Mos project. It will link the French port of Nantes-Saint Nazaire with the…

4th February 2010

Funding for ‘Motorways of the Sea’

4th February 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Belgian dredging giant Jan De Nul continued its major fleet expansion on Saturday with the launch of the cutter suction dredger Zheng He at the Uljanik Brodogradiliste d.d. Shipyard in Pula, Croatia.

4th February 2010

Jan De Nul launches ‘Zheng He’ in Croatia

4th February 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Five years after Volvo Penta’s Inboard Performance System (IPS) was launched, Estonian shipyard Baltic Workboats will design and build a 16m fast pilot boat equipped with twin IPS1050 units.

4th February 2010

Workboats breakthrough for IPS propulsion system

4th February 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Some 1,200 tons of Pulverised Fuel Ash (PFA) from Yorkshire’s Drax Power Station in the UK was carried for its entire journey by water freight late last month in a trial which…

4th February 2010

Successful inland shipping trial on Ouse

4th February 2010

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

UK gas safety charity, The CORGI Trust, and The Port of Liverpool Police force were recently urging foreign vessel crew members arriving into UK ports, and all personnel working on vessels, to…

29th January 2010

Carbon monoxide poisoning awareness urged

29th January 2010