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The authorities in Abu Dhabi are reportedly on track to complete by US$409m project to construct a channel that will improve access to the Mussafah industrial zone by the middle of 2010.

11th March 2010

Abu Dhabi ‘on track’ with Mussafah dredging

11th March 2010

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DHI in Denmark says it believes its MIKE hydrodynamic modelling software has a key role to play in dredging operations where there may be contaminated sediment.

11th March 2010

DHI sees key role for modelling software

11th March 2010

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PORTS & HARBOURS

Jan de Nuls new mining and fallpipe vessel ‘Simon Stevin’ has departed for Australia for its first two rock dumping projects; a free span correction on the Pluto pipeline in 80m of…

11th March 2010

‘Simon Stevin’ to start work offshore Australia

11th March 2010

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The Belgian Jan De Nul Group has signed a contract for the deepening of Umm Qasr Port in the southernmost tip of Iraq, near the border with Kuwait. The port is Iraq’s…

11th March 2010

Jan De Nul Group awarded dredging project in Iraq

11th March 2010

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PORTS & HARBOURS

The £1.2m Stanah Sea Defences project for the Environment Agency (EA) in the UK has been awarded a Project Excellence Award for ‘Health and Safety/Managing Environmental Risk’.

11th March 2010

Birse Civils collect award for Stanah sea defences

11th March 2010

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Although aspects of the project are still subject to review, dredging work for the London Gateway port project is to get under way in March, according to the dredging contractor who will…

11th March 2010

London Gateway dredging about to get under way

11th March 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The first phase of the Felixstowe South Reconfiguration (FSR) is almost complete, apart from the land-side works, and all the various dredgers, hopper barges, survey vessels and ancillary craft have now left…

11th March 2010

Band of workboats depart Felixstowe

11th March 2010

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KEY DEALS

The second of two 49.35m SWATH ships for German Customs has entered service after completion at the Nordseewerke Shipyard in Emden.

11th March 2010

Borkum completes German Customs SWATH duo

11th March 2010

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KEY DEALS

A project to map offshore renewable energy potential around the coast of South West England was announced last week.

11th March 2010

Marine power mapping project to proceed

11th March 2010

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KEY DEALS

The Marine (Scotland) Bill (the Scottish Bill) is now at stage three of the parliamentary process, writes Rosie O’Donnell, an Associate in the Shipping Transport team of Brodies LLP, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

4th March 2010

Dredging exemptions to Marine (Scotland) Bill?

4th March 2010

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Dutch cartographers face the task of redrawing their maps of Holland due to the country growing in size by a few square kilometres. The Maasvlakte 2 port expansion project in Rotterdam has…

4th March 2010

Dutch coastline redrawn as Maasvlakte 2 takes shape – by Peter Barker

4th March 2010

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PORTS & HARBOURS

Great Yarmouths new outer harbour at EastPort UK opened last month with global port group PSA International, grain business Gleadell Agricultural Ltd, and crushed rock supplier Stema Shipping (UK) Ltd all in…

4th March 2010

£80m outer harbour at Great Yarmouth opens

4th March 2010

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) and the Community of European Shipyards Association (CESA) are calling on Europe to support new vessel builds to serve the expanding offshore wind energy market over…

4th March 2010

Call for offshore wind farm workboat funding

4th March 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Two years of work on bolstering flood defences on the East Frisian island of Baltrum have ended with German authorities saying the €9m project has now closed the last gap in the…

4th March 2010

New defences safeguard Baltrum against floods

4th March 2010

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

SeaEnergy PLC subsidiary SeaEnergy Renewables was named Company of the Year at the Rosenblatt New Energy Awards 2010, which took place at the Natural History Museum in London last week.

4th March 2010

New energy award for ‘Beatrice’ developer

4th March 2010

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Two brothers and former Royal Marines who are planning an ocean challenge fundraiser in support of The Parkinsons Disease Society move closer to departure with the scheduled delivery of their boat this…

4th March 2010

Brothers get closer to Parkinsons Ocean Challenge

4th March 2010

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PORTS & HARBOURS

Work is underway on a project to rescue an ageing quay structure that is essential to the future of a regional fishing industry.

26th February 2010

Multi-million pound rescue for Western Quay

26th February 2010

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PORTS & HARBOURS

The latest specialist watertight sealing solution delivered by Dutch specialist Beele Engineering involves the immersion tunnel near the South Korean city of Busan that is being immersed by Mergor, a subsidiary of…

25th February 2010

Dutch seal a deal in South Korea

25th February 2010

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

The International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA) has moved quickly to dispel the apparent confusion currently surrounding implementation of the EU directive requiring all ships to use low-sulphur fuel while at berth in…

25th February 2010

EU low-sulphur directive now being enforced

25th February 2010

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

The Copenhagen climate change summit failed to reach a legally binding agreement, and instead merely took a ‘decision to note’ a non-binding accord, reports UK law firm Clyde & Co LLP. The…

25th February 2010

Copenhagen silence on marine pollution

25th February 2010