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Marine exhaust system manufacturer Halyard won the first ever Wavestream Environmental Award for Distributor of the Year at last month’ s Southampton Boat Show. The award was given in recognition of Halyard’…

21st September 2009

Environmental award winner

21st September 2009

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LD Lines has entered into a new ship charter agreement with ferry operator Celtic Link Ferries which sees the former’ s vessel ‘ Norman Voyager’ operate under charter to the latter from…

21st September 2009

Ireland-France ferry

21st September 2009

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Careers at Sea website

21st September 2009

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Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) has been given the go ahead to build the first offshore wind farm to receive approval in the Netherlands for almost seven years. SSE’ s renewable energy…

21st September 2009

Dutch wind farm consent

21st September 2009

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Marine safety equipment manufacturer Viking has developed a new fixed price safety concept for shipowners. The Viking Shipowner Agreement’ s many options incorporate safety products, global servicing, single source management, and financing…

21st September 2009

Fixed price safety

21st September 2009

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In the four month period since launching its free downloadable online Almanac, Wiley Nautical has seen the useful marine information resource downloaded more than 18,000 times. The Almanac provides access to port,…

21st September 2009

Almanac hits download target

21st September 2009

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Solutions to the ferry industry’ 17 October.

17th September 2009

Interferry focus on challenges of change

17th September 2009

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It will soon be ‘ piracy season’ on the high seas off Somalia, points out this week&rsquo

17th September 2009

Piracy about to rise

17th September 2009

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

The order was secured with Group De Cloedt, in Belgium, for 1000m of HI Sprint 2000 inflation boom supplied on four hydraulic reels. The contract, worth more than €400,000, will be delivered…

13th September 2009

EC funds maritime pollution prevention project

13th September 2009

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

s latest mega-trailing suction hopper dredger Leiv Eiriksson was launched at the shipyard Construcciones Navales del Norte in Sestao in Spain on Friday.

10th September 2009

Leiv Eiriksson launched in Spain

10th September 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

category' , ' 1252581180329' , ' ); } return false; s new Compatt 5 Max subsea positioning transponders for deployment in BP’ s Skarv field offshore Norway, initially to provide precise positioning…

9th September 2009

New Sonardyne transponders for Subsea 7

9th September 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

SHOM, the French Navy’ s Hydrographic & Oceanographic Service in Brest, has commissioned 14 miniSVS sound velocity sensors and five miniSVT sound velocity with temperature sensors from Totnes UK based Valeport, which…

9th September 2009

French Navy orders Valeport systems

9th September 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Blom Bulgaria and Blom Aerofilms of Cheddar in the UK are to collaborate in major surveys of the Bulgarian Black Sea coastline using bathymetric laser scanning (Lidar) techniques in a project commissioned…

9th September 2009

Bulgarian coastline surveys

9th September 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The International Marine Contractors Association, which now has nearly 600 members in 52 countries, has updated its definitive handbook on digital video. The new version provides an understanding of the latest digital…

9th September 2009

updates digital video handbook

9th September 2009

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Swedish company Vattenfall is making steady progress with construction of the Thanet Offshore Wind Farm, with over half the foundation and transition pieces now installed and plans in place for the cable…

9th September 2009

Thanet on schedule

9th September 2009

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Van Oord has been awarded the contract for the engineering, procurement and construction of the first part of the Belwind offshore wind farm project.

9th September 2009

Van Oord to build wind farm off Belgium

9th September 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Aberaeron is a pretty Edwardian coastal harbour town on the west coast of mid-Wales that has recently been discovered by tourists. But unless a bid to stem the destructive effects that the…

9th September 2009

Rocky road brings relief to Aberaeron

9th September 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

There’ s an interesting development that quite literally seeks to build bridges between traditional maritime architecture and new materials.

9th September 2009

Serial production offers bridge to the future

9th September 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The main obstruction to the development of the Valletta Waterfront as a major cruise destination and homeport was a physical one, the old ro-ro ferry ramp which projected from the existing quay…

9th September 2009

Digging deep for Vallettas new quay

9th September 2009

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Software from SeaZone in the UK is being used to monitor the impact of dredging activities taking place as part of a major new port development project in the UK.

9th September 2009

SeaZone software supports dredge monitoring

9th September 2009