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DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Van Oord has been awarded two project contracts to reinforce coastal defences in The Netherlands. The first project involves sand replenishment along the coast in the Voorne region, where trailing suction hopper…

30th July 2009

Coastal defence projects for Van Oord

30th July 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Radio communication specialist, Northwest Radio has devised an intelligent radio system to assist in the management of vessel traffic in the busy port of Liverpool.

30th July 2009

Expanded VTS for Port of Liverpool

30th July 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

' A major step towards creating a compliant digital service that not only fulfils the requirements of the mariner, but assists them during the transition towards the proposed ECDIS mandation that comes…

30th July 2009

AVCS on ECDIS ensures digital future

30th July 2009

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Exeter UK based Lyme Boats has come a long way over the last two years, delivering a series of GRP pilot boats whilst also developing its aluminium workboat range.

30th July 2009

Clever Sea Weasel burrows into wind farm world

30th July 2009

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

The expanding market for offshore windfarm support services in Europe was further evidenced by the collection of windfarm support vessels (WSVs) on the pontoon at Seawork last month.

30th July 2009

ABC Excels at Seawork

30th July 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

After extensive testing, the IMO (International Maritime Organisation) has approved the Orion Inertial Navigation System (INS), manufactured by Teledyne TSS Ltd, as meeting the performance standards required by gyrocompasses used for commercial…

29th July 2009

Orion INS receives IMO approval

29th July 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Adventure diver Ben Burville recently trialled Tritech’ s StarFish sidescan sonar off the UK’ s North East coast. Testing its performance, he scanned the seabed at the wreck site of the cargo…

28th July 2009

Diver delights in tiny sidescan

28th July 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The SPE Offshore Europe 2009 oil and gas conference and exhibition, which takes place in Aberdeen UK on 8 – 11 September, is on course to be the largest in the event’…

27th July 2009

Deep well of support for Offshore Europe 2009

27th July 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Swedish hydro survey operator MMT AB has recently completed a refurbishment project that   allows the company to offer coastal high resolution surveys in shallow waters.

27th July 2009

Swedes refurbish shallow water survey boat

27th July 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Germany’ s sea rescue service DGzRS has put the second of a new class of rescue cruisers into operation in the Baltic.

27th July 2009

New German rescue class gets second addition

27th July 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Wind Force 1, billed as the first German flag offshore catamaran, has gone into service supplying and maintaining the North Sea Wind Park.

27th July 2009

Germanys first offshore cat in service

27th July 2009

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

South West England’ s ambition to be a global centre for harnessing energy from the sea received a major boost last month with the announcement of a £ 10.3 million investment in…

25th July 2009

£10m boost for marine energy research

25th July 2009

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

A& P Falmouth in the UK has joined an elite group of just 23 companies in Cornwall to gain membership of Beacon South West, an initiative which encourages companies with a proven…

25th July 2009

Repair yard a Beacon for economic growth

25th July 2009

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

In these difficult financial times, it is worth remembering that full insurance cover is essential if liability for these risks is to be properly covered, writes John Sharp, partner at Browne Jacobson…

25th July 2009

Tug winch failure required full protection

25th July 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The International Dynamic Positioning Operators Association (IDPOA) was launched in London recently at the inaugural European Dynamic Positioning Conference. The new not for profit professional body provides a representative voice to the…

23rd July 2009

Dynamic positioning association

23rd July 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Resurgent UK shipyard Cammell Laird Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders is celebrating being crowned ‘ Business of the Year’ at the prestigious Liverpool Daily Post Business Awards. The shipyard had its most successful year…

23rd July 2009

Cammell takes award

23rd July 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Maritime safety website Maritime Accident Casebook is now offering free safety sites to its corporate and organisational subscribers. Called SafeWork, the sites will enable subscribers to build targeted safety resources to meet…

23rd July 2009

SafeWork websites launched

23rd July 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Southampton UK based GRP and FRP moulder Composite Mouldings Ltd (CML) has won an order to build mouldings for the Lochin 333 Harbour Pilot to be delivered to Plymouth. The order adds…

23rd July 2009

A pilots mouldings

23rd July 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Scientists at America’ s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have demonstrated that tsunamis in the open ocean can change sea surface texture in a way that can be measured by satellite-borne…

23rd July 2009

Satellites site tsunamis

23rd July 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Sweden’ s Saab TransponderTech AB has been awarded a contract from the Romanian Naval Authority to upgrade and expand the country’ s AIS network along the Black Sea coast. Under the contract,…

23rd July 2009

A job for Saab

23rd July 2009