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DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Long reach excavator specialist WM Plant Hire is using its 95 ton CAT 375 for a challenging marine project on London’ s River Thames.

13th July 2009

High precision maintenance dredging on the Thames

13th July 2009

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

The Ö resundsvarvet ship repair yard at Landskrona in Sweden has announced plans for expansion of its docking capacity. This follows on from recent investment in new equipment in its workshops.

13th July 2009

Busy Swedish yard plans expansion

13th July 2009

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

MGDuff, the Chichester based cathodic protection company, has relocated its foundry operation to a new, purpose built facility next to their head office and depot.

13th July 2009

A new foundry and hydrodynamic anodes

13th July 2009

MONITORING & CONTROL

MONITORING & CONTROL

Thermal imaging technology means that   Sweden’ s navy and coastguard service can now detect and read at distance, the name of a ship in total darkness, making the checking of potential…

10th July 2009

Thermal imaging monitor Swedens coast

10th July 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

A winch drive system that can make anchoring and mooring that bit smoother has been launched by ABB.

10th July 2009

Intelligent winch drive is smooth on the pull

10th July 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Trelleborg has had a hand in extending the life of new pilot boats for the UK Port of Harwich well before the pair is due to hit the water. The vessels, being…

10th July 2009

Effective fendering for longer life pilot boats

10th July 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

LC Volgo-Baltic Logistic (VBL), one of Russia’ s biggest freight agencies, has signed an exclusive agreement with Dutch heavy lift shipping company Jumbo Shipping. Jumbo Shipping has appointed VBL as its exclusive…

10th July 2009

Jumbo goes supersize in Russia

10th July 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Versatility is what Seaclear’ s new owner, the Cowes Harbour Commission (CHC), wanted from its new 16m multicat type workboat, the first to be built by Southampton Marine Services. The newly completed…

10th July 2009

Seaclear gains from a versatile crane

10th July 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Self sufficiency is becoming more and more important for wind farm support vessels - especially as wind farm sites are getting ever more distant, with soon to be allocated UK Round 3…

10th July 2009

WSV cranes cannot be an afterthought

10th July 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The UK Hydrographic Office marked World Hydrography Day on 17 June with a formal reception aboard HQS Wellington, headquarters of the Company of Master Mariners on the River Thames in London. The…

10th July 2009

UKHO World Hydrography Day Celebration

10th July 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Falmouth UK based Coastline Surveys announced at last month’ s Seawork Exhibition that it has been awarded a second two year contract by Cardiff Harbour Authority for surveys of Europe’ s largest…

10th July 2009

Cardiff Bay project for Coastline Surveys

10th July 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Also featured at Seawork was the HydroLite TM, a new portable wireless hydrographic survey system from Ohmex of Sway, near Southampton. Easily assembled and dismantled, it was originally developed for US Army…

10th July 2009

New Ohmex development

10th July 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Tenix LADS, the Australian global supplier of airborne hydrographic services using laser technology to measure water depths, is to be acquired by the Dutch survey combine, Fugro, in a deal expected to…

10th July 2009

Fugro to acquire Tenix LADS

10th July 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Danish contractor Per Aarsleff has been installing one of its longest combination steel pile retaining walls ever for the extension to the container terminal in the Port of Muuga on the Gulf…

10th July 2009

Terminal extension underway in the Port of Muuga

10th July 2009

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

John Deere engines supplied by Seawork exhibitor E.P. Barrus have been specified to power a fleet of five new, specially designed harbour patrol launches for The Port of London Authority (PLA).

10th July 2009

Power planning for PLA patrol launches

10th July 2009

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

During this year' s Pentecost weekend the MS Stadt Kiel e.V. Society celebrated the 75th anniversary of its famous ferry boat with a big ‘ open ship’ event at Kiel' s jetty…

10th July 2009

55 years running from the same engine

10th July 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The appearance of the twin screw tug SD Jupiter at Seawork was noteworthy for a number of reasons. Jupiter is the last of three almost identical tugs to be delivered by Damen…

10th July 2009

The new Serco Denholm tug fleet is rapidly taking shape

10th July 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

In spite of decades of experience and improvements to conventional screw powered tugs, reports of vessels being capsized while towing still occur with depressing regularity. Two such incidents occurred within days of…

10th July 2009

Two tugs capsize and sink within days of each other

10th July 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Smit Panther, the first example of Damen’ s new ASD Tug 3213 design, is en route to its homeport of Rotterdam. The tug is one of a series of four powerful terminal…

10th July 2009

Smit Panther heads for home

10th July 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Many tug companies around the world are turning to ‘ shore power’ to economise on fuel and cut exhaust emissions when their shiphandling tugs are not in use and/or standing by.

10th July 2009

Tugowners turn to shore power to cut costs and emissions

10th July 2009