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ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Reading about the huge numbers of platform supply vessels and anchor handling tugs on order for Bourbon Offshore is impressive. Actually seeing the production process is awe inspiring. On a recent visit…

1st June 2009

Bourbon takes Liberty with serial production

1st June 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Climate change is a reality that will have an effect on us for years to come. Controversial as it seems, the reduction of the Arctic ice has made changes that will make…

1st June 2009

Cold weather cable a flexible friend

1st June 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Ship and workboat equipment gets a bashing. If it isn' t physically banged around during docking, towing or unloading, the salt water corrosion alone would finish any less than tough pieces of…

1st June 2009

The big chill is hot stuff for deck equipment

1st June 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Jumbo’ s Shipping’ s 2008 built heavy lift vessel MV Fairplayer successfully loaded several major heavy lifts in Belgium’ s Port of Antwerp last month.

1st June 2009

Antwerp sends a Jumbo lift to Texas

1st June 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

One of the most difficult problems to overcome in installing a bespoke 200 ton SWL replacement anchor mooring winch onto the FPSO Anasuria was simply getting it to fit into the existing…

1st June 2009

In situ winch replacement needs an ACE of space

1st June 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Workboats are now having to operate further and further from shore, often in either deeper or simply more difficult conditions as all kinds of energy markets open up, from geo-exploration further into…

1st June 2009

Electrically driven high power AHTWs due

1st June 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Tyneside UK based Solar Solve Marine didn’ t need a pilot cutter to guide them to this order for five of their well known Solasafe anti glare roller sunscreens. However, they ended…

1st June 2009

Glare free working for new pilot cutter

1st June 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Lifting capacity is critical for the new generation of pipelay vessels and will be well considered in the design office of Netherlands based Ulstein Sea of Solutions, which has been awarded the…

1st June 2009

New pipe layer is a heavy lifter

1st June 2009

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Antwerp based Hydrex used its latest cold straightening machine to repair the propeller blade of a container vessel in Rotterdam that was bent more than 60° towards the pressure side.

1st June 2009

Divers deliver quick fix for bent blade

1st June 2009

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The Netherlands based salvage specialist Multraship Salvage successfully salved a sinking dredger off the coast of Kent in the UK last month.

1st June 2009

Sinking dredger salved off UK coast

1st June 2009

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Italian dredger builder Italdraghe SpA returns for Seawork 2009 via Andrew Scott’ s Cloudburst, which it met when exhibiting at Seawork 2007.

1st June 2009

Italian dredger builder returns to Seawork

1st June 2009

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Dutch dredging major Van Oord’ s latest trailing suction hopper dredger, Vox Maxima, was named and launched at the IHC Merwede yard at Kinderdijk in the Netherlands. Her Royal Highness Princess Má…

1st June 2009

IHC launches largest ever Dutch built dredger

1st June 2009

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

A Damen field service engineer has recently returned from his site visit to Kigoma, Tanzania where he presided over the assembly of a dredger of type DOP CSD350 and put it into…

1st June 2009

Dredger in boxes transforms Lake Tanganyika

1st June 2009

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Dutch company Martens en Van Oord has awarded Reson the contract to deliver and install two excavator monitoring systems.

1st June 2009

Aggregates demand prompts excavator monitoring sales

1st June 2009

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The US Army Corps of Engineers operates two hopper dredgers on the west coast of the USA to keep shipping channels open. The largest and most modern of them is the ‘…

1st June 2009

Repower gives dredger upstream boost

1st June 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The latest developments in coastal and port hydrography are the subject of a one day conference during this year’ s Seawork event in Southampton, on Thursday 18 June. Proceedings are jointly sponsored…

1st June 2009

Seawork Coastal & Ports Surveying Conference

1st June 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Kelvin Hughes, the UK’ s largest Admiralty Chart Agent as well as a leading manufacturer of navaids, has been appointed by the Japanese Hydrographic Association as official distributor for all Japanese W…

1st June 2009

New charting deals

1st June 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Detailed water depth data for seas around the UK is now available from UK Hydrographic Office subsidiary SeaZone of Bentley in Hampshire, which has spent the last two years acquiring and processing…

1st June 2009

UK water depth data from Seazone

1st June 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Johnson Outdoors UK will be at Seawork 2009 showing a range of marine products on Stand S52. Also to be seen on the floating pontoon’ s Berth A54, where on the water…

1st June 2009

See a Seawork winner in action

1st June 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Two GeoSwath wide swathe bathymetric sonars are being used for regular hydrographic port surveys around the South Australian coast, providing bathymetry and side scan data for use in the development and maintenance…

1st June 2009

GeoSwath doubled for shallow water surveys

1st June 2009