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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

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Coral, never before seen in colour and fish never seen alive or in their natural habitat have been filmed by a Saab Seaeye Falcon DR ROV in an expedition to discover new…

1st June 2009

ROVing the depths

1st June 2009

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Two British engineers have developed a breakthrough design that could within five years begin to generate substantial amounts of cheap electricity from deepwater tidal flows. TidalStream Ltd reported last month that their…

1st June 2009

TidalStreams turbine validated in deep water tests

1st June 2009

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Orecon, the Cornish wave energy device developer, has signed an agreement with Portuguese developer Eneólica. The two companies are establishing a joint venture company to build and deploy Orecon’ s first full…

1st June 2009

Another British wave device welcomed in Portugal

1st June 2009

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

The C-Energy consortium installed a support structure for the first Dutch tidal energy demonstration project last week. The project is located at the Marine Terminal of the Total Refinery within the municipality…

1st June 2009

Dutch tide turns in the Westerschelde

1st June 2009

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

A new design catamaran for the offshore wind market is due to be launched this month. The Ocean Cat, a 16m aluminium work catamaran designed by Marine Design International Ltd., is under…

1st June 2009

First Ocean Cat launched this month.

1st June 2009

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Trident Energy is a marine renewables energy company that has developed a unique and low cost system for converting sea wave energy directly into electricity.

1st June 2009

A simpler form of wave power

1st June 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Central to the revamping of Bologne as a major European hub port with fast Ro-Ro and passenger service turnaround is the new twin deck linkspan which will start to operate at the…

1st June 2009

Link up with linkspan experts at Seawork

1st June 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

A new € 11m harbour with eight permanent berths for tugs and two emergency berths has been completed in Bremerhaven as a spin-off to the port’ s € 233m Kaiserschleuse development.

1st June 2009

New harbour for Bremerhaven tugs

1st June 2009