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DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Damen Dredging Equipment and Trimble Europe have sealed their cooperation by signing an OEM agreement.

8th January 2009

Enhanced positioning for Damen dredgers

8th January 2009

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Oil Spill Response Limited & East Asia Response Limited, the world’ s largest international oil spill response organisation, has been renamed Oil Spill Response.

8th January 2009

Oil Spill Response

8th January 2009

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Washington USA based shipbroker Marcon International celebrated a record year by completing three deals on the final day of 2008.

8th January 2009

Marcons record year

8th January 2009

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A call for abstracts has been issued by the organisers of the European Offshore Wind 2009 Conference & Exhibition, which will take place in Stockholm on 14-16 September.

8th January 2009

Offshore wind abstracts

8th January 2009

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South Africa’ s Caudwell Marine has signed an agreement with Golden Arrow Marine of Southampton UK for the sales, distribution and service support for its range of Axis Drive propulsion systems in…

8th January 2009

Axis Drive deal

8th January 2009

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A German shipowner has pleaded guilty before a regional court in the UK to three merchant shipping vessel safety offenses following a collision between a coaster and the East Goodwin Light Vessel…

8th January 2009

Collision lookout failure

8th January 2009

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Hagglunds Drives has begun building customised power units for their hydraulic drive systems, particularly for marine applications.

8th January 2009

Hagglunds marine facility

8th January 2009

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The management team of International Safety Projects Ltd has completed a £ 4m buy-out of what they claim to be the world’ s largest manufacturer of inflatable marine lifejackets.

8th January 2009

ISP management buy-out

8th January 2009

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The French port of Marseilles Fos has initiated a promotional partnership with eight inland ports serving its crucial north-south hinterland along the Rhone-Saone corridor.

8th January 2009

Fosinland links

8th January 2009

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More than £ 3,500 was raised before Christmas for the UK’ s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) by Newcastle based marine rigging specialists Storrar Marine.

8th January 2009

RNLI funds success

8th January 2009

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Sea Vision UK, a nationwide campaign to raise the profile of the sea and maritime sector, has launched the latest, largest version of its Maritime Careers Guide, a magazine profiling different jobs…

8th January 2009

Maritime jobs guide

8th January 2009

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At the very end of 2008, twenty professionals from around the world got acquainted with dredging and its challenges during the 31st IADC International Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation.

8th January 2009

31st IADC seminar spotlights Abu Dhabi

8th January 2009

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Norway’ s national prosecutor, Bjoern Soknes, has fined Bourbon Offshore Norway AS 5m kroner (some £ 500,000) this week for failures which led to the deaths of eight people when the AHTS…

8th January 2009

Bourbon fined for Dolphin capsizing

8th January 2009

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Marine South East, the regional marine initiative of the South East of England Development Agency (SEEDA), will launch the findings of its Global Opportunities research at February’ s MareNet event which will…

8th January 2009

Februarys MareNet examines global marine opportunities

8th January 2009

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Taking time out from his busy schedule during the week before Christmas, the UK’ s Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, David Miliband MP, took the opportunity to visit the…

8th January 2009

Foreign Secretary visits Port of Tyne

8th January 2009

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The UK’ s Maritime and Coastguard Agency has issued a reminder to seafarers of important changes to the operating frequencies of the Cospas-Sarsat satellite based distress alerting service.

8th January 2009

SAR frequencies change to be implemented

8th January 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Cargotec’ s Kalmar division has delivered four new ship to shore (STS) cranes and nine other new container handling machines to the Port of Vuosaari at Helsinki in Finland.

1st January 2009

Lifting gear galore for new Port of Vuosaari

1st January 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Four new gantry cranes have arrived safely at their new home in Hamburg' s Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB) following the close supervision of their construction by Hamburg Port Consulting (HPC).

1st January 2009

Crane construction oversight in China

1st January 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The MacGregor Group’ s Offshore division has received orders for four remotely controlled deck handling manipulator systems (DHMS) for the two Island Offshore AHTS vessels, Island Valiant and Island Vanguard.

1st January 2009

MacGregor do deck handling double

1st January 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The Yacht Leg and Cradle Company has introduced the Motor Boat Dolly to its range of products which may make motor boat movement more efficient, onshore.

1st January 2009

Hello Dolly for a quayside cradle

1st January 2009