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PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

HR Wallingford in the UK has developed a new software package, in ArcGIS, to help coastal engineers model artificial beaches. The Beach Design and Management Tool (BDMaT) allows engineers to apply the…

1st December 2008

Building stable beaches – a new tool to help

1st December 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Mexicana De Dragados SA de CV, the Mexican branch of Belgium’ s Jan De Nul Group, has signed a contract with the port authorities of the Mexican Pacific ports of Ensenada, Mazatlan…

1st December 2008

Mexican contract awarded to Jan de Nul

1st December 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Subsidiaries of Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering (DEME) in Zwijndrecht, Belgium, have secured contracts valued at more than € 220m in recent weeks.

1st December 2008

DEME wins orders worth ¢220m

1st December 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Van Oord in The Netherlands reports that the Defland Coast project has got underway. The Delfland Coast Consortium (Van Oord and Boskalis) began laying a pipeline on the beach at Hoek van…

1st December 2008

Defland Coast project gets under way

1st December 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Dutch dredging and marine construction giant Van Oord has completed a project to deepen the navigable channel of the North Sea Canal in The Netherlands. Now, large ocean going vessels can once…

1st December 2008

Van Oord ensures easier and safer access to North Sea Canal

1st December 2008

SECURITY

SECURITY

Preventing unauthorised access to secure sites is a vital requirement for many industries, including at maritime locations such as boatyards and cargo storage areas in ports.

1st December 2008

Lock-outs to lock-ups for ports

1st December 2008

SECURITY

SECURITY

Dorset Police and Poole Harbour Watch in the UK are working together to make the county’ s marine community even safer as the dark winter nights draw in.

1st December 2008

Security Dorset

1st December 2008

SECURITY

SECURITY

A novel application of Cambridge Consultants’ holographic radar technology to the ' MV Powerful' and the ' Sirius Star' could have enabled their crews to take early defensive action against the pirates…

1st December 2008

Holographic radar spots approaching pirates

1st December 2008

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

UK based software developer and supplier PC Maritime has launched a new engine room simulator that can run on a standard PC.

1st December 2008

Great graphics with low cost simulator

1st December 2008

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

It started with disaster in 1981. The failure of evacuation procedures on Alexander Kielland rig in the North Sea cost 123 lives, but that incident has helped to drive Norwegian safety innovation…

1st December 2008

New torpedo lifeboat hits the waves

1st December 2008

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Although the dredging market has had a skills gap for quite some time, there are now fewer barriers to training crew.

1st December 2008

Mobile simulator training for dredge masters

1st December 2008

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The Ship Safe Training Group (SSTG), which has come together through an innovative attitude toward getting much needed skills on board ships, also has an unconventional approach to finding trainees.

1st December 2008

Psychometric testing for life at sea

1st December 2008

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

The first of two aluminium dive support vessels being built by Seawind Marine in Appledore, North Devon UK has now been delivered to its owner in Scotland.

1st December 2008

Safety first for lightweight dive support vessel

1st December 2008

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Turkish tug builders and tugowners Sanmar Denizcilik Makine ve Ticaret Ltd, of Istanbul, celebrated in fine style at the flag change ceremony for the first vessel of their new Sanmar Eskort 80…

1st December 2008

A Flag Day for Sanmar with a new design

1st December 2008

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The Svitzer tug fleet in the river Medway rose to the challenge on 17 November when the largest Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) tanker yet to berth in Britain arrived at the Isle…

1st December 2008

Svitzer are geared up for LNG

1st December 2008

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The subject of achieving a true ‘ Green’ tug is one that has been studied and discussed with increasing frequency over the past couple of years and the year 2009 will see…

1st December 2008

Green tugs will get a substantial boost in 2009

1st December 2008

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

During past months an increasing number of medium sized tugs, many with anchor handling capability, have been arriving in Europe from Malaysian shipyards. A recent delivery is the Venture G, the second…

1st December 2008

Sarawak to the Netherlands

1st December 2008

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Fairmount Marine BV, a member of the Fairmount Group of Companies and wholly owned by Louis Dreyfus Armateurs SAS, has announced that the purchase by and the delivery to the Fairmount Group…

1st December 2008

Fairmount achieve complete ownership of their five super tugs

1st December 2008

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Damen Shipyards have launched the first two tugs of their new ASD Tug 3213 design at the Son Cam Shipyard in Viet Nam. The 32m tugs have a beam of 13m and…

1st December 2008

Towlines

1st December 2008

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

A new report from the House of Lords European Union Committee suggests that Britain will be unable to reach its target for 20% renewable energy by 2020 without ' wholesale changes on…

1st December 2008

A barrage too far

1st December 2008