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DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

An extension has been awarded to an existing contract currently being executed by Belgium' s Jan De Nul Group, in a consortium with CCC/STFA, for the construction of a new port and…

6th October 2008

Jan De Nul in Omani port expansion

6th October 2008

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Low-carbon energy company Eclipse Energy UK has been granted government consent to enlarge its previously consented Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm and to generate and export electricity from the adjacent Ormonde Gas Fields…

6th October 2008

Hybrid energy consent in East Irish Sea

6th October 2008

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London' s unpredictable new Mayor, Boris Johnson, caused a stir last month by proposing Heathrow Airport be closed down and replaced by a new four runway facility operating 24 hours a day…

6th October 2008

Blonde ambition for Boris Island

6th October 2008

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Seefalke, the first of two identical new innovative fisheries research boats is being handed over this month by the Peene-Werft yard in Wolgast to Germany' s Bonn based Federal Institute for Agriculture…

6th October 2008

New fisheries boat for Germans

6th October 2008

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Following an international tender last year, Ireland' s Safehaven Marine, builders of the Interceptor range of pilot boats, was awarded the contract to supply an all weather pilot boat to the Port…

6th October 2008

First 55 pilot for Port of Sines

6th October 2008

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Two inshore RIBs have joined Dorset Polices Marine Section fleet to patrol the coast and rivers of Dorset   thanks to a new collaboration with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

6th October 2008

RNLI in RIB lease agreement

6th October 2008

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Marin Mõ tteknik AB (MMT) of Gothenburg, which over the last year has completed dedicated multibeam surveys in more than ten countries, has extended its fleet of survey vessels with the addition…

4th October 2008

MMT extends survey fleet

4th October 2008

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Kongsberg Maritime is to purchase GeoAcoustics, the Great Yarmouth UK based sonar equipment specialists for both civil and defence applications, for approximately £ 4.3m.

4th October 2008

Kongsberg Maritime buys Geoacoustics

4th October 2008

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The Dutch subsidiaries of Japan' s Topcon and Denmark' s Reson are to collaborate in the marketing of GNSS receivers for hydrographic applications throughout the Benelux.

4th October 2008

Topcon-Reson Benelux GNSS agreement

4th October 2008

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Watford UK based Teledyne TSS, manufacturers of inertial navigation systems, gyrocompasses, motion sensors, pipe and cable trackers, has expanded its global sales and support network with the establishment of new premises in…

4th October 2008

TSS opens new facility in Singapore

4th October 2008

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Over 50 exhibitors and speakers from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and US are among the main features of Hydro8, the 16th European Hydro Symposium being held in…

4th October 2008

Hydro8 symposium set for success

4th October 2008

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The Marine Equipment Trade Show (METS) celebrates its 20th Anniversary this year when it returns to Amsterdam' s RAI exhibition centre on 18-20 November.

4th October 2008

METS marks progress on 20th Anniversary

4th October 2008

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The Tamar is faster than its predecessor, and is the most technologically advanced lifeboat ever to be produced by the RNLI.Merseysides maritime sector has warned that the UK Governments move to revamp…

2nd October 2008

Marine rates mayhem

2nd October 2008

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The Tamar is faster than its predecessor, and is the most technologically advanced lifeboat ever to be produced by the RNLI.Lamor Swire Environmental Solutions (LSES), a 50:50 joint venture between Lamor Group…

2nd October 2008

More Lamor

2nd October 2008

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The Tamar is faster than its predecessor, and is the most technologically advanced lifeboat ever to be produced by the RNLI.The Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs, Mrs Maria van der Hoeven, signed…

2nd October 2008

SME IPC at SMM

2nd October 2008

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The Tamar is faster than its predecessor, and is the most technologically advanced lifeboat ever to be produced by the RNLI.A police investigation into the fire which caused £10m damage to the…

2nd October 2008

Cutty Sark hoovered

2nd October 2008

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Offshore airport proposals for overcrowded northern Europe are suddenly very much in the news. London Mayor Boris Johnson' s proposal last month for an alternative to Heathrow on reclaimed land in the…

2nd October 2008

Dutch double offshore airport concepts

2nd October 2008

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A company owned by the Danish Government is expected to be created soon to plan and construct the controversial EUR 5.8bn Fehmarn Belt fixed link between Germany and Denmark, which has finally…

2nd October 2008

Denmark moves on fixed link to Germany

2nd October 2008

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A report published jointly by the UKs Marine Accident Investigation Branch and the Maritime Administration of Latvia has found that the deaths earlier this year of two seafarers on board a Latvian…

2nd October 2008

MAIB report on Sava Lake deaths

2nd October 2008

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Finnish marine engine manufacturer Wä rtsilä unveiled a novel engine exhaust noise reduction system at SMM in Hamburg last month which it hopes will eventually make conventional single unit diesel engine silencers…

1st October 2008

SMM debut for more silent silencer

1st October 2008