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Marine Consultancy Online
Marine consultants and organisations offering marine consultancy can take advantage of the International Directory of Marine Consultancy (IDMC), a global online database run by the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST). The database can be searched free of charge at www.imarest.org/idmc by anyone looking for expertise in these ...
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NewsNew Boatlift Exhibits Itself
Stockholm''s Slagsta Marina hassigned a five year contract with Stockholm Boat Exhibitions toprovide a boat lifting and transportation service within the exhibitions.
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Felixstowe In Safe Hands
Adsteam Felixstowe is celebrating a certificate of recognition for achieving the highest safety record possible in the last 12 months. The ship assist crews at Felixstowe were congratulated by Adsteam operations director Ken Marshall for 12 months without any time lost through injury. This is the first time that Felixstowe ...
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NewsNew Ropax Ferries Will Boost North Sea Traffic
Stena Line will expand its North Sea business in 2006 with the introduction of two new Ropax ferries on the Hook of Holland - Killingholme freight route. The two ferries of the Stena Seabridger Class will be built by Stena RoRo at FMV in Norway and will be ready to ...
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New On HIT List
Global power generation company International Power has signed a term agreement with Associated British Ports to use the new £ 44.5 million coal facility being built by extending the Humber International Terminal (HIT) at ABP''s Port of Immingham (see MJ September 2004, page 25).
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Bids Close for Novel Pollution Ship Conversion
Bidding was set to close 19 November on a tender by Cuxhaven authorities to convert the 79m tanker Marcus into a coastal oil collection ship at a cost of more than ? 1 million.
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NewsDredge Monitoring Gives Shipwreck the Deep Six
The Dutch maritime authority Rijkswaterstaat has reacted decisively to the wreck of the Assi Eurolink , which was restricting the navigable depth of the critical Friesland Junction shipping channel.
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NewsNew Tri-modal Rhine Terminal Will Help to Reduce Truck Congestion
A new trimodal container terminal just opened on the German Rhine at Ludwigshafen will, officials hope, eventually take 400 truck consignments a day off the country''s congested roads and onto inland ships or railways.
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UTEC At Work Off Africa
Lowestoft UK based underwater services contractor UTEC and partners Nutec West Africa Ltd have secured a contract to install a 2km long outfall pipe as part of the $95 million Kolre Lagoon Ecological Restoration Project in Ghana. UTEC''s versatile survey vessel MV Goosander is key to the four month contract ...
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NewsDredging Instrumentation Gets Major System Upgrade
Damen Dredging Equipment (formerly De Groot Nijkerk ) has carried out a major renovation of the dredging instrumentation on board two of UMA ''s trailing suction hopper aggregates dredgers, City of Cardiff and City of Chichester .
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NewsMolasses Passes Through Cardiff
The UK''s largest animal feed importer has begun importing molasses through a new £ 350,000 dedicated facility at the Port of Cardiff .
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NewsSeafloor Mappers Delight In Detail
Fugro Survey Ltd and AOAGeophysics Inc have mapped the Cap de Creus canyon head northeast of Barcelona in the Gulf of Lion, acquiring a dataset with a hull-mounted multibeam system. The map data acquired during the summer clearly shows a wide range of active geological processes, from mass wasting and ...
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A Hot Wind Blows
In a period of 24 hours last month, three times as much new wind power capacity (300MW) was approved in Scotland and Wales than was built during the whole of last year. To date this year in the UK, 30 new wind energy projects have been consented, at a 75% ...
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Aker Shakes the Cruise World
Finland''s Aker Yards Group has merged its two shipyards in that country, Kvaerner Masa - Yards Inc and Aker Finnyards Inc , into a new company called Aker Finnyard s.
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German SWATH Programme Hits a Snag
Electrical problems during sea trials have delayed the delivery of Planet , Germany''s biggest SWATH vessel. The word from Nordseewerke (NSW) in Emden is that handover might not now take place before the end of the year.
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Big Box Load Is Beautiful
On 27 September, the pushboat Riad left Rotterdam''s ECT Delta Terminals with a record load of 652TEU. All of the 415 containers on board were full, to be unloaded in Rotterdam and feedered on to Antwerp.
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A&P Birkenhead Land Deal
Ship repairers A&P Birkenhead and Reddington Finance Ltd have reached an agreement for the sale and leaseback of some of A&P''s land at Birkenhead. A&P Birkenhead retains ownership of the drydocks but some surplus land will be sold to the property developers. A&P believes the arrangement will enable it to ...
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News'Voe Viking' Gets First New Model Effer Crane
A new Multicat under construction at Damen Shipyards '' Hardinxveld yard in the Netherlands will be the first vessel fitted with the new model 18000 3S crane from Italian manufacturer Effer .
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NewsMultraship Completes Danish Dredger Salvage at Esjberg
Terneuzen based Multraship Salvage has completed the lifting of the 79m trailing suction hopper dredger Thor R , which sank in the mouth of the Danish port of Esjberg on 26 September.
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NewsACE Set the Pace in Winch Delivery
Scotland based Alfred Cheyne Engineering Ltd (ACE Winches) continue to demonstrate their ability to deliver large winch packages in short delivery times.
