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Baker Consultants wins marine noise monitoring contract
Bilbao-based Iberdrola has awarded Baker Consultants a contract to provide an underwater noise and marine mammal activity monitoring service.
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NewsRoyal HaskoningDHV FRP lock gates
Royal HaskoningDHV has been working on new fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) lock gates at the Wilhelmina canal in Tilburg, the Netherlands.
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Visedo acquires Electric Power Conversion B.V.
The Finnish electric drive train specialist Visedo says it has continued to increase its system expertise in marine solutions by acquiring Electric Power Conversion B.V. (EPC) from the Netherlands.
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NewsBacking secured for shipping software
Sea Level Research, based in the UK, has received a £200,000 investment to help bring its new sea level predicting software to the market.
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News‘Living Stone’ keel laid
To further strengthen its position in the offshore renewable power generation and transportation market, Belgian dredging major DEME has started the construction of the multipurpose vessel ‘Living Stone’.
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PLA Chief Harbour Master
The Port of London Authority (PLA) has appointed Bob Baker as chief harbour master. Bob Baker will join the PLA from Forth Ports, where he has been chief harbour master since 2001.
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McMurdo & Kannad join Sartech stable
Sartech is now approved to service both the McMurdo and Kannad ranges of EPIRBs, PLBs, AIS MOB devices and SARTs, and now the UK- headquartered company claims to be the only specialist in the world to be an official partner for five major emergency beacon manufacturers.
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NewseLoran joint venture
The founders of Chronos in the UK and UrsaNav in the US have formed a new joint venture with the aim of establishing Loran on a commercial basis as a back-up system to provide position and timing information currently provided by satellite systems.
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NewsKOTUG and Boskalis establish joint venture
Dutch companies KOTUG International B.V and Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V have reached an agreement on the merger of their European harbour towage operations.
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Ocean Signal appoints Marinplus AS
UK based Ocean Signal has appointed Marinplus AB as its exclusive distributor in Sweden.
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NewsJim Wilson CBE
It is with regret that we report the death of Jim Wilson CBE who died in December after a short battle with Cancer. Jim was widely known and respected throughout the UK marine industry over the last 60 years, having commenced his career as a seagoing engineer before returning to ...
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Award for Maasvlakte 2
The construction of the Port of Rotterdam’s Maasvlakte 2 expansion has been recognised by the award of the Prof. dr. ir. J.F. Agema Prize, which is awarded every five years to an innovative marine engineering work that was designed or constructed by a Dutch party.
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NewsAST Marine contract to supply CWind
UK based AST Maritime Sciences has won a contract to supply CWind with AST-Planned Maintenance System software on board its fleet of vessels.
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NewsGloMEEP project gets underway
The first national workshop under the Global Maritime Energy Efficiency Partnerships (GloMEEP) project has been held in Georgia.
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NewsLifeboat refurbishment project
The Thames Class Lifeboat Trust is a new charity set up to refurbish an ex-RNLI lifeboat which was built in Lowestoft, for use as a community resource and youth training vessel.
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NewsMoroccan interceptors
In a third recent construction contract with Netherlands-headquartered Damen Shipyards Group, the Royal Moroccan Navy has ordered five Interceptor 1503 vessels. The vessels will be mobilised to combat illegal activities such as terrorism and smuggling in Moroccan waters.
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NewsABP achieves energy management standard
The UK''s Associated British Ports (ABP) has achieved the international standard for energy management, ISO 5000:2011.
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Rhine LNG Masterplan
The LNG Masterplan for Rhine/Meuse-Main-Danube has been successfully completed, the culmination of which should result in better implementation of LNG infrastructure in the inland water transport sector.
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Elcome becomes reseller for Navicom Dynamics
Elcome International, marine solutions provider and system integrator in the Middle East, has signed a reseller agreement with New Zealand-based Navicom Dynamics.
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NewsFree plastic disposal at ports
From 1 January 2016 sea-going vessels will be able to dispose of unlimited plastic ships’ waste free of charge in the ports of Rotterdam Rijnmond and the North Sea Channel district.
