Isle of Wight based GRP Laminates and South Boats Special Projects delivered RRV Audrey to Holyhead Towing in October 2009, and already the vessel has proved invaluable in deployments ranging from fast wind farm transfers to dredging support… Source:cowesonline,March 10,2010
Wärtsilä, in consortium with IMS Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, has been engaged by RWE Innogy, the renewable energy arm of the German utility company RWE, as its designer to provide the basic design and consultancy services for a jack up crane vessel… Source:Wärtsilä,March 9,2010
The next generation of the Kongsberg Seatex Seapath family will be displayed on the Kongsberg Maritime stand (E600) and demonstrated aboard MMT Seabeam at Oceanology International 2010. The new Seapath 300 family of products offers the best possible combination of GNSS… Source:frontierindia,March 9,
Work to backfill the new Tyne Tunnel, which was submerged in the river last month, is due to get under way… [mappress] Source:bbc,March 9,2010;
Three weeks of dredging has begun at the Port of Ramsgate in preparation for the launch of a new ferry service to Belgium… [mappress] Source: Thanet News, March 8, 2010
Russian investors would like to develop a coal terminal at Liepaja Port, according to the newspaper Bizness&Baltija. The planned investment is from EUR 50 to 100 million (LVL 35-70 million), but the time period for the implementation of the project has not been revealed… [mappress] Source: The Balti
A BOOZY sea captain who was drunk in charge of a ship on the Tyne has been fined… [mappress] Source: The Shields Gazette, March 5, 2010;
A council is being asked to back a masterplan for regeneration of a town after its ferry port moves out… [mappress] Source:news.bbc,March 5,2010;
Two years of work on bolstering flood defences on the East Frisian island of Baltrum have ended with German authorities saying the €9m project has now closed the last gap in the North Sea island’s coastal protection network… [mappress] Source: Maritime Journal, March 4, 2010
Karpaz Gate Marina, an exclusive new development that will open up the stunning, undiscovered Karpaz peninsula of Northern Cyprus, is progressing well. Currently under construction and project managed by Sea-Alliance Group Ltd, a maritime services operation specialising in marina developments, Karpa
The Freedom is a brand new survey vessel build by No Limit Ships in the Netherlands… [mappress] Source: Hydro International, March 2, 2010
New insights into the impact of dredging on the environment highlight the distinction between small, frequent deposits of sediments arising from maintenance dredging, and larger one-off capital deposits. Understanding this distinction is crucial for effective licensing and monitoring of dredging… So
