In real life, professionals were able to see how QPS Quinsy software in combination with multibeam and laser scanning facilitates inspections of quay walls and other water borders. Last week, several demonstrations were given with co-operation of the Rotterdam Port Authority. [mappress] Source: Hydr
Mumbai: With India expected to emerge as a global trade hub over the next few years, an effective port infrastructure is vital to scale up the country’s trade development, global consultancy firm Ernst & Young today said in a report. [mappress] source: DNA, February 7, 2010;
“The river has become silted up. The first thing is to start dredging the river to get better flows.”… [mappress] Source: New Civil Engineer, January 19, 2010
Researchers at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology said that success is not far off for the design of a mobile harbour. Source: Baird Maritime, January 19, 2010
SACRAMENTO — The effects of global warming will be felt worldwide, scientists say — and Southern California harbors will be hit especially hard by rising seas, according to a published report by the California State Lands Commission… Source:thelog,December 22, 2009; [mappress]
Two UK scientists and a Franco-British partnership have been awarded euros5m to find safe disposal methods for dredged marine sediments. Laurence Hopkinson and Kevin Stone from the University of Brighton’s School of Environment and Technology… Source: Maritime Global Net, December 14, 2009;
DHAHRAN — Saudi Aramco has issued an overview of measures taken to safeguard the marine habitats close to its shallow-water Manifa field development in the Arabian Gulf… Source: Offshore, December 3, 2009
What does the International Maritime Organization’s eNavigation strategy mean to you? Without wishing to begin on a down-note, probably not that much. That is if you have heard of it all. Amid the clang and clamour of the… Source: BIMCO, November 4, 2009
