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ID – ML59178

Type: Road Transportable Pollution Control Catamaran
Built: 2010
Hull: Aluminium
Length: 9.20m
Main Engine: 50hp
Propulsion: single screw
Pollution Control Equipment:
-Mop oil skimming unit with an approximate collection duty of 5
tons per 30 minutes dependent on oil viscosity
-Waste oil tank holding capacity approximately 5 tons
-Waste oil pumps x 2, discharge time approximately 30 minutes dependent on oil viscosity
-Scoop collection basket hydraulically operated with twin ram lift
-Aluminium skip for lifting debris ashore complete with deck locating drain points
-Compactors for segregating waste materials

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‎All Belgian ports are suffering serious delays due to a general 24-hour strike. The ports of Ostend, Zeebrugge, Ghent and Antwerpen are all being affected by the nationwide strike with knock-on effects likely all week.

Antwerp

The Berendrecht and Zandvliet locks have been blocked by unions since Sunday evening. Three vessels are now stuck in the Berendrecht lock. Reportedly, the Royers, Van Cauwelaert and Kallo locks are back in operation. The Boudewijn lock remains unmanned.

There are less port tugs available and pilots are currenlty unable to board vessels.

Zeebrugge

As of 0600hrs today workers in the port of Zeebrugge have stopped all their activities. Ships are no longer loaded/discharged.

Ghent

The Zelzate bridge has been partly raised preventing ships to enter the port of Ghent.

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ID - SV17419

Type:Utility/Supply Vessel
Built: 2004
Class:American Register of Shipping (non IACS)
Length:41.50m
Breadth:7.50m
Main Engines: 2 x Caterpillar
Capacities:fuel oil: 155mt, fresh water: 45mt, foam: 8mt
Deck Cargo:100t
Deck Equipment: double drum hydraulic anchor/handling – towing winch (600m - 50mm), towing hook, windlass, stern roller, 5.5t hydraulic crane, fuel transfer pump, fresh water pump
Speed: 12kts

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Direct from Owners we have been authorised to market for sale:

ID - BG51485

Type: Floating Sheerleg Crane
Built: Barge: 2008 – Sheerleg: 2009
Lifting Capacity: 1,750 metric ton
Length over all: 117.04m
Beam: 30.43m
Boom length: 100m
Boom width: 20m
A-frame height: 40m
Barge spuds: 4 x (length: 27.43m)

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The fully inflated "Balgstuw" at Ramspol, The Netherlands

Due to persisting winds (with forces eight to nine Beaufort) on Thursday it was decided to inflate the storm surge barrier at Ramspol. The process was started shortly after midnight. It took about one hour before the enormous barrier was fully inflated thus protecting the Ramspoldiep for high water in the Ijsselmeer.

During recent weeks the water levels in the major rivers changed from extremely low to very high. There is currently no danger for flooding, but flood plains and several embankments have been flooded.

The rapidly rising water levels are caused by continuous rainfall, especially in the German basin and saturated land, preventing rainwater to penetrate into the soil.

The storm surge barrier near Ramspol, designed and built by the BAM Group nv, was built to project the hinterland against flooding by high water from the IJsselmeer lake. It was commissioned end 2002.

The barrier consists of three inflatable, nylon-reinforced rubber dams, each 75 m long, 13 m wide and with a design height of 8.35 m. They are the largest dams of their kind ever built. The dam is inflated with air while a gravity-feed system allows water to flow in. The barrier is lowered again by pumping out the water and letting out the air.

The video below shows how the surge barrier works:

Facts & Figures

• Situated 4,65 m under NAP (Normaal Amsterdams Peil)
  

• Maximum height of the dam 3,55 m above NAP
• Height 10 m
• Length down 60 m, above 80 m
• Threshold width 15,4 m
• Length fabric 24,3 m
• Capacity dam: air 3.500.000 liter, water 3.500.000 liter
• Thickness fabric 1,6 cm
• Production Bridgestone, Japan
• Weight fabric 19,3 kg/m2
• Weight dam 33 tons
• Minimal lifetime fabric 25 year
• Closing time max. 60 min.
• Time to empty max. 180 min.
• Closing water level + 0.50 NAP
  
  
  The storm surge barrier during inflation.
  

Fairmount Expedition delivers Castor topside in Spain

Fairmount Marine’s powerful tug Fairmount Expedition has safely delivered a 18,000 ton (16,329 tonnes) topside for process, utilities and living quarters for the Castor project offshore Spain. The topside was loaded onto Heerema’s H-541 barge and towed from Corpus Christi to Spain.

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Statoil Awards NOK900M Contract For Tugboat Charters

Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil ASA (STO) said Friday it has awarded a NOK900 million contract to Bukser og Berging for two escort tugboats to service the Karsto processing plant on behalf of operator Gassco.

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Cargo ship sinks off French coast after collision

A cargo ship sank on Friday morning off France's Atlantic coast after colliding with an oil tanker but there were no casualties, French maritime authorities said. The 88-metre (260-foot), Dominica-registered Florece was carrying a load of clay when it went down 450 kilometres (280 miles) southwest of the western city of Lorient, the port prefecture in Brest, western France, said in a statement. A cargo ship sank on Friday morning off France's Atlantic coast after colliding with an oil tanker but there were no casualties, French maritime authorities said.

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ConocoPhillips finds gas in North Sea, size unknown
Energy company ConocoPhillips has discovered gas in a southern North Sea wildcat well some 19 kilometres south of BP's Ula field, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said on Monday.

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RenewableUK highlights flaws in anti-wind energy report

RenewableUK, the trade association representing the wind, wave and tidal energy industries, has strongly criticised the report "Renewable Energy: Vision or Mirage", to be published on 12th December by the Adam Smith Institute and Scientific Alliance. The report fails to recognise the hugely significant role that wind energy already plays in generating clean electricity in the UK.

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