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which is also the end customer for the first Hugin 4500.

Another Hugin 3000 is scheduled for delivery to Fugro NV, at the end of this year. This will be the second

Hugin 3000 to Fugro NV, with the first delivery taking place in 2004.

The delivery of the next Hugin 1000 to the Royal Norwegian Navy (RNoN) is also scheduled for delivery at the end of 2006. Hugin 1000 is mainly directed towards military applications but also has potential towards marine research, etc. This

Hugin 1000 will include an advanced, very high resolution

Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS), which is undergoing sea trials now.

Tyco Telecommunications

Completes Contract

Tyco Telecommunications has achieved the status of Ready for

Provisional Acceptance (RFPA) under the terms of a multi-million dollar turnkey contract with Transworld

Associates (Pvt.) Ltd, for the TWA-1

Undersea Cable Network. The sys- tem, the first privatized cable network to land in Pakistan, will link Karachi in Pakistan, Fujairah in UAE and Al

Seeb Muscat in Oman.

The initial implementation of the network includes two fiber pairs con- necting the three landings in a trunk and branch arrangement with each fiber pair initially commissioned to carry 10 Gb/s. This Dense Wave

Division Multiplexing (DWDM) undersea fiber optic cable system is more than 1,200 km in length and capable of carrying up to 1.28 Tb/s of transmission capacity when fully upgraded.

Fugro GEOS Wins Award

Fugro GEOS won a safety award from a leading training and advisory bodies. The company, provider of oceanographic & meteorological (metocean) systems, was given the

International Safety Award by the

British Safety Council for the third consecutive year. David Ballard, CE of the British Safety Council, said: "For nearly fifty years we have led the way in promoting health, safety and environmental best practice in socie- ty. In the 21st century, many organi- zations worldwide are now making health and safely a top priority.

Through achieving an International

Safety Award, Fugro GEOS is helping to make our vision of a safe working environment a reality."

BMT SeaTech Studies

Harbor Re-design Plan

BMT SeaTech Ltd. completed a comprehensive study for Defense

Estates South West. Forming part of the Portsmouth Harbour

Regeneration Project, the study looks at the re-design of the deepwater channel for Portsmouth Harbor in the light of its use by large future war- ships for the Royal Navy. When a large ship enters a port or harbor, it frequently has to do so along a com- paratively shallow and often winding approach channel. BMT has exten- sive experience of approach channel design and was commissioned by

Defense Estates to review the suitabil- ity of the present channel for large warships proposed for the future. In addition, an alternative "straight in" channel design, remote from the pres- ent channel, was to be reviewed.

At Portsmouth, channel design is constrained by a number of elements.

One is the historic harbor entrance, bounded on both sides by structures dating back to Henry VIII which understandably must not be touched.

Similarly, the Spit Sand Fort must be avoided, as should other sites of his- torical interest such as that occupied by the remains of the Mary Rose.

From a navigational point of view, the present approach to the harbor entrance involves a number of course changes in, or near, the entrance people & companies

Gardline Orders New Multibeam Tech

Gardline, a seabed mapping spe- cialist, has taken delivery of the latest generation EM 710 and EM 3002 multibeam systems from Kongsberg

Maritime. The EM 710 1 by 1 degree multibeam will be installed on the RV Triton, Gardline's triple hull hydrographic survey ship and the EM 3002 dual head multibeam will be installed on the MV Confidante,

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