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- Fourth Crandall Drydock For Belgium Placed In Service Maritime Reporter, May 15, 1980 #18
The Port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, which is presently undergoing considerable expansion, recently inaugurated a new 1,200- ton Crandall r a i l w a y d r y d o c k, with a side transfer system to enable as many as four vessels to be docked simultaneously. The construction was undertaken by the Entreprises Maurice Delens of Brussels, using the general and detail design of Crandall Dry Dock Engineers, Inc. of Dedham, Mass.
This facility, the first of its kind in Zeebrugge, will permit the substantial fishing fleet of the area, as well as other harbor craft, to be drydocked in its home port rather than having to go to Ostend or Antwerp. It also will encourage a shipbuilding industry to develop in the Prinsfilip dock area where the drydock is located.
Sitting in a wet dock behind locks assures a constant water level within a range of 20 centimeters, permitting 24-hour docking.
The brackish water is too salty to freeze readily but not salty enough to support marine borer life.
The railway has foundation and underwater ways of azobe timber from Cameroon, and the inshore portion is of reinforced concrete.
A curved track causes the cradle to be rotated from its inclined attitude submerged to a horizontal position full up that permits easy side transfer.
A standard Crandall low-friction roller system is used for both hauling (with a single 2%-inch chain) and transfer. There is a cradle 72 meters long by 16 meters wide, with drafts over blocks of 3 meters inshore and 6 meters outshore. It has a capacity for concentrated loads of up to 35 tons per meter, with transfer limited to 24 tons per meter.
Because the outshore section can operate independently, there are forward latches to secure the bow cradle, and there is a wire rope bridle to keep the roller system in position.
A unique system for bilge block operation on the transfer cars is capable of reconnection so as to work directly on the main cradle.
This latest improvement, never used previously, has proved very successful and saves considerable time and labor in the transfer of vessels.
A vessel to be transferred sits on up to nine separate cars. It is propelled sideways by two independent hydraulic-powered drums, using 22-millimeter wire rope with 3-part tackle, a t t a c h e d at two points to the vessel itself. For security against wind forces, the transfer cars are provided with holding clamps on both the cradle and the transfer berths.
The project was financed by the national government of Belgium for the c i t y of Brugge through the Department of Public Works (Service de la Cote), and managed by Ir. Kerckaert, director, under the overall controll of Ir. Simoen, Inspector General.
Fabrication of structural steel was done by Victor Buyck of Eeklo; the hauling machine with all its electrical controls was manufactured by de Pecker of Gent, using certain elements supplied Crandall, while all civil works were carried out by Delens. Underwater work, particularly pile cutting and track i n s t a l l a t i o n, was s u b c o n t r a c t e d to Benelux Divers, Inc. of Antwerp.
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- London-To-Belgium Jetfoil Service Set Maritime Reporter, Mar 15, 1977 #14
introduce the first Boeing Jetfoil hydrofoil boat service in Europe on June 1. The revenue charter service will link central London and Zeebrugge, Belgium, with times scheduled to allow direct rail connections to Brussels. The roundtrip service will use the Boeing Jetfoil Flying Princess, following compl
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- World Navies Report: Belgium Maritime Reporter, Apr 2019 #39
the world interesting—to see how they have addressed their specific challenges with the resources they have applied to them. Here we look at Belgium.For Belgium, the answer to maritime security may be blowing in the windBelgium has outsized need for naval presence and maritime security. It&rsquo
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- B e l g i um Firm Buys T w o Jetfoils From Boeing M a r i n e Systems Maritime Reporter, Apr 15, 1980 #32
Regie Voor Maritiem Transport (RMT), the state-owned ferry company of Belgium, has purchased two Jetfoils for passenger service between Ostend, Belgium, and Dover, England, from Boeing Marine Systems, Seattle, Wash. The Jetfoil Model 929-115s are scheduled for delivery in time to begin operation
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- Canadian Firm Orders Four Large Bulk Carriers Maritime Reporter, Oct 15, 1981 #52
Federal Commerce and Navigation Ltd., Montreal, Canada, has placed orders with shipyards in South Korea and Belgium for four 138,000-dwt bulk carriers intended for the coal trade. According to Michael Bell, senior vice president, the bulk carriers are being built, two each, at Hyundai Shipbuilding
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- Bestobell Mobrey Promotes Houba And Bowerman To Sales Executive Posts Maritime Reporter, Apr 1984 #7
in Europe and Southeast Asia to provide greater service to customers and assistance to overseas agents and associate companies. Based in Liege, Belgium, J. Houba has taken up the post of European regional export manager, having worked for the company for six years as marketing and commercial manager fo
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- Great Ships of 2016: M/V Auto Eco Maritime Reporter, Dec 2016 #32
PCTCs with 1A Super Finnish/Swedish ice class. The world’s first dual fuel LNG PCTC M/V Auto Eco had her formal naming ceremony at the Port of Zeebrugge, Belgium on November 21, 2016. Dignitaries attending the event including: Claire Tillekaerts, CEO of Flanders Investment & Trade, is The Godmother of
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- Hyundai Launches First Of Three Big Bulk Carriers For Bocimar Maritime Reporter, Oct 15, 1985 #20
The Mineral Dampier, first of three 168,500-dwt bulk carriers under construction for N.V. Bocimar S.A. of Belgium, was launched recently at the Ulsan Shipyard of Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea. These three bulkers have a special significance, as they are the first ships to be built by HHI
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- Belgian Shipbuilder "Floats7 Massive GRP Mold On Film Of Air Maritime Reporter, Jan 15, 1986 #36
fiber reinforced polyester (GRP) mold is done safely in 3Vi minutes on a film of air at the Mercantile-Beliard N.V. shipbuilding plant in Ostend, Belgium. Each of six mold sections are moved the same way by the yard, which is in the middle of completing a government contract to build 10 new GRP mineswee
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- LNG-5 . . . Dusseldorf Maritime Reporter, Jun 15, 1977 #12
," "LNG Operating and Reliability Experiences," and "Safety, Legal and Financial Aspects of LNG." Post-conference tours to LNGrelated plants in Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands may be arranged September 2 or 3. In addition, a six-day motor coach and steamer tour of Germany may be
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- Worthington Compressors Names Hands President Maritime Reporter, Dec 1978 #22
, Holyoke, Mass., effective January 1,1979, has been announced. Mr. Hands, presently president of Worthington-Turbodyne International, Inc., Brussels, Belgium, will be headquartered at Worthington C o m p r e s s o r s ' corporate headquarters in Holyoke, according to O.E. Powers, chairman and chief
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- Worthington Service Corp. Names Budrick And lennings Maritime Reporter, Feb 15, 1974 #33
authority for the company's international operations, including overall responsibility for Service Centers in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Hong Kong, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, as well as those in Mexico and Canada. Mr. Jennings has been elected vice president for
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 29ex- pected to con? rm mining guidelines this July, or perhaps next. Nearly two thirds of the licenses are for nodule mining, the most advanced sector. Belgium-based GSR, part of the DEME Group, has Transocean as a cornerstone in- vestor, and it conducted trials of a patented nodule collector, Patania II
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 49Shell, Technip, in Brazil, and to the European nance surveys, giving developers and contractors access electrical distribution company Elia Group, in Belgium. to the data they need to plan, evaluate and solve safety, To date, TideWise has invested more than $6 million in environmental and risk scenarios
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August 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 55, has been selected by the European scale developments. Commission under the European Clean Hydrogen Partnership won a $22m • POM West-Vlaanderen (Belgium): Project implementation support in the testing area grant. "With HOPE, Lhyfe and its partners are moving up a gear and aim- (studies, permits)
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May 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 33warms and oceans change, species are changing, doing so is imperative.” An acoustic tag implanted in a European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax), Belgium. © Jérôme Bourjea Your Sensors. Our Software. Survey The World With HYPACK! HYPACK gives you a clear view above and beneath the surface. We provide
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September 2022 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 46body and a port from Greece, the UK, Ko- The 8m-long prototype USV will be electrically powered us- rea, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Lithuania, Belgium ing a combination of hydrogen PEM fuel cell, Li-ion battery and Cyprus. and thin ? lm solar cells. It will provide the required high-res- Their
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September 2022 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 10modular design allows for additional sensors such as depth for Repsol Sinopec. But this year, for UWARE ROBOTICS (CTD), temperature, acidity, pH, re- Belgium’s Elia, it demonstrated visual uWare Robotics is a European deep dox, turbidity, etc., providing the user inspection capability for offshore wind
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June 2022 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 31courtesy Google Earth offshore wind farm, off Scotland, are being made here, as well as for the 38-turbine Kaskasi wind farm off Germany, SeaMade off Belgium and the 900MW Greater Changhua project in Taiwan. Blade storage challenge Since it was opened, the manufacturing site has churned out 1700 blades
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January 2022 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 20in the acoustic return is very different for each Navy, director of the NATO Naval Mine Warfare Centre of of those targets. Excellence in Ostend, Belgium. Sonar has traditionally helped us know where something is, “Buried mines lie completely under the seabed, are fully cov- how far a way it is, and
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January 2022 - Marine News page: 8multiple commercial-scale projects com- offshore wind farms on the west coast of the U.K. and ing online,” he said. “We must ensure that we leverage the Belgium. Relocated to Houston in 2019, today Galinski is experience from existing projects (both existing domestic) responsible for the management of operations
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July 2021 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 38, companies are gearing up for this activity, creating technologies to support mineral mining. In what’s been billed • SMD’s QC2000 as a world ? rst, Belgium-based DEME Group’s Patania 2 nodule collector has been undergoing trials in 4,500 m wa- ter depth in the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Paci? c
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March 2021 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 36OCEAN INSTRUMENTATION were also trying out the same idea. In Belgium, a group from a ? oating device, it’s dif? cult to have real time transmission of California Institute of Technology (Caltech) tried out DAS on the data. We can do this with DAS.” the ? rst 42 km of a dark ? ber connected to an
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March 2021 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 35. orientations and sea? oor structure,” says Lindsey. The experiment delivered even more information than ex- At around the same time, other groups in Belgium and France Researchers used 20 km (pink) of a 51-km undersea ? ber-optic cable, normally used to communicate with the Monterey Accelerated Research
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October 2020 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 50? oor. But to be truly autonomous, Teledyne Gavia in the North Sea off detection and recognition can be done they needed to automatically detect and Belgium in 2018. automatically. recognize objects of interest—anything “The sea state can be really choppy,” However, due to computational from mines
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August 2020 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 47, The first big move for the company and at the end of two years and $24 in allowing customers to literally build was striking a deal with ILS in Belgium rent total, they bought the building. their own spreader beams using Tan- to operate its U.S. company selling its Since then Tandemloc has expanded
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Nov/Dec 2019 - Maritime Logistics Professional page: 42. by the Maritime Blockchain Labs (MBL) consortium, funded by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation. Marc Johnson Having carried out the pilot in Belgium and the Netherlands, is CEO at BunkerTrace. Marc brings his extensive experience in product development, implementation, and management from previous
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December 2019 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 15a However, each port is different, meaning each wireless backbone solution for DP World Antwerp one has its own vast and varying complex needs, in Belgium, for its Antwerp Gateway. As one of the which makes the challenge of delivering and im- busiest container terminals in Europe, it handles plementing
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November 2019 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 59building out 6MW tur- bines. This year, 9.5MW turbines with 164-meter-diameter rotors will be in- stalled at the Northwester 2 offshore wind farm in Belgium. Siemens Gamesa will also be prototyping its 10MW SG 10.0-193 DD prototype turbine, with a 193-meter-diameter rotor, at the Danish Document liner
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November 2019 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 58.4GW was added ing power into the grid in 2020/21, and when Germany’s EnBW and Denmark’s seen by many as a ma- and that’s expected to be how much will Belgium and Poland eying their poten- Ørsted made bids for German projects. turing market in Europe, be added per year over the next 10 years, tial. “A
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November 2019 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 33• Medical services for seafarers’ families www.ap-companies.com + 34 931 702 286 [email protected] Armenia, Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belarus, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (including Corsica), Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar
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Sep/Oct 2019 - Maritime Logistics Professional page: 25, which intends to use the ships to transport sel owners and fnanciers demand more fexible designs that will ethane to its new cracker near Antwerp, Belgium. support the carriage of alternative cargoes. For VLECs built with Another major project involves the American Ethane Company cargo capacities
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October 2019 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 19• Medical services for seafarers’ families www.ap-companies.com + 34 931 702 286 [email protected] Armenia, Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belarus, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (including Corsica), Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar
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September 2019 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 47positions for local junior scientists. We collaborate with most of the na- val academies in the different countries, and they send their cadets here. Belgium had a student here this summer and they want to keep doing it every year. You also have a very engaging STEM program. We work with the schools
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September 2019 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 34this year, an unmanned sur- Use of unmanned surface vessels is face vessel (USV) made the jour- ney from West Mersea, in Essex, IEngland, to Oostende in Belgium. becoming a commercial reality – re- The 22-hour journey, between the UK and the European mainland, to deliver ducing emissions, cost and health
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August 2019 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 41are also in progress for a cutter suction the 138,000 cu. m. FSRU Excelerate dredger from DEME (Belgium), com- underwent several modi? cations and prising of spud, anchor boom lifting and retro? tting of new systems, including repairs, steelworks as well as repairs of the installation of a ballast