New Cranes Buoy Up Trinity House's Services

01 Jan 2003

The Trinity Lighthouse Service's programme of upgrading its vessels' equipment continues to bring major benefits and greatly improve operational efficiency. 

Stemat in Irish Sea Jack-Up Delivery

01 Jan 2003

With its recent successful installation of a large jack-up rig in the Irish Sea, Stemat Marine Services of Rotterdam has proved that with the right equipment in the right place at the right time, almost anything can be lifted. But there was little room to spare when the assembled Calder rig was finally unloaded from Stemat's heavily modified winch pontoon Pontra Maris. 

Lankhorst Ropes Deliver Benchmark Clarity

01 Jan 2003

It is becoming increasingly more difficult to understand the difference in the quality of mooring ropes due to new products continuously coming onto the market, each highlighting different characteristics. A benchmark which is increasingly being used to measure the performance of ropes in the maritime industry is TCLL value. 

Jack-Up Lifts Marine Site Investigation

01 Jan 2003

Seacore has made use of a new Commachio crawler based automatic drill rig in conjunction with its Skate 3 jack-up pontoon to carry out a combined onshore and nearshore site investigation project along the route of a proposed waste water treatment works pipeline and sea outfall at Portrush in Northern Ireland. 

Barge Handling Reachstacker

01 Jan 2003

Verbrugge Terminals BV in Terneuzen, The Netherlands, handles about 1.8 million tonnes of forest products each year which largely originate in Sweden and are shipped to Verbrugge by ro-ro vessel.