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Dredging

  • IADC Award Winner 'Dredging in a Sensitive Environment'

    01 Nov 2004

    Dr Elijah Ohimain, a biologist working in Nigeria, has won this year's IADC Award at the World Dredging Congress (WODCON), held in Hamburg in late September. 

  • Input Now on Water Framework Directive

    01 Nov 2004

    The recently implemented EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) applies to all water bodies, including rivers, lakes, coasts and estuaries, and hence anyone who earns their living within these catchments needs to know about its implementation. 

Hydrographic Survey by David Goodfellow

  • New Gardline Vessel

    01 Nov 2004

    At Hydro4 , Gardline Environmental announced an extension to its inshore survey capability with the acquisition of Coastal Surveyor , a specialist vessel equipped with a comprehensive suite of equipment which includes a Simrad EM3000 multibeam system, sidescan sonar, sub-bottom profiler and magnetometer. 

  • Federation of Societies Formed

    01 Nov 2004

    The International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS), a newly constituted organisation serving the worldwide interests of hydrography at all levels of expertise, has been formally established as the successor body of the Hydrographic Society. 

  • 'Xplorer' Returns from Wreck Surveys

    01 Nov 2004

    The hydrographic survey vessel Xplorer , operated by Portsmouth UK based Sea-Trax , has just completed a six month contract surveying designated protected wreck sites between Northern Ireland and Falmouth. 

Marine Civils by David Foxwell

  • Coastline of England and Wales 'Becoming Steeper'

    01 Nov 2004

    The coastline of England and Wales has become steeper and is undermining coastal defences against flooding and erosion, according to research published by Dr Nigel Pontee, a senior coastal scientist at Halcrow in the UK. 

  • RoSafe Ups the Standard

    01 Nov 2004

    Posford Haskoning and Bosch Rexroth have revealed details of a new safety device for ferry linkspans that they have developed. The new device, named RoSafe , is a secondary system that works independently of the operating mechanism that moves a linkspan or walkway into position. It acts as an independent brake should the lifting mechanism or the structure fail. 

  • Seacore Wins More Windfarm Work

    01 Nov 2004

    Seacore in the UK has been awarded a contract by the Danish power utility company, Energi E2 , to erect an 80m high meteorological mast for the London Array Offshore Wind Farm project in the Thames Estuary. 

  • Iraqi Ports Obstructed by Wrecks, says UNDP

    01 Nov 2004

    Hundreds of sunken ships ranging from large freighters and tankers to small tugs and dhows are blocking access to Iraq's principal seaports and threatening the marine environment of the northern Persian Gulf, according to a detailed report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) which was released in early October. 

  • Automated Mooring System for Dover

    01 Nov 2004

    The Port of Dover in the UK is to be the first European port to install an automated mooring system using vacuum technology developed by Mooring Systems Limited (MSL), following the signing earlier this year of a European licensing agreement between MSL and Cavotec Group Holdings NV in the Netherlands. 

  • New Standard for Ro-ro Linkspans

    01 Nov 2004

    As briefly highlighted in the October issue of MJ , a new code for the design of ro-ro ramps, linkspans and walkways - British Standard 6349 Part 8 - is due to be published early next year, enabling ro-ro infrastructure to be planned, designed and built to an acceptable common set of rules. 

Maritime Journal 200th Issue

Monitoring & Control

  • New Programmable Logic Controller

    01 Nov 2004

    Controls specialist AMOT has introduced a new programmable logic controller which combines the power of a PLC with the ease of use of an embedded controller. The TomaHawk 8635A brings users a simple and flexible programming concept that allows custom and/ or pre-programmed applications to be combined and tailored to meet user needs exactly. 

  • Ride Control for Fast Patrol Boats

    01 Nov 2004

    Ride control specialist VTMaritime Dynamics Inc (VTMD) has won the contract to supply the stabilisation systems for the advanced Skjold Class fast patrol boats being built for the Royal Norwegian Navy . 

  • RNLI In Control of New Tamar Class

    01 Nov 2004

    Newbury UK based Radamec Control Systems Ltd (RCS) is presently trialling BridgeMaster , its new digital bridge control package, with the RNLI . The system was introduced to the market at seawork2004 . 

Navaids

  • MAIB Reports on Vessel Brush with Denmark's Bad Buoy

    01 Nov 2004

    The British Government's Marine Accident Investigation Branch has published its report into the contact of a British cargo ship with a navigation buoy in Denmark's Drogden Channel earlier this year. At 0755 on 29 January 2004, the UK registered general cargo vessel Scot Venture made contact with Number 16 buoy in the Drogden Channel, Denmark, in restricted visibility. The vessel then anchored clear of the channel until towed to Malmo, Sweden, for inspection. 

  • Back-up Power for Goteborg's New Beacons

    01 Nov 2004

    Goteborg Hamm AB , operator of the Port of Goteborg in Sweden, has ordered Saft's new design Sunica. plu s low maintenance rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries to provide reliable back-up power for the 34 new solar powered fairway beacons that will mark the main access channels approaching the port. 

  • Coastal Surveillance and VTS Antennas

    01 Nov 2004

    Atlas Elektronic GmbH has selected Easat to supply parabolic reflector antennas for the Kuwait Sea Surveillance project. The contract to supply a 5.5m reflector antenna builds upon other recent successes supplying antennas for a coastal surveillance system in Estonia as well as elsewhere in Europe and in Asia. 

  • Navaids Show Way to Rebuilt West Bay

    01 Nov 2004

    Tideland Signal is supplying a range of aids to navigation equipment for the £16.8m redevelopment of West Bay Harbour in Dorset UK which was seriously damaged by storms in 1995. 

  • Battered Buoy Makes Case for Plastic

    01 Nov 2004

    New plastic marine navigation buoys placed recently in the Caribbean proved their durability in the toughest of circumstances when one was run over by a high speed ocean cruiser. 

News

  • A&P Birkenhead Land Deal

    01 Nov 2004

    Ship repairers A&P Birkenhead and Reddington Finance Ltd have reached an agreement for the sale and leaseback of some of A&P's land at Birkenhead. A&P Birkenhead retains ownership of the drydocks but some surplus land will be sold to the property developers. A&P believes the arrangement will enable it to better focus on its ship repair business despite difficult trading prospects. 

  • 'Voe Viking' Gets First New Model Effer Crane

    01 Nov 2004

    A new Multicat under construction at Damen Shipyards ' Hardinxveld yard in the Netherlands will be the first vessel fitted with the new model 18000 3S crane from Italian manufacturer Effer . 

  • Multraship Completes Danish Dredger Salvage at Esjberg

    01 Nov 2004

    Terneuzen based Multraship Salvage has completed the lifting of the 79m trailing suction hopper dredger Thor R , which sank in the mouth of the Danish port of Esjberg on 26 September. 

  • Big Box Load Is Beautiful

    01 Nov 2004

    On 27 September, the pushboat Riad left Rotterdam's ECT Delta Terminals with a record load of 652TEU. All of the 415 containers on board were full, to be unloaded in Rotterdam and feedered on to Antwerp. 

  • German SWATH Programme Hits a Snag

    01 Nov 2004

    Electrical problems during sea trials have delayed the delivery of Planet , Germany's biggest SWATH vessel. The word from Nordseewerke (NSW) in Emden is that handover might not now take place before the end of the year. 

  • A Hot Wind Blows

    01 Nov 2004

    In a period of 24 hours last month, three times as much new wind power capacity (300MW) was approved in Scotland and Wales than was built during the whole of last year. To date this year in the UK, 30 new wind energy projects have been consented, at a 75% approval rate and totalling some 770MW. 

  • Aker Shakes the Cruise World

    01 Nov 2004

    Finland's Aker Yards Group has merged its two shipyards in that country, Kvaerner Masa - Yards Inc and Aker Finnyards Inc , into a new company called Aker Finnyard s. 

  • ACE Set the Pace in Winch Delivery

    01 Nov 2004

    Scotland based Alfred Cheyne Engineering Ltd (ACE Winches) continue to demonstrate their ability to deliver large winch packages in short delivery times. 

  • VOSTA LMG Flourishing in the East

    01 Nov 2004

    Amsterdam based dredger builder and dredging components supplier VOSTA LMG has won an 'Engineering and Components' contract for a packaged CSD500 cutter suction dredger from a partner in Malaysia. The contract includes the design of the dredger, critical components such as the dredge pump, cutter head and ladder, operator cabin, on site project management and maintenance. 

  • John Deere Diesels for Dredgers

    01 Nov 2004

    IMS , a division of Liquid Waste Technology LLC , has opted to install John Deere engines on its entire Versi-Dredge product line. 

  • EC Gives Go for Galileo

    01 Nov 2004

    The European Commission adopted a communication last month on moving to the deployment and operational phases of the European satellite radio navigation system. 

  • Supplier's E-Commerce Award

    01 Nov 2004

    Martek Marine , the Rotherham UK based supplier of safety monitoring systems to the global marine industry, has won Best Use of Teleworking at the 2004 DTI/InterForum E-Commerce Awards ceremony in London last month. The company makes extensive use of voice over internet (VOIP) and Virtual Private Networking (VPN) to allow their employees in many countries around the world to communicate in a timely and cost effective fashion. 

  • 'Beluga 11' Yard Goes Bankrupt Over Cost Row With Greenpeace

    01 Nov 2004

    The Fridtjof Nansen Shipyard in east Germany has applied for bankruptcy proceedings after Greenpeace paid only part of the €1.4m price for its newbuilding Beluga 11 , saying the ship had not been properly finished. 

  • FTA Considers Dire Port Congestion Options

    01 Nov 2004

    Members of the British Shippers' Council (BSC) have expressed extreme concern that their supply chains are at breaking point due to the growing pressures of port congestion. 

  • Dredging D-Day Looms for Port of Antwerp

    01 Nov 2004

    A report compiled by the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) following a two year study into the deepening of the River Scheldt has found that such works would not have a negative impact on the environment or security. The river, with its estuary and a navigation channel running through Dutch territory, provides access from the North Sea to the Belgian Port of Antwerp. 

  • Seafloor Mappers Delight In Detail

    01 Nov 2004

    Fugro Survey Ltd and AOAGeophysics Inc have mapped the Cap de Creus canyon head northeast of Barcelona in the Gulf of Lion, acquiring a dataset with a hull-mounted multibeam system. The map data acquired during the summer clearly shows a wide range of active geological processes, from mass wasting and furrows to faults and seefloor seepage, all in unprecedented detail. 

  • Molasses Passes Through Cardiff

    01 Nov 2004

    The UK's largest animal feed importer has begun importing molasses through a new £350,000 dedicated facility at the Port of Cardiff . 

  • Success Rewarded for HCT

    01 Nov 2004

    PD Ports ' agreement with Associated British Ports (ABP) to operate the Hull Container Terminal , due to expire next month, has been extended until further notice. The announcement follows the announcement in May that record numbers of containers had been handled at HCT in the year ending 31 March 2004, up nearly 20% on the previous year. 

  • Marine Consultancy Online

    01 Nov 2004

    Marine consultants and organisations offering marine consultancy can take advantage of the International Directory of Marine Consultancy (IDMC), a global online database run by the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST). The database can be searched free of charge at www.imarest.org/idmc by anyone looking for expertise in these fields. 

  • New Boatlift Exhibits Itself

    01 Nov 2004

    Stockholm's Slagsta Marina hassigned a five year contract with Stockholm Boat Exhibitions toprovide a boat lifting and transportation service within the exhibitions. 

  • Dredging Strategy for Port of London Unveiled

    01 Nov 2004

    A new publication detailing the approach to maintenance dredging in the Port of London area has been published. 

  • Project Ahead of Schedule

    01 Nov 2004

    Reclamation work on The Pearl-Qatar , the US $2.5 billon man-made island being built offshore Doha, is running ahead of schedule, The Pearl-Qatar newspaper reported in October. 

  • Jan De Nul Growing Again

    01 Nov 2004

    Belgium's Jan De Nul Group has ordered two stationary cutter suction dredgers from the same Tianjin Xinhe Shipyard in China that is building four 3,700m3 split barges for the dredging and marine construction giant. 

  • MCA Diverse and Conquers

    01 Nov 2004

    The UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency is the national overall winner in Remploy 's 8th annual Leading the Way Awards . The awards were developed to recognise employers that have made significant moves towards actively encouraging diversity within their organisations. The MCA employs 380 people at its Southampton headquarters, 17% of whom are disabled. According to Remploy, 'The MCA has demonstrated a high level of commitment to its existing disabled employees and goes to great lengths to understand the importance of diversity in the workplace.' 

  • Felixstowe In Safe Hands

    01 Nov 2004

    Adsteam Felixstowe is celebrating a certificate of recognition for achieving the highest safety record possible in the last 12 months. The ship assist crews at Felixstowe were congratulated by Adsteam operations director Ken Marshall for 12 months without any time lost through injury. This is the first time that Felixstowe has achieved this goal and it is the only Adsteam port in Britain to do so over the last year. 

  • New Ropax Ferries Will Boost North Sea Traffic

    01 Nov 2004

    Stena Line will expand its North Sea business in 2006 with the introduction of two new Ropax ferries on the Hook of Holland - Killingholme freight route. The two ferries of the Stena Seabridger Class will be built by Stena RoRo at FMV in Norway and will be ready to operate on the route in May and November of 2006. 

  • UTEC At Work Off Africa

    01 Nov 2004

    Lowestoft UK based underwater services contractor UTEC and partners Nutec West Africa Ltd have secured a contract to install a 2km long outfall pipe as part of the $95 million Kolre Lagoon Ecological Restoration Project in Ghana. UTEC's versatile survey vessel MV Goosander is key to the four month contract now underway, providing a base for the installation of over 500 five ton concrete weights through to the final pipeline installation. 

  • Dredging Instrumentation Gets Major System Upgrade

    01 Nov 2004

    Damen Dredging Equipment (formerly De Groot Nijkerk ) has carried out a major renovation of the dredging instrumentation on board two of UMA 's trailing suction hopper aggregates dredgers, City of Cardiff and City of Chichester . 

  • New Tri-modal Rhine Terminal Will Help to Reduce Truck Congestion

    01 Nov 2004

    A new trimodal container terminal just opened on the German Rhine at Ludwigshafen will, officials hope, eventually take 400 truck consignments a day off the country's congested roads and onto inland ships or railways. 

  • Dredge Monitoring Gives Shipwreck the Deep Six

    01 Nov 2004

    The Dutch maritime authority Rijkswaterstaat has reacted decisively to the wreck of the Assi Eurolink , which was restricting the navigable depth of the critical Friesland Junction shipping channel. 

  • New On HIT List

    01 Nov 2004

    Global power generation company International Power has signed a term agreement with Associated British Ports to use the new £44.5 million coal facility being built by extending the Humber International Terminal (HIT) at ABP's Port of Immingham (see MJ September 2004, page 25). 

  • Bids Close for Novel Pollution Ship Conversion

    01 Nov 2004

    Bidding was set to close 19 November on a tender by Cuxhaven authorities to convert the 79m tanker Marcus into a coastal oil collection ship at a cost of more than ? 1 million. 

  • 'City Barge' Potential Nurtured

    01 Nov 2004

    A special inland navigation vessel which can transport 144 TEU of boxes as well as big bags and pallets has been developed to bring and collect cargo to and from companies and manufacturers in the Amsterdam and North Sea Channel area. 

Pollution Control

Safety, Survival & Training

  • Drop Tested SART Meets New SOLAS Regs

    01 Nov 2004

    The S.701 SART being used by Viking Life Saving Equipment claims to be the first in the world to use non-hazardous battery packs and meets SOLAS requirements for liferafts. 

  • Training Goes to mars2 at SMM Exhibition in Hamburg

    01 Nov 2004

    Following the split of STN Atlas Elektronik last year, much of the operation remained in Bremen with Rheinmetall Defence Electronics GmbH , which launched its new Maritime Safety and Security Training Environment (mars2) at the recent SMM Exhibition inHamburg. 

  • RNLI's Lifeboat College Opens

    01 Nov 2004

    Continuing its commitment to providing the highest possible level of training, and subsequently saving the highest possible number of lives, the RNLI has opened the unique and purpose built Lifeboat College near its Poole headquarters. The project, which cost a total of £25m and has an estimated annual running cost of £1.1m, was funded by donors and supporters of the RNLI. 

  • First Survey Vessel Simulator

    01 Nov 2004

    The official trial of the world's first Survey Vessel Simulator, manufactured by Transas for the Russian Ministry of Defence's Directorate of Navigation and Oceanography 's Kedr development project has been completed successfully. 

  • Humber Staff Top of the Class

    01 Nov 2004

    Crews at Adsteam Humber have landed a number of professional qualifications recently, and are among the first in the UK to achieve them. 

Ship Repair & Conversion

  • ShipRepair & Conversion Embarks On New Format

    01 Nov 2004

    ShipRepair & Conversion 2004 London marks the first appearance in a new guise of a major event for the industry, which has been held annually in London for the past 12 years but will henceforward alternate yearly between its home city and leading overseas repair centres. 

Tugs & Towing by Jack Gaston

  • TOWLINES

    01 Nov 2004

    Farstad Supply AS , a wholly owned company of Farstad Shipping ASA , has sold the anchor-handler Far Turbot toChinese operators. This vessel became well-known in her role as one of the first Emergency Towing Vessels (ETV) to be operated under contract to the Maritime & Coastguard Agency . 

  • Worldwise Revamp an Established Anchor-handler Design

    01 Nov 2004

    Two very similar anchorhandling tugs are currently under construction, to a design produced by WorldWise Marine Engineering BV , for two very different owners in very different parts of the world. 

  • 'Battler' a New Tug for the Clyde

    01 Nov 2004

    Clyde Marine Services Ltd , based in the Victoria Harbour at Greenock in Scotland, has improved its ability to provide towage services considerably with the addition of a new Damen Stan Tug 1906 . Named Battler , the vessel was handed over to her owners during the last few days of October and sailed immediately on its delivery voyage to the Clyde. 

  • Double Trouble for the Historic Elbe

    01 Nov 2004

    A massive project to completely restore the ocean going tug Elbe to its original 1959 condition suffered a serious blow for the second time this year. Back in July the tug was struck and sunk at her Rotterdam moorings by a ship manoeuvring at an adjacent berth. The vessel was refloated and repairs to the hull had been completed when on 27 October the tug inexplicably sank at the Wartsila yard at Schiedam where the Smit-MAN main engines were being overhauled. By that stage much of the ship's machinery had been completely overhauled and work was progressing on the renewal of electric cabling. 

  • Design Award for Robert Allan Ltd.

    01 Nov 2004

    Canadian naval architect and tug designers Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) of Vancouver, was one of the winners announced in October in the 'Business Effectiveness' category at the Singapore Design Awards 2004 . 

  • Salvage Tug Tows Stricken Canadian Submarine

    01 Nov 2004

    The salvage tug Anglian Prince was released from her duties as an Emergency Towing Vessel with the Maritime & Coastguard Agency on the 5 October to go to the assistance of the Canadian submarine Chicoutimi lying disabled in the Atlantic. 

  • Multraship and Titan Join Forces in Romania

    01 Nov 2004

    Terneuzen-based Multraship Salvage has started work on a three-month project to remove the wreck of the 4,497gt Rostok from the Romanian River Danube. 

  • Armon Hard at Work on Spanish Emergency Vessels

    01 Nov 2004

    The Vigo based shipyard of Astilleros Armon is now deeply engaged in the construction of two 56m twin-screw tugs to be operated by the Spanish maritime rescue authority, Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Maritima (Sasemar). 

  • Titan salvage 'Skate - III'

    01 Nov 2004

    A recent incident in bad weather around the south coast of Britain brought a small salvage job almost to the doorstep of Titan Maritime attheir Newhaven base. On the morning of 21 October the jack-up barge Skate III wasfound aground in the surf on the beach at nearby Seaford. 

Vessel Launch Union Coral

  • Armon Produce Four More Jewels for Belgium

    01 Nov 2004

    URS - Towage & Salvage Union Ltd of Antwerp are by no means strangers to the Spanish shipyard of Astilleros Armon SA , in Navia. The last eight shiphandling tugs, six Voith tractors and two stern drive vessels, built for the Belgian company started life in their yard. Therefore it came as no surprise when, as part of an ongoing fleet enhancement programme, an order for a further four vessels was eventually placed with Armon. 

Vessel Repair & Maintenance

  • Intercontinental Underwater Repair

    01 Nov 2004

    A 30,000dwt, 200m long bulker needed urgent crack repairs when it arrived in the Brazilian port of Portocel in September. 

  • Shiprepair's Future Present for Training

    01 Nov 2004

    A West Country UK shiprepair and conversion yard is continuing to invest in the future of high quality skills by welcoming its latest intake of new apprentices to the yard. The 13 new recruits, all from West Cornwall and aged between 16 and 18, spent their first week in September undergoing induction to A&P Falmouth , after which they embarked upon a four year apprentice training programme. 

  • Homecoming Refit for 'HMS Northumberland'

    01 Nov 2004

    The marine division of Gateshead UK based protective coatings specialist Pyeroy ismaintaining the region's links with one of the last Royal Navy vessels built on the Tyne. 

  • Hebburn Village Nurtures FPSO Refit

    01 Nov 2004

    A&P Tyne has successfully re-delivered the FPSO Haewene Brim to Holland's offshore specialist Bluewater following an extensive upgrading to its process plant alongside a hull maintenance refit. The contract was won in a partnership between A&PTyne Ltd and McNulty Offshore Contractors Ltd of South Shields UK, who were the prime contractor. 

  • Bahrain Repair Yard In Top Gear

    01 Nov 2004

    The Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard (ASRY) of Bahrain has consolidated outstanding results from the first half of the year with a successful third quarter in which business and sales figures were up by some 7% on the previous quarter. 

  • SHIPMATES' Money Lifts Repair Technology

    01 Nov 2004

    Shipyards used to repair and convert existing vessels are set to become more efficient and environmentally friendly with the help of a grant for ? 2,151,000 from the EU's Framework Programme . 

  • Greenwich University Scientists Work to Save 'Cutty Sark'

    01 Nov 2004

    New computer models of the endangered Victorian tea clipper Cutty Sark are to be made by its neighbour, the University of Greenwich . 

  • Dry Docking Expansion Greeted on Thames

    01 Nov 2004

    The recent addition of a new dry docking facility on the Thames at Greenwich has received the endorsement of Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, and that of Councellor Chris Roberts, Leader of Greenwich Council, who voiced his satisfaction with the growth in Greenwich's marine engineering expertise. 

Works In Progress

  • VT Halmatic Steels Itself for Success

    01 Nov 2004

    Portchester UK based VT Halmatic , with a well established reputation as a builder of fibre reinforced plastic workboats, patrol craft, pilot boats, paramilitary vessels and vessel components mouldings, ventured into the marketplace for steel built vessels with an official launch of the Halmatic Steel Division at seawork2000 . 

Taylor Fuel Control