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Diving & Underwater Services

  • ROVs for Hurricane Hit Gulf

    01 Dec 2005

    Hurricane damage and an increased demand for more capable inspection ROVs has led to an urgent order for Seaeye for three systems to be rushed to the Gulf of Mexico. 

  • Atlantas Marine Organise First UK VideoRay Users Conference

    01 Dec 2005

    Over 25 owners and operators attended the first UK VideoRay Conference held over two days in Poole, Dorset. The event was organised by UK distributors Atlantas Marine. 

  • 6,000m ROV Contract Awarded to Subsea Resources

    01 Dec 2005

    ROV manufacturer Sub-Atlantic Ltd, based in Aberdeen in the UK, has been awarded a contract to deliver a 6,000m depth rated version of its light Workclass Comanche ROV to salvage company Subsea Resources Plc. 

  • AC-CESS Micro ROV Orders

    01 Dec 2005

    AC-CESS has continued its success in selling to international defence markets with the sale of the first AC-ROV to the French Ministry of the Defence after a successful demonstration at the Breast Naval Base. The representatives from the French Navy have asked for a further demonstration to take place at the Toulon Naval Base in 2006 Meanwhile, US distributors Deep Development Corp have agreed a sale to KeySpan Energy. Mr Trainor from Keyspan commented, 'Its size and mobility mean it can get us inspection footage of areas our divers cannot safely reach, at an overall greatly reduced cost. We intend to use it for the inspection of water intake canals at our power plants including pilings, dams, sheet piles, pumps and screen wash racks. Inside the plants we will use it to inspect piping systems that are always full of water. With the grabber arm we will now be able to retrieve foreign objects from these systems." 

Hydrographic Survey by David Goodfellow

  • Mojo Working Miracles at Woolacombe

    01 Dec 2005

    Conducting marine operations in surf zones can be extremely difficult, particularly when the project is a geotechnical survey off Devon UK's premier surfing beach. Such was the challenge posed to Mojo Maritime Ltd when approached by client Lankelma UK Ltd to carry out an intertidal marine site investigation for an outfall extension project using a 4.5 ton subsea ROV crawler unit combined with a Neptune core penetrometer (CPT) system within the surf zone at the surfer's paradise which is Woolacombe Bay. 

  • DGPS Shared Use Guidelines

    01 Dec 2005

    Definitive guidelines for shared use of Differential GPS for dynamic positioning and survey operations have been published by the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA), the London-based organisation with around 300 member companies in 35 countries. 

  • EU EPDIS Project Completed

    01 Dec 2005

    A 2.85m research project for development of an electronic pilot display and information system (EPDIS), part-funded by the EU under its Information Society Technology programme, has been successfully completed following presentation of results in Finland to EU officials as well as leading ship operators and independent observers. 

  • New CARIS Software

    01 Dec 2005

    Canadian software specialists CARIS have launched a new suite of products for bathymetric data management, Base Editor 1.0. It enables users to compile, validate and analyse bathymetric data from multiple formats and a variety of sources for 3D visualisation, subset area editing and surface comparison. 

  • Kongsberg ROV Survey Package

    01 Dec 2005

    Kongsberg Maritime in Norway has introduced a new survey package for ROVs, the EM 3002. Comprising a suite of imaging, positioning and communication hardware and software, the company says it is designed for straightforward installation and mobilisation on virtually any ROV for high resolution underwater inspection operations, detailed accurate mapping and acoustic imaging of seabeds. 

  • Early Start for Hydrographic Survey Newbuild

    01 Dec 2005

    Demand for Aquatech's new survey launch Aquadynamic was so great that the vessel was put into service 18 months before its official launch at Oi06 next March. 

Marine Civils by David Foxwell

  • IWA Provides Funds for Hydraulics Research Project

    01 Dec 2005

    The Inland Waterways Association (IWA) in the UK has offered a grant of £10,000 to British Waterways, towards the cost of a hydraulics research project on the effects of boats moving in confined channels. 

  • Waterways Link Gets Outline Planning Permission

    01 Dec 2005

    Outline planning permission has been approved for the first phase of a multi-million pound project that could ultimately see a new navigable waterway established, wich will link several cathedral cities in the UK and create hundreds of moorings for recreational craft. 

  • Contract to Monitor Poole Dredging Operations

    01 Dec 2005

    Poole Harbour Commissioners in Dorset UK has awarded Partrac Ltd a contract to continuously monitor dredging operations in Poole harbour over a five month period which commenced in November. 

Navaids

  • Resinex Package for Moses

    01 Dec 2005

    The Moses Project is meant to protect Venice from sinking. 

  • Security buoys Parliament

    01 Dec 2005

    The perpetual threat of global terrorist activity has generated an urgent need for the protection of people and property everywhere. This has in turn led to the application of innovative and technologically smart equipment designed to enhance security, especially at strategically vulnerable sites. 

  • Lighthouses Convert to Solar Power

    01 Dec 2005

    Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority has installed a comprehensive package of solar-powered aids for lighthouses along the country's 335 mile coastline. 

Navigation & Communications

  • Simplified Voyage Data Recorder Launch

    01 Dec 2005

    Danelec Marine launched the new DM300 at the recent Europort Exhibition in Rotterdam. 

  • New Service from RHG

    01 Dec 2005

    The Radio Holland Group (RHG), with branch offices located along the major shipping routes, and specialising in the supply, installation and service of maritime electronics, is rolling out a new service information system over all of its branches, managed by their Global Service House. 

  • Transas supply German Naval Academy with new Simulators

    01 Dec 2005

    Transas Europe GmbH, the European representative Office of the Transas Group, has been selected to supply a new large scale Simulator named AANS for the Marineschule Muerwik (MSM), the German Naval Officers Training Academy in Flensburg. 

News

  • RingProp Cops Award

    01 Dec 2005

    RingProp PLC's innovative ringed propeller for outboard motors received Special Mention in the Machinery, Propulsion, Electrical & Mechanical Systems and Fittings category from the international jury for the DAME 2005 Awards handed out at METS in Amsterdam last month. The Jury Report stated, 'The RingProp from RingProp Trading Ltd of the UK has been refined to offer safety and manoeuvrability benefits for specific outboard applications.' 

  • New Type Tunnel Thruster Debut

    01 Dec 2005

    The first commercial application of a new type of tunnel thruster technology is being deployed on a UT 712 CD anchor handler currently under construction at Aker Yards Soviknes for Olympic Shipping of Norway. 

  • Outlook Positive at CEDA Dredging Days

    01 Dec 2005

    The Central Dredging Association (CEDA) made a successful transition along with Europort last month when CEDA Dredging Days 2005 was held alongside the newly relocated Europort Maritime exhibition in Rotterdam. 

  • Pollution Preparedness Bridges Historical Tensions

    01 Dec 2005

    Historical animosities have been set aside to deliver the EU funded Summeri Project, which unites three major Gulf of Finland maritime training centres as one network capable of both training personnel and responding to regional marine oil pollution events. 

  • Successful River Scheldt Salvage

    01 Dec 2005

    Dutch salvage company Multraship, working with Belgian salvor URS, has successfully refloated the 3,758gt chemical tanker Philipp Essberger, which grounded in the River Scheldt near Flushing following a reported engine failure. 

  • New Series for German Sea Rescue Body

    01 Dec 2005

    The second in a series of new 10.1 m patrol boats for the German sea rescue service DGzRS has gone into service out of Glowe on the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. 

  • Kwant Controls' Future

    01 Dec 2005

    Dutch nautical instrumentation and control systems specialist Stork-Kwant, which was taken over through a management buy-out in January 2004, has changed its name to Kwant Controls BV with effect from the first day of last month. 

  • MICAD Moves Online

    01 Dec 2005

    Marine aftermarket products manufacturer MICAD Marine Specialty Products (MMSP) has launched the website www.MICADSHOP. com to make its range available to boat and ship owners worldwide. A debut product on MICADSHOP is a Valu-Brite 17in monitor with a footprint occupying the same helm space as a 15in monitor. 

  • 'Matching Marine Propulsion' Workshop

    01 Dec 2005

    Ship and boat builders who want to know how best to match ship propulsion components and systems, perhaps avoiding costly mistakes, will take interest in the second international Matching Marine Propulsion Workshop, which starts in Vlaardingen in the Netherlands on 7 February 2006. 

  • PLA Awarded PERS

    01 Dec 2005

    The Port of London Authority has been awarded the EcoPorts Port Environmental Review System (PERS) certificate in recognition of its work to maintain high environmental standards. PERS is a European standard system designed by ports themselves to assist in complying with recommendations of the Environmental Code of Practice of the ESPO. 

  • More Traffic for HST

    01 Dec 2005

    The Simon Group, which operates the Humber Sea Terminal (HST), has signed an agreement with A P Moller-Maersk Group subsidiary Norfolkline BV to supply port and terminal services between HST and Vlaardingen in Holland. 

  • EU Short Sea Focus

    01 Dec 2005

    Short sea shipping has been identified as a sector for attention by EU environment commissioner Stavros Dimas. Alongside ship building, Mr Dimas believes new legislation for Europe's maritime industries is necessary under his marine environment strategy aimed at cleaning up Europe's territorial waters by 2021. 

  • Merchant Shipping Notices

    01 Dec 2005

    The following Merchant Shipping Notices and Notes have been published recently by the UK's Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) - an executive agency of the Department for Transport. 

  • Moor Care Needed

    01 Dec 2005

    The London P&I Club has warned of the potentially fatal consequences of failing to observe the highest levels of care and attention, on board and ashore, during the mooring and unmooring of ships. In the latest issue of its StopLoss Bulletin, the Club highlights a case in which a vessel leaving a river berth failed to release a mooring line which broke when the current caught the ship, killing a mooring man onshore. 

  • P&O Accepts Dubai Takeover Bid

    01 Dec 2005

    The P&O ports and ferries group has agreed to a £3.3bn takeover bid from Dubai Ports World (DP World), which is owned by the Dubai government. P&O announced that it had received an unsolicited approach last month, and the ensuing offer of 443 pence per share in cash was higher than analysts had expected. 

Port, Harbour & Marine Construction

  • New Terminal Boosts Rhine Intermodal Role

    01 Dec 2005

    Vehicle handling and logistics firm E H Harms, part of Bremen's BLG Logistics, has opened a car handling terminal in Europe's biggest inland port, Duisburg, to boost the role of the Rhine in intermodal transport. 

  • Jenkins Expand Dredging Fleet

    01 Dec 2005

    Following the acquisition of four vessels from Dean & Dyball Construction earlier this year, Poole UK based Jenkins Marine have further expanded their fleet to include the two 300m 3split hopper barges Needles and Nab. 

  • New Terminal Will Ease Congestion

    01 Dec 2005

    Europe's biggest seaport, Rotterdam, has revealed plans for a second new container terminal with facilities for feeders and inland waterway vessels. 

  • Ports Meet Environment at GreenPort 2006

    01 Dec 2005

    To meet forecast growth in world trade over the next decade, container ports and the shipping industry will need to double capacity. Achieving such growth with minimal adverse effect on the environment is a major challenge. Time delays and increased costs have become a major brake on world trade. 

  • Bidding for Irish Deepwater Port

    01 Dec 2005

    Drogheda Port Company announced on 9 December that it is commencing an open competitive process for a joint venture partner for the development of its Bremore Deepwater Port in the Greater Dublin Area. 

  • Dutch Workboat Duo Join Forces

    01 Dec 2005

    Workboat operator Rederij Waterweg BV has joined forces with another Dutch workboat company, Van Stee Survey & Supply, after the latter was taken over by what is now the parent company of both, Acta Marine Holding. 

Safety, Survival & Training

  • Integrated Ports Training at South Tyneside

    01 Dec 2005

    The Harwich Integrated Ports Course run by South Tyneside College's School of Maritime Studies and Engineering has become the first of its kind to be approved by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The short course uses simulation developed with Harwich Haven Authority, which has responsibility for the UK ports of Felixstowe, Harwich and Ipswich. 

  • Schat-Harding's Manufactures Chinese KISS Lifeboats

    01 Dec 2005

    Lifeboat and davit supplier Schat-Harding is expanding its Asian manufacturing activities by building its KISS lifeboats in China. The company is also developing a 32 person freefall lifeboat for dry cargo vessels and tankers which will be built at its Umoe Schat-Harding Boatbuilding Co Ltd plant at Qingdao. 

  • Mobile Fire Fighting Launch at Europort

    01 Dec 2005

    Debuted at the Europort Maritime exhibition in Rotterdam last month is Cyprus-based OmniQual Ltd, offering an impressive range of German-built portable fire fighting units. 

Ship & Boat Building

  • Wallenius Wilhelmsens Adds to its Green Fleet

    01 Dec 2005

    Wallenius Wilhelmsen christened the latest addition to its fleet of environmentally responsible car carriers at a recent naming ceremony in Baltimore USA. 

  • Static Electricity Banished in Banffshire Spray Painting Booth

    01 Dec 2005

    Scotland's Buckie Shipyard has been a major contractor to the RNLI for over 60 years. The shipyard carries out repairs on all classes of RNLI vessels and is one of only two yards carrying out refits on the RNLI's 17m Severn Class lifeboats. 

  • Hippo Helps Raider Lose Weight

    01 Dec 2005

    Foam Elastomer Fendering Systems designed and manufactured by the UK's Hippo Marine have been specified into the build of a new generation of Offshore Raiding Craft (ORC) for the UK Ministry of Defence. 

  • Workboats Roll from Damen Yard

    01 Dec 2005

    Damen Shipyards' Hardinxveld yard in the Netherlands continues its prolific output of workboats with the recent delivery of two shallow draft 1908 Multicats to Coastal Shipping BV. 

Tugs & Towing by Jack Gaston

  • TOWLINES

    01 Dec 2005

    Stevns Arctic, an Ice Class ASD tug and sister to the earlier Stevns Ocean, has been delivered to Danish management company Nordane Shipping of Svendborg by Irving Shipbuilding Inc. 

  • Changes Come Thick and Fast at Adsteam

    01 Dec 2005

    Adsteam Towage has made a succession of recent announcements indicating important moves to reinforce the company's ongoing commitment to continuous improvement in the delivery of towage services in the UK. 

  • Svitzer Replacement Programme Continues Unabated

    01 Dec 2005

    Over the past two or three years the multi-national towage group Svitzer-Wijsmuller has been undertaking an ongoing fleet replacement programme, intended to update existing tug fleets and ensure that important new towage contracts can be adequately supported. 

  • Sanmar Spread Their Wings

    01 Dec 2005

    2005 has been a highly successful year for Turkish tugbuilder and operator Sanmar Denizcilik Ltd. The company, who specialise in building standard tugs based on four different series designs is steadily adding to their customer base, with new clients from around the world, and especially Europe. All four vessels types offered are to well established designs from Robert Allan. 

Taylor Fuel Control