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Diving & Underwater Services

  • Seawork Feedback Inspires Subsea Cleaner

    01 Sep 2005

    Following a successful visit to Seawork 2005 , Surrey UK based Fraer Pump and Engineering have responded to customer requests and refined two existing products to develop a subsea cleaning system which can be deployed to remove harbour corrosion both above and below water. Many visitors to the stand at Seawork expressed a need for a smaller, more mobile machine that could tackle such tasks within a harbour environment. 

  • International Cooperation Saves Trapped Submariners

    01 Sep 2005

    James Fisher Rumic Ltd , which operates the British Royal Navy 's submarine rescue service, completed a successful four day operation to rescue the Russian Priz AS-28 submersible, saving the lives of seven Russian sailors trapped in the mini-submarine 625ft below the Pacific on the ocean floor off Russia's far eastern Kamchatka peninsula. The rescue was achieved with the trapped sailors having fewer than ten hours of air remaining for survival. 

  • Acoustic Underwater Trials in Falmouth

    01 Sep 2005

    Falmouth UK based BayMarine has successfully carried out acoustic sea trials on behalf of a major British defence contractor. The trials were carried out in 60m deep water in Falmouth Bay from Bay Marine's multi-talented workboat Redeemer . 

Hydrographic Survey by David Goodfellow

  • Subsea 7 Sells Survey Vessel

    01 Sep 2005

    Global subsea contractor Subsea 7 of Aberdeen has sold its survey/ROV support vessel, DSND Surveyor , to Berkon Shipping NV in the Dutch Antilles for a reported US$3.5m. 

  • New Atlas Sounder

    01 Sep 2005

    Atlas Hydrographic in Bremen has extended its DESO range of survey echosounders with the introduction of a new advanced three channel system featuring a networked Windows interface with associated software. 

  • Marine Mapping Advances

    01 Sep 2005

    SeaZone Solutions , the Metoc and Admiralty Holdings joint venture company, is set to launch SeaZone Hydrospatial , which it claims will be the most detailed and comprehensive maps of UK territorial waters containing information never before featured in nautical charts. 

Marine Civils by David Foxwell

  • Lydney's Historic Docks Reopened After Renovation

    01 Sep 2005

    July saw the re-opening of the historic docks at Lydney, near Gloucester in the UK after a two year project to restore and enhance the historic landmark on behalf of the Environment Agency (EA). 

  • New Marina Proposed at Rhyl

    01 Sep 2005

    A new marina is being proposed at Kinmel Bay at Rhyl in North Wales UK on the site of a well known local landmark, a historic fun-fair. 

  • Van Oord Consortium Wins Extension Project

    01 Sep 2005

    Netherlands based Van Oord has been awarded a contract for the extension of the coal terminal and port basin at the Port of Richards Bay , South Africa. The client is the National Ports Authority of South Africa . The project will be executed in cooperation with several local companies with Van Oord's share in the consortium set up to execute the work being 50%. 

  • Flexcrete Completes High Profile Marine Project in Qatar

    01 Sep 2005

    Flexcrete , the British company that specialises in repairing and protecting concrete structures, has completed an important project in Doha in the Middle East. The project saw the company coat a sea wall spanning 500m in Doha, the capital of Qatar on the east coast of the peninsula in the Arabian Gulf. 

Navaids

  • Data Buoys Debut

    01 Sep 2005

    Surrey UK based Planet Ocean has announced a new 'off the shelf' range of data buoy platforms for environmental instrumentation in all operational conditions. Starting with the low cost 1.24m DB-124 inshore buoy and rising to the open ocean 3m DB-300 model, all in the range incorporate high specification radar reflectors, self contained solar powered navigational light, through hull deployment tubes, solar panels and integral equipment housings. The buoys are foam filled and unsinkable. 

  • Racons Contract for US Coast Guard

    01 Sep 2005

    Tideland Signal of Houston, Texas has won a three year contract to supply SeaBeacon 2 System 6 racons to the US Coast Guard . 

  • Experienced Shows that Boys Will Buy Buoys at Seawork

    01 Sep 2005

    Eason Marine took the occasion of Seawork 2005 to launch their new 3m rotationally moulded navigation buoy. The EM3000 ispacked with new features aimed at making maintenance and deployment of the buoy much safer and simpler. 

Navigation & Communication

  • Type Approval for Next Generation ECDIS

    01 Sep 2005

    The Navmaster ECDIS developed by PC Maritime has been awarded type approval by DNV , certifying that it complies with IMO A817(19) and the latest edition of all associated specifications. 

  • Port Monitoring Roll-out Continues

    01 Sep 2005

    Of particular interest to many visitors to the Transas Marine UK stand at Seawork 2005 was the company's recent installation of a port monitoring system at Portland Harbour inDorset UK. 

  • Virtual Navigation for German Water Police

    01 Sep 2005

    Belgium based Barco , in cooperation with ELNA ElektroNavigation und Industrie and a third company named in-innovative navigation , has won a 1m contract to supply a new radar simulation training system to Wasserschutzpolizei-Schule (WSPS), the German Water Police Academy in Hamburg. 

  • Alphatron Marine Bridges Technology Gap for Jamaican Coastguard

    01 Sep 2005

    Alphatron Marine of Rotterdam has delivered the first Alphabridge INS bridge to the Jamaican Coastguard vessel Cornwall , which is currently under build at Damen Shipyards in the Netherlands. 

  • 'The Bridge' to Navigational Experience

    01 Sep 2005

    Navigating ships through changing weather and sea conditions, across vast oceans or along coastlines and in crowded harbours is an exciting job for professionals. 

  • NewNavComms for Tsunami Relief Boat

    01 Sep 2005

    Marine electronics equipment manufacturer Raymarine is supporting the ongoing tsunami relief work being carried out by the crew on board Vega , ahistoric 115 year old sailing vessel. The company answered a plea from Shane Granger, the captain of Vega , to replace equipment damaged while delivering aid in Malaysia. 

News

  • Maritime Industries Mourn Lord Donaldson of Lymington

    01 Sep 2005

    Maritime safety has lost one of its greatest and most influential advocates with the sudden passing earlier this month of Lord Donaldson of Lymington. 

  • Salvors Warn on STS Restrictions

    01 Sep 2005

    Salvage operations involving the ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of cargo and bunkers from tankers and other vessels should be exempt from new controls proposed by Spain and Mexico and now under consideration by the International Maritime Organization's Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC). The International Salvage Union (ISU) believes that the proposed new rules could hamper salvors' efforts to prevent a future Prestige type spill catastrophe. 

  • Water Transport Call for Papers

    01 Sep 2005

    With European road transport becoming ever more stifled by congestion, coastal ships and inland transport by waterways could become a more viable alternative in some instances. The Royal Institution of Naval Architects has issued a call or papers for a conference on the subject which will take place in London on 15 and 16 March 2006. 

  • Dockstavarvet Celebrates a Successful Century of Boat Building

    01 Sep 2005

    Sweden's Dockstavarvet is celebrating 100 years of operation this month with the east coast shipyard busily building another two pilot boats for the Danish Pilots . The sister craft will be the 22nd and 23rd pilot boats built by Dockstavarvet for the Danish Pilots and continue a lineage of pilot boats which dates back to 1906. 

  • Keel Goes Down for CAD Pilot Boat

    01 Sep 2005

    A radical new design of pilot boat being built using some of the most advanced computer aided design and manufacturing techniques available has reached the keel laying stage on target. 

  • Doubled Capacity at Russian Port

    01 Sep 2005

    P&O Ports has reached agreement with joint venture partner Transportation Investment Holdings Limited (TIHL) to double the size of its port operations at Vostochny in Russia. Vostochny is located at the eastern end of the Trans Siberian Railway, which provides competitive transit times for cargo from Asia to Europe, the CIS countries and elsewhere in Russia. 

  • Paperless US Navy

    01 Sep 2005

    The US Navy has unveiled plans for a major transformation in military marine navigation, with paper nautical charts to be replaced by advanced, interactive electronic navigation systems throughout the fleet. The ECDIS-N will be based on the Voyage Management System software developed by Sperry Marine operating with digital nautical charts produced by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. 

  • Change of Venue Lifts ShipRepair Exhibition

    01 Sep 2005

    China’s Cosco Shipyard Group and Malaysian Marine & Heavy Engineering have joined a growing list of new exhibitors attracted by the change of location for the ShipRepair & Conversion 2005 exhibition and conference. The event leaves London for the first time in its<$>13 year history to take place at the Dubai World Trade Centre on 7-9 November. 

  • Sea Scan in Aberdeen

    01 Sep 2005

    America’s Marine Sonic Technology Limited (MSTL) has appointed RUCO Limited of Aberdeen as exclusive UK and Ireland sales representative for its Sea Scan PC sidescan sonar system. When connected to a GPS, the Sea Scan PC’s integrated navigation plotter records the area searched and the location of any objects of interest, delivering affordable imaging sonar to a broader user base. 

  • Buyout Secures Testbank

    01 Sep 2005

    A secondary buyout has delivered the Southampton UK based Testbank Ship Repair and Boiler Company to a team led by its managing director and technical director, with the financial support of many senior employees. The company employs 42 staff at its facility in the Western Docks, providing vessel repair, welding, marine electrical and warehousing services. 

  • Fairmount Heavy Transport Floats in Norway

    01 Sep 2005

    Fairmount Heavy Transport NV has closed a $50m offering of new equity, the proceeds of which will be used to acquire the semi-submersible barges BOA 19 and BOA 20 from BOA Offshore AS of Norway as well as for general corporate purposes. The barges will be converted to self propelled transport vessels in works scheduled for completion in the second half of next year. 

  • First Commercial Order for New Futura

    01 Sep 2005

    Things have moved so fast after the prototype development of Germany’s new environmentally safe Futura Carrier river/sea vessel that the first commercial order has now been announced. 

  • Offshore Upsurge at Lerwick

    01 Sep 2005

    The offshore oil industry has contributed to a 5% increase in the volume of cargo handled at Lerwick Harbour in Shetland over the first half of 2005. The high level of industry activity saw 119 oil related vessels calling at Lerwick, up 30% on the same period in 2004, which had also seen an upturn in offshore traffic. 

  • EC Shipbuilding Aid Approved

    01 Sep 2005

    The European Commission has approved a 27m scheme in Germany to provide innovation aid to shipbuilding. The scheme is the first of its kind to be approved after the entry into force on 1 January 2004 of the Commission’s framework on state aid to shipbuilding, which introduced revised rules on aid in support of innovation in the shipbuilding sector. 

  • Dutch Shiprepair Cooperation

    01 Sep 2005

    IMCA Group, the parent company of Amsterdam Ship Repair, has announced its decision to decline from all industrial activities and to<$>concentrate instead on real estate development. However, the present managers of the yard have confirmed that business will continue as usual under the old name of Shipdock, with which many Dutch and international owners and ship managers are familiar. 

  • President Promotes Engineering

    01 Sep 2005

    Maurice Storey, recently chief executive of the MCA and currently the 103rd president of IMarEST , will deliver a topical President's Lecture in London on 11 October in which he will criticise the failure of successive British Governments to recognise the contribution of engineers and technologists to wealth creation and the critical need to attract youngsters to the industry. 

  • Hamburg Research Ship Probes North Sea Ecology

    01 Sep 2005

    Fifteen scientists and 20 crew members aboard the tough research vessel Gauss were recently involved in Germany's annual month long check on the ecology of the North Sea. 

  • Mariners Reunited at LMGMA

    01 Sep 2005

    Liverpool Maritime Graduates & Masters Association haslaunched a website at www. lmgma. co. uk which allows former and current students to enrole online as members, search for other members, catch up on LMGMA news and learn of forthcoming events. The site will establish a global network of maritime professionals who are linked through having studied at Liverpool John Moores University or its predecessor colleges. 

  • Furuno Expands Presence

    01 Sep 2005

    Japan’s Furuno marine electronics company has opened a fully owned subsidiary, Furuno Deutschland GmbH in Hamburg, which has taken over Furuno’s service and distribution activities within Germany, Austria and Switzerland from former distributor Ferropilot. The establishment of Furuno Deutschland together with the recent opening of Furuno Eurus in Russia strengthens the company’s market support in Europe. 

  • Help Mercy Ships Help New Orleans

    01 Sep 2005

    A hospital ship that survived Hurricane Katrina is now providing essential relief to devastated communities along the US Gulf Coast. The Caribbean Mercy , which is run by the international charity Mercy Ships was berthed just north of Mobile, Alabama during the hurricane and survived without damage. 

  • Participate in Shaping the Marine Bill

    01 Sep 2005

    Industry, conservation groups and the public are being invited to give their views on a major piece of legislation which is intended to improve the management of Britain's seas. The Government is committed to introducing a Marine Bill that will establish an integrated system for the streamlined planning, management and protection of coastal and marine resources. 

  • Anti-Corrosion Benefit for Commercial Vessel Operators

    01 Sep 2005

    MICAD Marine , which provides real-time data collection and presentation systems for commercial vessel operators, has announced the inclusion of Vessel Corrosion Monitoring asstandard equipment on all of its MICAD Marine Systems . 

  • Lifejacket Gift to OYT

    01 Sep 2005

    Crewsaver has gifted its new Crewfit Lifejackets to all the boats in the Scottish Ocean Youth Trust Fleet . The gift includes some 40 275 and 150 Newton Lifejackets , all with integral safety harnesses and embroidered with the OYT Scotland logo. Both organisations see this as the start of an ongoing relationship, with Crewsaver using the Fleet as an R&D test bed while also looking for other ways to encourage support for the charity. 

Port, Harbour & Marine Construction

  • Joint Venture to Develop Rochester Riverside

    01 Sep 2005

    Medway Council and the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) have awarded a civil engineering joint venture between Edmund Nuttall and Van Oord the main ? 44m contract to carry out infrastructure works at the Rochester Riverside regeneration site. 

  • Enhanced Access to Brunel's Kingdom

    01 Sep 2005

    The installation of new inner lock gates for the Bristol Port Company in the UK, following the earlier installation of similar outer lock gates, has given the port enhanced flexibility with equipment which is operational through its considerable full tidal range. The innovative gates were designed, constructed, installed, tested and commissioned by Ravestein BV of the Netherlands. 

  • HRO for EastPort Great Yarmouth

    01 Sep 2005

    EastPort Great Yarmouth , the £43.5m project to construct a new outer harbour to provide the shortest North Sea crossing from the UK to the Netherlands, has been granted a Harbour Revision Order from the Department for Transport (DfT). The development will incorporate one ro-ro berth (with scope for a second to be added later) together with 360m of deep water general purpose berths and 11 hectares of reclaimed land. 

  • GPS Goes to Heart of Europe

    01 Sep 2005

    Established UK tugs, dredgers, hopper barges and crane barges operator GPS Marine Contractors Ltd , based at Chatham Dock in Kent, is developing the business further and entering the marine contracting and services market in mainland Europe. 

  • Mudflats Investigation Brings Relief

    01 Sep 2005

    Kent County Council in the UK are proposing to build a road bridge across the mudflats of Milton Creek, a tidal waterway to the north of Sittingbourne that connects the town to the Swale and Thames Estuary. The bridge will carry the Sittingbourne Northern Relief Road at a point where the creek is approximately 100m wide and has a tidal range of 0m to 4m. 

  • Liverpool Lodges Application for Post-Panamax Box Terminal

    01 Sep 2005

    The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company has lodged an application for a Harbour Revision Order to allow construction of a new post-Panamax container terminal at the Port of Liverpool, the UK's third largest container port and the country's major gateway for container trade with North America. 

  • Seabed Investigation into Climate Change

    01 Sep 2005

    Cornwall UK based Seacore has been awarded a £2.5m contract by the Natural Environmental Research Council on behalf of the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling . The company will perform a marine site investigation of the seabed at three offshore locations around the coast of the French Polynesian island of Tahiti in the South Pacific Ocean. 

  • Grating's Great Strides in Workboat Safety

    01 Sep 2005

    The Irish Sea Pioneer is a self propelled jack-up marine construction unit owned and operated by Halliburton inLiverpool Bay UK, providing offshore support services to BHP Billiton . The vessel's raised cargo rail system is essential to operations but was creating a trip hazard to crew working on deck. 

Safety, Survival & Training

  • CCTV Security Solution for RNLI

    01 Sep 2005

    A security system for the new £11m Lifeboat Crew Training College at the RNLI headquarters in Poole UK was planned and built from<$>the outset, with local security specialists Meggitt Marsh Guardian Systems acting first as security consultants specifying requirements<$>then acting as installer having won installation and maintenance contract in a competitive tender. 

  • Money for New Rope at Seawork

    01 Sep 2005

    Seawork regulars MarineCo Ltd had an unexpected but welcome experience at Seawork 2005. As the company’s Chris Dinham explained, ‘A group of fishermen came onto the stand and, after the usual negotiation, handed me £750 in cash for rope to be delivered the following week. It’s very unusual to be handed so much cash at an exhibition.’ 

  • Irish Eyes on Lifeboat Training

    01 Sep 2005

    The new National Maritime College of Ireland has begun training the country’s next generation of seafarers using a complete range of lifeboats manufactured by Survival Craft Inspectorate Ltd of Aberdeen. 

Tugs & Towing by Jack Gaston

  • 'Kinnaird' Enters Service with JP Knight

    01 Sep 2005

    J P Knight (Caledonian) Ltd introduced their most powerful tug to date at a reception held for local dignitaries and industry guests on the 16th of August. A subsidiary of J P Knight Ltd of Rochester, the Invergordon based company has been in existence for 35 years, providing towage services in the Cromarty Firth and more recently further afield. 

  • TOWLINES

    01 Sep 2005

    Kooren Shipbuilding and Trading BV have named the first two of four new Rotor Tugs to be completed at the ASL Shipyard Pte Ltd in Singapore. 

  • Multraship Purchases Bulgarian Tug Fleet

    01 Sep 2005

    Multraship Towage & Salvage ofTerneuzen has purchased the Bulgarian towage and salvage operator Bourgas Tug Services (BTS). BTS provides harbour towage, local salvage and line handling services in and around the Bulgarian port of Bourgas. It has a fleet of four tugboats ranging from 1,500 to 4,300bhp and 50 employees. 

  • ITC Acquire 'Tempest' and 'Typhoon'

    01 Sep 2005

    International Towage Contractors (ITC) of the Netherlands has successfully completed negotiations leading to the purchase of the identical ocean going anchor handling tugs Smitwijs Typhoon and Smitwijs Tempest . 

  • Fairplay Towage and URS Order Tugs from Spain

    01 Sep 2005

    Hamburg based tug owner Fairplay Towage and their Belgian associate company URS have placed an order for four new tugs with Astilleros Armon in Spain. Two of the vessels, due for delivery in February and August 2007 will be used primarily in Hamburg and Rotterdam and two identical sisters will join the URS fleet in the port of Zeebrugge. Fairplay Towage has a 50 percent holding in URS. 

  • Smitwijs Towage Stays in Business

    01 Sep 2005

    During a recent series of meetings, the shareholders of SmitWijs Towage , comprising Smit International (50%) and Svitzer-Wijsmuller (50%), have reconfirmed their commitment to the ocean towage business and their efforts to remain a market leader in this sector. 

  • Spanish SDMs - a New European Art Form?

    01 Sep 2005

    Named after the famous Spanish artists, Ramon Casa and Salvador Dali are the first two US designed Ship Docking Modules (SDMs) to have entered service in Barcelona with Spanish towage company Remolques y Servicios Maritimos (REYSER). 

Vessel Launch Castle Point . Stanford . Corringham

  • A New Tug Fleet for BP at Coryton

    01 Sep 2005

    When BP Shipping decided to establish their own three tug fleet at their refinery and terminal at Coryton in the Thames Estuary they chose an established and well developed design from Damen . 

Taylor Fuel Control