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Deck Equipment & Lifting Gear

  • Celebrity Gets 'Millennium' Hang-Ups

    01 Jan 2006

    Lifeboat and davit supplier Schat-Harding has completed a full replacement of the lifeboat hook release systems on the Celebrity Cruise Line ship Millennium with their own LHR12 package. 

  • Lube-free Bearings for Deck Equipment

    01 Jan 2006

    Canada's Thordon Bearings has introduced a new proprietary engineered (non-elastomer) thermoplastic bearing which can be used for marine applications such as steering gear tiller arm and jockey bar linkage bushings, fairleads and rope rollers, self unloader booms, cranes and hoists, barge trolleys, davits and gantrys, door and ramp hinge bushings and hydraulic cylinder rod ends. 

  • New Hoist Equipment Launched

    01 Jan 2006

    Cosalt Safety & Protection has launched a new range of value for money hoist equipment aimed at the commercial marine, offshore and industrial markets. 

  • Bridon Ties Up Marlow Takeover

    01 Jan 2006

    Bridon International has acquired the offshore and commercial marine assets of Marlow Ropes, including manufacturing facilities at Coatbridge in Scotland and Hailsham in England. 

  • Boxlift Service Deal at P&O's Antwerp Gateway Terminal

    01 Jan 2006

    P&O Ports has signed a full service contract with Kalmar for the provision of preventative and breakdown maintenance, engineering support and spare parts supply for 20 ESC 7th generation straddle carriers operating at its new Antwerp Gateway terminal. 

  • Ro-Ro Package for Newbuild Ro-Pax

    01 Jan 2006

    MacGregor will supply and install the cargo access equipment to Brittany Ferries' trailer Ro-Pax newbuilding at Aker Yards which will be able to transport 120 freight vehicles. 

  • Ship to Shore Gantry Crane delivered to the Busy Port of Felixstowe

    01 Jan 2006

    The UK's Port of Felixstowe took delivery late last year of one ship to shore gantry crane (SSGC) and nine rubber tyred gantry cranes (RTGCs) from the Zhenhua Port Machinery Company of Shanghai. The cranes were transported fully erected on a nine week voyage from China and were operational by the end of the year. 

Diesel Power & Propulsion

  • Reorganised Barrus at London Boat Show

    01 Jan 2006

    Major UK engine importer and distributor EP Barrus Ltd chose the occasion of the London Boat Show earlier this month to announce a major reorganisation of its Marine Divisions aimed at providing an enhanced service to the dealer network and OEMs. The company's new direction will see marine activities divided into three groups: Propulsion, Boats, and Cruising Comfort. 

  • Tees Takes Over White Gill Thrusters

    01 Jan 2006

    Tees Components Ltd of Saltburn UK has acquired White Gill bow and stern thrusters from Elliott Turbomachinery Ltd. The two companies have had a long association. 

  • Strong Silent Type Wins DAME

    01 Jan 2006

    The ESP Silent Thruster from Van der Velden Marine Systems won the prestigious Design at METS (DAME) Award at the recent Marine Equipment Trade Show in Amsterdam. 

  • Load Sharing Control Lifts Power System Safety

    01 Jan 2006

    Scotland's Turner Diesel Ltd has deployed Redundant Isoschronous Load Sharing control system technology in recent workboat applications which have improved the performance and robustness of the vessels' generating systems. 

Hydrographic Survey by David Goodfellow

  • UKHO Acquires SevenCs

    01 Jan 2006

    The UK Hydrographic Office has acquired SevenCs of Hamburg, a leading European developer and supplier of ECDIS software. 

  • Norway-Croatia ENC Agreement

    01 Jan 2006

    Heading the Primar Stavanger regional ENC distributor network, the Norwegian Hydrographic Service has signed a bilateral agreement with the Croatian Hydrographic Institute for distribution of the latter's electronic nautical charts (ENCs). The agreement, says Norwegian Hydrographer Frode Klepsvik, will extend ENC coverage of the Adriatic which has hitherto been dependant on Italian charts. 

  • Seminar Hosted by Association of Marine Scientific Industries

    01 Jan 2006

    The Association of Marine Scientific Industries is hosting a seminar on Commercial Opportunities in Marine Science & Technology from Public-Funded Research, at the DTI Conference Centre, Victoria Street, London on Thursday 2 February. 

  • Galileo Lift-Off

    01 Jan 2006

    The first test satellite for the European Union's Galileo civil navigation system, designed to complement US GPS and Russian Glonass networks, was launched via a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonour, Kazakhstan on 28 December. 

  • CARISKongsberg MoU

    01 Jan 2006

    Canadian hydrographic software specialists CARIS and Kongsberg Maritime of Norway have signed a Memorandum of Understanding covering collaboration and delivery of CARIS HIPS/SIPS multibeam processing software to existing and prospective Kongsberg clients. 

Marine Civils by David Foxwell

  • West Lakes Renaissance Appoints Royal Haskoning for Regeneration

    01 Jan 2006

    Royal Haskoning is heading one of two consortia that have been appointed as principal consultants under a framework agreement with West Lakes Renaissance (WLR), the urban regeneration company for West Cumbria. The consortium also includes regeneration consultants DTZ, architects Green Design Group, landscape and urban designers Insite Environments and transportation experts JMP Consulting. 

  • Three Consortia in Race to Build Maasvlakte 2

    01 Jan 2006

    Three consortia of dredging and construction companies have qualified for the construction of Maasvlakte 2 project at the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. 

  • UK Port Project Proposal Gains Ministerial Approval

    01 Jan 2006

    UK Transport Minister Derek Twigg has indicated that he is minded to approve proposals for a container port at Bathside Bay, Harwich, Essex. The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has also issued a letter indicating that Ministers are minded to approve the planning applications relating to the same proposal. 

  • Dredging Solution Sparks Interest from China and Hong Kong

    01 Jan 2006

    International ties between the UK and Chinese dredging and marine research sectors were bolstered recently when Associated British Ports hosted the visits of a delegation from Shenzhen, China, and Hong Kong. 

  • Interbeton Wins Contract for LNG Jetty in Australia

    01 Jan 2006

    Interbeton bv, part of Royal BAM Group, has been awarded a joint venture contract by Woodside Energy Ltd, operator of the North West Shelf Venture, to construct a second LNG loading berth at its onshore gas processing facilities near Karratha on the Australian west coast. The contract amounts to approximately which Interbeton's share is half. 

Monitoring & Control

  • Fugro System Monitors Malaysian Coast

    01 Jan 2006

    The tragic consequences of the tsunami that struck in the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004 have acted as a major eye opener to countries vulnerable to similar disaster. As a result, urgent efforts are being made to establish early warning systems to reduce or minimise the impact of future tsunamis. Accordingly, Malaysia has taken the initiative to implement a tsunami detection system comprising three buoys and a number of automatic tidal stations. 

News

  • Boskalis' Boom Year

    01 Jan 2006

    Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster has announced anticipated net profits for 2005 will be up by at least 80% on 2004, when the company posted a figure of ?32.3m. A large intake of orders late in the year, including a ?0.8bn project in Qatar, has doubled the order book from a year ago. Turnover for 2005 is expected to be up some 15% on the 2004 figure of ?1bn. 

  • Box Terminal Gets Go Ahead

    01 Jan 2006

    Associated British Ports (ABP) welcomed the Government decision last month to permit construction of the proposed Quay 2005 container terminal at the company's northern Port of Hull. The two berth development would be built on the riverside in front of the present Alexandra Dock and will allow the port to accommodate larger boxships than can currently be handled and meet expected growth in shortsea container traffic. 

  • Night Vision in Europe

    01 Jan 2006

    Hampshire UK based Eurotask Ltd has been appointed European distributor for US based Night Vision Technologies Inc (NVTi) and will handle their range of night and day vision systems used for security and surveillance within the marine industries. The NVTi systems use a combination of thermal, Generation III light intensified, low light, and colour camera technologies to detect, observe and identify all types of activity or objects in any light. 

  • Fuel Conditioning Deal

    01 Jan 2006

    ITT-Jabsco has signed an agreement with America's Algae-X International for the sale and distribution of Algae-X fuel maintenance and management systems to the European marine industry. Algae-X is a range of fuel conditioning equipment which optimises the performance and reliability of diesel engines by keeping tanks clean and protecting injection systems. Additional benefits include enhanced combustion, reduced fuel consumption, lower emissions and less maintenance. 

  • Babcock & Brown March on Maritime Europe

    01 Jan 2006

    Acquisitive Australian investment group Babcock & Brown has bought into UK port operations with the purchase of PD Ports and into the growing European marine renewable energy market with the purchase of Energis. 

  • RNLI Launches 'Tamar' at London Boat Show

    01 Jan 2006

    The RNLI officially unveiled its new Tamar Class all-weather lifeboat at the London Boat Show earlier this month. 

  • Trelleborg Acquires CRP

    01 Jan 2006

    Sweden's Trelleborg Group has acquired the Lancashire UK based CRP Group of companies for £70m. CRP, whose operations relate primarily to systems for the subsea sector of the oil and gas business, will slot into Trelleborg Engineered Systems within the Trelleborg Group. As a result of the acquisition, oil and gas related operations within Trelleborg are expected to increase to 8% of total Group sales. 

  • P&O Ports Takeover Cliffhanger

    01 Jan 2006

    Investors in the P&O ports and ferries group must feel like Christmas is ongoing as the Singapore government's investment fund Temasek, which already owns the world's number two container terminal operator Port of Singapore Authority (PSA), made its long anticipated counter-approach through PSA for the P&O group in response to the £3.3bn bid put forward by Dubai Ports World in November. The PSA offer, valuing P&O at £3.5bn, precipitated a surge of P&O shares to 498.5p, well above PSA's valuation of 470p and DP World's original offer of 443p. 

  • UK Port Rail Plan

    01 Jan 2006

    s UK Port of Felixstowe applied last month for permission under the Transport and Works Act (TWA) to improve the existing single track branch line between Trimley St Mary and Levington. 

  • New MCA Search & Rescue Helicopter Contract

    01 Jan 2006

    The UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency last month awarded a five year interim contract for the provision of Coastguard search and rescue helicopter services to CHC Scotia. The contract provides for commercial SAR helicopter from civilian operated bases at Sumburgh, Stornoway, Lee-on-Solent, and Portland, running for a five year period from 1 July 2007. 

  • Agreement Breaks Scopic Rates Deadlock

    01 Jan 2006

    The International Salvage Union (ISU) and the International Group of P&I Clubs have reached a New Year agreement which has cleared the way for an increase in the tariff rates for personnel engaged in salvage operations under Lloyds Form where the SCOPIC Clause (Special Compensation P&I Club) has been incorporated and invoked. This agreement is supported by the organisations representing shipowners and property insurers. 

Tugs & Towing by Jack Gaston

  • 'Boxer' Goes on Charter in Britain

    01 Jan 2006

    One of Europe's most sophisticated 'Fin-first' Voith escort tugs has been chartered by Adsteam UK and put into service in the Thames and Medway area during the month of January. 

  • Compact Voith Tractors Join the Rimorchiatori Riuniti Fleet in Genoa

    01 Jan 2006

    Much has been written on the subject of compact tugs employing azimuthing stern drive (ASD) propulsion systems but the requirement for small, powerful and extremely agile shiphandling tugs has not been lost on operators preferring the tractor tug concept. 

  • A Busy Time for Kooren

    01 Jan 2006

    The fast growing European tugboat company Kotug has taken delivery of the first two of a new series of three identical, powerful ASD tugs from Med Marine in Istanbul, Turkey. Mr Ard-Jan Kooren, President of Kotug, and Mr R Hakan, Senior President of Med Marine, confirmed the deal during a small ceremony at the Dutch Consulate in Istanbul in November. 

  • Irving Build More Tugs for the Ice

    01 Jan 2006

    Perhaps it is not surprising that a Canadian shipyard located in Halifax should be experienced in the construction of robust tugs capable of operating in ice. During the last quarter of 2005 Irving Shipbuilding Inc celebrated the completion of their 21st ASD tug, the Ocean K Rusby for Canadian owners Group Ocean. 

  • TOWLINES

    01 Jan 2006

    The Global Towing Alliance (GTA) managed by SmitWijs is expanding its fleet of ocean going tugs with two more units. 

Tugs, Towing & Salvage by Jack Gaston

  • Wide Ranging Salvage & Wreck Conference

    01 Jan 2006

    The 8th Annual International Salvage & Wreck Removal Conference was held in London at The Crown Plaza St James Hotel on 14 and 15 December. Delegates to the International Salvage Union (ISU) endorsed conference addressed a wide range of issues concerning the salvage industry, insurers, government departments and many others relating to salvage and shipping safety. 

  • Simulation Determines Tug Deployment

    01 Jan 2006

    British Maritime Technology subsidiary BMT SeaTech has recently completed a challenging project for the Orlan concrete island drilling structure on behalf of Crowley Marine Services of Seattle USA. 

  • Multraship Lifts Tug from Danube

    01 Jan 2006

    DUTCH salvage and towage company Multraship Salvage BV has successfully refloated the Slovakian pusher-tug Polana, which sank in the River Danube on 19 December last year following a serious fire in its engine room. 

  • Svitzer Wijsmuller Stands By in Oz

    01 Jan 2006

    SvitzerWijsmuller BV has achieved a breakthrough in the Australian market for marine casualty response provision with a standby salvage contract from the Department of Transport and Regional Services (DOTARS). 

  • Mid-Range Towage Shortage Continues

    01 Jan 2006

    There is still a shortage of tugs suitable for long haul towage in the 60 tons to 80 tons bollard pull range according to the UK's Anchor Marine Transportation. 

Vessel Repair & Maintenance

  • Diedrich re-engines 'Spiekeroog11'

    01 Jan 2006

    The small Schiffswerft Diedrich yard in Oldersum, Germany was expecting to complete one of its most complex re-engining projects ever late this month. Owners Nordseebad Spiekeroog on the East Frisian island of the same name off the German North Sea coast paid a reported ?650,000 for the extensive work on the 670 passenger, 495 grt ferry Spiekeroog 11. 

  • German Yards Tackle Repair and Maintenance

    01 Jan 2006

    Germany's small shipyards have been busy with conversion as well as routine repair and maintenance of late as they, like many bigger European yards, have continued to benefit from good fortune in the shipping sector. The 65.5m LOA Irish Marine Institute's research ship Celtic Explorer has paid its first visit to Bremerhaven for re-equipping at the specialist Motorenwerke Bremerhaven (MWB). 

  • Mustang Building Repair Reputation

    01 Jan 2006

    One of the UK's leading workboat builders has made great strides into the vessel repair, maintenance and conversion sector since acquiring new and larger premises in 2004. With 80 and 750 ton slipways, Mustang Marine of Pembroke Dock in South Wales now lays claim to the largest such facility on the UK's west coast and is able slip vessels of up to approximately 700 tons and 50m in length. 

Taylor Fuel Control