Friday 16 May 08 - 07:59
 

News

  • HIT Bulks Up

    01 May 2006

    A new long term agreement between Associated British Ports and Arkady Feed (UK) Ltd will boost agribulks throughput at the Port of Immingham's Humber International Terminal by an estimated 100,000 tons per year. 

  • DNV Makes It Official

    01 May 2006

    Radio Holland Group is the first company to receive worldwide recognition by Det Norsk Veritas for servicing and testing radio communication equipment and annul certification of Voyage Data Recorders. Global recognition follows many years during which the experienced staff at some 51 Radio Holland Group subsidiary branches along the major shipping routes of the world have been used by DNV to carry out statutory radio surveys on board DNV classed vessels. 

  • First of Three 'Heavies' for Hamburg Police

    01 May 2006

    Now in service in Germany is the first in a series of three 17.56m long heavy harbour patrol boats for the Hamburg Wasserschutzpolizei, which is responsible for law and order on the City's rivers and estuary waters. 

  • Holyhead Freight Boom

    01 May 2006

    Stena Line is to increase freight capacity on its Holyhead to Dublin route with the introduction of an additional vessel. The company will redeploy current ferry Stena Seatrader from its North Sea fleet, commencing operations on the Central Corridor in July. 

  • 'HMS Daring' Foremast Delivered

    01 May 2006

    VT Shipbuilding has completed its construction work on the Royal Navy's first of class Type 45 destroyer HMS Daring with delivery of the foremast to BAE Systems Naval Ships in Glasgow. 

  • Box Tops at Felixstowe

    01 May 2006

    The world's largest containership, COSCO Ningbo, made its inaugural call at the UK Port of Felixstowe last month. At 9,449 TEU, the giant boxship has the highest declared capacity of any vessel currently in operation. Designed to cope with the ever growing trade from China, COSCO Ningbo will operate on the Asia Europe 1 (AE1) service, rotating Shanghai - Dalian - Qingdao - Singapore - Port Said - Rotterdam - Felixstowe - Hamburg - Antwerp - Singapore - Hong Kong - Shanghai. 

  • Young Engineer Drug Busters

    01 May 2006

    Young Engineers is a UK educational charity with a remit to inspire young people to pursue careers in engineering. 

  • Spanish Ferry to Commence Operations in Portsmouth

    01 May 2006

    Portsmouth Commercial Por t in the UK and Portsmouth City Council have confirmed that the Spanish short sea shipping line Acciona Transmediterranea will commence operations from the city to the Port of Bilbao on the 18th of this month. 

  • Hot Seawork Starts with Blue Cool

    01 May 2006

    With Seawork expanded to unprecedented size for 2006, the arriving visitor will scarcely know where to begin. If the weather is hot, there may be even more reason to start at Stand Number 1, where Webasto will be showing new and advanced marine air conditioning systems which promise to deliver new levels of performance and comfort into the marketplace. 

  • Port-Net Partners Share Experiences

    01 May 2006

    Delegates from the Haven Gateway Partnership joined port representatives from across Europe last month to share and discuss their experiences in electronic data interchange (EDI) and cargo flows, in the latest of a series of workshops within the EU's Port-Net initiative. 

  • Fassmer Produces First Oil Skimming Combination

    01 May 2006

    Fassmer Werft has handed over the first of a new type of small ship combination designed for environmental service with local authorities. 

  • MCA SAR Improvements

    01 May 2006

    The UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency search and rescue figures for 2005 show the total number of occasions where assistance was required went down compared to 2004, and the total number of persons rescued (where lives were at risk) was also down. The total number of alerts received by the Coastguard increased but this was seen as a positive response to a campaign encouraging people to alert the Coastguard earlier when in trouble or to report those suspected of being in trouble more readily. 

  • International ENC Cooperation

    01 May 2006

    The Norwegian Hydrographic Service (NHS), operator of the Primar Stavanger electronic navigational chart service, has signed a distribution agreement for Japanese ENCs with the Japan Hydrographic Association. 

Taylor Fuel Control