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Cruise & Ferry

  • Southampton Has A Lotta Bottle

    01 Apr 2003

    A first shipment comprising 1,200 tonnes of recycled bottle-glass material left the Midland Glass Processing Company's (MGPC) new plant at the ABP Port of Southampton last month on board MV Sea Kestrel, bound for the ABP Port of Goole on the Humber Estuary. It would have required 45 articulated lorries to transport the same load by road. 

  • Forth Coastguard Conduct Ferry Coordination Exercise

    01 Apr 2003

    Scotland's Forth Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre conducted an exercise with the Greek registered ro-ro ferry Superfast 10 last month as the vessel was on passage from Zeebrugge to Rosyth. The 30,285 tonne, 203m LOA vessel was approximately two hours from the Fairway Buoy when the one hour exercise commenced. 

  • Spanish Building Ropax for Faroes

    01 Apr 2003

    The Spanish Izar San Fernando shipyard has entered the conventional ferry sector with the keel laying ceremony for a Ropax ferry that will operate in the harsh weather conditions around the Faroe Islands. The contract is with the Islands' Ministry of Trade and Industry and the vessel will be operated by Strandfaraskip Landsins. 

Deck Equipment & Lifting Gear

  • Dutch Launch Small Marine Genset Range

    01 Apr 2003

    Brinkmann & Niemeijer Motoren b. v. of Twello in the Netherlands has developed the new Triton range of small gensets specially for the marine market. 

  • Cosalt Safety & Protection Lands a Fishing Net Specialist

    01 Apr 2003

    Cosalt Safety & Protection has acquired specialist fishing net company Leach & Turner (Fishing Gear) Ltd. The deal complements Cosalt's existing fishing business in the UK South West and provides additional expertise in the gill net market as the company focuses on delivering a comprehensive range of services under the Cosalt brand name. 

  • Bodewes Delivers Deepwater Mooring System

    01 Apr 2003

    Bodewes Winches of The Netherlands has obtained the R4 quality rating for their 84mm Bodewes QuickLink, a connector link by which wire rope and chain can be connected/ disconnected rapidly. 

  • Diesel Electric Power for US Platform Supply Vessels

    01 Apr 2003

    Alstom has won a $20m order to supply the propulsion and control systems for 10 new diesel electric platform supply vessels being built by Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Company of Alabama USA. 

  • Felixstowe To Lift TEU Total

    01 Apr 2003

    The Port of Felixstowe UK is undertaking a major expansion of its container handling capacity, ordering three Ship to Shore Gantry Cranes (SSGCs) and 10 new Rubber Tyred Gantry Cranes (RTGCs) from the Zhenhua Port Machinery Company (ZMPC) of Shanghai. The latest order is part of the Options provided in an existing crane contract and the new equipment will be delivered in January 2004. 

  • Precise Heavy Lift Placement Off Qatar

    01 Apr 2003

    Smit Heavy Lift's Marine Projects Department completed the loading, dry tow, offloading and placement of a permanent production facility (PPF) in the UAE last month. The contract was awarded by the Anadarko Qatar Energy Company of Dubai. 

  • New Pollution Control Vessel Joins Greek Fleet

    01 Apr 2003

    The newbuild oil pollution control vessel Chrissi Akti Z has gone into service in Greece equipped with an oil spill containment and recovery package supplied by Vikoma International Ltd. 

  • P-PHS Born of Marine Handling Consolidation

    01 Apr 2003

    Parkburn Precision Handling Systems Limited (P-PHS) is a new name but an experienced player which now encompasses the traditional 30 year class heritage of the Dowty brand naval and commercial handling systems as well as the recently acquired company IPR and service rights of Marine Projects Developments Limited. 

  • Clean Screens for CalMac Newbuilds

    01 Apr 2003

    Marine window wiper specialist Wynn Marine has delivered the wiper system for two new ferries in production for Caledonian MacBrayne. 

  • Cruising the Comfort Zone of Back-Up Power

    01 Apr 2003

    Rechargeable nickel-cadmium battery technology has been selected in preference to valve regulated lead acid (VRLA) batteries to provide 30 minutes of emergency back-up power for Royal Caribbean's fleet of Radiance Class luxury cruise ships. Two of the four vessels from the Meyer Werft shipyard of Papenburg in Germany have already been delivered, with the other two due for launch this year and next. 

Dredging

  • WODCON XVII Call for Papers

    01 Apr 2003

    The Netherlands based Central Dredging Association (CEDA), organiser of next year's World Dredging Congress (WODCON), has issued a Call for Papers to be presented at the triennial event. WODCON XVII will take place on 27 September through 1 October 2004 in Hamburg, held in conjunction with the 21st SMM International Trade Fair. The two events are pleasantly linked by a path through a park with a Japanese Garden and WODCON delegates receive a free exhibition week pass to SMM. 

  • Deep Freeze Dredger Designed for Defiance

    01 Apr 2003

    VOSTA LMG will deliver a CSD350 cutter suction dredger this month to a Russian customer who has specified that the vessel must be able to operate in Siberia at temperatures as low as -40ºC. 

Hydrographic Survey by David Goodfellow

  • New Joint Venture Company Established

    01 Apr 2003

    Innovation 4C, a new European joint venture company which aims to be a 'technology hothouse for the marine industry' according to its Chief Executive, Stuart Heaver, has been established with headquarters at Whitstable, Kent. It's an amalgam of Verhaert of Antwerp, Belgium, 02 Marine Services in Kent and Fairwater Technology Group, Aberdeen. 

  • New Royal Navy Survey Vessel Comissioned

    01 Apr 2003

    HMS Echo, the UK Royal Navy's new multi-role hydrographic and oceanographic survey vessel, was formally commissioned at a ceremony in Devonport on 7 March. Built by Appledore Shipbuilders in Bideford under contract to Vosper Thornycroft, the 3,500dwt, 90.6m-long vessel will begin operational deployment later this year; it will also be available for frontline operational roles in support of minesweepers and amphibious forces. 

  • Century of Global Tidal Records Archive Inherited

    01 Apr 2003

    Archival news from Liverpool Museum, which has inherited a century of global tidal records from Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory at Bidston (formerly the Liverpool Observatory & Tidal Institute). 

  • IESSG Funding Grants

    01 Apr 2003

    The Institute of Engineering Survey & Space Geodesy at Nottingham University is offering a range of funding opportunities for its postgraduate degree, diploma and short courses for 2003-4. 

  • VT TSS Relocation in July

    01 Apr 2003

    Motion sensor specialist VT TSS (UK) is to relocate this July from Witney, Oxfordshire to the Watford premises of associate company, S G Brown. 

Insurance, Legal & General

  • Commercial Marine Finance Makes seawork a Port of Call

    01 Apr 2003

    Bank of Scotland Marine Finance, which is well established in the UK as a leisure marine finance provider, has expanded its activities to support commercial marine companies looking for asset funding. Paul Ratcliffe, who was appointed Asset Finance Manager - Marine last December, will be visiting seawork2003. 

  • Legal Issues of Chinese Shipbuilding Explained

    01 Apr 2003

    Chinese shipbuilders are rapidly expanding both their product ranges and their newbuilding capacity. In addition to an already well established product line of large vessels such as tankers and bulkers, Chinese yards are now building a range of export vessels which extend from ro-ro and ro-pax vessels downwards in size to include tugs, dredgers, and specialised craft such as the first wind turbine installation vessel currently under build for the UK's Mayflower Energy. 

Marine Civils by David Foxwell

  • First Caissons Floated Out for Durban Quay Wall Project

    01 Apr 2003

    Contractor Interbeton has sunk the first caissons that will form the basis of a new 1,200m long quay wall at the Port of Durban in South Africa, a project that Interbeton is carrying out in a Joint Venture (JV) with the local construction firms Grinaker-LTA and BCW. 

  • Soil Erosion and Sediment Redistribution in River Catchments

    01 Apr 2003

    A new conference, 'Soil erosion and sediment redistribution in river catchments, ' is to take place on September 11 2003 at the National Soil Resources Institute (NSRI), Silsoe, UK. 

News

  • CORRECTION: Wessex Marine Deliver Fourth Targa 31

    01 Apr 2003

    Our coverage in the March MJ of Wessex Marine's delivery of a fourth Ta rga 31 patrol boat to London's Metropolitan Police was inadvertently accompanied by the wrong photograph. To correct matters, we run this photo of the real Nina MacKay undergoing sea trials at Poole prior to delivery. 

  • Model Behaviour Shapes Coastal Protection Scheme

    01 Apr 2003

    A working-scale model of the Blackpool UK seafront has been constructed by ABP Marine Environmental Research (ABPmer) in the company's laboratory at the Port of Southampton as part of a research project commissioned by Blackpool Borough Council to help develop the most appropriate seawall defences for the north west's coastal tourism mecca. 

  • Hong Kong Top Boxport

    01 Apr 2003

    The Port of Hong Kong won the 2002 round of its continuing battle with Singapore to be the world's busiest container port, in the process becoming the first port ever to break the 19 million TEU barrier. A 7% increase in volume took Hong Kong to 19.14 million TEU, up from 17.8 million TEU in 2001. 

  • UK Offshore Wind Expansion Gains Approval

    01 Apr 2003

    The British Government has built on the imperatives of February's Energy White Paper with the announcement last month of approval for plans to build 60 offshore wind turbines in the Thames Estuary and in the Irish Sea off Cumbria. 

  • Busy 'Cormorant' Born to Lift

    01 Apr 2003

    Dutch towage and salvage operator Multraship successfully completed the salvage of the pusher tug Eclips only two days after it sank in Antwerp harbour last month. 

  • South Boats Head West for Flying Fisherman

    01 Apr 2003

    Eastern Point is the 18th catamaran to be built by South Boats' Isle of Wight yard. It has been custom-built at 34ft 10in to comply with Canadian fisheries regulations as it's owner is Earl Johnson, a commercial fisherman based at Placentia Bay in North Harbour, Newfoundland. 

  • Bulk Petroleum Coke to Hartlepool Dock

    01 Apr 2003

    The PD Ports, Logistics and Shipping Group's PD Teesport Hartlepool Dock facility has been chosen by Carbon International Ltd to provide cargo handling and storage services for up to 40,000 tonnes of bulk petroleum coke imported annually. 

  • BMT Acquires Nigel Gee & Associates

    01 Apr 2003

    British Maritime Technology Ltd has acquired Nigel Gee & Associates Ltd, the Southampton based designers specialising in innovative, high-speed mono and multi-hull vessels. Recent high profile designs include the X-Craft for the US Navy's Office of Naval Research. Nigel Gee has provided the concept as well as preliminary and detailed design. The first vessel is currently under construction. 

  • Croatian Shipyard Penetrates Ferry Newbuild Sector

    01 Apr 2003

    The Viktor Lenac Shipyard in Croatia, best known for its repair and conversion work in Europe but also a builder of small specialist vessels, has now revealed it has also penetrated the market for ferry new buildings and said demand in that sector is expected to rise. 

  • Accreditation for Offshore Spill Training

    01 Apr 2003

    The first e-learning package to train personnel in handling pollution incidents from offshore installations to UK standards has been accredited by the British Government's Department of Trade and Industry. 

  • Unique Cable Layer for Wide Range of Jobs

    01 Apr 2003

    A newbuilding which combines the capabilities of shallow-water and deep-water cable laying and repair vessels has joined the fleet of Bohlen & Doyen Group subsidiary Submarine Cable & Pipe. 

  • Snappy Conversions for German Cutters

    01 Apr 2003

    German fishing authorities in Cuxhaven were reported very satisfied with the way German shipyard Bremerhavener Dock GmbH (BREDO) lengthened and converted three of their cutters and put them back into service on time, all inside just six weeks. 

Propulsion & Power Systems

  • Daewoo Re-Power for 'Forth Constructor'

    01 Apr 2003

    Briggs Marine Contractors have re-engined their multi-purpose barge Forth Constructor with a pair of Daewoo marine engines supplied by Daewoo's South Devon UK distributor WaterMota Ltd. This is the third set of Daewoo engines WaterMota has supplied to Briggs Marine. 

  • Rolls-Royce Breaks Through Marine Propulsion Barriers

    01 Apr 2003

    Rolls Royce has scored two breakthrough propulsion orders with the US Navy, its Kamewa waterjets having been selected to drive the experimental X-Craft high speed aluminium catamaran while its MT30 marine gas turbine has been chosen to power the Integrated Power System (IPS) Engineering Development Model (EDM) for the DD(X) multimission destroyer programme. 

  • $2 Million Marine Lubricant Test Engine

    01 Apr 2003

    Maritime lubricants supplier Lubmarine has installed a new test engine at its TotalFinaElf Research Centre (CRES) at Solaize, near Lyon in France. The $2m MAN B&W innovator-4C test engine comes into service next month and will be used by Lubmarine to develop and test new formulations and to undertake fundamental marine lubricants research. 

  • Cummins MerCruiser Diesel Announces UK Distribution Plan

    01 Apr 2003

    The Cummins MerCruiser Diesel (CMD) 50/50 joint venture between Cummins Marine and Mercury Marine has announced its channel distribution plan for the UK. 

  • Scania and Yanmar Agreement Clarification

    01 Apr 2003

    Concern has been expressed that the article about Scania and Yanmar's cooperation agreement on page 12 of the February 2003 Maritime Journal does not make clear that the agreement gives Yanmar the right to sell and market Scania marine engines to the pleasure boat market only. Scania will continue to sell and market engines for the commercial marine sector. 

  • Vetus Adds Small Electric Stern Thruster to its Range

    01 Apr 2003

    The Netherlands' Vetus Den Ouden adds to its range of side-directional bow and stern thrusters with the introduction this year of a small electric stern thruster which, in spite of a diameter of only 110 mm, provides a thrust of 25 kgf. 

  • Hamworthy KSE Non-Core Sales Continue

    01 Apr 2003

    Hatlapa Uetersener Maschineenfabrik and Becker Marine Systems of Hamburg have purchased the starting air compressor and Schilling rudder business from the UK's Hamworthy KSE Ltd last month. The partnership between Hatlapa and Becker made it possible for both companies to stand together as a mutual buyer for the two different product ranges. 

  • Dolphin Pods Successful in Sea Trials

    01 Apr 2003

    The first two Dolphin podded propulsion systems jointly developed by STN Atlas Marine Electronics and Wartsila Propulsion have successfully completed sea trials aboard Seven Seas Voyager, the new 50,000gt cruise liner for V Ships Leisure/Radisson Seven Seas which is due to commence service this month. 

  • Halyard Delivers Quiet Baby at London Boat Show

    01 Apr 2003

    Halyard launched their new Baby Moduline Aquadrive system at the London Boat Show earlier this month. It marks the first major redevelopment of the Aquadrive, a flexible coupling which fits between engine and driveshaft which has been in service for 20 years. 

Seawork2003 Update

  • MST to Launch 750 Workboat at seawork2003

    01 Apr 2003

    Marine Specialised Technology Ltd (MST) will be launching its new 750 Workboat at on its stand at seawork2003. Based on the successful MST 680 Workboat which is in service with commercial operators across Europe, the new and larger 750 version offers increased working deck space, a broader beam and greater load carrying capacity in line with customer demand. 

  • New lantern Shines Light on seawork

    01 Apr 2003

    Tideland Signal, recently relocated from Redhill to Burgess Hill UK, will be travelling yet again in June as it debuts and demonstrates its new MLED-120E lantern at seawork2003. This new version of its successful diode-based range of lanterns offers long life, low maintenance and high efficiency. 

  • Flexible Carbon Fibre Propellers Make seawork Exhibition Debut

    01 Apr 2003

    Fleetwater Marine Ltd will have an easy journey to make its seawork debut as the company is based at Ocean Quay in Southampton. Fleetwater Marine has just launched a range of carbon fibre Contur Marine Propellers which offer lighter weight and quieter, more efficient performance than traditional technology. 

  • seawork Exhibition Debut for the Workboats' Friend

    01 Apr 2003

    A first time exhibitor at seawork2003, West Sussex based Expresslube UK Ltd has developed and built a portable separator system which is taken to site for treatment of contaminated fuel tanks. Contaminants diminish engine performance and reliability and can lead to failure at critical times. 

Towing & Salvage by Jack Gaston

  • Perkins Gensets for USA Tug

    01 Apr 2003

    The Seattle USA based marine fuel transportation and services specialist Olympic Tug and Barge has installed new Perkins Sabre gensets on board their vessel Sarina, a tug used to transport lubricating oil, diesel fuel and ships' stores. 

Tugs & Towing by Jack Gaston

  • Towlines

    01 Apr 2003

    Seahorse Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Irish Mainport has recently purchased the anchorhandling tug supply vessel Pearl from Seacor. She recently arrived at Cork ready to enter service with Marathon and Ramco at the Seven Heads gas field after undergoing modifications at Richards yard in Great Yarmouth. Pearl is 65m in length with a bollard pull of 70 tonnes and 6,100bhp. 

  • Robert Allan Ltd is Busy Around the World

    01 Apr 2003

    TDI Zubeyde Ana is one of an increasing number of tugs being produced around the world to Robert Allan designs. 

  • Bosphorus Gets a Powerful Escort Tug

    01 Apr 2003

    A new escort and shiphandling tug named TDI Zubeyde Ana is now on station in Istanbul. 

  • Union Manta is Delivered to URS

    01 Apr 2003

    On Sunday 23 March the anchor-handling tug supply vessel Union Manta arrived at her home port of Antwerp following completion at the Orskov shipyard in Frederikshavn, Denmark. 

  • New Escort Tug Under Construction for Norwegian Owners

    01 Apr 2003

    Norwegian tug owners Bukser og Berging AS have entrusted Moen Slip A/S of Kolvereid, with the construction of the new 'state of the art' escort tug. One of the world's most advanced vessels of its kind, the new tug will serve the Statoil Mongstad Oil Terminal and replace the escort tug Bob that will then be released for use elsewhere. Escort towage is an essential element in measures taken by Statoil at Mongstad to prevent tanker related accidents and possible oil pollution in the relatively narrow Fensfjord. 

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