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Hydrographic Survey by David Goodfellow

  • New Sonardyne Transponder

    01 Mar 2003

    Underwater acoustics specialist Sonardyne International has developed a new subsea transponder, Compatt 5. 

  • Electronic Chart Handbook

    01 Mar 2003

    The Electronic Chart: Functions, Potential & Limitations of a New Marine Navigation System is the title of a new specialist handbook from GITC of the Netherlands, publishers of the monthly Hydro International. 

  • BGS Bathymetric Software

    01 Mar 2003

    The British Geological Survey has released the first version of a vector-attributed digital bathymetry software covering UK and adjacent European waters, DigiBath 250. 

  • UKHO Routeing Charts

    01 Mar 2003

    The UK Hydrographic Office at Taunton has published the first of a series of five routeing charts with updated meteorological data, initially covering the Red Sea and Persian Gulf and a greater overlap of the Indian Ocean. 

Marine Civils by David Foxwell

  • HSS Turns on the Light at Samso Wind Farm

    01 Mar 2003

    Electricity produced by the recently completed offshore wind farm at Samso, Denmark, was connected to the national grid in Denmark for the first time last month, following the official handing over of the new facility by the contractors responsible for building it. 

  • Flexible Liner Restores Canal Bed in Lancaster Canal

    01 Mar 2003

    A major £700,000 renovation project, which has closed off a northern section of the Lancaster Canal throughout the winter, is on course for completion this month, British Waterways has confirmed. 

  • Route for New Canal Announced

    01 Mar 2003

    British Waterways has announced the route selected to link the River Great Ouse at Bedford with the Grand Union Canal at Milton Keynes, the first new canal to be built in the UK for more than a century. 

  • First Waterfront Expo 2003 to Take Place at ExCeL

    01 Mar 2003

    The first Waterfront Expo, Waterfront Expo 2003, an international waterfront conference and exhibition designed to serve the needs of professionals involved in waterfront and marina design, will be held in London 22-23 October 2003 at the ExCeL exhibition centre in London's Docklands, the organisers have announced. 

Navaids

  • Tideland Tower Beacons for Gulf

    01 Mar 2003

    The Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) has awarded Tideland Signal Ltd a contract to supply tower mounted beacons to mark two navigational reefs in the Arabian Gulf. 

  • Navaid Solar Power Supplies Top Tough Testing

    01 Mar 2003

    Dartmouth UK based BecoSolar has been specialising in navaid power supplies since 1976, turning to solar electric (photovoltaic) in 1989. All products made by Beco and BP are manufactured to ISO9001 and ISO9002. 

Navigation & Communications

  • New Navigation Echosounder From Lilley and Gillie

    01 Mar 2003

    Lilley and Gillie have launched a new Type Approved MED Wheelmark Navigation Echosounder, the Walker 9090. 

  • BHS Type Approval for New UAIS Control Unit

    01 Mar 2003

    STN Atlas Marine Electronics' new Debeg 3401 UAIS Display and Control Unit (DCU), designed for operation and primary display of data in support of its European Wheelmark certified 3400 UAIS, has been type approved by the German Maritime & Hydrographic Agency (BSH). 

  • Wheel Mark Approval for New GPS Chartnavigator

    01 Mar 2003

    Simrad's newly launched GN33 B/W GPS Chartnavigator is the first GPS Navigator with built-in chartplotter to gain the Wheel Mark approval awarded by BSH in Germany. Aimed at all sizes of commercial and coastal vessels, the GN33 succeeds the GN30 DGPS, which was also awarded Wheel Mark approval upon its release. 

  • Upgraded Irish VTS Gets Tracking Bonus

    01 Mar 2003

    By combining their purchasing power with EC grants, the four Irish ports of Cork, Shannon, Rosslare and Waterford have installed VTS systems that are technically more advanced than those of some ports many times their size. The STN Atlas VTS systems at Shannon, Cork and Waterford also include a Thales Navigation TDMA tracking system for monitoring key harbour vessels. This boosts efficiency by overcoming the geographical limitations of radar while providing significant cost savings to the VTS network operation. 

News

  • Four Minute Smile

    01 Mar 2003

    The Thames passenger vessel Elizabethan observed a man fall into the Thames without a lifejacket while securing a workboat last month. The Elizabethan sent a distress call to London Coastguard. 

  • German Yard Heads Into Busy 2003 After Delivering 'Loreley'

    01 Mar 2003

    The Genthin facility of German shipyard Schiffbau und Entwicklungs-gesellschaft Tangermunde (SET) has handed over the police boat newbuilding Loreley to authorities in Mainz. 

  • McMurdo Launches Regional 'Centres of Excellence' Plan

    01 Mar 2003

    Portsmouth UK based marine safety equipment manufacturers McMurdo have announced plans to set up regional 'centres of excellence' in major ports around the world. 

  • New Year, New ABPmer Team

    01 Mar 2003

    ABP Marine Environmental Research (ABPmer) has expanded its services by forming a Processes team which will focus on work in the flood and coastal management sector as well as undertake dredging and marine navigation design studies. 

  • Ness Lock on Windpower?

    01 Mar 2003

    A renewable energy centre of excellence could be built at Lowestoft UK to help put the East Anglia region in prime position for the emerging windpower market. A report by the East of England Development Agency envisages a cluster of offices at the base of the giant turbine at Ness Point proposed by SLP Energy which would develop into a hotbed of renewable energy technology. 

  • SARIS II Wins Top Award

    01 Mar 2003

    The search and rescue information system SARIS II, developed by British Maritime Technology subsidiary BMT Cordah Ltd, has won the 2003 Maritime Excellence Award for 'Technological Excellence in Training'. The UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency has been involved in the SARIS II project since its inception and operates the system throughout all 19 Coastguard Maritime Rescue Centres. 

  • ISS Ahead of Schedule

    01 Mar 2003

    Inchcape Shipping Services' (ISS) programme to expand support services in the Arabian Gulf is continuing apace, with the two launch vessels ordered last June on course to be delivered ahead of schedule. 

  • Cosalt Ropes Offshore Partnership

    01 Mar 2003

    Cosalt Safety & Protection has formed an exclusive working partnership with Belgium based rope manufacturer BEXCOropes to promote, sell, manufacture and supply Single Point Mooring (SPM) hawser assemblies to the offshore marine market. The move extends Cosalt's presence in the offshore sector, where it already supplies a range of products and services which include lifesaving and firefighting equipment. 

  • Bountiful Year for Milford Haven

    01 Mar 2003

    Milford Haven Port Authority has reported a strong performance in shipping activity for the year 2002, with the number of ships using the Welsh deepwater port up 3% to 3,445 while gross tonnage grew by 4.4% to 48,360,000. Recent innovations and investments at the port include the routine active escorting of all vessels over 50,000dwt and the installation of a new £700,000 vessel tracking system which integrates radar, communications and information handling in support of the Authority's Port Control Centre. 

  • Lights Due for a Rethink, Shippers Tell UK

    01 Mar 2003

    A grouping of major shipping lines have warned the British government that they could end direct calls at UK ports and even go to court unless light dues are brought into line with those in most other European countries. The dues, which fund the provision of navigational aids, are paid for by taxation in all European countries except the UK, Ireland and Greece. 

  • Alfa Laval Tanks Up in Denmark

    01 Mar 2003

    Marine oil treatment, desalinisation and heat transfer solutions specialist Alfa Laval has acquired the Danish Toftejorg Group, which includes tank cleaning specialists Gunclean Toftejorg. 

  • London Gateway Inquiry Underway

    01 Mar 2003

    The public inquiry into P&O and Shell's proposals to regenerate the 1,500 acre site of the former Shell Haven oil refinery on London's River Thames began late last month. 

  • Launch for CableAwareness. com

    01 Mar 2003

    Thales GeoSolutions (Pacific) Inc has launched an online information system aimed at providing submarine cable owners with added protection for their cable system. The web address www.Cable Awareness. com provides basic cable positional data and cable awareness charts to the fishing community and other marine users over the internet on behalf of the cable owners. 

  • Hammar Nails Confusion with New Release Unit

    01 Mar 2003

    Swedish safety equipment manufacturer CM Hammar has launched a new version of the Hydrostatic Release Unit which is a widely recognised component of innumerable liferafts and EPIRBs. 

  • Marine Electronics Takeover

    01 Mar 2003

    Rheinmetall AG of Dusseldorf has purchased the 50% stake in EuroMarine Electronics GmbH of Hamburg held by its Brussels-based joint venture partner Zenitel SA (formerly Sait Stento) in a deal subject to approval by relevant European cartel authorities. 

  • Energy White Paper Spells Opportunity for Maritime Industries

    01 Mar 2003

    The British Government confirmed its commitment to renewable energy last month with the release of the long awaited Energy White Paper titled 'Our Energy Future - Creating a Low Carbon Economy'. A package which will be worth £1 billion per year to the renewables industry by 2010 aims to put Britain at the forefront of efforts to curb global greenhouse gas emissions while ensuring continuity and security of energy supply. 

  • Suzuki Tops Euro Outboard Sales

    01 Mar 2003

    A 2002 sales increase of over 200% has given Suzuki a clear European lead in the fast growing 115-140hp outboard motor sector. Export figures published recently by ICOMIA handed Suzuki a 27.5% overall market share and 38.1% of four stroke sales, the only area in which Suzuki has an interest. 

  • Mersey Beats Drum for Maritime Expansion

    01 Mar 2003

    The Mersey Maritime cluster has been launched in the Merseyside (Liverpool) region of the UK, aiming to become a world class benchmark centre of excellence in every sector of maritime operations and services over the next three years. 

  • Single Branding for DaimlerChrysler Marine Diesels

    01 Mar 2003

    All Daimler-Chrysler marine engines will now be singlebranded as MTU regardless of whether they are manufactured by the Detroit Diesel Corporation in Michigan USA or by MTU in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The single brand strategy has been defined since DaimlerChrysler AG acquired the Detroit Diesel Corporation in October 2000. 

  • Militaries March to Marine Security

    01 Mar 2003

    Recent and current world events have given rise to increased interest in port security, with many nations accelerating their plans in this area. 

  • EXODUS Wins Prestigious Award

    01 Mar 2003

    EXODUS evacuation simulation software developed by the University of Greenwich (UK) Fire Safety Engineering Group has been awarded a prestigious Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education at a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace. The Queen presented a gold medal and an illuminated prize certificate to the University's Vice Chancellor, Professor Rick Trainor, and Professor Ed Galea, Director of the Fire Safety Engineering Group. 

  • ABP Boosts Profits

    01 Mar 2003

    Associated British Ports exceeded already high market expectations by posting a 6% rise in underlying pre-tax profit to £138.1m and boosting turnover by 7% to £401.9m. 

  • New Hamburg Container Terminal is in Lubeck

    01 Mar 2003

    HHLA, the biggest operator in the North Sea Port of Hamburg, has just opened a new ?50m container terminal and it is more than 60 kms away overland, in Germany's biggest Baltic seaport, Lubeck. 

  • Security CCTV for Port of Belfast

    01 Mar 2003

    Ireland's busiest ferry port at the Port of Belfast has received a high security digital CCTV installation supplied by Bell Security (NI) Ltd. 

Pollution Control

  • 'Aquadozer' Barges Debris Off the Clyde

    01 Mar 2003

    Liverpool Water Witch Marine & Engineering have signed a contract to build a Water Witch Pollution Control Workboat for Glasgow City Council. The 10.5m LOA Mark 3 version of the company's versatile surface dredger will be a sister ship to Condor, delivered last year for the Port of Antwerp. 

  • Timely Topics at Oil Pollution 2003

    01 Mar 2003

    The 16th Annual Conference Oil Pollution 2003 takes place this year at the Mayflower Conference Centre in central London on 20 and 21 May. 

  • Briggs' Foresight Sees 'British Shield' Vessel Deliver the Goods at 'Prestige ' Spill Response

    01 Mar 2003

    Briggs Environmental Services Ltd played a significant role in the clean-up process which followed the recent sinking of the tanker Prestige off the coast of Spain. 

  • minimaXx Scoops 'Product of the Year'

    01 Mar 2003

    The minimaXx separator type OSD 2 from Germany's Westflia Separator has scooped the prestigious Product of the Year 2002 award at a ceremony in Washington DC USA sponsored by the highly regarded trade journal 'Filtration and Separation'. 

  • Nyet In My Back Yard, say Norwegians

    01 Mar 2003

    The Norwegian parliament is considering a new Act that will extend the country's territorial sea from four to 12 nautical miles. The proposed Act is designed to reduce the threat of environmental pollution from oil spills and comes in the wake of the recent Prestige incident. 

  • MCA Brings Successful Prosecution of Pollution Ship

    01 Mar 2003

    The UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency successfully prosecuted Freedom Investments of Panama earlier this month following an incident last year when one of their general cargo vessels breached the Prevention of Oil Pollution Regulations. 

Seawork2003 Preview

  • seawork Newcomer Set to Chase Fuel Bugs

    01 Mar 2003

    Should anyone showing a boat at seawork's floating exhibition encounter fuel contamination problems during the show, first time exhibitor Liquid Engineering (UK) Ltd will be close at hand with the solution. 

  • Wave 7 Gives seawork a Lift

    01 Mar 2003

    Wave Seven Marine make their seawork debut this year. 

  • ISPS Training Takes Centre Stage at seawork2003

    01 Mar 2003

    The new IMO security standards incorporated in the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS) were adopted by the Contracting Governments to SOLAS at the IMO Diplomatic Conference late last year. The phasing in time for ISPS is remarkably short, ending on 1 July 2004. 

  • Hydrosphere and Mobilis Join Forces for seawork

    01 Mar 2003

    Following the recent appointment of Hydrosphere, the Hampshire based manufacturer and supplier of aids to navigation and monitoring equipment, as the exclusive distributor of Mobilis products for the UK and Ireland, the two companies will share a much larger combined stand at seawork2003. 

  • seawork to Get a 'Second Opinion'

    01 Mar 2003

    Isle of Wight boatbuilders South Boats return to seawork's floating exhibition with Second Opinion, the first example of the South Catamaran 36/11 Sports Fisherman class which measures 36ft LOA with a beam of 3ft 6in and an 8.5 tonnes displacement with full fuel and water. The boat will be available for inspection and trials. 

  • Cat In a Box Makes Tracks to seawork2003

    01 Mar 2003

    One of the long distance travellers to seawork2003 will be first time exhibitor Neptun Workboats AS from Oslo, Norway. The company's ConCat containerised catamaran is based on a proven workboat design to which is added the unique MB Folding Mechanism (MBFM) which allows the craft to be pulled out of its supplied container and assembled in less than two hours. 

  • Ultra Tuff Struts Its Stuff at the seawork2003

    01 Mar 2003

    Ultra Tuff International (UK) makes its first appearance at seawork this year, exhibiting the range of non-skid safety coatings now made available to the British and European markets from their new base in Lancashire UK. 

  • seawork Trade Association Meetings

    01 Mar 2003

    seawork provides a natural venue for marine association meetings as their members have already converged in Southampton for the Exhibition and Conference. 

  • LeeSan Gets Pumped Up for seawork

    01 Mar 2003

    seawork2003 exhibitor Lee Sanitation has provided pump out facilities for a just completed new marina basin at Apsley Mill on the Grand Union Canal at Hemel Hempstead. 

  • Subsea Vision Surveys seawork Exhibition

    01 Mar 2003

    Travelling to seawork for the first time from their Wimborne, Dorset base is Subsea Vision Ltd, a company offering a broad range of nearshore and offshore underwater survey capabilities. 

  • Seats Make seawork Debut

    01 Mar 2003

    German maufacturer PortnerSitze makes its seawork debut this year showing the comprehensive range of specialised marine seating and ancillary components which they manufacture. 

  • See in the Dark at seawork

    01 Mar 2003

    A new exhibitor at seawork2003 will be Plate & Locate Ltd, Cheshire UK based specialists in the manufacture, supply and installation of vessel marking and warning signs as well as evacuation sign systems. 

  • Line Protection in seawork Line-Up

    01 Mar 2003

    New to the UK market and new to seawork for 2003 is Cheltenham based Chafe-Pro (UK) Ltd. The company manufactures and supplies a range of products for the protection of mooring tug/ towing lines from damage due to chafe and abrasion. 

  • seawork2003 Conference: Be There, Be Aware of the Issues

    01 Mar 2003

    seawork's Conference Programme, running concurrently with the Exhibition in the same Canary Island Fruit Terminal facility, has always been an integral part of the event. The seawork2002 Conference was highly praised by delegates for the breadth of its scope and the quality of its speakers. For seawork2003, the organisers have put together another highly topical Conference Programme. 

  • New Marine Safety Helmet on Show at seawork

    01 Mar 2003

    Heading to seawork2003 will be Gecko Headgear of Bude in Cornwall UK. The latest advances in design technology will be on display, incorporated into the Gecko Marine Safety Helmet (GMSH). 

  • seawork2003 Soars on Solid Support

    01 Mar 2003

    Seawork 2003 sees what has become one of Europe's leading commercial marine exhibitions and conferences return to the working Port of Southampton for the sixth consecutive year. 

Ship & Boat Building

  • Targa Tops the Police Popularity Poll

    01 Mar 2003

    In recent years, there is a fair chance that anyone visiting sites along the increasingly tourism-orientated River Thames in London will have noticed a Metropolitan Police Targa 31 on patrol. Since 1998, the Thames Division of the Met has been updating its traditional fleet with the thoroughly modern Targa 31s built by Botnia Marin in Finland and supplied by Poole based Wessex Marine. 

  • Major Rigid Inflatable Boat Order for FB Design

    01 Mar 2003

    Italy's FB Design has secured its largest ever contract in terms of numbers to supply 30 fast RIBs to the Italian Guardia di Finanza which will be used around the Italian coast for both patrol and interception duties. 

  • 'Spanish John II' in Support of Island Communities

    01 Mar 2003

    Pictured ready to leave the building shed of Alexander Noble & Sons Ltd is Spanish John II, a custom designed general service workboat which will enter service on the run from Mallaig to some of the inner Scottish islands, including Eigg, Rum and Canna, providing valuable support to small communities. The 20m LOA craft has a beam of 6.5m, a draft of 1.85m, and will be certified as a Category Two Workboat under the new Workboat Code. 

  • Stormcat Stability Satisfies South Coast Skipper

    01 Mar 2003

    A small boatbuilding firm on the west coast of Scotland is building a name for itself by producing waterjet powered catamarans which deliver impressive performance combined with excellent seakeeping and manoeuvrability. 

  • 50 Boat Bollinger Contract Extended

    01 Mar 2003

    What began in 1996 as a contract from the US Coast Guard to Bollinger Shipyards of Louisiana USA to build one 87ft Marine Protector Class Coastal Patrol Boat (CPB) has turned into a much larger and ongoing order. 

Tugs & Towing by Jack Gaston

  • Quiet Spanish Tractors for Israel

    01 Mar 2003

    The Spanish shipyard Union Naval Valencia (UNV) is gaining a considerable reputation for the construction of modern shiphandling tugs and Voith tractors in particular. 

  • Towlines

    01 Mar 2003

    Damen Shipyards of Gorinchem has delivered the ASD Tug 3110 Righa 1 to Enterprise Portuaire de Skikda (PS) of Algeria. The 30.8m vessel is powered by two MAK 6M20 diesels generating a total of 3058bhp to drive a pair of Rolls Royce US 155 fully azimuthing propulsion units. On trials the tug achieved a bollard pull of 36.80 tonnes ahead and 32.8 tonnes astern, and a free running speed of 12.4 knots. 

  • A New Tug and Barge Service for Aggregates

    01 Mar 2003

    Starting earlier this year, a new tug and barge combination has entered service between the Isle of Wight and the mainland for the transportation of sand and ballast. Harbrown Shipping Ltd of Newport, Isle of Wight has purchased a tug and barge to replace an elderly coaster on the trip between Marchwood and Newport. 

  • Tugs Attend Atlantic Casualties

    01 Mar 2003

    Winter gales and machinery breakdowns have resulted in a number of shipping casualties in the Atlantic Ocean needing tug assistance. 

  • Holyhead Towing Company Orders from Hepworth

    01 Mar 2003

    The Holyhead Towing Company Ltd has once again returned to Humber based Hepworth Shipyard Ltd at Paull for their next new tug. Due for delivery in January 2004, the new tug will be larger than any of the existing vessels in the Holyhead fleet but similar in configuration to the new Afon Cefni completed by Hepworth in April last year. 

Vessel Launch Mount Stuart

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