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Diving & Underwater Services

  • Technology Advance for Underwater Cables

    01 Sep 2003

    Elmeridge Cables Ltd , the Brighton UK based cable technologists, have designed and produced new tether cables specifically for remote offshore video systems (ROVs) manufactured by Deep Scenes Ltd of Perth in Australia. 

  • Subsea Vision With Falcon's Eagle Eye

    01 Sep 2003

    Dorset UK based ROV specialist Subsea Vision Ltd has been appointed by the Babtie Group on behalf of Montrose Port Authority to conduct an underwater survey of approximately 100m of collapsed quay at Montrose Port in Scotland. 

  • Containerised Air Dive System for Wreck Exploration and Salvage

    01 Sep 2003

    Miami, Florida-based wreck exploration and salvage organisation, RPM Nautical Foundation , has acquired a new Type SM-5A Containerised Air Dive System from South African diving system manufacturer Southern Oceanics (Pty) Ltd . 

  • Work Resumes on Warship Oil Removal

    01 Sep 2003

    Briggs Marine have resumed work on a UK Ministry of Defence contract to remove oil from the tank of a sunken battleship off Scapa Flow, Orkney. The Royal Oak wastorpedoed by a German U-boat in 1939 while she lay at anchor, with the loss of 833 lives. 

  • SeaSnake Delivers Divers Delights

    01 Sep 2003

    KDBC launched two new linear lighting products at seawork2003 . 

  • Official Survey Shows - Divers Not Getting Older

    01 Sep 2003

    A new large-scale survey of divers and diving supervisors carried out by the International Marine Contractor's Association (IMCA) appears to disprove popular theories that the average age of divers is rising, no young divers are entering the industry, and there will soon be a major crisis when all divers retire at once. 

Ferries & Short Sea Operations

  • Cal-Mac Makes MaK a Multiple Choice

    01 Sep 2003

    Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co KG is celebrating an engine hat trick after supplying MaK engines to a third Northlink passenger ferry. 

  • Vessel Sharing Agreement

    01 Sep 2003

    Irish Continental Group (ICG) subsidiaries Eucon Shipping & Transport and Eurofeeders have entered into a vessel sharing agreement (VSA) with Mersey Docks & Harbour Company subsidiary BG Freight Line which becomes effective from the first of next month. 

  • Tide and Weather Monitoring Lifts Dover's Soul

    01 Sep 2003

    With 50,000 ferry movements and over 16 million passengers handled last year, the UK's Port of Dover is one of the busiest ferry ports in the world. Cruise liners, cargo ships and the small craft populating a 400 berth marina add to the high level of activity. 

Hydrographic Survey by David Goodfellow

  • Licences for MCA

    01 Sep 2003

    The Maritime & Coastguard Agency , the UK's national maritime administration responsible for promoting standards of safety at sea and protection of the marine environment, has acquired a series of licences for HIPS/SIPS, GIS and HOM from Canadian survey software specialists, CARIS . 

  • US Charts on Demand

    01 Sep 2003

    US company Ocean Grafix of Minnesota reports testing of a service that can provide instant paper charts using latest advances in digital print technology. It has begun tests at two locations in Louisiana in expectation of expanding the service if they are successful. 

  • Hydro4 Symposium

    01 Sep 2003

    The Hydrographic Society , which is presently devolving into the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS), is to hold its 14th biennial international symposium in Galway, Ireland from 2-4 November 2004. 

  • Thales-Sonsub 'Prestige' Contract

    01 Sep 2003

    Thales GeoSolutions and Sonsub have been retained by Spanish oil company Repsol YPF to design and build ROVs for deepwater surveys and investigation of the Prestige oil tanker which sank 150 miles off the north west Spanish coast last November, occasioning widely-reported environmental damage and political arguments as to who exactly was responsible. 

Marine Civils by David Foxwell

  • EU-funded Project Studies Liquefaction Around Marine Structures

    01 Sep 2003

    Researchers in a number of European countries are working together on an EU-funded project to determine the causes and potential solutions to a problem known as Liquefaction around Marine Structures (or LIMAS) that can affect a wide range of marine structures, potentially causing them to become unstable. 

  • Tri-national Project to Produce Upgraded Rock Manual

    01 Sep 2003

    Three European countries - the UK, France and the Netherlands, are collaborating to produce an updated manual on the use of rock in hydraulic engineering. 

  • MoU Signed for Transhipment Hub at Scapa Flow

    01 Sep 2003

    The next stage in a project to construct the Scapa Flow Container Transhipment Port was initiated in early July, when a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Orkney Islands Council and International Container Hubs Limited (ICHL) was concluded. 

Navaids

  • Lighthouse Solarisation Proceeds at Northern Latitudes

    01 Sep 2003

    The Northern Lighthouse Board , responsible for Scotland and the Isle of Man, has operated gas powered systems for over over 100 years. In 1984 the Board embarked on a long term solarisation programme, replacing many of the original structures with low maintenance aluminium towers and installing solar electric power for the lights. 

  • New Flasher Keeps It All HID

    01 Sep 2003

    Tideland Signal has introduced a new flasher/lampchanger unit, LC-70 , designed to enable High Intensity Discharge (HID) metal halide lamps to be used with its TRB-400 MaxLumina gearless drive rotating beacons or as a stand alone lighthouse upgrade. 

  • Leading Mark Delivers Berth Control in Bristol

    01 Sep 2003

    An Inogon Leading Mark LM15 has been installed by the Bristol Port Company to guide vessels accurately in the approach to a new berth in Royal Portbury Dock . 

Navigation & Communication

  • VTS Upgrade Boosts Milford Haven

    01 Sep 2003

    Milford Haven Port Authority switched its control of shipping movements to a new VTS which was formally opened last month by Gwyneth Dunwoody MP, chairman of the influential Parliamentary Sub-Committee on Transport which is currently undertaking a review of the UK ports industry. 

  • Trials Expand for New ECDIS Service

    01 Sep 2003

    Shell has become the ninth large international shipping company to join sea trials of the new Admiralty ECDIS Service ahead of its official launch in the autumn. The service, developed by the UK Hydrographic Office to provide official electronic chart coverage on a global scale, combines Electronic Navigation Charts (ENCs) and Admiralty Raster Charts (ARCS) in a single package. The trials are being conducted to test and prove all aspects of<$>the service. 

  • Low Cost Digital Compass Module

    01 Sep 2003

    Surrey UK based Inertial Aerosystems has announced the availability of a new solid state, dual axis, low cost digital compass module suitable for OEMs in high volume applications. 

News

  • ABP Opens 3rd Southampton Cruise Terminal

    01 Sep 2003

    Associated British Ports officially opened its third cruise terminal in the Port of Southampton last month, with the £1.5m City Cruise Terminal bringing ABP 's investment in Southampton cruise facilities to over £10m this year. 

  • Name Change for Barkemeyer

    01 Sep 2003

    The Van der Velden Group of companies, which includes Barkemeyer GmbH & Kg , has celebrated its 40th anniversary with a change of name. Oceangoing manoeuvring equipment specialists Barkemeyer will henceforth operate under the trade name Van der Velden Marine Systems . The Barkmeyer brand name is associated with its BARKE high-lift flap rudder, Timon flap rudder, conventional and fishtail rudders, and advanced steering gears. 

  • Tyne Online

    01 Sep 2003

    Newcastle UK based Tyne First has launched a website to promote, serve and support marine and offshore technology companies on and around the River Tyne. The website, www. tynefirst. com , focuses on the capacity and capability of a range of local companies and will be used to promote the area's marine and offshore sector worldwide. 

  • Successful 'Tricolor' Removal Underway

    01 Sep 2003

    One of the largest wreck removal operations ever undertaken continues in the English Channel with the consortium Combinatie Berging Tricolor (CBT) having already removed two sections cut from the sunken car carrier Tricolor to Zeebrugge. 

  • Double-up Research Ship is 'Immense Challenge' Say Dutch

    01 Sep 2003

    A unique new research vessel boasting a double propeller plant and two separate engine rooms is now under construction at Dutch shipyard Niestern Sander in Delfzijl. 

  • IHC To Close van der Giessen-de Noord Shipyard

    01 Sep 2003

    The Netherlands' IHC Caland offshore and shipbuilding group has announced the pending closure of its van der Giessen-de Noord shipyard in Rotterdam with the loss of 400 jobs. Completion of existing orders will keep the yard open until early next year. 

  • Supersonic Legend Makes Final Flight By Water

    01 Sep 2003

    Dutch marine transport specialists Van der Wees Watertransporten made front page news in the Netherlands and Germany recently when their pontoon Lastdrager wasused to sail a decommissioned Concorde aircraft 50 miles down the Rhine. 

  • UKHMA Autumn Seminar Set

    01 Sep 2003

    The UK Harbour Masters' Association Autumn 2003 Seminar takes place on Wednesday, 29 October 2003 at the IMarEST Conference Centre in London. 

  • Expansion Opens at Trinity

    01 Sep 2003

    The Port of Felixstowe officially opened the first phase of its Trinity Terminal expansion by adding six hectares of back-up land which will boost storage capacity by 6,500 teu. A further section of storage area will be opened early next year, ahead of the quay becoming fully operational by July 2004. When complete, an additional 270m of quay dredged to 15m alongside will extend deepwater berthing at Trinity to 900m. 

  • New Cheetah Hungry for Power

    01 Sep 2003

    Cheetah Marine of Ventnor on the Isle of Wight has launched the first example of its new Cheetah 7.9m design to coincide with the opening of the new Ventnor Haven sheltered mooring facility. The new catamaran has been designed specifically to make use of the new generation of powerful four stroke outboard engines while still being road transportable by trailer. 

  • Early Warning Saves Bear Necessities

    01 Sep 2003

    Bear Grylls and his crew, who last month crossed the North Atlantic via the Arctic Circle in an 11m Ocean Dynamics open RIB, had a potential power failure averted by their remote monitoring and tracking service. 

  • Wind Blows Briggs' Way

    01 Sep 2003

    Briggs Marine has signed a contract with Vestas - Celtic Wind Technology for part of the work installing one of the UK's first offshore wind farms. The turbine manufacturer, in consortium with Mayflower Energy Ltd , has secured a £74m wind farm contract from National Wind Power to install 30 two-megawatt turbines at Wind Power's North Hoyle Offshore Wind Farm. The development a few miles off Prestatyn and Rhyl in North Wales is one of 18 offshore wind farms planned for UK waters. 

  • Thames Craft Correction

    01 Sep 2003

     

  • Boom boxes at Hamburg

    01 Sep 2003

    The Port of Hamburg achieved a 14.9% increase in container handling over the first half of 2003, with a record 2.9 million teu handled at the Hamburg Container Terminal . It is the fifth consecutive year that Hamburg can claim double-figure growth in box turnover. The Port also saw a 7.2% growth rate in seaborne cargo loaded and unloaded, with some 51.3 million tonnes passing through the cargo handling terminal. 

  • Germany's Biggest SWATH Ship Takes Shape

    01 Sep 2003

    The biggest SWATH ship ever built in Germany has been named and launched for the Bundesmarine at the North Sea shipyard Nordseewerke NSW , in Emden. 

  • Silent Running 'Celtic Explorer' Garners Praise

    01 Sep 2003

    Ireland's first deep-sea research vessel, the Irish Marine Institute 's new RV Celtic Explorer , appears to have drawn nothing but praise since she was commissioned in April after completion at Damen/Royal Schelde . 

  • Success for Atlantic Crossing

    01 Sep 2003

    Bear Grylls and his team have succeeded in a record setting effort to make the first ever unassisted crossing of the North Atlantic just south of the Arctic Circle in an open 11m RIB. 

  • Works in Progress

    01 Sep 2003

    The small family firm of David Ferran & Sons of Belfast recently had the distinction of taking delivery of the first steel tug/workboat to be completed by Hampshire boat builders VT Halmatic . 

  • Rolls-Royce Acquires VT Controls

    01 Sep 2003

    The VT Group has sold the marine division of Portsmouth UK based VT Controls Ltd to Rolls-Royce for £11m cash. 

Port, Harbour & Marine Construction

  • ABPmer Commissioned to Undertake Dredging Field Studies at Fleetwood

    01 Sep 2003

    ABPmer in the UK has been commissioned by ABPFleetwood to undertake field assessment and modelling studies to investigate the most cost effective method of undertaking maintenance dredging of the ro-ro berth and approach channel at Fleetwood. 

  • Interbeton Awarded Contract to Build Breakwater in Cameroon

    01 Sep 2003

    Interbeton - part of the Royal BAM Group in the Netherlands - has been awarded a contract for the design and construction of a breakwater for Limbe shipyard in Cameroon, West Africa. The contract is valued at around ? 27m, and the client is Chantier Naval et Industriel du Cameroun SA. 

  • Funding for Deepwater Windfarm

    01 Sep 2003

    The world's first deepwater offshore wind farm is to be developed with government support from Scotland and the UK. Late last month, Scotland's First Minister Jack McConnell announced a research grant of up to £194,000 for offshore oil operator and its research partner Scottish and Southern Energy . 

  • Challenging Pile Remediation Job for Seacore

    01 Sep 2003

    Gweek, Cornwall-based Seacore has completed a challenging pile remediation project on behalf of BP Norway for a new four-legged water injection jacket standing in 76m of water in the Valhall Field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. 

  • United Kingdom Embarks on Maintenance Dredging Initiative

    01 Sep 2003

    The British Marine Federation (BMF) and ports bodies in the UK have come together to represent the interests of marinas and ports in the UK whose ability to conduct maintenance dredging is being adversely affected by the Habitats Directive . 

  • Pontoon Installation Contract Awarded

    01 Sep 2003

    A contract to supply and install pontoon systems at Kirkwall and Stromness marinas in the Orkney Islands was awarded at the end of June. 

  • Mowlem Feasts On Ferry Berth Construction

    01 Sep 2003

    New UK ferry terminals built by Mowlem Marine have opened recently at Holyhead and Scrabster Harbour , Caithness, Scotland. 

  • Dubai Double for Dutch Dredgers

    01 Sep 2003

    The phenomenal sold-out success of Jumeirah Palm Island off the coast of Dubai has led to a second major land reclamation project for the Netherlands' Van Oord ACZ .The dredging and marine contractors, in co-operation with another major Dutch dredging group, Ballast Ham Dredging , have now landed a 200m contract to create the land for Globe Island , agroup of separate islands representing all the continents in the world. 

  • RiaRemediation Is Aviles' Salvation

    01 Sep 2003

    An environmental clean-up operation in the old heavily industrialised Asturias region of Spain is turning a contaminated sedimentation basin of a river mouth into an inviting urban green space for the coastal town of Aviles. 

  • Lunar Technology Aids Wind Farm Construction

    01 Sep 2003

    The first of 30 turbines was fitted at the UK's newest offshore windfarm at North Hoyle , 8 to 11 km, off the coast of Wales, on 19 August. The site is set to generate 60MW of power, enough to run 50,000 homes, when it becomes operational later this year. 

  • Habitat Agreement Paves Way for Port Construction

    01 Sep 2003

    Traditionally adversarial relationships between environmentalists and port developers have been reversed by a pioneering agreement between Associated British Ports and leading UK conservation organisations which will help to safeguard the future of the Humber Estuary as one of Britain's key habitats for migrating birds. 

Safety & Training

  • Mini Free Fall System in Europort Debut

    01 Sep 2003

    Norwegian Maritime Equipment is developing a new free fall system which will be introduced at the forthcoming Europort 2003 in Amsterdam. 

  • Cosalt Safety & Protection Appointed Jason&#x2019;s Cradle Distributor

    01 Sep 2003

    Cosalt Safety & Protection has been appointed the sole UK distributor for the Jason’s Cradle man overboard retrieval system manufactured by Land & Marine Products Ltd. 

  • Compacted Firefighting for Taichung Tugs

    01 Sep 2003

    The Netherlands’ Fischcon Trading & Engineering BV has made a recent contribution to the safety of shipping in Taichung Harbour, Taiwan by supplying their new close-coupled marine gearbox/ firefighting FiFi I pumps for installation on two new 4,200 PS tugs for the Taichung Harbour Bureau. 

Tugs & Towing by Jack Gaston

  • Adsteam Diversify

    01 Sep 2003

    Australian owned Adsteam Towage Ltd are taking measures to improve fleet utilisation by diversifying where practicable into tug and barge transportation, coastal towing and support to marine civil engineering projects. 

  • A unique Single Z-Drive Conversion

    01 Sep 2003

    A tug conversion project recently undertaken by US operator McAllister Towing & Transportation will be of interest to other tug owners contemplating the future of their older, conventional, single screw tugs. 

  • Crowley Complete Massive Rebuild Programme

    01 Sep 2003

    Crowley Maritime Corporation of the USA has completed one of the most extensive rebuild programmes ever undertaken in the towage industry anywhere in the world. 

  • Towlines

    01 Sep 2003

    Brazilian Offshore Services (BOS) a joint venture company, owned 50/50 by Farstad ofAlesund in Norway and Petroserve of Brazil, has been awarded long term contracts by Petrobras for the provision of two anchor-handling tug supply vessels. Two new Rolls Royce UT 722L vessels have been ordered to cover two contracts, each requiring a slightly different specification. Brazilian yard Estaleiro Itajai has been chosen to build the vessels, which will be completed to a very high standard. When the two vessels enter service in 2005 Farstad and BOS will have a combined fleet of 12 offshore support vessels operating for the Brazilian state oil company Petrobras in Brazilian waters. 

Vessel Launch Anglian Sovereign

  • Anglian Sovereign is Christened at Lowestoft

    01 Sep 2003

    Anglian Sovereign the latest new vessel for Klyne Tugs (Lowestoft) Ltd was formally christened on Wednesday the 27 August. The event was a significant one for both the company and many of the invited guests attending the ceremony at the Town Quay in Lowestoft. For many it was a dramatic illustration of the company's dramatic rise to become one of Britain's largest independent tug operators. 

Vessel Launch Pride Of Exmouth

  • Vessel Launch Pride of Exmouth

    01 Sep 2003

    Passenger vessels servicing the tourism and holiday industries are plentiful in England's West Country and Voyager Yachts is strategically well positioned to supply the trade from its boaty-yard on the River Tamar in Cornwall. 

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