No Hanging About for Crash-Prone Ferry's Lifeboats

01 Jan 2004

Swift action by lifeboat and davit supplier Schat-Harding has helped the Silja Line to maintain its schedules while replacing damaged lifeboats and davits. Three lifeboats and davits on the port side of the Silja Opera were damaged in a collision at St Petersburg earlier this year. 

Safe Ship Gets Non-Slip Grip

01 Jan 2004

Nearly half the ferry traffic in Scotland travels on the shortest route across the Firth of Clyde. 

Atlas' Southern Expansion Lifts Off

01 Jan 2004

Winch specialist Atlas Winch & Hoist Services continues the expansion of their operations in the Southern UK with a relocation to new premises at Great Dunmow in Essex. The development of hire and sales activities at Atlas Winch & Hoist Services (Southern) Ltd is being led by Anton Lavery, joining his brother Denis who started and continues to operate the Atlas business in Scotland. 

Houlder Holds Sway With HMS Dumbarton Castle's Cranes

01 Jan 2004

Marine design consultancy Houlder has delivered two cranes for the Royal Navy's Fishery Protection Vessel HMS Dumbarton Castle . The cranes replace obsolete units and will be used to handle the two RIBs on the aft deck. The RIBs, sited port and starboard, are the main part of the vessel's capability in its fishery protection role. 

In-Situ Machining Revamps Quayside Unloader

01 Jan 2004

Having established that the slew ring on its 20 year old cement unloader was in need of replacement, the management of Leith & Forth Ports inScotland called in Metalock Engineering of Coventry to machine the 3.28m diameter slew ring surfaces to a high degree of flatness. This enabled a new slew ring to be fitted and restore the unloader to efficient use. 

Port of Felixstowe Upgrades Ship to Shore Cranes

01 Jan 2004

The Port of Felixstowe (UK) is upgrading four of its ship to shore gantry cranes. The Morris built post-panamax cranes, which operate at Felixstowe's Trinity Terminal , are now 18 years old and were designed to the traffic and vessel requirements of a different age.