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  • 'City Barge' Potential Nurtured

    01 Nov 2004

    A special inland navigation vessel which can transport 144 TEU of boxes as well as big bags and pallets has been developed to bring and collect cargo to and from companies and manufacturers in the Amsterdam and North Sea Channel area. 

  • Jan De Nul Growing Again

    01 Nov 2004

    Belgium's Jan De Nul Group has ordered two stationary cutter suction dredgers from the same Tianjin Xinhe Shipyard in China that is building four 3,700m3 split barges for the dredging and marine construction giant. 

  • MCA Diverse and Conquers

    01 Nov 2004

    The UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency is the national overall winner in Remploy 's 8th annual Leading the Way Awards . The awards were developed to recognise employers that have made significant moves towards actively encouraging diversity within their organisations. The MCA employs 380 people at its Southampton headquarters, 17% of whom are disabled. According to Remploy, 'The MCA has demonstrated a high level of commitment to its existing disabled employees and goes to great lengths to understand the importance of diversity in the workplace.' 

  • Project Ahead of Schedule

    01 Nov 2004

    Reclamation work on The Pearl-Qatar , the US $2.5 billon man-made island being built offshore Doha, is running ahead of schedule, The Pearl-Qatar newspaper reported in October. 

  • Dredging Strategy for Port of London Unveiled

    01 Nov 2004

    A new publication detailing the approach to maintenance dredging in the Port of London area has been published. 

  • Success Rewarded for HCT

    01 Nov 2004

    PD Ports ' agreement with Associated British Ports (ABP) to operate the Hull Container Terminal , due to expire next month, has been extended until further notice. The announcement follows the announcement in May that record numbers of containers had been handled at HCT in the year ending 31 March 2004, up nearly 20% on the previous year. 

  • Marine Consultancy Online

    01 Nov 2004

    Marine consultants and organisations offering marine consultancy can take advantage of the International Directory of Marine Consultancy (IDMC), a global online database run by the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST). The database can be searched free of charge at www.imarest.org/idmc by anyone looking for expertise in these fields. 

  • New Boatlift Exhibits Itself

    01 Nov 2004

    Stockholm's Slagsta Marina hassigned a five year contract with Stockholm Boat Exhibitions toprovide a boat lifting and transportation service within the exhibitions. 

  • Felixstowe In Safe Hands

    01 Nov 2004

    Adsteam Felixstowe is celebrating a certificate of recognition for achieving the highest safety record possible in the last 12 months. The ship assist crews at Felixstowe were congratulated by Adsteam operations director Ken Marshall for 12 months without any time lost through injury. This is the first time that Felixstowe has achieved this goal and it is the only Adsteam port in Britain to do so over the last year. 

  • New Ropax Ferries Will Boost North Sea Traffic

    01 Nov 2004

    Stena Line will expand its North Sea business in 2006 with the introduction of two new Ropax ferries on the Hook of Holland - Killingholme freight route. The two ferries of the Stena Seabridger Class will be built by Stena RoRo at FMV in Norway and will be ready to operate on the route in May and November of 2006. 

  • New On HIT List

    01 Nov 2004

    Global power generation company International Power has signed a term agreement with Associated British Ports to use the new £44.5 million coal facility being built by extending the Humber International Terminal (HIT) at ABP's Port of Immingham (see MJ September 2004, page 25). 

  • Bids Close for Novel Pollution Ship Conversion

    01 Nov 2004

    Bidding was set to close 19 November on a tender by Cuxhaven authorities to convert the 79m tanker Marcus into a coastal oil collection ship at a cost of more than ? 1 million. 

  • Dredge Monitoring Gives Shipwreck the Deep Six

    01 Nov 2004

    The Dutch maritime authority Rijkswaterstaat has reacted decisively to the wreck of the Assi Eurolink , which was restricting the navigable depth of the critical Friesland Junction shipping channel. 

  • New Tri-modal Rhine Terminal Will Help to Reduce Truck Congestion

    01 Nov 2004

    A new trimodal container terminal just opened on the German Rhine at Ludwigshafen will, officials hope, eventually take 400 truck consignments a day off the country's congested roads and onto inland ships or railways. 

  • UTEC At Work Off Africa

    01 Nov 2004

    Lowestoft UK based underwater services contractor UTEC and partners Nutec West Africa Ltd have secured a contract to install a 2km long outfall pipe as part of the $95 million Kolre Lagoon Ecological Restoration Project in Ghana. UTEC's versatile survey vessel MV Goosander is key to the four month contract now underway, providing a base for the installation of over 500 five ton concrete weights through to the final pipeline installation. 

  • Dredging Instrumentation Gets Major System Upgrade

    01 Nov 2004

    Damen Dredging Equipment (formerly De Groot Nijkerk ) has carried out a major renovation of the dredging instrumentation on board two of UMA 's trailing suction hopper aggregates dredgers, City of Cardiff and City of Chichester . 

  • Molasses Passes Through Cardiff

    01 Nov 2004

    The UK's largest animal feed importer has begun importing molasses through a new £350,000 dedicated facility at the Port of Cardiff . 

  • Seafloor Mappers Delight In Detail

    01 Nov 2004

    Fugro Survey Ltd and AOAGeophysics Inc have mapped the Cap de Creus canyon head northeast of Barcelona in the Gulf of Lion, acquiring a dataset with a hull-mounted multibeam system. The map data acquired during the summer clearly shows a wide range of active geological processes, from mass wasting and furrows to faults and seefloor seepage, all in unprecedented detail. 

  • A Hot Wind Blows

    01 Nov 2004

    In a period of 24 hours last month, three times as much new wind power capacity (300MW) was approved in Scotland and Wales than was built during the whole of last year. To date this year in the UK, 30 new wind energy projects have been consented, at a 75% approval rate and totalling some 770MW. 

  • Aker Shakes the Cruise World

    01 Nov 2004

    Finland's Aker Yards Group has merged its two shipyards in that country, Kvaerner Masa - Yards Inc and Aker Finnyards Inc , into a new company called Aker Finnyard s. 

  • German SWATH Programme Hits a Snag

    01 Nov 2004

    Electrical problems during sea trials have delayed the delivery of Planet , Germany's biggest SWATH vessel. The word from Nordseewerke (NSW) in Emden is that handover might not now take place before the end of the year. 

  • Big Box Load Is Beautiful

    01 Nov 2004

    On 27 September, the pushboat Riad left Rotterdam's ECT Delta Terminals with a record load of 652TEU. All of the 415 containers on board were full, to be unloaded in Rotterdam and feedered on to Antwerp. 

  • A&P Birkenhead Land Deal

    01 Nov 2004

    Ship repairers A&P Birkenhead and Reddington Finance Ltd have reached an agreement for the sale and leaseback of some of A&P's land at Birkenhead. A&P Birkenhead retains ownership of the drydocks but some surplus land will be sold to the property developers. A&P believes the arrangement will enable it to better focus on its ship repair business despite difficult trading prospects. 

  • 'Voe Viking' Gets First New Model Effer Crane

    01 Nov 2004

    A new Multicat under construction at Damen Shipyards ' Hardinxveld yard in the Netherlands will be the first vessel fitted with the new model 18000 3S crane from Italian manufacturer Effer . 

  • Multraship Completes Danish Dredger Salvage at Esjberg

    01 Nov 2004

    Terneuzen based Multraship Salvage has completed the lifting of the 79m trailing suction hopper dredger Thor R , which sank in the mouth of the Danish port of Esjberg on 26 September. 

  • ACE Set the Pace in Winch Delivery

    01 Nov 2004

    Scotland based Alfred Cheyne Engineering Ltd (ACE Winches) continue to demonstrate their ability to deliver large winch packages in short delivery times. 

  • VOSTA LMG Flourishing in the East

    01 Nov 2004

    Amsterdam based dredger builder and dredging components supplier VOSTA LMG has won an 'Engineering and Components' contract for a packaged CSD500 cutter suction dredger from a partner in Malaysia. The contract includes the design of the dredger, critical components such as the dredge pump, cutter head and ladder, operator cabin, on site project management and maintenance. 

  • FTA Considers Dire Port Congestion Options

    01 Nov 2004

    Members of the British Shippers' Council (BSC) have expressed extreme concern that their supply chains are at breaking point due to the growing pressures of port congestion. 

  • Dredging D-Day Looms for Port of Antwerp

    01 Nov 2004

    A report compiled by the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) following a two year study into the deepening of the River Scheldt has found that such works would not have a negative impact on the environment or security. The river, with its estuary and a navigation channel running through Dutch territory, provides access from the North Sea to the Belgian Port of Antwerp. 

  • 'Beluga 11' Yard Goes Bankrupt Over Cost Row With Greenpeace

    01 Nov 2004

    The Fridtjof Nansen Shipyard in east Germany has applied for bankruptcy proceedings after Greenpeace paid only part of the €1.4m price for its newbuilding Beluga 11 , saying the ship had not been properly finished. 

  • Supplier's E-Commerce Award

    01 Nov 2004

    Martek Marine , the Rotherham UK based supplier of safety monitoring systems to the global marine industry, has won Best Use of Teleworking at the 2004 DTI/InterForum E-Commerce Awards ceremony in London last month. The company makes extensive use of voice over internet (VOIP) and Virtual Private Networking (VPN) to allow their employees in many countries around the world to communicate in a timely and cost effective fashion. 

  • John Deere Diesels for Dredgers

    01 Nov 2004

    IMS , a division of Liquid Waste Technology LLC , has opted to install John Deere engines on its entire Versi-Dredge product line. 

  • EC Gives Go for Galileo

    01 Nov 2004

    The European Commission adopted a communication last month on moving to the deployment and operational phases of the European satellite radio navigation system. 

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