EH Hassell & Sons Extend Their Port Handling Territory

01 Jan 2005

From the first day of this month, EH Hassell and Sons Ltd of Stoke on Trent UK has become the nominated distributor for the range of Sennebogen Green Line Material handlers for all industries in the UK as well as port sector distributorship in Ireland. 

Lockheed Grabs a SLICE of the Action

01 Jan 2005

Lockheed Martin turned up at last month's Workboat Show in New Orleans with a new $25 million contract for the detailed design, construction, test and delivery of two Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull (SWATH) variant crew transport vessels for Mexico's national oil company PEMEX . 

MacGregor Heads to Kone

01 Jan 2005

Kone Corporation has bought MacGregor from Industri Kapital and Gambro AB forapproximately ? 186 million. 

Small Ships Now Online

01 Jan 2005

Development Threat to River Support Services

01 Jan 2005

One of the last working boatyards on London's River Thames is threatened by development. 

Long Running Maritime Charity

01 Jan 2005

Opportunities to run with Paula Radcliffe and simultaneously support seafarers and their families are still available to participants in next spring's Flora London Marathon . Those running and raising sponsorship on behalf of the maritime charity King George's Fund for Sailors (KGFS) will benefit sailors who served in WWII, orphaned children and injured fishermen. KGFS has worked with some 200 UK maritime related charities, targeting financial support to where it is needed most. The charity is relaunching itself under the new name Seafarers UK , effective 1 January 2005. 

New On HIT List

01 Jan 2005

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). 

Seafarers UK Pledges £100,000 for Tsunami Sufferers

01 Jan 2005

UK based maritime charity Seafarers UK is donating £100,000 towards rebuilding the seafaring communities affected by the Tsunami disaster, on the Indian and Sri Lankan coasts. 

Wallenius Goes Green

01 Jan 2005

Shipping and logistics operators Wallenius Wilhelmsen has become the first non-container carrier shipping group to join the Clean Cargo Group , a global consortium of multinational manufacturers, shippers and carriers whose aim is to promote cleaner and more environmentally sustainable transportation. The Group is currently at work developing an Environmental Performance System to measure exhaust emissions, which will enable customers to monitor their carrier's emission levels and environmental profiles effectively. 

Contract Awards

01 Jan 2005

RoRo Vessel Refit (1) Lerwick, UK; (2) Shetland Islands Council, Lerwick ZE1 0HB; (3) Supply and installation of equipment in refit/refurbishment of 35m pax/vehicle RoRo ferry; (4) Malakoff Limited, Lerwick; (5) £500,000; (6) 5 

Fos Box Rise

01 Jan 2005

Container throughput at the French Port of Marseilles-Fos hasrisen by 9% through the first ten months of 2004 for a total of 765,000 teu. East-west trade was up by 10% to 492,000 teu while north-south trades via Marseilles improved to 8%, exceeding 272,000 teu. After a slow start to the year, cruise throughput has improved by 3% to reach a January-October total of 320,000 passengers. 

Elsflether Stays Busy With Small Ship Work

01 Jan 2005

German small ship repair and conversion centre Elsflether Werft on the Weser has seen its slipways full of late with a variety of small ships in for work ranging from routine maintenance and repair to complex engine exchange. 

Hamburg Booming

01 Jan 2005

By the beginning of December 2004, the Port of Hamburg had already matched the previous year's record cargo handling volume of 106,283 million tons and was heading for a year end figure of approximately 115 million tons, an increase of 8.5%. 

Help Save Titanic's Tender

01 Jan 2005

The Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast has added its name to a growing online petition to save the Titanic 's tender S/S Nomadic from the breaker. The illustrious 'Mothership of the Titanic ', which carried John Jacob Astor, Benjamin Guggenheim, Margaret 'Unsinkable Molly' Brown and 169 other First and Second Class passengers out of Cherbourg harbour to board the fated liner, is the only vessel from the iconic White Star Line still afloat. 

Twenties Motor Launch Restored in Hamburg

01 Jan 2005

A new lease of life has been given to a 75 year-old Alster motor launch after five years of restoration carried out by an employment and skill training group in the German port city of Hamburg. 

Hurricane Season Necessitates Heavy Lift by Bisso

01 Jan 2005

America's Bisso Marine Co Inc has completed the successful salvage of a 105 Class Liftboat from 258ft of water in the Gulf of Mexico. The liftboat, which was believed to have sunk in much shallower water in the mid 1980's, was discovered to be on top of a 20in pipeline after Hurricane Ivan. 

Scotland's First RNLI 'Tamar'

01 Jan 2005

A new design of lifeboat, known as the Tamar class, has been allocated to the RNLI Peterhead Lifeboat Station , making it the first station and crew in Scotland to operate this class of all weather lifeboat.