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News

  • EHMC Seminar in Port of Bordeaux

    01 Mar 2005

    Under the title Safe Seas, Safe Ports the European Harbour Masters Committee (EHMC) will host this year’s one day seminar on 2 June in the French Port of Bordeaux.   

  • Engine Barrier Broken

    01 Mar 2005

    MAN B&W Diesel has broken the single engine 100,000bhp barrier with its new 12 cylinder 12K98MC pumping out a total of 101,645 bhp.  

  • Seafarers' ID Convention

    01 Mar 2005

    France, Jordan and Nigeria ratified The Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention 2003 (No.185) last month, bringing it into force.    

  • Deutz Flight to the Finnish

    01 Mar 2005

    Finnish engine manufacturer Wärtsilä has paid €115 million to acquire the assets of Deutz AG’s medium and large marineengine service operations, including original spare parts sales, repair and maintenance. Wärtsilä will use the Deutz Marine brand name and will be the supplier of spares and technical support for the Deutz engines worldwide.  

  • First IPSEM Certification to Port of Cork

    01 Mar 2005

    International Code for Safety and Environmental Protection Management (IPSEM) certificate by classification society Bureau Veritas.  

  • No Lead in this Zeppelin

    01 Mar 2005

    Dutch heavy transport shipping operator Dockwise delivered its lightest ever load last month when a 75m LOA zeppelin weighing only 700 kilos was transported on board Dock Express 10 on a 35 day voyage from Germany to Japan.  

  • EU Funding Behind SEA-AHED

    01 Mar 2005

    An EU funded research and development project aimed at improving safety at sea for cruise ship passengers and crew may be extended to also benefit ro-ro ships, fast ferries and other types of vessel. The Simulation Environment and Advisory System for On Board Help and Estimation of Manoeuvring Performance During Design project, which has somehow been given the acronym SEA-AHED, has been funded by over €1.7 million from the EU’s Framework Programme.  

  • UK To Lead Push for Renewables

    01 Mar 2005

    With the global market for renewable energy technologies topping $25 billion last year, 11 UK renewable energy trade associations have joined forces to publish an eight point action plan aimed at rapidly expanding the use of renewables to a point where they provide a quarter of British energy needs by 2025. This would be in line with recommendations made to G8 nations by the International Climate Change Task Force The action plan sets out how the UK can take full advantage of its vast renewable energy resources while taking action to reduce carbon emissions and increase security. At the heart of the plan is an urgent call to develop renewables across all energy sectors, so that the good progress being made in developing renewable electricity, especially wind power, is expanded for all renewable technologies. This would mean the Government setting targets and introducing financial support measures to create new markets for renewable heat and transport fuels. 

  • United Nations' Tsunami Aid Role

    01 Mar 2005

    The United Nations agency International Maritime Organisation is to help coordinate restoration of key maritime infrastructure in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami tragedy. 

  • SeaBritain 2005 Festival Online

    01 Mar 2005

    This year will see a nationwide celebration of Britain's long love affair with the sea, inspired by the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar and the death of Admiral Lord Nelson. 

  • MCA Awards Radio Contract

    01 Mar 2005

    The UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency has awarded a new contract for Maritime Radio Survey & Inspection to Selenia Communications Ltd .The three year contract, awarded following a full European tendering process commences on the first of next month and will include Port State Control, survey and general inspection as well acting in an advisory capacity. The contract is managed centrally from Selenia's Chelmsford head office and will be carried out by 30 surveyors based in 14 UK offices. 

  • Famous Buoy Successfully Upgraded in the Arabian Gulf

    01 Mar 2005

    After 30 years acting as a key rendezvous point for tankers in the Arabian Gulf, the Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) buoy has been successfully upgraded to a high focal plane buoy adjacent to the main tanker lane exiting the Gulf. 

  • Bridge Equipment Goes Dutch

    01 Mar 2005

    To obtain a further shortening of lead time, especially in the increasingly important retrofit market, Furuno has opened a new European Distribution Centre at Zwijndrecht in the Netherlands. 

  • Large Leap for Inland Boxes

    01 Mar 2005

    Box traffic on French inland waterways increased by 37% during the first nine months of 2004 and showed particularly strong growth in the River Rhone basin, where it increased by 53%. Growth in the Rhine and Seine basins and Nord-Pas de Calais was up by more than 30%. Overall traffic on French waterways was up by 5.9% to 57.9 million tons. 

  • Small Ship Work for Polish and German Repair Yards

    01 Mar 2005

    Shipyards in Poland and Germany have been reporting good business of late in the complex conversion and upgrading of small vessels. 

  • Cold Peace Rescue for Russian Icebreaker

    01 Mar 2005

    For the first time in recent history, and unthinkable in the Cold War, a Russian ice-breaker was asked to rescue a team of 1,000 American scientists cut off from supplies in a remote research base in the Antarctic. The American plea came as food and fuel shortages threatened to halt the long-term US polar research programme at McMurdo on the Ross Sea coast. 

  • Wartsila Thrust Into China

    01 Mar 2005

    Finland based marine engine and propulsion supplier Wartsila is investing ? 6.6 million to establish a tranverse thruster factory at Wuxi, near Shanghai in China. The wholly owned Wartsila Propulsion (Wuxi) Co Ltd will employ some 120 people producing LIPS brand thrusters for the global shipbuilding market. 

  • London Extends Thames Wharf Protection

    01 Mar 2005

    The Mayor of London has addressed the contentious issue of River Thames wharves disappearing to property development in a new report which endorses not only a continuation of the existing 'safeguarding' policy but extends it to safeguard 25 wharves east of the Thames Barrier for the first time. 

  • Dutch Dredger Builders Detach

    01 Mar 2005

    IHCCaland Shareholders in Holland's approved the sale last month of the group's shipyards to their management, supported by the equity arm of Rabobank. 

  • Jenkins Buys Dean & Dyball Marine Equipment

    01 Mar 2005

    Poole UK based company Jenkins Marine has purchased four vessels and other items of associated plant from Dean & Dyball Construction .Following a consolidation of Jenkins' civil and marine activities last year the purchase heralds a new era of growth for the company. 

  • 'Glass Ceiling' Rescues Brunel's Masterpiece

    01 Mar 2005

    Works are underway in Bristol UK to preserve the SS Great Britain , Brunel's breakthrough wrought iron hulled, screw driven passenger steamship, for the next 100 years with the creation of a protective environment intended to halt corrosion. 

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