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Diving & Underwater Services

  • SCUBAR Do the Business

    01 May 2005

    Berkshire Fire and Rescue Services in the UK have put the SCUBAR Underwater Scope to good use during recent trials by using it to check for bodies in a car which had crashed off the road into a waterway. 

  • VR4Robots Brings ROVs in 3D Worlds to Computer Desktop

    01 May 2005

    Oxford Technologies has launched a low cost virtual reality software to allow subsea and underwater industry engineers to interact with 3D worlds on the desktop. 

  • New President for IMCA

    01 May 2005

    The International Marine Contractors Association hasappointed Frits Janmatt as its sixth President. Janmatt who is VP for Finance, Legal & Commercial at the Allseas Group , replaces Steve Preston of Heerema Marine Contractors , who steps down after the statutory two years as President. 

  • Dutch Deliver Doubled Bottom Time

    01 May 2005

    Dutch subsea contractor Noordhoek Offshore BV is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year by introducing the unique new TUP Diving System, designed and built in-house in consultation with its subsidiary Seatec Underwater Systems BV . 

Hydrographic Survey by David Goodfellow

  • AIS Chartware for Felixstowe

    01 May 2005

    Fugro Survey 's GeoSoft Solutions division , also based in Great Yarmouth, has received an order from the Port of Felixstowe for installation and client specification development of its ChartViewAIS technology. 

  • Primar Stavanger Distributes Italian ENC's

    01 May 2005

    Primar Stavanger international electronic navigational chart service operated by the Norwegian Hydrographic Service is to distribute Italian ENC's following an agreement with the Italian Hydrographic Office . Since the organisation has been distributing French, Greek and Spanish ENC's for some time, introduction of Italian variants means that most of the northern Mediterranean will now be covered. 

  • MCA Orders Seabat Multi-Beam

    01 May 2005

    The UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency has ordered a Reson SeaBat 7125 multibeam echosounder system for installation on its emergency towing vessel, MV Anglian Sovereign . The MCA says the system will enhance the secondary role capabilities of the vessel by adding an object detection capability in support of updating domestic nautical charts and publications. 

  • Veripos Establishes Peruvian DGPS Service

    01 May 2005

    Aberdeen-based Veripos has extended the South American sector of its global Differential GPS service with establishment of new facilities in Peru serving offshore users in the Pacific region. They comprise two land-based reference stations at the coastal cities of Chiclayo and Lima providing rapid update rates and low data latency, with correction data relayed via Inmarsat satellites. 

  • AAE Acoustic Tracking Orders

    01 May 2005

    Applied Acoustic Engineering of Great Yarmouth reports further significant sales of its Easytrak Portable acoustic tracking system with orders from rental companies Subsea Technologies Inc in the US and Sonar Equipment Services in the UK. 

Marine Civils by David Foxwell

  • iicorr Secures ALWC Work

    01 May 2005

    Corrosion control specialists iicorr in Aberdeen says it has secured contracts worth around £400,000 to carry out corrosion control work for a number of Scottish ports including those at Orkney, Wick, Barra and Lochinver. 

  • ABPmer Helps Secure Planning for New Coastal Habitat

    01 May 2005

    ABPmer , Associated British Ports ' marine environment research subsidiary, has helped secure planning permission for the creation of 108 hectares of new coastal habitat on Wallasea Island on Crouch Estuary in Essex. ABPmer provided the scientific research that supported DEFRA 's European Wildlife Division 'sapplication to the Planning Authority to grant permission for the scheme. 

  • MacGregor Linkspan Completes Immingham Ro-Ro Access System

    01 May 2005

    MacGregor has strengthened its relationship with Danish ferry operator DFDS by securing a new order for a large linkspan installation at Immingham in the UK, making the inner harbour accessible at all times The MacGregor Group's ro-ro ships division has signed a contract with DFDS Tor Line to design and commission a large linkspan for installation in the outer harbour at Immingham. 

  • Duke Opens Dorset Project

    01 May 2005

    The Duke of York has officially opened Costain 's West Bay project in Dorset, which will provide flood protection and vastly improved harbour facilities for the small Dorset town. 

News

  • Grid Unlocked by Charge Cap?

    01 May 2005

    The British Government's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has announced a decision to cap transmission charges payable by electricity generators in the Western and Northern Isles of Scotland. The cap ensures that renewable energy generators in the far north of Scotland will not pay disproportionately to use the grid to transport their electricity to customers and thus removes a major impediment to developing the region's vast natural resource of marine renewable wind and wave energy. 

  • New Technical Director Joins Boatbuilders VT Halmatic

    01 May 2005

    RNLI engineering manager Professor Bob Cripps has joined boat builders VTHalmatic as technical director with effect from the 9th of this month. 

  • Kone Cargotec Buys MacGregor

    01 May 2005

    Kone Cargotec , the cargo handling business of KONE Corporation , has purchased the entire share capital in global marine cargo flow solution and service provider MacGregor International AB from the Swedish companies Industri Kapital and Gambro . The transaction was completed last month. 

  • Ship Design Online

    01 May 2005

    In order to broaden its customer base, Macduff Ship Design haslaunched a comprehensive website at www. macduffshipdesign. com .Aimed at both the fishing and commercial marine markets, the site highlights all of the company's services together with a photographic gallery showing the many and varied vessels it has designed since being established in 1993. The portfolio includes tugs, workboats and ferries as well as a range of fishing vessels. 

  • Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Birthday Big in Bristol

    01 May 2005

    A year long programme of celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 2006 has been announced by Bristol Cultural Development Partnership (BCDP). The Brunel 200 programme will celebrate Brunel's life, times and legacy with exhibitions and publications as well as arts and educational projects throughout Bristol and the South West UK. 

  • Advanced Bunkering Facility Opens at Portland Harbour

    01 May 2005

    A self-declared 'most advanced bunkering facility in the UK' has commenced service at Portland Harbour , providing a weather sheltered fuelling option within easy reach of the main shipping lanes in the English Channel. 

  • Car Goes Up at Southampton

    01 May 2005

    As a result of rapid growth in deep sea car trade which has seen volumes more than double since 2000, the ABP Port of Southampton is to get a second multi-deck car park. 

  • Delivery of First Patrol Boats in 14 years to Schleswig Holstein

    01 May 2005

    Cash-strapped river and coastal police in Germany's northernmost state, Schleswig Holstein , have taken two badly-needed new ? 335,000 Finnish-built patrol boats into service after a long wait. 

  • Record Cruise Season

    01 May 2005

    The Cromarty Firth Port Authority will welcome the world's largest cruise liner, Queen Mary 2 , this summer as part of a record breaking cruise season in which 32 different liners will make 47 calls between 16 April and 18 September. 

  • Top Class Container Ships

    01 May 2005

    Lloyds Register will class the world's largest declared capacity container ships, four 10,000teu vessels to be built in Korea at Hyundai Heavy Industries for China Ocean Shipping Corporation (COSCO). 

  • Corporate/NGO Initiative to Protect High Seas

    01 May 2005

    The global shipping and logistics company Wallenius Wilhelmsen has signed a three year agreement with the conservation organisation WWF to preserve and promote the conservation of marine life on the high seas. 

  • HADAG Gets Seventh Type 2000 and Plans More

    01 May 2005

    The renewal of Hamburg's versatile small ferry ship fleet continues with news that HADAG Seetouristik und Fahrdienst has taken its seventh Type 2000 newbuilding into service and has ordered two more. 

News Seawork 2005 Update

  • North Sea Winches Pull In For Seawork

    01 May 2005

    Specialist marine winch manufacturers North Sea Winches return for Seawork 2005 next month, where they will be found on Stand 104. The company has just completed its biggest ever winch, a hydraulic anchor handler supplied to Hepworth Shipyard for use on their 25.5m tug for Holyhead Towing , MTV Afon Braint (see Tugs & Towing this issue). 

Port, Harbour & Marine Construction

  • New Funding Brings Tidal Stream Energy Project Closer

    01 May 2005

    Bristol UK based Marine Current Turbines has received £3.85m from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to help fund their SeaGen tidal energy project. The grant to Sea Generation Ltd , a wholly owned subsidiary of Marine Current Turbines , will go towards developing and testing the device for extracting energy from ocean currents. The new grant funding was announced by Energy Minister Mike O'Brien at the British Wind Energy Association 's recent annual marine conference. 

  • Expansion Plans at Folkestone Harbour

    01 May 2005

    Development plans for Folkestone Harbour UK include the introduction of two further berths to accommodate larger vessels of up to 7m draft and a harbour dredging programme as well as the ongoing refurbishment of existing berths and the creation of more cargo handling storage space and vehicle standage areas. Port operators hope to have the new berths operational later this year. 

Safety, Survival & Training

  • Workboat Training Needs Met at Seawork

    01 May 2005

    Ever mindful of small workboat training needs, Seatrek Training Limited comes to Seawork 2005 with a new Competent Deckhand Course. The course has been designed by Seatrek’s John Robertson specifically to address this neglected aspect of commercial<$>workboat training. 

  • MOBi-lert to Raise the Alarm at Seawork

    01 May 2005

    The prestigious Safety at Sea Award at the 17th Seatrade Awards Ceremony Dinner in London last month went to the MOBi-lert Recovery System, an active crew monitoring system dedicated to preventing the loss of life at sea.  

Seawork 2005 Update

  • Stauff Sticks with Seawork for Teflon Launch

    01 May 2005

    Stroud based Stauff UK, returning to Seawork for a fourth successive year, has chosen the exhibition as a launch pad for three new additions to their range of hydraulic pipework and accessories. Stauff will be deploying their all new mobile presentation unit, custom<$>designed around a 6m trailer, which will serve exhibitions such as Seawork, seminars and training sessions. 

  • SCOUT Marks Sonardyne&#x2019;s Seawork Debut

    01 May 2005

    Sonardyne International will be presenting its latest SCOUT Ultra-Short BaseLine (USBL) acoustic tracking system on Stand 16 at the Seawork 2005 International exhibition next month. 

  • Have a Blast On the Quayside

    01 May 2005

    XLentcleaning journeys from Canterbury UK to Seawork, where it will be giving demonstrations of its Farrow System method of removing surface coatings on the quayside. XLentcleaning is a licensed operator of the Farrow System, which enables the removal of protective coatings such as marine anti-fouling from fibreglass without damaging the gel coat. The system is extremely fast and can clean a 30’ GRP vessel in less than three hours without the need for removal of fixtures and fittings. 

  • Personnel Preferences

    01 May 2005

    ’We had such a great show in 2004, we’re coming back for the second year running!’ So says Lynne Burch, managing director of Seamariner Ltd, the only marine recruitment company exhibiting at Seawork 2005. Specialising in the recruitment and placement of professional seafarers of all disciplines, Seamariner is the UK’s premier<$>marine recruitment specialists for shipping companies worldwide. 

Tugs & Towing by Jack Gaston

  • TOWLINES

    01 May 2005

    Belgian towage company URS of Antwerp held a ceremony in Zeebrugge on 24 March to formally christen the new stern drive tugs Union Coral and Union Pearl . The 5,280bhp tugs, which are now a permanent addition to the URS Zeebruge fleet, are the first two of a quartet of new ASD tugs ordered from the Spanish shipyard of Astilleros Armo n ( Maritime Journal November 2004). Two further vessels, Union Ruby due in May and Union Emerald in September of this year will be deployed elsewhere in the Schelde area. 

  • 'Afon Braint' - the Latest of a Successful Breed

    01 May 2005

    Once again the Holyhead Towing Company Ltd has gone back to Hepworth Shipyard Ltd at Paull for their next new tug. 

  • Foss Modify their Voith Tractors

    01 May 2005

    Just when it seemed that every possible configuration of propulsion system in shiphandling tugs had been tried, US based Foss Maritime revealed a truly unique modification to a pair of their Voith tractors, the Wedell Foss and Henry Foss . 

  • 'Abeille Bourbon' takes up station

    01 May 2005

    Abeille Bourbon , the first of two identical and most impressive Emergency Towing Vessels (ETVs) has been delivered to Les Abeilles International inGroupe Bourbon and will operate on long term charter to the French navy. 

Vessel Launch Adsteam Ferriby

  • The First Damen Compact Tug in Europe

    01 May 2005

    Damen Shipyards have delivered Adsteam Ferriby , the first of their new compact shiphandling tugs to arrive in Europe. The new ASD Tug 2411 entered service with the fleet of Adsteam Marine Ltd on the south bank of the Humber at Immingham in April. 

Vessel Repair & Maintenance

  • Cygnus to Protect the 'Warrior'

    01 May 2005

    During the recent drydocking of the historic warship HMS Warrior , the Warrior Preservation Trust requested that Selman Marine Design Ltd carry out an ultrasonic hull survey from the waterline to the keel for both their historical records and to identify areas of concern. 

  • Sterntube Seal Change for 'Endurance'

    01 May 2005

    Coventry UK based Metalock Engineering is seldom called upon to demonstrate its expertise in deep hole drilling in-situ but it was put to the test recently, enabling Deep Sea Seals to retrofit new sterntube seals to HMS Endurance , the British Royal Navy 's ice patrol and research vessel. 

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