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News

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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