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News

  • Cosalt's Italian High Wire

    01 Nov 2005

    Cosalt Safety & Protection has been appointed sole distributor in the UK and Ireland for Italian steel wire rope manufacturer Redaelli Tecna Cordati. In the marine environment this includes hoist and winch wires for dockside cranes and wires used in dredging and piling applications. 

  • 'Land Swap' Lands Port Facilities

    01 Nov 2005

    A new quay and slipway facility at Polly Steps, beside the ABP Port of Teignmouth, was opened last month. The quay and slipway have been constructed as part of a 'land swap' arrangement between Teignbridge District Council and ABP. 

  • Ceres Paragon Lifts Off

    01 Nov 2005

    Amsterdam's innovative Ceres Paragon container terminal, largely unused since its 2001 opening, has enjoyed a turnaround in its fortunes recently with two Grand Alliance loops now calling to bring an initial 200,000teu per year throughput. This has, in turn, seen the creation of Dutch Feeder Line, a twice weekly operation to Hamburg commencing this month. 

  • VT/Merwede Sign MoU

    01 Nov 2005

    Two major Northern European shipbuilders, the UK's VT Shipbuilding and Merwede Shipyard of the Netherlands, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together on naval warship procurement programmes outside the UK. 

  • BMT Pays Respect to a Founding Father

    01 Nov 2005

    David Goodrich, chairman of BMT Ltd and a former President of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) died last month at the age of 64. 

  • Merger to Create Peterhead Port Authority

    01 Nov 2005

    The separate organisations that currently control Peterhead's two harbours are to undergo a historic merger that will bring major economic benefits to the town. 

  • Marine Electronics Online

    01 Nov 2005

    Having observed evident changes in the way products will be sold in the near future, Marine Electronic Services (MES) has established a new company, Raydirect, specialising in Raymarine products online. This is now live at www. raydirect. co. uk and follows six months of internal web development to produce a completely e-enabled business. With the entire back office (order processing, accounting, and shipping) interconnected, Raydirect exists in an automated warehouse environment integrated with the UPS shipping network. 

  • Trinity House RIV Launched in Poland

    01 Nov 2005

    The new Trinity House Rapid Intervention Vessel (RIV) Alert was launched last month at Stocznia Remontowa SA shipbuilders in Gdansk, Poland, marking the first stage of a £38m investment on three new vessels by the General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) of the UK and Ireland. 

  • Nelson Revisited in Historic City of Portsmouth

    01 Nov 2005

    Over 600 children from the Admiral Lord Nelson School in Portsmouth dressed in nautical costumes on 21 of October and took to the waters of the Solent with Wightlink Isle of Wight Ferries to celebrate the famous victory 200 years ago of their school's namesake at the Battle of Trafalgar. 

  • Port Development Promoted

    01 Nov 2005

    Politicians from all the main UK political parties were present last month at a meeting organised by Haven Gateway Partnership in the House of Commons to bring them up to date on plans for new container port developments at Bathside Bay and Felixstowe South. The briefing came with a Government decision imminent on the proposed green field container terminal development at Bathside Bay. 

  • Germans Develop Fuel-economy Sail Towing System

    01 Nov 2005

    A lot of interest is being show by shipping companies in a new German-developed ship towing propulsion concept called Sky Sails and a former pilot boat is at the hub of experiments into the new system in the Baltic. 

  • Oi06 Call for Papers

    01 Nov 2005

    A Call for Papers has gone out for Oi06, the next edition of the Oceanology International exhibition and conference, scheduled for 21 - 23 March 2006 at the ExCel exhibition centre in London's Docklands. 

  • Funding Extension for Sea and Water

    01 Nov 2005

    The UK's Minister of State for Transport, Dr Stephen Ladyman MP, has awarded a further three years of funding to Sea and Water, the campaigning organisation charged with promoting the increased movement of freight on inland waterways and coastal and short sea routes. 

  • New Fisheries Agency Launched

    01 Nov 2005

    The British Government has created a new Marine Fisheries Agency to deliver services to the fishing industry and a number of marine environmental interests. 

  • Wartsila's Chinese Gensets

    01 Nov 2005

    Construction has started on Wartsila's joint venture genset factory in China. The Wartsila Qiyao Diesel Company Ltd (Shanghai) will initially manufacture Wartsila Auxpac W20 diesel gensets which will be sold through Wartsila's global sales network. The new facility is jointly owned by Wartsila and the Shanghai Marine Diesel Engine Research Institute, which is a subsidiary of the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation. Production is due to begin next summer. 

  • Spinnaker Tower Opens in Portsmouth

    01 Nov 2005

    The long awaited Spinnaker Tower, a 170m high observation tower on the edge of Portsmouth Harbour, UK, opened to the public last month. Soaring above Portsmouth Harbour, the south facing tower is higher than the London Eye or Big Ben and offers visitors sweeping views over the Solent and across a distance of at least 23 miles. 

  • Navigation System Upgrade for the German Navy

    01 Nov 2005

    A contract to equip all German Navy ships with a new suite of navigational systems has been awarded to a group of companies led by ET Marinesysteme GmbH as prime contractor, an equal joint venture between EADS and Thales. Commercial and technical evaluation led to final contract for system supply to start later this year and be completed in 2009. 

  • EUR-OCEANS Tracks Climate Change

    01 Nov 2005

    The Plymouth UK based National Marine Aquarium is the only tourist attraction in the country selected to participate in a major new climate change project. As a member of the European Network of Excellence project, it will join participants in 25 other European countries to investigate and communicate the effects of climate change to the world. 

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