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Deck Equipment & Lifting Gear
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Crane gain at Europort Maritime
11 Dec 2007
In ceremonies on the Van der Velden Marine Systems stand at Europort Maritime in Rotterdam last month, the wraps were pulled off an Effer 130 4S marine crane to signify the signing of an exclusive agreement for Van der Velden to distribute Effer marine cranes in the Netherlands and Germany.
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Hamburg Automates to Boost Capacity
11 Dec 2007
The Port of Hamburg’s biggest container terminal operator, Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), has turned to Kalmar to supply three more crane blocks with its automatic stacking crane (ASC) system and related technology for the second phase in the conversion of HHLA Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB) to a semi-automated operation. The new order is in addition to the first five yard stacking blocks currently being commissioned by Kalmar. Delivery of this second order for nine cranes, along with their automation and control systems, will start next year.
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Lift Efficiency Boosts Tiger Bay
11 Dec 2007
Marine Travelift Inc has sold its very first self-propelled transporter onto the US market. The Marine Travelift TM 40C was purchased by Tiger Point Marina and Boat Works of Jacksonville in Florida.
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Lighten Up for Easier Mooring
11 Dec 2007
Following a successful eight month sea trial on its Cosmerry Lake VLCC, Cosco Dalian found that, in comparison with steel wire mooring lines, ropes made with Dyneema enabled a reduction in mooring time and significantly improved crew safety.
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System Software Drives Smarter Winch
11 Dec 2007
Americ's Markey Machinery has supplied of the second DEPCF-52 75hp electric hawser winch for a series of Nichols Brothers Shipyards built 6,800hp tugs.
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Cameras Keep Watch on 'Galatea'
11 Dec 2007
Following the successful installation of Hernis Scan Systems' integrated surveillance systems onboard the Trinity House vessels 'Patricia and 'Mermaid', Hernis has supplied its Hernis 400 system for the new Northern Lighthouse Board and Trinity House vessels built at the Remontowa shipyard in Poland.
Diving & Underwater Services
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So What is New in Diving 20 Years on? By Roger O'Kane
01 Dec 2007
On a momentous day in 1987, Maritime Journal leapt into the lives of anyone interested or involved in any aspects of the maritime oriented disciplines, and little did we know then that this publication would mark a significant period of transition in marine activity and diving in particular.
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'Impossible' Underwater Repair Now Routine
01 Dec 2007
When a fishing line and net became stuck between the seal rings of a 168m container ship, the underwater repair company, Hydrex, flew a highly qualified diving team to Salalah, Oman, to carry out the renewal of the aft stern tube seals of the vessel underwater.
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Sentinel Satisfies In Underwater Warfare Trials
01 Dec 2007
The new Sentinel Diver Detection System from Sonardyne International successfully completed a four-day series of intensive trials at the US Naval Underwater Warfare Center, Newport, Rhode Island during October. Although full details of the tests cannot be disclosed, the US Navy subjected the system to a variety of threat scenarios. The Sentinel not only met all requirements of the tests, but also exceeded expectations during the challenging appraisal.
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Mobile ROV Repair Saves the Day
01 Dec 2007
As the ROV market is expanding rapidly, many ROV operators are forced to focus mainly on their direct operational performance, leaving them struggling with the maintenance and support for their valuable systems. Based at Zierikzee in the Netherlands, Seatec Underwater Systems B.V. has responded to these circumstances by expanding it’s activities with ROV repair, maintenance, support and fleet management services.
Dredging
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Dredging Gears Up to Expansive Opportunities
17 Dec 2007
When MJ's founding editor Peter Moth and colleague Ian Cardwell took the first issue of Maritime Journal to the Europort exhibition in Amsterdam in 1987 the dredging industry was not enjoying one of its better moments. Recessionary forces were at play and many of the dredgers belonging to the large Dutch and Belgian contractors were inactive. Overcapacity was a topic of the day.
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Remediating Pipelines in Shifting Sands
17 Dec 2007
The Waterweg division of Dutch shipping company Acta Marine has recently completed the remedial lowering of a 48" diameter live gas pipeline across some 5.5km across the IJsselmeer in Northern Holland. Den Helder based Acta Marine Watereg, which can access a fleet of more than 60 workboats, conducted the operation from its 38m LOA multi-purpose offshore support vessel 'Coastal Worker' with support from an anchor handling workboat.
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Newbuild Boom Continues for Renamed IHC
16 Dec 2007
Having gained new orders to the value of €650m during the summer, Dutch dredger builder IHC Holland Merwede (which announced a name change to IHC Merwede at Europort Maritime last month) has purchased the largest covered slipway in Europe at Krimpen aan den Ijssel, where it will build the world’s largest trailing suction hopper dredger.
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'Pearl River' Heads Marseilles Expansion
16 Dec 2007
Dredging is underway in the first phase of construction work on the Port of Marseilles Authority’s Fos 2XL container terminal project. Due in service by 2010, two new terminals are being developed in partnership with private operators Port Synergy and MSC, increasing annual capacity at Fos from 600,000 to 2.1m teu. The dredging operation is part of a two year contract that also involves the construction of 1,200m of quay
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Dredging Systems Readied in Mozambique
16 Dec 2007
Swindon UK based hydrographic survey systems supplier Del Norte Technology Ltd has completed its contribution to the handover of the single pipe trailing suction hopper dredger ‘M S Alacantara Santos’ from the Japanese shipbuilders Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to the Mozambique government's dredging company, Emodraga.
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'Environmental Aspects of Dredging' in One Volume
16 Dec 2007
The Dutch based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has published a new edition of 'Environmental Aspects of Dredging' in cooperation with the International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC).
Ferries & Short Sea Operations
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Stena Orders Newbuilds for Harwich - Hook
16 Dec 2007
Stena Line has ordered two new RoPax vessels valued at some £145m from Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea. The vessels will be put into service in 2011, when it is planned they will operate on the Harwich to Rotterdam route.
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Ferry Delivery Thanks to Tanks
16 Dec 2007
In the second week of October Dutch ship delivery and maritime recruitment specialist Redwise was approached by it’s long term customer Conferry to deliver the Austal built catamaran 'Tallink Autoexpress 2' from Tallin to Curacao.
Hydrographic Survey by David Goodfellow
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Technology Tops the Charts
16 Dec 2007
Just twenty years ago, in an era of tapes, magnetic disks and manufacturers extolling their latest solid state microprocessor-controlled wonders, we had data loggers doing 100 soundings a second and programmers writing real-time software for 16 and 32 bit desktop computers boasting 20MB memories, and out in the field, radio positioning was generally still the order of the day with Argo, Miniranger, Syledis, Trisponder and other line-of-sight systems widely used for any number of inshore and offshore applications.
News
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Oilfield Technology for Offshore Wind
16 Dec 2007
Classification society DNV had granted an approval in principle for a new offshore wind energy concept developed by Dutch offshore design company Sea of Solutions in close cooperation with partner Sparcs Products.
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To Russia with the IHMA
16 Dec 2007
St Petersburg in Russia has been announced as the setting for 2008 Congress of the International Harbour Masters' Association (IHMA). Hosted by the St Petersburg Maritime Port Administration with the support of the Russian Ministry of Transport, the event will take place next year on 12-16 May.
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New Shipbreaking Regulations in Pipeline
16 Dec 2007
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is taking action to address the unacceptable working conditions and poor environmental standards at many shipbreaking yards around the world. A new convention is currently being drafted to regulate the breaking up of old ships.
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Oceanology '08 Appears on the Horizon
16 Dec 2007
Leading figures from the marine science and ocean technology community will focus on the key themes of climate change, meeting future energy needs and ensuring environmental and civil security when the Oceanology International conference and exhibition returns to London next year.
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UK Tidal Energy Welcomed in Canada
16 Dec 2007
British company Marine Current Turbines, the developer of SeaGen, the world’s largest and most advanced tidal stream energy system, has signed an agreement with Canada’s Maritime Tidal Energy Corporation to harness the huge tidal currents of the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Salvors Can't Place Contract with the Weather
16 Dec 2007
When Smit Salvage started operations to remove the wrecked stern section of 'MSC Napoli' from Lyme Bay on the UK Devon Coast in early November progress was brisk. Within one week hydraulically operated shears had removed most of the vessel’s 650 ton accommodation block and upper works. A 60 day first phase to cut the aft section down to just 4m above the waterline, in preparation for a return in Spring 2008 to lift the engine and remaining hull section, seemed achievable.
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Life Returning to Boscombe Pier
06 Dec 2007
A bracing walk out along Boscombe Pier near Bournemouth UK should be possible in the new year for the first time in almost 20 years now that a major reconstruction of the dilapidated structure is nearing completion.
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MCA Upgrades UK AIS Network
06 Dec 2007
The UK's Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) has implemented Phase 3 of the UK AIS network following successful Factory/Site Acceptance (FAT/SAT) testing of Kongsberg Norcontrol IT software upgrades to its C-Scope User Interface.
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Contract Signed for New Dartmouth Ferry
06 Dec 2007
The Dartmouth-Kingswear Floating Bridge Company, operator of the town’s Higher Ferry across the River Dart, has signed a contract with Pendennis Shipyard for the construction of a replacement vessel to be delivered in the summer of 2009.
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Renewable Energy Congress Planned for Vienna
06 Dec 2007
Environmental experts from all over Europe and overseas will be gathering in Vienna for the first European congress for environmental technology and renewable energies, Envietech, which will run from 31 January to 1 February.
Safety, Survival and Training
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The 20 Year Safety Learning Curve
01 Dec 2007
Maritime Journal arrived at the start of a steep learning curve for the maritime industry. On 6 March 1987 the 'Herald of Free Enterprise' left Zeebrugge with its bow doors open and 193 people paid the price for poor seamanship. The incident drove the IMO and a host of other organisations into analysing the industry’s shortcomings and bump started the long process of changing the way it operated.
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First AHTS Simulator Installed in France
01 Dec 2007
Bourbon Offshore has inaugurated its first training centre in Marseilles, which includes the first Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel (AHTS) Simulator installed in France.
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MCA Provides Feedback Following Emergency Exercises
01 Dec 2007
The UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA’s) maritime emergency exercises are now regular events around the British coast. A Maritime Guidance Note (MGN) has recently been published providing feedback, including observations and recommendations from a series of exercises involving a specific class of vessel.
Ship & Boat Building
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A Boat Designer's Busy Year
18 Dec 2007
It has been a busy year for Scotland based Macduff Ship Design (MSD) as their portfolio of new designs continues to expand. Completions so far this year include the 13m twin screw tug “Fair Maid”, 12.8m twin screw buoy handler “Seiont IV” and the 14.95m vivier crabber “Galwad-Y-Mor”.
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'Sula' Flies on Loch Nevis
18 Dec 2007
Isle of Wight based catamaran builders Cheetah Marine have recently delivered a 7.9m to the Knoydart Peninsular in Scotland, one of the last remaining wilderness areas in the UK.
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Milford Haven Award to Mustang Marine
18 Dec 2007
Mustang Marine (Wales) Ltd have been awarded a contract to construct a new 19m steel, twin screw pilot launch for Milford Haven Port Authority following a competitive tendering process.
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Big Capabilities for Littlehampton Workboat
17 Dec 2007
Littlehampton UK Harbour Master Colin Hitchcock first encountered the Aluminium Boatbuilding Company (ABC) at Seawork 2006 and took a trial run in the 10m landing craft the Hayling Island based builder had brought to the show that year.
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Innovation and Diversification Define the Maritime Journal Decades
17 Dec 2007
Boat building in the context of Maritime Journal is a very broad subject indeed, covering the construction of vessels from the smallest rigid inflatable workboats to large multipurpose work vessels and other specialised craft. Over two decades this magazine has not only reported on a myriad of new craft of all sizes and types but has also recorded important developments in the vessels themselves and perhaps more importantly, methods of construction.
Tugs & Towing by Jack Gaston
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TOWLINES
17 Dec 2007
Late in November Newcastle based Osprey Shipping Ltd welcomed home their new tug 'Osprey Fighter' and barge 'Osprey Carrier'. The new vessels were constructed in China and arrived in the Tyne after a grueling and eventful delivery voyage from the Far East. The purpose built 50 tons bollard pull ASD tug and the new 4,464 dwt heavy deck cargo barge represent a considerable investment for the British company, which will employ the vessels for coastal and deep sea transportation. A full account of the new tug and barge will appear in the January 2008 issue.
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Business as Usual as Klyne is Taken Over
17 Dec 2007
Britain’s oldest tug and barge company J P Knight, has announced in a joint statement that the J P Knight Group has acquired a majority interest in Klyne Tugs, the current provider of Emergency Towing Vessels (ETVs) to the UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA).
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China Builds RAmparts 3000 Tugs for the First Time
17 Dec 2007
Cheoy Lee Shipbuilders of Hong Kong has delivered the first of a pair of RAmparts 3000 Class ship handling tugs, the 'Harry Evans' to Svitzer Australasia. The tugs are built to the highly successful RAmparts 3000 design developed by Robert Allan Ltd., naval architects of Vancouver, for worldwide construction and service.
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Operations Have Started at Hammerfest
17 Dec 2007
In Norway a new fleet of tugs owned by Buksér og Berging AS is now fully operational to fulfil a Statoil contract, providing shiphandling, escort and mooring services at Melkøya liquefied natural gas terminal near Hammerfest in northern Norway. The new tug service was inaugurated when the first LNG ship 'Arctic Princess' arrived at the terminal.
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GPS Marine Continues to Diversify
17 Dec 2007
GPS Marine Contractors Ltd, based at Chatham in Kent UK, is emerging as a major player in the marine sector, offering a wide range of services including towage, marine transportation, salvage, heavy-lift, marine civil engineering, demolition and dredging.
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Busy Sanmar Extend Their Product Range
17 Dec 2007
Sanmar Denizcilik Makina ve Ticaret Ltd of Istanbul is well known as one of the leading tugboat companies in Turkey and also as specialist tug builder. In addition to providing towage and pilotage services, the family run company has built tugs and workboats in their own shipyard for many years, initially for their own tug fleet but more recently for the global market.
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A Pusher Tug Returns to the Mersey
17 Dec 2007
A pusher tug and barge combination is in use on the Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal for the first time in a decade. Peel Ports’ Liverpool – Manchester Shuttle that started operation recently is capable of carrying up to 160 20ft ISO containers between Liverpool’s Royal Seaforth Docks and Manchester’s Irlam Container Terminal, journey of 40 miles up the River Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal. The pioneering trans-shipment service will transport a range of cargoes to the heart of the North West Region.
Tugs & Towing by Jack Gaston
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Tugs & Towing - 20 Years On
11 Dec 2007
Over the past two decades the towage industry has seen phenomenal changes in almost every sector and every aspect of the business. The industry has a history traceable with some accuracy to the 1830s and tug development moved forward in ‘fits and starts’ until the 1960s, when a variety of new technologies started to appear. But during the past 20 years the industry has experienced massive and dramatic changes in the way that it operates and a major increase in radical new designs of both tugs and their propulsion systems.
