Irish Sea Freight Capacity to Triple

01 Oct 2007

Irish Sea freight only specialists Seatruck Ferries have taken over Celtic Link’s Dublin-Liverpool route. In addition, capacity available on Seatruck’s fast growing Warrenpoint-Heysham route is about to increase substantially, with the addition of the large newbuilding 'Clipper Point'.   

Comprehensive Refit Renews Warlock

01 Oct 2007

Following a year of hard work off Angola, the anchor-handling tug 'Warlock' returned to Europe earlier this year to work in the North Sea on behalf of Delft based Allseas Engineering BV. Owned by Barry Towage & offshore SA of Madeira, Warlock assisted Allseas' 125m shallow water pipelay barge 'Tog Mor' on the GDF project.  

Vintage Tug Steams for Maintenance

01 Oct 2007

Most people's image of the bustling concrete and glass jungle that is East London’s  Docklands business community is probably the iconic skyline. Pockets of the area's rich  maritime history are, however, still to be found.  

Tight Timetable for Newbuild Conversion

01 Oct 2007

A&P Tyne Ltd, part of A&P Group, has recently completed the conversion of a newbuild Offshore Support Vessel into a pipe-laying vessel for Subsea 7. In line with the original schedule, the 130m vessel will shortly depart for Brazil to complete a contract laying flexible pipelines to a water depth of 2,000m.  

Regional Boom Boosts Bahrain Yard

01 Oct 2007

The first six months of this year were extremely busy for Bahrain's Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard (ASRY) with very high occupancy rates across all the docks. The outcome was that during the second quarter ASRY had its best ever set of results.