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New Crane & Winch Operations Guidelines
10 Jan 2008
A key part of almost all offshore and subsea operations is lifting, lifting of stores and spares handling through to complicated and heavy lifts, and there could be in excess of 200 different kinds of lifting operations on a vessel.
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Double Deck Equipment Package for Holyhead
28 Jan 2008
Having recently supplied the deck machinery package for Holyhead Towing Company's new 35m tug, North Sea Winches has just completed manufacturing an almost identical package for the same customer. Winches are also being built for a 24m tug and designs are on the board for 60 ton winches for the next generation of vessels.
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Bigger Lift for Bigger Tugs
28 Jan 2008
The family run business of Colle Towing Inc, which operates tugboats on the Pascagoula River in Mississippi USA, has recently taken delivery of its second Marine Travelift. The new 600C boat hoist is seen as an investment that will contribute to the strengthening of the business for future generations.
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Preffered Found 2007 an Uplifting Year
28 Jan 2008
Preffered Marine Cranes celebrated a successful year in 2007 and managed to draw successful contracts even in what they term as a somewhat erratic market. The company was able to supply a range of knuckleboom and stiff boom cranes from their Italian (Effer) and German (Global Davits) suppliers.
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Safer Deck Operations Takes Off
28 Jan 2008
Rolls-Royce launched its Safer Deck Operations (SDO) system for offshore anchor handlers back in 2006, and since then four vessels with SDO have gone into service and 35 more orders for new vessels are in place.
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Passive Damping for Regional Support Vessels
28 Jan 2008
S E Hydraulics (SEH) have designed and supplied an innovative passive damping system to BP's four new Regional Support Vessels (RSVs) working out of Aberdeen.BP have commissioned and procured the new RSVs to deliver their new North Sea rescue and recovery arrangements.






