Thursday 4 December 08 - 00:14
 

News

  • Bremen Dockland Transformation Underway

    Pile driving has begun on new quaysides in Bremen’s Europahafen, part of a € 13.3m civil engineering development project to transform the historic Überseestadt docklands district into an office and leisure complex. 

  • Rolls-Royce Order Rolls On

    Rolls-Royce has won £72m of further business on its largest ever offshore marine contract, taking the total order value to £155m. 

  • Finns Land Landing Craft Contract

    Marine Alutech of Finland has signed a contract with Geliga Slipway Sdn Bhd of Malaysia for supplying the design and parts for ten Watercat M14 high performance landing craft for the Royal Malaysian Police. 

  • Navy Chief Supports Chopped UKHO

    The head of the British Royal Navy visited the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) last month to get an update on the navigational services and charts the organisation provides. 

  • Passenger Boat Industry Launches Conference

    Members of the UK passenger boat industry will gather in London on 6 March 2008 for the first national conference in the history of the industry. Opportunity, Challenge and Change: The Future of the UK Passenger Boat Industry is organised by The Passenger Boat Association (PBA) in partnership with Knighthood Assurance Services plc, a specialist marine insurance broker in the UK and Ireland. 

  • Green Ships Sail to Rotterdam

    Regulations and systems designed to protect the marine environment raise crucial investment, procedural and safety issues for the shipping industry, but they also chart a course towards business retention, cost savings and improved public image. 

  • Narrow Escape for Two Ships in Channel

    In just over a week two ships escaped serious damage, or worse, in incidents in the English Channel. When the news broke early on the morning of 2 January that the 90,465grt container vessel 'LT Cortesia' had ran aground on the Varne Bank while travelling through the Dover Strait at over 20 knots, it seemed likely that the UK Coastguard was faced with another major incident. 

  • 'Fair Maid' Delivers On Eastern Promise

    Macduff Ship Design was awarded a contract last month to provide a complete design and drawing package for the construction of two 13m twin screw harbour tugs, to be built by Boustead Yachts of Malaysia for their own use to handle new vessels and repairs within their docks and slipways. 

  • Bremen Dockland Transformation Underway

    Pile driving has begun on new quaysides in Bremen’s Europahafen, part of a € 13.3m civil engineering development project to transform the historic Überseestadt docklands district into an office and leisure complex. 

  • Latest Meercat Moored in Fjord

    Southampton UK based Meercat Workboats has sold the latest of their road transportable multi-role vessels to Østlandets Plast og Dykk Service AS. 

  • Fassmer Delivers Biggest Newbuild to Senegal

    Small ship building specialist Fassmer in Germany has delivered one of its biggest newbuildings ever, the 76m Ro-Pax ferry 'Aline Sitoe Diatta for Senegal. 

  • Conference Examines UK Ports Policy

    Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary for State for Transport will be the headline speaker for a one day conference on the theme of UK Ports Policy: Reaching Conclusions. 

  • Master Plan Progress for Bremore Ireland Port

    Bremore Ireland Port Ltd, the joint venture between Drogheda Port Company and Castle Market Holdings Ltd, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a wholly owned subsidiary of Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) to develop a Port Master Plan for the new €300 million deepwater port at Bremore in north Co Dublin. 

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