Industry News – Page 245
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NewsNew pilot boat raises Milford Haven service provision
Milford Haven Port Authority has welcomed delivery of its new £ 1.3m pilot boat, as shipping levels at the port are set to reach record breaking levels this year.
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NewsBorn again trawler heads to Antarctica
Now in service with the Brazilian Navy as a polar research vessel after a second major conversion is the American built former offshore supply ship Almirante Maximiano.
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News'Iron Lady' gets another five year makeover
What is claimed to be the world’ s biggest coal fired, steam icebreaker still afloat, the Stettin, has undergone its regular five year check at Hamburg’ s Blohm + Voss Repair Shipyard and been declared fit for further service.
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NewsHMS Endurance in for repairs
HMS Endurance, the damaged British Royal Navy ice patrol ship, has finally been transported home from the Falklands to undergo extensive repairs following its flooding incident last December.
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NewsUK beaches a load of old rubbish?
The latest survey by the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has found that litter on the UK’ s beaches has reached its highest ever level, up by 110% to 2,195 pieces per kilometre.
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NewsPing is the thing at Ocean Business
Among the many products being given on the water demonstrations at the well attended Ocean Business 2009 exhibition and conference in Southampton UK this week is what claims to be the world’ s first fully integrated high resolution real time 3D sonar inspection system.
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NewsHistoric shipyard equipment sails for India
The end of an era is truly at hand, with the UK’ s Port of Tyne preparing for the final departure of the Swan Hunter floating drydock, which is to sail away on board a heavy lift vessel.
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NewsPort of London's century goes on show
UK shipping minister Jim Fitzpatrick MP opened a three week exhibition on the history of the Port of London Authority (PLA) at Museum of London Docklands on Tuesday. The event was held 100 years to the day since the PLA was formed.
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Wartsila goes Kampen
Finnish marine engine producer Wartsila has commissioned the design and implementation of a new Central Distribution Centre (CDC) at Kampen in the Netherlands. The € 50m contract will result in facilities enabling Wartsila to centralise the spare parts logistics from nine existing product line specific warehouses into a single global ...
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CML booked up
Southampton UK based GRP and FRP moulder Composite Mouldings Ltd (CML) is defying recessionary conditions with an order book nearly full until 2011. The company has done all the mouldings for the Camarc designed 15m HMS patrol boat for the UK Ministry of Defence, in partnership with Holyhead Marine, and ...
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Shortsea reports available
Freight by Water member Peter Barker from PRB Associates published his ninth annual report on UK shortsea freight, ro-ro and lo-lo capacity during the fourth quarter of 2008 and last month published the first edition of the Irish freight, ro-ro and lo-lo capacity report. Both reports provide a comprehensive market ...
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Canal regeneration awarded
The Spiers Locks project in Glasgow’ s canal corridor has won the British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA) award for Strategy and Masterplanning. The ongoing regeneration of the canal corridor is recognised as key to the transformation of the north of the city. The Spiers Lock Masterplan focuses on sustainable design ...
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Dredging Cloudburst
Andrew Scott’ s Cloudburst has accepted appointment as UK sales representative for Italian dredger manufacturer Italdraghe Sp A. Cloudburst will represent Italdraghe’ s full range of cutter suction dredgers and dredging pumps as well as accessory dredging equipment such as backflow pipelines, riddling plant and support vessels. Italdraghe is exhibiting ...
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Diesel academy opens
The new MAN Diesel training centre, the PrimeServ Academy, was inaugurated at Saint-Nazaire in France earlier this month. Located in the Saint-Nazaire plant, the PrimeServ Academy showcases diesel engine best practice and will provide expert diesel engine maintenance and operational training. A natural evolution of the Diesel School, which has ...
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News'Simon Stevin' will be the world's largest rockdumping vessel
Belgium’ s Jan De Nul Group has the biggest dredging vessels in the world in its fleet. The very large self-propelled seagoing rock cutter dredgers JFJ De Nul, Leonardo da Vinci and Marco Polo can tackle the hardest and most difficult soil conditions during shore approach dredging works.
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NewsTrinity House introduces its first LED Light Vessel
Trinity House, the general lighthouse authority for England, Wales, the Channel Isles and Gibraltar, is about to commission its first LED Light Vessel (LV), set for duty on the Varne station in the English Channel. This is the first major development in LV technology since the distinctive red vessels were ...
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News'Napoli' recovery chains in place
The operation to remove the stern section of the container vessel ‘ MSC Napoli’ from the UK’ s Devon coast has reached its second milestone. Following a successful test, the project team, led by Global Response Maritime B.V. of The Netherlands, has completed positioning all 12 lifting chains under the ...
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NewsEurope can lead a wind power world
‘ Wind energy can replace a large proportion of the polluting and finite fuels we currently rely on, said EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, at the opening session of the European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition (EWEC) in Marseilles last month. ‘ It makes good sense to invest in indigenous ...
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NewsGeoff Holt takes on his Personal Atlantic
Personal Everest yachtsman Geoff Holt is planning to take on the Personal Atlantic challenge next winter in which he will sail across the Atlantic Ocean, becoming the first quadriplegic sailor to do so. The 3,000 mile voyage, in which he will be unassisted in every aspect of sailing, will raise ...
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NewsEurope's IAPH Conference arrives in Genoa
Under the highly topical banner of ‘ Oriented to the market, Open to the future’ , the 26th International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) World Port Conference will focus on understanding how the challenges of global climate change will affect the port industry. Taking place in Genoa, Italy, from ...
