Industry News – Page 262
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Bearing up well
HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...
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Teesport link cemented
HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...
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Marelli branding move
HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...
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Jumbo drydock facility
HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...
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Braemar rebrands divisions
HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...
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News'Alternative' Baltic port gets cash to restructure
A total € 13.5m is being invested in the restructuring of facilities at the Baltic seaport of Wismar to improve its significance as an ' alternative' port of call to busy neighbours Luebeck to the west and Rostock to the east.
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NewsRescue service in urgent funds drive
The Gosport and Fareham Inshore Rescue Service (GAFIRS), an independent rescue service providing free marine rescue cover in the Solent, has launched an appeal to raise the £ 61,000 funding shortfall that will enable it to bring a new frontline lifeboat into service.
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NewsRegulation vital to prevent Arctic shipping race
Commercial shipping in the Arctic is poised to prosper from energy exports, cruise tourism and new ice free routes due to climate change, but even if the industry can solve its own technical and human challenges, will politics stand in the way of progress?
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NewsFast growing Navalia returns to Vigo
Following a successful show debut in 2006 which saw 200 exhibitors from over 30 countries attract some 8,000 visitors, the Navalia International Shipbuilding and Maritime Industries Exhibition and conference returns to the Spanish port city of Vigo on 20 - 22 May.
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NewsChichester Working Boats Festival a success
Twenty colourful working boats lined the jetty at Itchenor for the Harbour Working Boats Festival last month to give the public a valuable insight into life onboard working vessels in Chichester Harbour.
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News'Riverdance' wreck will be dismantled on site
Work has started on the task of dismantling the wreck of the ferry ' Riverdance' , now lying on the beach at Blackpool on the north-west coast of England. After a lengthy evaluation process, the owner of Riverdance produced plans to dismantle the ship in situ on the grounds that ...
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News'Earthrace' away on biofuel record attempt
Earthrace, a 78' wave piercing trimaran powerboat that runs as a carbon neutral project exclusively on 100% biodiesel started an attempt to break the round the world speed record late last month.
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Sustainable oceans forum
The National Oceanography Centre in Southampton UK will host a major international Ocean Stewardship Forum on 17 - 18 June.
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Gensets get a jump
American marine diesel genset and propulsion engine manufacturer Northern Lights has introduced 4.5 to 30kW gensets.
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Seafair Haven Flourishing
Milford Haven Port Authority' s Seafair Haven festival has attracted the interest of over 200 traditional and classic craft that will visit Pembrokeshire UK between 18 to 25 June.
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Legal Maritime Date
A date has been confirmed for the International Legal Maritime Conference taking place in the Italian port city of Ancona next month (see MJ February, page 17).
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News'Napoli' design defects identified by MAIB
Design defects which led to catastrophic hull failure of the containership ' MSC Napoli' when it encountered heavy seas in the English Channel last year have been identified in 12 other ships.
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NewsMajor donation to National Maritime Museum
The UK' s National Maritime Museum (NMM) has received a donation of £ 20m towards the creation of a major new wing at the heart of its Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site.
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NewsCrane Ship Finally Delivers the Goods
The heavy lift crane carrier Zhen Hua 23, which broke away from its moorings at Felixstowe on 1 March, was finally moved to the Trinity Container Terminal number 7 berth some three weeks after the accident which destroyed two of the port’ s quayside container cranes.
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NewsOban Trial Demonstrates Galileo Navigation
The Northern Lighthouse Board, the General Lighthouse Authority for Scotland and the Isle of Man, welcomed guests and members of the European MARUSE Consortium to its base in Oban last month to view a high tech demonstration aimed at developing an understanding of the maritime uses of Galileo for navigation.
