Industry News – Page 297
-
News
Chain System Upgrade Strengthens Capacity Requirements
Lifting hardware supplier Crosby has launched a new range of chain fittings that are 25% stronger than comparable products and can be used with either Grade 10 or Grade 8 chain. The Crosby 8/10 Chain System , which includes a wide selection of links, hooks and other chain fittings, meets ...
-
NewsYoung Engineers Rise to Royal Navy Challenge
Hurricane Hugo has just struck the Caribbean island of St Kitts, causing massive damage.
-
NewsSee You Later, in the Land of the Gator
An innovative new technology for tracking sediment in rivers and seas has opened up a lucrative new market in the United States for a Glasgow based environmental consultancy.
-
News
Cup of Cheer for 'Bourbon'
Maritime services provider Groupe Bourbon has posted a turnover increase of 13.9% in marine services for the first quarter of this year. The sector has been boosted by an expansion of offshore activity and the continuation of record rates in the bulk transport trade. The towage and salvage business grew ...
-
NewsMarine Technology Centre Opens in Norway
Rolls-Royce established its first University Technology College (UTC) in Norway last month to conduct key research programmes in the marine sector.
-
News
Crane Drain Boosts Boxes
The Port of Marseilles Authority is transferring two panamax gantry cranes from Fos container terminal to handle growing box traffic at the adjacent Brule-Tabac terminal. The extra equipment will allow Brule-Tabac to grow its traditional multi-purpose ro-ro activity whilst also enabling the acceptance of small container carriers and river barges ...
-
NewsPublic Investment Funding for Boxship
Investment fund issuing house Hansa Hamburg Shipping launched its new 1,600 TEU containership MS Flottbek last month to coincide with the Port of Hamburg''s 816th Anniversary celebrations. The vessel provided an impressive finale for the traditional Grand Ship Parade along the River Elbe and in the Port of Hamburg.
-
NewsSpecialist Marine Finance Funds Fleet Expansion
Crown River Cruises , whose luxury river cruise fleet is based at Blackfriars Pier on London''s River Thames, has recently ordered the sixth boat in its prestigious fleet. The vessel, currently in production at Tinnemans , Holland, will run the Westminster to Tower of London route for circuit cruises, charter ...
-
News
Maritime Britain
Subtitled ''A Celebration of Britain''s Maritime Heritage, Maritime Britain examines the island nation''s nautical heritage seen through the astonishing variety of its maritime museums, historical ships and coastal attractions.
-
News
The Comprehensive Guide to Shipwrecks of the East Coast
Quite specific in its focus, this Volume 2 deals with shipwrecks along the UK east coast from Whitby down to Skegness during the years from 1918 to 2003, following an earlier Volume 1 which covered 1766 to 1917.
-
NewsHADAG Gets Seventh Type 2000 and Plans More
The renewal of Hamburg''s versatile small ferry ship fleet continues with news that HADAG Seetouristik und Fahrdienst has taken its seventh Type 2000 newbuilding into service and has ordered two more.
-
NewsDelivery of First Patrol Boats in 14 years to Schleswig Holstein
Cash-strapped river and coastal police in Germany''s northernmost state, Schleswig Holstein , have taken two badly-needed new ? 335,000 Finnish-built patrol boats into service after a long wait.
-
News
Record Cruise Season
The Cromarty Firth Port Authority will welcome the world''s largest cruise liner, Queen Mary 2 , this summer as part of a record breaking cruise season in which 32 different liners will make 47 calls between 16 April and 18 September.
-
News
Top Class Container Ships
Lloyds Register will class the world''s largest declared capacity container ships, four 10,000teu vessels to be built in Korea at Hyundai Heavy Industries for China Ocean Shipping Corporation (COSCO).
-
NewsCorporate/NGO Initiative to Protect High Seas
The global shipping and logistics company Wallenius Wilhelmsen has signed a three year agreement with the conservation organisation WWF to preserve and promote the conservation of marine life on the high seas.
-
News
Car Goes Up at Southampton
As a result of rapid growth in deep sea car trade which has seen volumes more than double since 2000, the ABP Port of Southampton is to get a second multi-deck car park.
-
NewsAdvanced Bunkering Facility Opens at Portland Harbour
A self-declared ''most advanced bunkering facility in the UK'' has commenced service at Portland Harbour , providing a weather sheltered fuelling option within easy reach of the main shipping lanes in the English Channel.
-
News
New Technical Director Joins Boatbuilders VT Halmatic
RNLI engineering manager Professor Bob Cripps has joined boat builders VTHalmatic as technical director with effect from the 9th of this month.
-
News
Grid Unlocked by Charge Cap?
The British Government''s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has announced a decision to cap transmission charges payable by electricity generators in the Western and Northern Isles of Scotland. The cap ensures that renewable energy generators in the far north of Scotland will not pay disproportionately to use the grid ...
-
News
Kone Cargotec Buys MacGregor
Kone Cargotec , the cargo handling business of KONE Corporation , has purchased the entire share capital in global marine cargo flow solution and service provider MacGregor International AB from the Swedish companies Industri Kapital and Gambro . The transaction was completed last month.
