Industry News – Page 300
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Marine Society/Sea Cadet Merger
The Marine Society and The Sea Cadet Association in the UK have merged to form a new organisation called TheMarine Society & Sea Cadets .Committed to serving seafarers and promoting the sea as a career, the move will strengthen the role of the voluntary sector in support of both commercial ...
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Dolphins Dry Docked In Belfast for Refurbishment
Specialist construction services and protective coatings group Pyeroy Ltd is supporting Belfast''s Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries on a major contract for the repair and refurbishment of two large semi-submersible oil rigs.
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Consortium Awarded Doha Airport Contract
Doha International Airport Steering Committee in Qatar has awarded a contract for dredging and reclamation for the new Doha International Airport to a consortium of four dredging companies.
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Green Light for New Padstow Lifeboat House
The RNLI Trustees have given the go-ahead for a new lifeboat house and slipway to be built at Padstow as a home for the next generation Tamar class lifeboat.
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MBO at Certex
UK lifting gear distributor Certex has been bought out by its existing directors and will be run as a private limited company.
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Rolls On A Roll
Rolls-Royce rolled up a strong second half performance in 2004, signing contracts for some £ 160 million worth of UT-Design vessels and equipment for the offshore market. The company signed contracts with shipyards in Norway, Brazil, India, Singapore and Spain for OSVs and new vessel types. A total of 50 ...
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AAE Transponder Order
Applied Acoustic Engineering, which is presently expanding its Great Yarmouth premises, reports an order worth more than £ 100,000 from PGS Physical in Norway for 32 of its 915 series acoustic positioning mini-transponders together with specially designed flotation devices and battery chargers. PGS plans to use them for deepwater surveys ...
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SOC On New Footing
The Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC) will be renamed the National Oceanography Centre , Southampton from 1st May this year as it bids to become the focus for oceanography in the UK. The vision is embraced by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the University of Southampton, which will continue ...
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Seighford Gets to Grips With GRP
Southampton UK based corporate recovery specialists Fanshawe Lofts successfully sold the troubled Isle of Wight business GRP Laminates last month to the Oxford based Seighford Investments Company Ltd, which plans to expand the business and secure the future for its 28 strong workforce. Cowes based GRP Laminates designs and supplies ...
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Success Filters Through
Port Talbot UK based filter element specialists for marine and other industries, Filtration and Separation Ltd , reports a 60% increase in production during 2004, its first full year since being taken over by TS2Group . To meet the increased demand from existing and new customers, significant investment in production ...
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Klyne Take Over LEC Marine Branches
Klyne Group Holdings has purchased from LEC Marine Limited (currently in Administration), plant, machinery and stock to operate a marine maintenance division, switchboard division, engraving and sign writing and cable supply division following a decision by the Administrator to close the business on 11 February 2005.
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NewsCunard Honours Mersey Heritage
Merseyside Maritime Museum has landed a £ 25,000 sponsorship from Cunard for its recently opened exhibition ''Liverpool to New York - the only way to cross''. Given its long history as one of the major Atlantic shipping lines, formerly based in Liverpool, the deal which makes Cunard the museum''s biggest ...
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NewsFork In the Road for 'Triton'
Having successfully proven the concept of using a trimaran design for warships of the future, science and technology solutions specialist QinetiQ has sold its high profile research vessel Triton to Great Yarmouth UK based Gardline Shipping for use as a hydrographic survey vessel.
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'Vicuna' Response Still Underway
In our January coverage of Wijsmuller Salvage ''s year end activities, reference was made to their response to the sinking of the tanker Vicuna , which exploded while discharging methanol alongside Cattalini pier in the Brazilian port of Paranagua on 15 November.
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UKHMA 2005 Spring Seminar Announced
The UK Harbour Masters'' Association will hold its 2005 Spring Seminar at the IMarEST Conference Centre incentral London on 13 April.
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Cammell Laird
As Liverpool was developing and prospering with the Industrial Revolution, William Laird arrived as a young man and began purchasing land at Birkenhead, on the more deprived side of the Mersey.
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'RMS Olympic': Titanic's Sister
With the campaign to save the White Star Line''s tender Nomadic already on MJ ''s news pages this month, Tempus has set a January publication date for a substantial new volume detailing the life and times of Olympic , built alongside sister ship Titanic at Harland & Wolff in 1911.
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EH Hassekk & Sons Extend Their Port Handling Territory
From the first day of this month, EH Hassell and Sons Ltd of Stoke on Trent UK has become the nominated distributor for the range of Sennebogen Green Line Material handlers for all industries in the UK as well as port sector distributorship in Ireland.
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NewsLockheed Grabs a SLICE of the Action
Lockheed Martin turned up at last month''s Workboat Show in New Orleans with a new $25 million contract for the detailed design, construction, test and delivery of two Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull (SWATH) variant crew transport vessels for Mexico''s national oil company PEMEX .
