Key Deals – Page 170
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NewsFast emerging wind industry blows into Poland
The annual European Wind Energy Conference & Exhibition (EWEC 2010) takes place this year in Warsaw, Poland, on 20 to 23 April.
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Valeport down under
UK hydrographic and oceanographic instrumentation manufacturer Valeport has signed a new distributor agreement with Swathe Services Australia.
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Training academy sponsored
Wilhelmsen Ships Service is supporting the work of the Nautical Technical Training Academy (NTTA) by providing a range of the company’s Unitor branded safety equipment, including a brand new liferaft which will be used in the academy’s crew training facility to teach the Basic Safety course.
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Year of the Seafarer
International maritime welfare charity the Sailors’ Society is backing the IMO Year of the Seafarer campaign with a new fundraising drive which is asking for just £1 for every one of the 375,000 seafarer the charity aims to support in 2010.
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Research institute grows
The UK’s National Subsea Research Institute (NSRI) has added two new member companies. Kongsberg Maritime, which is headquartered in Aberdeen and Newcastle based Wellstream International bring NSRI’s industry membership to 17 in less than a year since its launch.
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Maritime toy story
London’s National Maritime Museum will launch a free admission ‘Toy Boats’ exhibition on 1 May, featuring miniature ocean liners, toy paddle steamers, tin battleships and clockwork submarines alongside games, catalogues and photographs all produced in Europe between 1850 and 1950.
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Cherbourg in the loop
The Chanel Islands company Huelin-Renouf Shipping adds the Normandy Port of Cherbourg this month to the lifeline freight link it operates between the Channel Islands and the UK, with a weekly visit to Cherbourg en route for Southampton.
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Jaguar goes to sea
Vehicle logistics services provider Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has renewed a contract with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to ship its vehicles from the United Kingdom to North America and Oceania.
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Baltic bounces back
With container traffic to and from Russia via Hamburg picking up again, growing demand for feeder transport capacity has prompted the launch of an additional service between the Ports of Hamburg and St Petersburg.
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Feeder from Hamburg
The French shipping company CMA CGM has started operating a new feeder service between the Port of Hamburg and the Danish ports of Fredericia and Copenhagen, as well as Halmstad in Sweden and the Baltic Sea port of Szczecin in Poland.
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‘PlanningBlog’ launch
PlanningBlog is intended to be interactive, with readers encouraged to share their views on how the built environment should develop. It is available at: www.brodies.com/publications/blogs
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Three into one at BMT
The international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy, BMT Group, is consolidating its environmental and maritime software service with the merger of three companies.
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Rapid barge deployment
When Civil & Coastal Construction (Pty) Ltd of South Africa required a split hopper barge urgently for works deepening the Ben Schoeman Basin in Cape Town harbour, they contacted Baars BV of Sliedrecht in the Netherlands.
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NewsMore Meercats emerge with company move
Seawork exhibitor Meercat Workboats Ltd is gearing up to deliver an expanded range of craft to shorter lead times following the move of their production facility to the historic No5 Boat Shop at Trafalgar Wharf in Porchester UK.
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NewsBand of workboats depart Felixstowe
The first phase of the Felixstowe South Reconfiguration (FSR) is almost complete, apart from the land-side works, and all the various dredgers, hopper barges, survey vessels and ancillary craft have now left the port.
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NewsWind farm jack-ups to Wärtsilä-IMS design
Wärtsilä, in consortium with IMS Ingenieurgesellschaft GmbH, has been engaged by RWE Innogy, the renewable energy arm of the German utility company RWE, as its designer to provide the basic design and consultancy services for a jack up crane vessel.
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NewsBorkum completes German Customs SWATH duo
The second of two 49.35m SWATH ships for German Customs has entered service after completion at the Nordseewerke Shipyard in Emden.
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NewsMarine power mapping project to proceed
A project to map offshore renewable energy potential around the coast of South West England was announced last week.
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NewsDredging exemptions to Marine (Scotland) Bill?
The Marine (Scotland) Bill (the Scottish Bill) is now at stage three of the parliamentary process, writes Rosie O’Donnell, an Associate in the Shipping Transport team of Brodies LLP, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
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NewsNew defences safeguard Baltrum against floods
Two years of work on bolstering flood defences on the East Frisian island of Baltrum have ended with German authorities saying the €9m project has now closed the last gap in the North Sea island’s coastal protection network.
