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  • State-of-the-art Interceptor Craft and Pilot Boat illustrate 100 years of expertise.
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    Dockstavarvet Celebrates a Successful Century of Boat Building

    2005-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Sweden''s Dockstavarvet is celebrating 100 years of operation this month with the east coast shipyard busily building another two pilot boats for the Danish Pilots . The sister craft will be the 22nd and 23rd pilot boats built by Dockstavarvet for the Danish Pilots and continue a lineage of pilot ...

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    Water Transport Call for Papers

    2005-09-01T00:00:00Z

    With European road transport becoming ever more stifled by congestion, coastal ships and inland transport by waterways could become a more viable alternative in some instances. The Royal Institution of Naval Architects has issued a call or papers for a conference on the subject which will take place in London ...

  • Oil clean-up workers in the aftermath of the Prestige sinking.
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    Salvors Warn on STS Restrictions

    2005-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Salvage operations involving the ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of cargo and bunkers from tankers and other vessels should be exempt from new controls proposed by Spain and Mexico and now under consideration by the International Maritime Organization''s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC). The International Salvage Union (ISU) believes that the proposed ...

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    Maritime Industries Mourn Lord Donaldson of Lymington

    2005-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Maritime safety has lost one of its greatest and most influential advocates with the sudden passing earlier this month of Lord Donaldson of Lymington.

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    Doubled Capacity at Russian Port

    2005-09-01T00:00:00Z

    P& O Ports has reached agreement with joint venture partner Transportation Investment Holdings Limited (TIHL) to double the size of its port operations at Vostochny in Russia. Vostochny is located at the eastern end of the Trans Siberian Railway, which provides competitive transit times for cargo from Asia to Europe, ...

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    Buyout Secures Testbank

    2005-09-01T00:00:00Z

    A secondary buyout has delivered the Southampton UK based Testbank Ship Repair and Boiler Company to a team led by its managing director and technical director, with the financial support of many senior employees. The company employs 42 staff at its facility in the Western Docks, providing vessel repair, welding, ...

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    Sea Scan in Aberdeen

    2005-09-01T00:00:00Z

    America''s Marine Sonic Technology Limited (MSTL) has appointed RUCO Limited of Aberdeen as exclusive UK and Ireland sales representative for its Sea Scan PC sidescan sonar system. When connected to a GPS, the Sea Scan PC''s integrated navigation plotter records the area searched and the location of any objects of ...

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    Change of Venue Lifts ShipRepair Exhibition

    2005-09-01T00:00:00Z

    China’ s Cosco Shipyard Group and Malaysian Marine & Heavy Engineering have joined a growing list of new exhibitors attracted by the change of location for the ShipRepair & Conversion 2005 exhibition and conference. The event leaves London for the first time in its 13 year history to take place ...

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    Paperless US Navy

    2005-09-01T00:00:00Z

    The US Navy has unveiled plans for a major transformation in military marine navigation, with paper nautical charts to be replaced by advanced, interactive electronic navigation systems throughout the fleet. The ECDIS-N will be based on the Voyage Management System software developed by Sperry Marine operating with digital nautical charts ...

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    Radar and ARPA Manual (2nd Edition)

    2005-08-01T18:07:00Z

    Radar systems are fitted on all commercial vessels and are widely used in the marine leisure sector as well as Vessel Traffic Services (VTS).

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    Boats, Boffins and Bowlines

    2005-08-01T18:07:00Z

    Most salty dogs and even the general public know about modern sailing heroes such as Sir Francis Chichester, Clare Francis, Dame Ellen MacArthur, and Ben Ainslie MBE who wrote the forward to this book.

  • Construction underway for a new coal handling terminal at the ABP Port of Immingham.
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    Strong First Half for ABP

    2005-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Associated British Ports Holdings PLC issued its trading statement for the six months ending 30 June 2005.

  • The London Olympics in 2012 could see significantly more cruise ships mooring in the Thames.
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    Port of London Authority Chasing Olympic Gold

    2005-08-01T00:00:00Z

    The Port of London Authority has welcomed London''s surprise victory in the race to host the 2012 Olympic Games. PLA chief executive Richard Everitt said, ''This is excellent news for London and the UK. The announcement also presents important opportunities for greater use of the River Thames.''

  • The worlds most powerful helicopter removes logs from the grounded bulker Kiperousa.
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    Salvors Deploy the World's Most Powerful Helicopter

    2005-08-01T00:00:00Z

    The Tsavliris Group hasdeployed the world''s most powerful helicopter for lightering duties in works to free the 25,500dwt bulk carrier Kiperousa , which ran aground off South Africa following flooding in its engine room. The vessel was on a voyage from Gabon and Cameroon to China fully laden with 23,000 ...

  • Wartsila 46F engines will power the new feeder vessel currently under build at the Kinderdijk yard of IHC Holland Dredgers BV.
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    Flexible Power for Newbuild Feeder

    2005-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Wartsila Corporation has won a contract to supply two Wartsila 46F engines to power an Ice class 1A open top container feeder vessel ordered by Dutch owner Wagenborg Shipping and being built at the Kinderdijk yard of IHCHolland Dredgers BV . The new Wartsila 46F was launched at the SMM ...

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    Thamesport Adds Dublin Feeder

    2005-08-01T00:00:00Z

    X-Press Container Line (UK) Ltd has introduced a third service at Thamesport (London) Limited .The specialist feeder operator''s RDX service will provide a weekly service from Thamesport to Dublin, with the port rotation continuing from Dublin to Rotterdam before returning to Thamesport.

  • Thamesport welcomes its largest ever vessel LT Cortesia.
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    Cranes Upgrade Lifts Thamesport's TEUs

    2005-08-01T00:00:00Z

    In order to accommodate the new generation of larger container vessels being used on Far East shipping routes, Thamesport (London) Limited has undertaken an ambitious modification programme to five of its quayside cranes.

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    Elliott Transfer to Tees

    2005-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Elliott Turbomachinery Ltd has transferred ownership, all intellectual rights and all new sales, service and spares of Elliott White Gill Thrusters, White Gill Thrusters , and Gill Thrusters to Cleveland UK based Tees Components Ltd . Tees has been Elliott''s principal subcontractor for the manufacture and assembly of thrusters units ...

  • European ports face pressure to switch freight from road to rail and other alternative transport modes. Photo courtesy of Port of Felixstowe.
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    Port-Net Project Pushing Ports

    2005-08-01T00:00:00Z

    The Haven Gateway will be playing a key role in a new European port networking initiative, Port-Net , which held its opening conference in Hamburg recently.

  • An artists impression of the proposed London Gateway Port.
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    Green Light for London Gateway Port

    2005-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Dredging and marine construction companies, as well as everyone concerned for UK ports capacity, will be delighted with Transport Minister Derek Twigg''s long awaited announcement that he is minded to approve P& O ''s proposal for the London Gateway Port development on the 607 hectare brownfield site of the former ...