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NewsPassenger Boat Industry Launches Conference
Members of the UK passenger boat industry will gather in London on 6 March 2008 for the first national conference in the history of the industry. Opportunity, Challenge and Change: The Future of the UK Passenger Boat Industry is organised by The Passenger Boat Association (PBA) in partnership with Knighthood ...
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NewsBMT Delivers Triplet Ferries to Indian Islands
Three high speed aluminium catamaran ferries designed by BMT Nigel Gee Ltd, a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, have safely arrived in India’ s Lakshadweep Islands.
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NewsNavy Chief Supports Chopped UKHO
The head of the British Royal Navy visited the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) last month to get an update on the navigational services and charts the organisation provides.
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NewsRolls-Royce Order Rolls On
Rolls-Royce has won £ 72m of further business on its largest ever offshore marine contract, taking the total order value to £ 155m.
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NewsNew Crane & Winch Operations Guidelines
A key part of almost all offshore and subsea operations is lifting, lifting of stores and spares handling through to complicated and heavy lifts, and there could be in excess of 200 different kinds of lifting operations on a vessel.
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NewsA Pusher Tug Returns to the Mersey
A pusher tug and barge combination is in use on the Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal for the first time in a decade. Peel Ports’ Liverpool – Manchester Shuttle that started operation recently is capable of carrying up to 160 20ft ISO containers between Liverpool’ s Royal Seaforth Docks and ...
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NewsGPS Marine Continues to Diversify
GPS Marine Contractors Ltd, based at Chatham in Kent UK, is emerging as a major player in the marine sector, offering a wide range of services including towage, marine transportation, salvage, heavy-lift, marine civil engineering, demolition and dredging.
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Busy Sanmar Extend Their Product Range
Sanmar Denizcilik Makina ve Ticaret Ltd of Istanbul is well known as one of the leading tugboat companies in Turkey and also as specialist tug builder. In addition to providing towage and pilotage services, the family run company has built tugs and workboats in their own shipyard for many years, ...
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NewsOperations Have Started at Hammerfest
In Norway a new fleet of tugs owned by Buksér og Berging AS is now fully operational to fulfil a Statoil contract, providing shiphandling, escort and mooring services at Melkøya liquefied natural gas terminal near Hammerfest in northern Norway. The new tug service was inaugurated when the first LNG ship ...
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NewsChina Builds RAmparts 3000 Tugs for the First Time
Cheoy Lee Shipbuilders of Hong Kong has delivered the first of a pair of RAmparts 3000 Class ship handling tugs, the ' Harry Evans' to Svitzer Australasia. The tugs are built to the highly successful RAmparts 3000 design developed by Robert Allan Ltd., naval architects of Vancouver, for worldwide construction ...
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NewsTOWLINES
Late in November Newcastle based Osprey Shipping Ltd welcomed home their new tug ' Osprey Fighter' and barge ' Osprey Carrier' . The new vessels were constructed in China and arrived in the Tyne after a grueling and eventful delivery voyage from the Far East. The purpose built 50 tons ...
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NewsBusiness as Usual as Klyne is Taken Over
Britain’ s oldest tug and barge company J P Knight, has announced in a joint statement that the J P Knight Group has acquired a majority interest in Klyne Tugs, the current provider of Emergency Towing Vessels (ETVs) to the UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA).
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NewsDredging Gears Up to Expansive Opportunities
When MJ' s founding editor Peter Moth and colleague Ian Cardwell took the first issue of Maritime Journal to the Europort exhibition in Amsterdam in 1987 the dredging industry was not enjoying one of its better moments. Recessionary forces were at play and many of the dredgers belonging to the ...
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NewsRemediating Pipelines in Shifting Sands
The Waterweg division of Dutch shipping company Acta Marine has recently completed the remedial lowering of a 48" diameter live gas pipeline across some 5.5km across the IJsselmeer in Northern Holland. Den Helder based Acta Marine Watereg, which can access a fleet of more than 60 workboats, conducted the operation ...
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NewsFerry Delivery Thanks to Tanks
In the second week of October Dutch ship delivery and maritime recruitment specialist Redwise was approached by it’ s long term customer Conferry to deliver the Austal built catamaran ' Tallink Autoexpress 2' from Tallin to Curacao.
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NewsStena Orders Newbuilds for Harwich - Hook
Stena Line has ordered two new RoPax vessels valued at some £ 145m from Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea. The vessels will be put into service in 2011, when it is planned they will operate on the Harwich to Rotterdam route.
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NewsSalvors Can't Place Contract with the Weather
When Smit Salvage started operations to remove the wrecked stern section of ' MSC Napoli' from Lyme Bay on the UK Devon Coast in early November progress was brisk. Within one week hydraulically operated shears had removed most of the vessel’ s 650 ton accommodation block and upper works. A ...
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NewsUK Tidal Energy Welcomed in Canada
British company Marine Current Turbines, the developer of SeaGen, the world’ s largest and most advanced tidal stream energy system, has signed an agreement with Canada’ s Maritime Tidal Energy Corporation to harness the huge tidal currents of the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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NewsOilfield Technology for Offshore Wind
Classification society DNV had granted an approval in principle for a new offshore wind energy concept developed by Dutch offshore design company Sea of Solutions in close cooperation with partner Sparcs Products.
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NewsTo Russia with the IHMA
St Petersburg in Russia has been announced as the setting for 2008 Congress of the International Harbour Masters' Association (IHMA). Hosted by the St Petersburg Maritime Port Administration with the support of the Russian Ministry of Transport, the event will take place next year on 12-16 May.
