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NewsYear End Surge for UltraJet
Ultra Dynamics has introduced a new JetMaster Joystick Control System driven by a programmable logic controller (PLC) which delivers enhanced manoeuvring power. The new JetMaster system provides features previously only available on larger more expensive ship board systems.
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NewsTamar Class is Most Advanced Lifeboat
The series production of the latest Tamar Class lifeboats for the RNLI is continuing at a steady pace following the recent takeover of builders, DML Group, by Babcock Marine. In October the new Cromer boat 16-07 was brought to East Anglia by its new crew, shortly after the Barrow in ...
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How Finance Has Helped to Change the Marine Market
Due to the ever increasing costs of raw materials, commercial vessel prices continue to rise well ahead of inflation and vessel acquisitions often require additional funding from banks and financial institutions.
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NewsShip Finance Forum Debates Boom or Bust
After several years of mainly rich pickings, the shipping industry’ s eternal boom and bust cycle provided the inevitable focus of attention at the 20th annual Lloyd’ s Shipping Economist ship finance and investment conference in London last month.
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The growth of marine renewable energy in all its forms means more work for ports, marine contractors and workboat operators.
The United Kingdom is a country worried by wild waves and troubled by truculent tides. The energy in our seas has always been vital to society, as a basis for the marine food chain, and an enabler of maritime trade and defence. However, only in recent years has there been ...
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NewsReducing Pollution Threat is Salvage Priority
Given the huge volumes of crude oil transported worldwide, the tanker industry has achieved a remarkable reduction in the number of significant oil spills, which has fallen to less than five per year. Nevertheless, industry, governments and the public at large remain aware that a major spill threat can arise ...
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NewsRIB Tubes To Go
Avon Inflatables, which has built over 200,000 high Hypalon inflatables and rigid inflatable boats (RIBs) since 1959, has tasked its specialist Military & Professional division with creating a separate tube build facility.
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NewsOceanology '08 Appears on the Horizon
Leading figures from the marine science and ocean technology community will focus on the key themes of climate change, meeting future energy needs and ensuring environmental and civil security when the Oceanology International conference and exhibition returns to London next year.
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NewsArnold Witte is New ISU President
Members of the International Salvage Union (ISU), attending their 53rd General Meeting in Cape Town on 30 - 31 October, have elected Arnold Witte, CEO of US salvor Donjon Marine, as president. He succeeds Hans van Rooij of SMIT.
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Electric Anchor Windlass for 'Joides Resolution' Refit
Seattle USA based Markey Machinery has supplied a the Type WES-32 electric anchor windlass to the Transocean owned drill ship ' Joides Resolution' as part of a major overhaul and conversion the vessel is undergoing in Singapore.
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NewsRINA Launches Corrosion Prevention and Coatings Programme
International classification society RINA has joined forces with UK based coatings testing company Bodycote to launch a global Corrosion Prevention and Coatings (CPC) programme. The heart of the programme will be a CPC training course for shipyard and ship owner staff, and testing facilities for type approval of coatings according ...
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News'Union Grizzly' and 'Union Kodiak' Reinforce the URS Antwerp Fleet.
URS, the Belgian Towage and Salvage Union has added two new tugs to its fleet in the Port of Antwerp. Named ' Union Grizzly' and ' Union Kodiak' , the tugs were formally named in Antwerp on 25 October.
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NewsUS Operator Introduces the 'Handysize' Tug
United States tug operator TUGZ International, LLC, well known as owner and charterer of the 4,000 hp multipurpose ‘ Z class’ series of ASD tugs operating in a number of US ports, is introducing a new small tug design.
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NewsFairplay XIV is Sold to Greece
Hamburg based Fairplay Towage has sold its deepsea tug ' Fairplay XIV' to Greece. The tug is well known throughout the towage industry, having worked reliably and economically worldwide, with its running mate ' Fairplay IX' , for many years.
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NewsFirst RAscal Line Handling Tugs Delivered to UAE
One problem for any journalist specialising in the towage business at present is how to present any news feature without giving the impression that it is a Robert Allan newsletter. The Canadian designer is currently so successful and prolific in producing new products for the towage market that his efforts ...
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NewsTOWLINES
J P Knight (Caledonian) Ltd has taken delivery of all three of their recent purchases from Japan. Based in Invergordon, the company now operates a four tug fleet comprising the original purpose built ASD tug ' Kincraig' and the new acquisitions ' Kintore' , ' Keverne' and ' Kindeace' . ...
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NewsSolar Power for Irish Lights
Following a competitive tender process, Drogheda Port Company has awarded Hydrosphere UK Ltd the contract for the upgrade to solar power of all of its seaward and estuarial navigational aids.
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Navaid Reflectors for Collision Protection Systems
UK based Firdell Radar Reflectors Ltd is now offering turnkey solutions for floating object collision protection. The objective is to enhance both the visual and radar visibility of high value maritime floating objects such as Single Point Mooring Buoys, barges and towed payloads.
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NewsOnboard Doppler Docking System Launched
SAM Electronics has introduced SAM 4683, a new IMO and DNV compliant dual-axis doppler log for provision of onboard docking information by calculating a vessel’ s transversal speeds at bow and stern. Information is displayed continuously on a large high resolution graphic LCD together with all other relevant navigation data.
