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NewsPaint Your Workboat at Seawork
Jotun Paints returns to Seawork and will be found next month on Stand 25, where it will be showing a complete range of cost effective marine coating products which are available for the coastal and small workboat market.
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News'Baloe' is Ready for the Jungle
The new Shoalbuster 2208 Baloe has been delivered to Dutch tug owner Sleepvaartbedrijf Herman SR BV of Zwijndrecht by Damen Shipyards of Hardinxveldt.
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News'Small & Green' Is Ideal for British Waterways
An important phase in the modernisation of floating plant for British Waterways (BW) is rapidly coming to fruition at the shipyard of Manor Marine in Portland, Dorset (a trading company within MPI Services (UK) Ltd).
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NewsNorwegian ETV Will Be the First Towing Vessel to Use LNG
Norwegian shipbuilder Myklebust Verft of Gursken has been awarded a contract by Remoy Management, operators of vessels for the Norwegian Coastguard, for a sophisticated Emergency Response Vessel capable of towage and rescue operations. Delivery is scheduled for December 2007 and an option is also in place for one further vessel ...
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NewsTOWLINES
The new French tug company, Societe Nouvelle de Remorquage du Havre (SNRH), due to commence shiphandling operations in January, had still not started work at the beginning of May. A new tug fleet, chartered from Kotug in the Netherlands, remain idle in the face of endless legal difficulties and recently ...
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NewsMampaey Introduce the DOT Towing System
Mampaey Offshore Industries launched the Dynamic Oval Towing (DOT) system, the latest addition to their range of towing and mooring equipment, on their stand at ITS 2006 in Rotterdam.
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NewsLeading Designer Calls for Common Standards
In a paper to the International Tug and Salvage Convention ITS 2006 in Rotterdam, well known tug designer and naval architect Robert Allan appealed for the harmonisation of international standards governing tug construction.
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NewsSpain Completes Advanced Pollution Control Tugs
Spanish shipyard Astilleros Armon SA has completed a pair of seagoing, multi-purpose tugs, equipped extensively for pollution control duties.
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NewsSerco is Selected as Preferred Bidder for £1bn MoD Contract
A joint venture led by Serco Group plc (Serco) has been selected as preferred bidder by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the Future Provision of Marine Services contract.
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NewsTimely Response Speeds Pollution Clean-up
One little known aspect of the grounding of the tanker Tasman Spirit off Karachi port is that concern for the health of pollution control workers led to the cessation of beach clean-up operations.
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Big Year for ISU Oil Recovery
Members of the International Salvage Union recovered some 875,000 tons of pollutants during salvage operations last year. Emergency assistance was provided worldwide for 247 vessels with cargoes and bunkers threatening pollution.
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NewsBrits Lower the Boom in America
Two exhibitors at the recent Spill 06 event in London collaborated earlier this year when UK based Oil Limited took its newly developed RB400 rigid boom system across the Atlantic to be tested by Ohmsett, America''s National Oil Spill Response Test Facility in New Jersey.
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News'Diver Change' Anodes Simplify Replacement
An FPSO conversion underway at the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore will be protected against hull corrosion using a Cathelco C-Shield ICCP system incorporating the latest ''diver change'' anodes. The Capixaba is being converted from a VLLC tanker and will eventually be operated by Single Buoy Moorings in an oilfield off ...
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Big Contract for Young Company
The Aberdeen based specialist marine and subsea services provider TSMarine (Contracting) Ltd has won a contract worth up to £ 6.5m only 18 months after forming. The contract with SubSea Resources Plc will see TSMarine provide deepwater salvage support from its vessel MV Geomaster.
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NewsNearshore AUV Unveiled at OI06
The Talisman autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), which was a focal point of the recent Oceanology International (OI 06) exhibition in London, is equipped with thrusters supplied by Fareham UK based Seaeye Marine.
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NewsOI06 Launch for Diver Inspection System
Kongsberg Maritime introduced a new integrated diver deployed underwater inspection system at the recent Oceanology International (OI06) exhibition.
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NewsBoskalis Enjoys Dredging Renaissance
The current good fortunes of the global dredging market are reflected in the 2005 results announced by Dutch giant Royal Boskalis Westminster, which has reported a spectacular 85% rise in net profit to 62.7m and a record turnover of 1,156m which was up 13% over 2004.
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NewsOlympics Boosts Aggregates Dredging
London''s victorious bid for the 2012 Olympics looks set to contribute to a substantial increase in demand for dredged aggregates. Metoc plc has launched a new service to provide environmental engineering for the dredging of marine aggregates from the UK Continental Shelf to meet demand in the UK South East, ...
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World Hydrography Day Set for June
Wednesday 21 June will mark the inaugural annual World Hydrography Day as a result of a resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly in New York last November under its Oceans & Law of the Sea agenda.
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NewsUKHO-JHA Accord
The UK Hydrographic Office has signed a collaboration agreement with the Japanese Hydrographic Association under which Admiralty customers will now have access to over 600 new electronic navigational charts of Japanese waters as well as the Malacca Strait.
