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NewsSeawork International Sails Into Southampton
The eighth annual Seawork Exhibition and Conference has arrived in the ABP Port of Southampton sporting its new title, Seawork 2005 International , which reflects the fact that the show''s reputation has spread far and wide to attract exhibitors from truly distant locales well beyond its European origins.
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Corrosion Halted at Seawork
Corrosion Technologies (Europe) travels to Seawork from Jersey with variously sized containers of CorrosionX , a product developed through aerospace research which stops corrosion, penetrates frozen parts and lubricates even better than products fortified with Teflon.
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NewsSalty Dog Finds New Life on Lakes
The 21m LOA ferry Totnes Castle has just been launched from Voyager Yachts at Millbrook UK after repair and conversion works which enable the vessel to leave its past life in salt water to become a passenger boat on Ullswater in the Lake District.
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NewsBe Crafty with Coatings at Seawork 2005 International
Eurospray Systems Ltd travels from Loughborough UK to make a first appearance at Seawork , where it will show the Wiwa Magnum high performance airless spray pump which has been designed for heavy duty environments and applications such as vessel building and repair yards.
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NewsPeters Revamps 'Most-rammed' Light-ship
Germany''s biggest light-ship, the 62-year-old Elbe 1- Burgermeister O''Swald , has been given an overhaul and spruce-up at small shipyard Peters Schiffbau in north Germany.
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NewsCause for 'Celebration' After Major Refit at A&P Falmouth
The 33,933 grt cruise vessel Thomson Celebration (formerly Holland America Line ''s Noordam ) enters service this month following a five month refit at A&P Falmouth under the supervision of Columbia Ship Management , Cyprus, who will be acting as ship managers for the vessel on behalf of new owners ...
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Passenger Ship 'Saga Ruby' Gets a Trimline Outfit in Malta
Southampton based marine outfitters Trimline have helped to bring Saga Cruises'' new passenger ship Saga Ruby into service following a refit at drydocks in Malta. Trimline''s factory had shipped four containers of materials to Malta in preparation for the works.
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NewsFirm But Gentle Grip at Seawork
Reading UK based Marine Ventures Ltd make their first appearance at Seawork this year, where they will be introducing Straub pipe joining technology, which offers low stress, progressive sealing of Cunifer tubes offered by no other mechanical coupling.
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Work Load Up for ISU
Members of the International Salvage Union recovered over 700,000 tons of pollutants during salvage operations last year. Emergency assistance was provided worldwide for 266 vessels carrying cargoes and bunkers with a potential to cause pollution, up from 218 in 2003. This represents a significant increase in both the number of ...
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NewsSwift Salvage Clears Channel
America''s Bisso Marine has salvaged a 110ft crewboat in Sabine Pass, Texas which had sunk in 50ft of water following a collision with another ship.
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Dutch Salvage Group Joins US '1Call'
SvitzerWijsmuller Salvage hasjoined the ICall team of Resolve Marine Group (Resolve) and National Response Corporation (NRC), which provides comprehensive OPA 90 emergency response services to both tankers and non-tank vessels at any location in the United States. Services include oil pollution containment and recovery, salvage, fire fighting, emergency towing and ...
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NewsSemco Completes Big Tow to Angola
Semco Salvage & Marine Pte Ltd has successfully completed tow to location, positioning and associated deck operations for the FPSO Kizomba B offshore Luanda in Angola last month. This project follows the earlier tow and positioning of FPSO Kizomba A , completed in 2004.
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News'Romulo' and 'Remo' are Now in Service in Tarrogona
Romulo and Remo , two terminal tugs claimed to be the most powerful of their type in Spain, are now both in service ( MJ - December 2004).
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NewsUNV Complete First RAL 'Compacts' in Spain
The popularity of small ''compact'', highly agile and powerful shiphandling tugs is spreading rapidly worldwide and the first examples are now being seen in Europe. Spanish tug builders Union Naval Valencia , part of the Boluda towage group, have completed the first three compact RAmparts 2400 ASD tugs to be ...
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NewsIrving to Build for Denmark
Irving Shipbuilding Inc of Halifax, Nova Scotia, has secured an order for two of its popular 30m series of Azimuthing Stern Drive (ASD) tugs for Partrederiet Stevns of Denmark. The tugs are scheduled for delivery in December 2005 and May 2006 and will be managed by Nordane Shipping ofSvendborg, Denmark.
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Loran-C Transmitter Trial Commences This Month
Trinity House , the Northern Lighthouse Board and the Commissioners of Irish Lights will trial the long range, low frequency electronic position fixing system Loran-C at a BT Radio site near Rugby United Kingdom starting this month.
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NewsToys for the Buoys at Seawork 2005
Hampshire UK based oceanographic instrument supplier RS Aqua Ltd will use the occasion of Seawork 2005 to promote a range of new initiatives from Dutch wave buoy manufacturer Datawell BV .
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NewsTideland In Buoyant Form at Seawork
Tideland Signal , together with its distributors FPM Henderson and Lumen Seamarks , will be showing highlights of its aids to navigation range, including the latest Automatic Identification System and diode based lanterns at Seawork 2005 .
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NewsLighthouse History Enlivens National Curriculum
Trinity House is relocating part of its collection of historical lighthouse artefacts to visitor centres at the Lizard and Pendeen Lighthouses in a move part funded by the European Union as part of the Atlantic Lights project, which supports initiatives to make lighthouses more accessible to the public.
