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Seighford Gets to Grips With GRP
Southampton UK based corporate recovery specialists Fanshawe Lofts successfully sold the troubled Isle of Wight business GRP Laminates last month to the Oxford based Seighford Investments Company Ltd, which plans to expand the business and secure the future for its 28 strong workforce. Cowes based GRP Laminates designs and supplies ...
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Success Filters Through
Port Talbot UK based filter element specialists for marine and other industries, Filtration and Separation Ltd , reports a 60% increase in production during 2004, its first full year since being taken over by TS2Group . To meet the increased demand from existing and new customers, significant investment in production ...
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Klyne Take Over LEC Marine Branches
Klyne Group Holdings has purchased from LEC Marine Limited (currently in Administration), plant, machinery and stock to operate a marine maintenance division, switchboard division, engraving and sign writing and cable supply division following a decision by the Administrator to close the business on 11 February 2005.
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NewsCunard Honours Mersey Heritage
Merseyside Maritime Museum has landed a £ 25,000 sponsorship from Cunard for its recently opened exhibition ''Liverpool to New York - the only way to cross''. Given its long history as one of the major Atlantic shipping lines, formerly based in Liverpool, the deal which makes Cunard the museum''s biggest ...
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NewsFork In the Road for 'Triton'
Having successfully proven the concept of using a trimaran design for warships of the future, science and technology solutions specialist QinetiQ has sold its high profile research vessel Triton to Great Yarmouth UK based Gardline Shipping for use as a hydrographic survey vessel.
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'Vicuna' Response Still Underway
In our January coverage of Wijsmuller Salvage ''s year end activities, reference was made to their response to the sinking of the tanker Vicuna , which exploded while discharging methanol alongside Cattalini pier in the Brazilian port of Paranagua on 15 November.
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UKHMA 2005 Spring Seminar Announced
The UK Harbour Masters'' Association will hold its 2005 Spring Seminar at the IMarEST Conference Centre incentral London on 13 April.
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Cammell Laird
As Liverpool was developing and prospering with the Industrial Revolution, William Laird arrived as a young man and began purchasing land at Birkenhead, on the more deprived side of the Mersey.
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'RMS Olympic': Titanic's Sister
With the campaign to save the White Star Line''s tender Nomadic already on MJ ''s news pages this month, Tempus has set a January publication date for a substantial new volume detailing the life and times of Olympic , built alongside sister ship Titanic at Harland & Wolff in 1911.
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NewsExpansive Bond Celebrates 30 Years
2005 sees Essex UK-based Bond Instrumentation and Process Control enter into its 30th year of trading on a high after a busy end to 2004.
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NewsSoundBuoy Launch Boosts Boat Noise Compliance
From this month, noise testing has become necessary as the amended EU Recreational Craft Directive (RCD) has come into force. For the first time, upper limits for boat noise are specified. Compliance with the new RCD will be optional for the first 12 months, but from next January it will ...
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NewsInnovation Sparks DieselElectric Ferry
The double ended ferry Dokter Wagemaker has been built by the Damen Group in Romania and was delivered last month for finishing to their Schelde yard at Vlissingen in the Netherlands. The vessel for Texels Eigen Stoomboot Onderneming NV (TESO) will be deployed from June on the Den Helder to ...
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NewsFuelCom Goes With the Flow
As fuel is the single largest cost of marine diesel ownership, accurate metering is critical.
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NewsSmart Steering for New System
Working closely with Volvo Penta , Simrad has developed intelligent auto steering via CAN for the new Inboard Propulsion System (IPS) introduced earlier this month at the London Boat Show . The new AC05 Autopilot Computer integrates with the AP 16/25/26/27 autopilots from Simrad to partner Volvo Penta''s latest generation ...
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NewsSwift Salvors Prevent Pollution
Wijsmuller Salvage ended a busy 2004 dealing with two very different situations which shared a common purpose, pollution mitigation.
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NewsBP Award Tug Management Contract to Targe
Targe Towing Ltd , based in Montrose, Scotland, has been awarded a management contract to operate a new tug fleet to be based at the BP Coryton oilrefinery in the Thames Estuary.
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Titan Beats Time Before Barge Breaks Up
The 6,000 ton container barge Guantanamo Bay Express departed Jacksonville, Florida recently under tow from the Spence on a scheduled service to the US Naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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NewsTow Rope Put to the Test
A breaking load test specially commissioned by Adsteam Towage has revealed the practical benefits of, Cosalt Safety & Protections '' ongoing investment in improving its rope products.
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NewsMore Ramparts ASD Tugs on the Stocks Worldwide
Towards the end of 2004, Vancouver based naval architects and tug designers Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) were awarded a contract to design a new series of high-performance ship-handling tugs for the Chinese Port of Ningbo .
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NewsHythe improve US Army LT series tugs
The United States Army - Combat Equipment Battalion atHythe on Southampton Water is in the process of carrying out a unique reconstruction programme on a series of powerful twin-screw tugs. All six of the tugs concerned are just 10 years old but during their relatively short working lives have been ...
