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  • The Duke of Normandy is to be replaced by a new Schoalbuster.
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    'Duke of Normandy' to be replaced

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Jersey Harbours , in the UK Channel Islands, are to have a sophisticated new flagship, a 26m Damen Shoalbuster tugdesigned to undertake a wide range of duties in the locality.

  • Tugs from Svitzers Clyde fleet refloat the 21,200gt ferry European Highlander.
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    TOWLINES

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    International Salvor Tsavliris has recently relaunched its website www. tsavliris. com The colourful new website is dynamic, more informative, easy-to-navigate and up-to-date.

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    EH Hassekk & Sons Extend Their Port Handling Territory

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    From the first day of this month, EH Hassell and Sons Ltd of Stoke on Trent UK has become the nominated distributor for the range of Sennebogen Green Line Material handlers for all industries in the UK as well as port sector distributorship in Ireland.

  • If two hulls are better than one, Lockheed Martin has decided that four hulls are better than two.
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    Lockheed Grabs a SLICE of the Action

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Lockheed Martin turned up at last month''s Workboat Show in New Orleans with a new $25 million contract for the detailed design, construction, test and delivery of two Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull (SWATH) variant crew transport vessels for Mexico''s national oil company PEMEX .

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    MacGregor Heads to Kone

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Kone Corporation has bought MacGregor from Industri Kapital and Gambro AB forapproximately ? 186 million.

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    Small Ships Now Online

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Lockheed Martin's vessel is based on the design of SLICE, a vessel the company designed, built and tested for America's Office of Naval Research. It takes SWATH technology one step further by converting the twin hull SWATH into a four hulled SLICE. The patented design breaks the two long submerged ...

  • Turning the present site of Thames Craft Dry Docking Services into more yuppie flats would have a detrimental effect on the rivers support services.
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    Development Threat to River Support Services

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    One of the last working boatyards on London''s River Thames is threatened by development.

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    Long Running Maritime Charity

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Opportunities to run with Paula Radcliffe and simultaneously support seafarers and their families are still available to participants in next spring''s Flora London Marathon . Those running and raising sponsorship on behalf of the maritime charity King George''s Fund for Sailors (KGFS) will benefit sailors who served in WWII, orphaned ...

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    New On HIT List

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Global power generation company International Power has signed a term agreement with Associated British Ports to use the new £ 44.5 million coal facility being built by extending the Humber International Terminal (HIT) at ABP''s Port of Immingham (see MJ September 2004, page 25).

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    Seafarers UK Pledges £100,000 for Tsunami Sufferers

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    UK based maritime charity Seafarers UK is donating £ 100,000 towards rebuilding the seafaring communities affected by the Tsunami disaster, on the Indian and Sri Lankan coasts.

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    Wallenius Goes Green

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Shipping and logistics operators Wallenius Wilhelmsen has become the first non-container carrier shipping group to join the Clean Cargo Group , a global consortium of multinational manufacturers, shippers and carriers whose aim is to promote cleaner and more environmentally sustainable transportation. The Group is currently at work developing an Environmental ...

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    Fos Box Rise

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Container throughput at the French Port of Marseilles-Fos hasrisen by 9% through the first ten months of 2004 for a total of 765,000 teu. East-west trade was up by 10% to 492,000 teu while north-south trades via Marseilles improved to 8%, exceeding 272,000 teu. After a slow start to the ...

  • Naval work for Elsflether Werft.
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    Elsflether Stays Busy With Small Ship Work

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    German small ship repair and conversion centre Elsflether Werft on the Weser has seen its slipways full of late with a variety of small ships in for work ranging from routine maintenance and repair to complex engine exchange.

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    Hamburg Booming

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    By the beginning of December 2004, the Port of Hamburg had already matched the previous year''s record cargo handling volume of 106,283 million tons and was heading for a year end figure of approximately 115 million tons, an increase of 8.5%.

  • The S/S Nomadic is seen alongside in Le Havre on New Years Day 2005. Photo courtesy of Thierry Dufournaud of the French Titanic Society.
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    Help Save Titanic's Tender

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast has added its name to a growing online petition to save the Titanic ''s tender S/S Nomadic from the breaker. The illustrious ''Mothership of the Titanic '', which carried John Jacob Astor, Benjamin Guggenheim, Margaret ''Unsinkable Molly'' Brown and 169 other First and ...

  • A new lease of life for Aue.
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    Twenties Motor Launch Restored in Hamburg

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    A new lease of life has been given to a 75 year-old Alster motor launch after five years of restoration carried out by an employment and skill training group in the German port city of Hamburg.

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    Hurricane Season Necessitates Heavy Lift by Bisso

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    America''s Bisso Marine Co Inc has completed the successful salvage of a 105 Class Liftboat from 258ft of water in the Gulf of Mexico. The liftboat, which was believed to have sunk in much shallower water in the mid 1980''s, was discovered to be on top of a 20in pipeline ...

  • The RNLIs new Tamar class lifeboats is seen undergoing pre-production self-righting tests.
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    Scotland's First RNLI 'Tamar'

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    A new design of lifeboat, known as the Tamar class, has been allocated to the RNLI Peterhead Lifeboat Station , making it the first station and crew in Scotland to operate this class of all weather lifeboat.

  • Volvo Pentas IPS (Inboard Performance System) turns the propellers to face the boats direction of travel, pulling rather than pushing like conventional propellers.
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    Propulsion Breakthrough Launched in London

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Volvo Penta invoked memories of the 1959 New York Boat Show at the London Boat Show earlier this month, where it unveiled its ''revolutionary'' new IPS (Inboard Propulsion System).

  • The first 1,200 hp Daewoo 4V222TIL engine in the UK is seen being prepared for the London Boat Show at Watermotas facility in South Devon.
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    More Daewoos to Choose at London Boat Show

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    As promised, WaterMota Ltd turned up at the London Boat Show earlier this month with two new engines from value for money Korean manufacturer Daewoo . The engines are so popular with commercial operators that the Benelux distributor has reported the sale of 35 units over the Christmas period.