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NewsShiprepair's Future Present for Training
A West Country UK shiprepair and conversion yard is continuing to invest in the future of high quality skills by welcoming its latest intake of new apprentices to the yard. The 13 new recruits, all from West Cornwall and aged between 16 and 18, spent their first week in September ...
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NewsHomecoming Refit for 'HMS Northumberland'
The marine division of Gateshead UK based protective coatings specialist Pyeroy ismaintaining the region''s links with one of the last Royal Navy vessels built on the Tyne.
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NewsTitan salvage 'Skate - III'
A recent incident in bad weather around the south coast of Britain brought a small salvage job almost to the doorstep of Titan Maritime attheir Newhaven base. On the morning of 21 October the jack-up barge Skate III wasfound aground in the surf on the beach at nearby Seaford.
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NewsSalvage Tug Tows Stricken Canadian Submarine
The salvage tug Anglian Prince was released from her duties as an Emergency Towing Vessel with the Maritime & Coastguard Agency on the 5 October to go to the assistance of the Canadian submarine Chicoutimi lying disabled in the Atlantic.
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Multraship and Titan Join Forces in Romania
Terneuzen-based Multraship Salvage has started work on a three-month project to remove the wreck of the 4,497gt Rostok from the Romanian River Danube.
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NewsArmon Hard at Work on Spanish Emergency Vessels
The Vigo based shipyard of Astilleros Armon is now deeply engaged in the construction of two 56m twin-screw tugs to be operated by the Spanish maritime rescue authority, Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Maritima (Sasemar).
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NewsDesign Award for Robert Allan Ltd.
Canadian naval architect and tug designers Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) of Vancouver, was one of the winners announced in October in the ''Business Effectiveness'' category at the Singapore Design Awards 2004 .
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NewsDouble Trouble for the Historic Elbe
A massive project to completely restore the ocean going tug Elbe to its original 1959 condition suffered a serious blow for the second time this year. Back in July the tug was struck and sunk at her Rotterdam moorings by a ship manoeuvring at an adjacent berth. The vessel was ...
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NewsTOWLINES
Farstad Supply AS , a wholly owned company of Farstad Shipping ASA , has sold the anchor-handler Far Turbot toChinese operators. This vessel became well-known in her role as one of the first Emergency Towing Vessels (ETV) to be operated under contract to the Maritime & Coastguard Agency .
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NewsWorldwise Revamp an Established Anchor-handler Design
Two very similar anchorhandling tugs are currently under construction, to a design produced by WorldWise Marine Engineering BV , for two very different owners in very different parts of the world.
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News'Battler' a New Tug for the Clyde
Clyde Marine Services Ltd , based in the Victoria Harbour at Greenock in Scotland, has improved its ability to provide towage services considerably with the addition of a new Damen Stan Tug 1906 . Named Battler , the vessel was handed over to her owners during the last few days ...
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NewsBattered Buoy Makes Case for Plastic
New plastic marine navigation buoys placed recently in the Caribbean proved their durability in the toughest of circumstances when one was run over by a high speed ocean cruiser.
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NewsNavaids Show Way to Rebuilt West Bay
Tideland Signal is supplying a range of aids to navigation equipment for the £ 16.8m redevelopment of West Bay Harbour in Dorset UK which was seriously damaged by storms in 1995.
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NewsCoastal Surveillance and VTS Antennas
Atlas Elektronic GmbH has selected Easat to supply parabolic reflector antennas for the Kuwait Sea Surveillance project. The contract to supply a 5.5m reflector antenna builds upon other recent successes supplying antennas for a coastal surveillance system in Estonia as well as elsewhere in Europe and in Asia.
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NewsBack-up Power for Goteborg's New Beacons
Goteborg Hamm AB , operator of the Port of Goteborg in Sweden, has ordered Saft''s new design Sunica. plu s low maintenance rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries to provide reliable back-up power for the 34 new solar powered fairway beacons that will mark the main access channels approaching the port.
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MAIB Reports on Vessel Brush with Denmark's Bad Buoy
The British Government''s Marine Accident Investigation Branch has published its report into the contact of a British cargo ship with a navigation buoy in Denmark''s Drogden Channel earlier this year. At 0755 on 29 January 2004, the UK registered general cargo vessel Scot Venture made contact with Number 16 buoy ...
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EU Bill to Cut Ship-Borne Air Pollution Will Push Up Costs
European Union members have given the go-ahead for a bill aimed at cutting air pollution caused by ships, a move that would help fight respiratory disease but push up costs for ship owners.
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NewsOrders for French Fast Oil Recovery System are Taking Off
By the end of this year, four ships equipped with the JLMD fast oil recovery system will be sailing the seas. The first, a tanker belonging to Italian shipowner Navigazione Montanari , was launched and christened on 15 September.
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NewsDockyard Contamination Investigation Gets Underway
Fugro Engineering Services of Basingstoke UK is conducting a series of contamination surveys for Serco Assurance at the Rosyth Dockyard in Fife.
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NewsHumber Staff Top of the Class
Crews at Adsteam Humber have landed a number of professional qualifications recently, and are among the first in the UK to achieve them.
