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NewsDutch Expertise Goes East
Damen Dredging Equipment (formerly De Groot Nijkerk ) has delivered a knock-down package for a Type CZ600 monohull cutter suction dredger to Middle East dredging and reclamation contractor Gulf Cobla LLC . The Khaleej Bay was designed in close cooperation with the owners, who also supervised the building at the ...
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ISU Survey Sees Decline in Salvage Workload
The results of the International Salvage Union ''s (ISU) annual Pollution Prevention Survey show that the 605,677 tonnes of oils, chemicals, other pollutants and bunker fuel recovered last year represent a 37% decrease on the 2002 total. The emergency assistance provided worldwide for 218 vessels with cargoes and bunkers threatening ...
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NewsBusy Start to 2004 for Tsavliris
The Tsavliris Salvage Group has redelivered the steel products laden cargo vessel Orion 1 to its owners after a lightering and refloating operation in Chioggia which was the third successfully completed Lloyds Open Form salvage contract handled by Tsavliris so far this year.
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News'Rocknes' Successfully Parbuckled
The flexible fallpipe vessel Rocknes , which capsized in January after hitting a shallow in the Vatlestraumen strait near Bergen in Norway, has been successfully parbuckled by Smit Salvage . After two months of preparation, the vessel was pulled upright last month from its upside down position.
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NewsFirst Z-Tech Tug Delivered
The first of the unique Z-Tech shiphandling tugs ordered by the Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) has passed it acceptance trials with flying colours.
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NewsSmit Orders New AnchorHandlers
Smit Transport & Heavy Lift BV (a division of SMIT Internationale NV ) has ordered two new ships from the Keppel Singmarine shipyard in Singapore.
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NewsKooren Announces Orders for 'Rotor Tugs'
Rotterdam based Kooren Shipbuilding and Trading BV has ordered two RT-60 class ''Rotor Tugs'' to be built at ASLShipyard Pte Ltd in Singapore.
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Armon to Build New Spanish Emergency Towing Vessels
Spain''s maritime rescue authority, Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Maritima (Sasemar), has placed an order valued at ? 29.5m with Vigo-based shipyard Astilleros Armon for two salvage tugs. The vessels will be 56m long, with a beam of 15m, and equipped to carry out the duties of Emergency Towing Vessels ...
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NewsNew Tugs for Svitzer Roll off the Production Line
A year ago Svitzer-Wijsmuller , the giant towage and salvage operator and part of the AP Moller Group , announced a massive new building programme that included approximately 30 vessels, the majority of them tugs. A number of vessels were already under construction and several tugs have now been completed, ...
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Extensive Work Required for Barrow Port Project
The construction of a new marina at Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria – which seemed at to be risk because of a funding crisis at the UK’ s Northwest Development Agency (NWDA) now looks more likely to go ahead, and will require extensive work at the site to create a new canal ...
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PIANC Group Seeks Techniques for Reducing Siltation in Harbours
The MarCom Working Group 43 at PIANC on ‘ Minimising Harbour Siltation’ is conducting a worldwide search for techniques which have been developed and applied (or at least tested) with a view of reducing siltation in harbours.
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Ahern Announces Go-ahead for Clogherhead Development
Dermot Ahern TD, the Irish Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, has announced a 6.5m upgrade of Clogherhead port in County Louth.
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Joint Project Will Address ALWC
A new form of aggressive, localised corrosion that has occurred in unprotected marine structures constructed from steel over the past 20 years or so is to be the subject of a new research project led by the Construction Industry Research Association (CIRIA).
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DEC to Clean up Swedish Lakes
DEME Environmental Contractors (DEC) and Dredging International (DI) have received a contract for the design and execution of an important remediation project at two lakes near the city of Hultsfred in Sweden.
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KMM Appointed to Design Dunmore East Harbour
Consulting engineers Kirk McClure Morton have been appointed by the Department of Communications, Marine & Natural Resources in Ireland for the provision of engineering services related to the design of an extension to Dunmore East Fishery Harbour in County Waterford.
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NewsNew Genset Extends Perkins Sabre Range
With the introduction of the new 415GM genset engine, Perkins Sabre now offers seven genset engines with net engine power outputs spanning from 13.5kWm to 161kWm.
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NewsCombi Drive Launch Crowns Record Year
With power ratings of up to 6,000kW, Schottel Rudderpropellers (SRP) have proven themselves worldwide for over five decades as mechanical azimuth drives for all sectors of the shipping world and the offshore industry.
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Complete Power packages for Ukraine Tugs
Volvo Penta has delivered 34 diesel engines for tugboat installations in the Ukraine since May of 2001. The latest delivery to this increasingly important market was for the tug 814 Bakai, launched last November from one of Europe''s largest shipyards, Chernomorskiy Shipbuilding at Nikolaev.
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Mounting a Challenge to Movement
Trelleborg Industrial AVS has designed a new mounting system to eliminate excessive engine movements in a fleet of twin-engined multi-hulls operated by City Cruises plc on the River Thames in London.
