Latest News – Page 1140
-
News
New Venture on Top of the Slops
From early next month ships visiting the Port of Falmouth will have a new service available to them as a result of a joint venture between ship repair and conversion specialist A&PFalmouth and marine oil terminal operators Falmouth Oil Services (FOS). The new facility to receive and recycle oil slops ...
-
News
Busy March for A&P Falmouth
A&P Falmouth has won two significant orders which are being undertaken this month.
-
NewsVoith Unit In-Water Replacement
UMC International have once again supported the British Royal Navy and Babcock Naval Services (BNS) to successfully undertake the exchange of a Voith Schneider Propulsion (VSP) unit fitted to a naval ship while it remained afloat.
-
NewsTowlines
Well-known propulsion system and component suppliers the Kort PropulsionCompany Ltd and associate Causeway Machinery Ltd have recently relocated to Erith in Kent. First established in 1935, the company has operated from an office in Witham, Essex for the past 15 years. Directors Norman Parsons and Malcolm Breeze have worked together ...
-
NewsAn Eleventh Hour Reprieve for the 'Daniel Adamson'
An historic steam tug/tender, the Daniel Adamson , owned by the Manchester Ship Canal Company has been saved from the cutting torch by tugmen and enthusiasts at the eleventh hour.
-
NewsFairmount to Build New Deepsea Tugs
Valentine''s Day, 14 February 2004, was a landmark date for Rotterdam based towage contractor Fairmount Marine BV when the company signed a contract for the construction of two 200 tonnes bollard pull anchor-handling tugs.
-
NewsA Sophisticated New Escort Tug Enters Service in Norway
Baut , a new escort tug for Bukser og Berging A/S (a subsidiary of Neptun A/S ) is now in service at Statoil ''sMongstad oil terminal in Norway.
-
News
Bugsier Order Tractor Tug from K Damen Shipyard
The year 2004 started extremely well for Shipyard K Damen at Hardinxveld-Giessendam. During the past couple of months three shipbuilding contracts were signed from two different continents.
-
NewsRapid Radar and VHF for Yemen Coast Guard
Simrad has been chosen to supply radar and VHF communications to 100 patrol boats currently in production for the Yemen Coast Guard .Delivery and installation of the CR44 radar and RD68 dVHF radios for the first 25 boats is underway, with the final boat due for completion by the end ...
-
NewsSSAS Proposed for US Homeland Security
The Ship Security Alert System (SSAS) scheduled for introduction by 1 July 2004 is being proposed as part of the best and most logical solution for national homeland security needs. This suggestion has been made to the US Coast Guard following the recent request it made to industry for technical ...
-
NewsSwift Service for Fleet
The usual arrangement whereby marine electronics is serviced by the company which sold and installed the equipment is often not an efficient one for vessels sailing internationally. Users of the Thrane & Thrane Capsat Fleet 77, 55 and 33 terminals are now guaranteed worldwide service via the Fleet Service Centre ...
-
NewsMENAS' Pollution Boat Launched in Romania
A new oil spill response vessel for the Middle East Navigation Aids Service (MENAS) was launched at the Galatz Shipyard in Romania last month and has been towed to Damen ''s Royal Schelde Shipyard in the Netherlands for completion, outfitting and commissioning.
-
NewsSalvors Warn Spain of Pollution Repeat
The Spanish Government''s decision to put a half a billion dollar price tag on a place of refuge for ships in distress is counter-productive and in some situations could actually increase the threat of environmental pollution according to the International Salvage Union (ISU).
-
NewsSMS Down By the San Francisco Bay Area
Transas Marine USA has been awarded a contract to provide a Spill Management Simulator (SMS) to the California Maritime Academy''s Institute of Maritime Technology .
-
NewsChallis Rises to Workboat Challenge
Essex UK based Challis & Sons have launched their new 10m design steel workboat, the Challis 10m2 . Designed and constructed entirely in-house at Challis'' Clacton-on-Sea workshops, the new vessel was immediately put into service, successfully completing a contract for Ballast Ham Dredging pushing their water injection dredger Baldur onworks ...
-
News
'PAC' Range of Brackets Get Tough at seawork2004
seawork exhibitor Fire & Rescue Equipment Ltd will be showing the PAC range of tool and equipment mounting systems which they distribute in the UK, Europe and Australia.
-
NewsLucky seawork 7 Sailing for Southampton
Snow falling on the day this is written cannot obscure the fact that the seventh annual seawork Exhibition and Conference, in more hospitable summer environs at the ABP Port of Southampton , is just around the bend in the navigation channel.
-
NewsFinns Win Again with Sixth Police Targa
The Metropolitan Police Thames Division fleet has received its sixth Finnish built Targa patrol craft, supplied by seawork2004 exhibitor Wessex Marine .
-
NewsSunshine Guaranteed at seawork
In recent years, seawork hashad the good fortune to coincide with fine summer weather. For seawork2004 a bit of brightness is guaranteed months in advance with the booking of first time exhibitor Sunshine Maritime .
-
News'Jo Dan IV' Is a Safe Haven at seawork
Safehaven Marine are fast becoming Ireland''s most successful commercial charter boat builders and return to seawork with Jo Dan IV , the second of a new generation of high-buoyancy hull ''Wildcat'' catamarans built to provide operators with performance, stability and a huge deck area.
