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£6m for Marine Induction Motor
Following an initial joint £ 20m contract award by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the French Government for the design, build and operation of an Electric Ship Technology Demonstrator (ESTD) facility, Alstom has been awarded a further £ 6m contract.
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NewsCummins Power Supply Vessels
Bollinger Shipyards of Louisiana USA has delivered the Seacor Eagle, the first of two nearly identical 145.5ft supply/utility vessels for Seacor Marine of Houston, Texas USA.
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NewsDeutz Power for New Coastal Freighter
Six cylinder engines from the ubiquitous Deutz 628 series have been chosen as the main drive for a new type of ship, the Crescent Rhine river carrier, a coastal freighter which was built at the Bodewes Scheepswerf Volharding Foxhol BV in Waterhuizen, Germany.
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NewsAir Starters for Marine Engines
This month sees the launch of a new range of turbine air starters for diesel and gas engines of 1 to 300 litre capacity from Oldbury UK based IPU Starting.
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Good Vibes for Diesels with Flydamp
Geislinger, the Austrian torsional vibration specialist, has launched Flydamp, a product which replaces the conventional damper, flywheel and torsional elastic coupling and is mounted instead of the original flywheel.
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NewsBarrus Adds MerCruiser at London Boat Show
E P Barrus Ltd attended the London Boat Show for the first time as distributors of the MerCruiser engine range.
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NewsEnvironmental Court Approves Goteborg Fairway Works
The Swedish environmental court has approved plans for the Port of Goteborg to deepen, widen and straighten its fairways in works valued at $140m.
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NewsScots Prepare Taiwan for Oil Spill
A delegation of high-ranking officials from the Government of Taiwan has spent two weeks in Scotland learning about the latest oil spill response and prevention techniques. The 28 senior personnel, including representatives of the Taiwanese coast guard service, the national parks agency and water suppliers, attended intensive training sessions hosted ...
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NewsNew Fully Enclosed Lifeboat in Europe
A newly developed, fully enclosed lifeboat with a capacity of 102 persons and a new fast rescue craft in three different versions, all produced by Jiangyin Xinjiang of China, have been introduced to the European market by sole regional distributor Norwegian Maritime Equipment AS.
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NewsMBE for Giro Engineering's Paull Williams
Paull Williams learned to his astonishment that his MBE was on the cards while participating as an exhibitor at Europort 2001 with Giro Engineering Ltd, the company he co-founded in 1980.
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SASMEX Goes Dutch
The Safety at Sea and Marine Electronic Conference and Exhibition (SASMEX) moves to the port city of Amsterdam for the first time this year, taking place at the Passenger Terminal Amsterdam (PTA Centre) on 16-18th April.
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The Princess Royal to Present Seatrade Awards
The 14th Seatrade Awards Ceremony Dinner, to be held in the City of London on 22 April, will be graced by HRH The Princess Royal as the Guest on Honour.
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NewsNew Fairway Service Vessel Design for Finland
Finland has thousands of kilometres of fairways, marked by some 17,000 spar buoys and other buoys. There are many lamps to replace, plus many buoys are moved by winter storms and ice and need restoration to correct position in order to maintain navigational safety.
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NewsSafety First With High Speed Radar
Kelvin Hughes has won a contract to provide shipping company Sea Containers Irish Sea Operations with a high speed version of its new Nucleus3 Radar.
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NewsRNLI Launch 24 Hour Service on Thames
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution welcomed the New Year by launching a new round-the-clock rapid response service on London''s River Thames.
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NewsLow Location Lighting System
Existalite/Thomas & Betts Ltd have been awarded the contract to supply and install over 18km of their Guide-LITE system on three ships being built by Kvaerner-Masa Yards in Helsinki.
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News Ormston Technology Takes Tracs
Ormston Technology has been appointed main distributor throughout the UK and Ireland for the Thales Tracs series of telemetry, tracking and positioning systems for marine and land applications.
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NewsGulf of Guinea Pipeline Survey Completed
Andrews Survey have completed a pipeline corridor survey in West Africa, providing specialist teams working onshore and offshore from a proposed tanker mooring point, through the transition zone and right up to the Tema Oil Refinery in Ghana.
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NewsISO 9001-2000 for ASRY Yard
Bahrain' s ASRY Yard crowned a successful final quarter of 2001 by becoming the first shipyard in the world to be awarded the prestigious ISO 9001-2000 Certificate from the Norwegian society Det Norsk Veritas. The Certificate is in recognition of the Quality Management System in place at the Yard.
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Repair Gets a Share at Pomerania
The privately owned Pomerania Shipyards in northwest Poland''s industrial heartland is planning to build upon its success in the British market with new designs for 18m and 24m trawlers.
