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NewsShipyard completes 'formidable' refit
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Fort Rosalie is a fleet stores ship, which means it has a primary role of supplying fuel, food, munitions and just about anything else needed by the Royal Naval fleet while on operations at sea.
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NewsNew cat sails after fit out at Dales
This month sees a new catamaran ferry settling in on the route between Gill’ s Bay in Caithness and St Margaret’ s Hope, Orkney. Travelling at 18 knots across the Pentland Firth, the new Pentalina has reduced the journey time to under an hour, giving both visitors and locals the ...
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NewsNew website for historic ship preservation
The UK’ s National Historic Ships Directory of Skills & Services is aiming higher. Due to go online at the beginning of May, the new website aims to bring together not just the specialist skills needed to maintain the UK' s historic fleet, but also researchers, suppliers, and other heritage ...
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HMS Endurance in for repairs
HMS Endurance, the damaged British Royal Navy ice patrol ship, has finally been transported home from the Falklands to undergo extensive repairs following her flooding incident last December.
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NewsThirty years history and 'props' at Inverlane
Inverlane Marine, which recently celebrated 30 years in business on the banks of the River Clyde, has just completed the reconditioning of an FOPX613 purifier.
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NewsTape shapes up to seal safety
You could guess at what can happen if a flange carrying fuel fails, and just how nasty the resulting spray of fuel could be. But what happens if this fine spray meets the kind of hot spots commonly found in engine rooms?
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NewsMore Towlines
JP Knight (Caledonian) Ltd of Invergordon has sold the 31m ASD tug Kincraig. Purpose built in Japan in 1998, Kincraig has been in constant use carrying out shiphandling services at Invergordon and under contracts in many other ports around the UK and Europe, in addition to coastal and short sea ...
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NewsSanmar are busy with deliveries
Over the past month or so the Turkish tug owner and tug builder Sanmar Denizcilik Ltd of Istanbul has been exceptionally busy with the trials and delivery of new tugs. One of the most noteworthy completions is that of the very first vessel to be built to the new ‘ ...
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NewsA success story for Damen and Smit
When Damen Shipyards at Gorinchem in the Netherlands first introduced their series built Damen ASD Tug 2810 in 2004 it was recognised by many as a harbour tug with some potential but now, some five years later, it can be considered a ‘ success’ story! During those few years over ...
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NewsSmit increases its market share in Canada
In mid March Smit International signed an agreement to acquire all of the shares in the Minette Bay Ship Docking Ltd in Prince Rupert, Canada. The tug company operates a three tug fleet in the increasingly busy port of Prince Rupert and provided ship docking services at the Ridley Island ...
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NewsDon't get swamped by the data tide
A new, user friendly marine-information ' cruncher' has just been launched onto the market, promising to make the tidal wave of data that maritime organisations are now expected to manage much simpler.
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NewsBoskalis wins cruise terminal contract in the Bahamas
Royal Boskalis Westminster has been awarded a contract for the extension of the cruise terminal in Nassau. The contract was awarded by the Ministry of Works and Transport of the Government of the Bahamas and is worth approximately US$44m. The company said the project will be completed in the first ...
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Al Marjan reclamation completed
Rakeen, a leading property developer and master planner, and the real estate development arm of the Ras Al Khaimah Government, has announced that it has completed reclamation work for the US$1bn Al Marjan Island. The first man made island in the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah effectively expands the emirate' ...
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NewsPort of Poti rehabilitation project completed
Delta Marine Consultants (DMC) has confirmed that the first phase of the rehabilitation of the main breakwater at the Port of Poti, Georgia, has recently been completed.
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China to have world's longest immersed tunnel
COWI has signed a contract to provide the preliminary design for a combined bridge and tunnel link in China. The immersed tunnel will be based on the same tunnel concept which was chosen for the Øresund fixed link between Denmark and Sweden and the Busan-Geoje link in Korea.
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DHI addressing wave problems in Danish port
DHI Group in Denmark is working with the authorities at the Danish harbour at Thyborøn to address problems caused by wave overtopping. Thyborøn is located on the west coast of Jutland, Denmark.
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Durban harbour widening on track for 2010 completion
The Port of Durban’ s 300 million rand harbour entrance widening project, which started in the third quarter of 2007, is due for completion in April 2010, according to Allan Wijnberg, the director of design consultancy Prestedge Retief Dresner Wijnberg.
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Jan de Nul secures Australian contract
Belgium’ s Jan De Nul Group has been awarded a € 200m contract for work to expand facilities at BHP Billiton’ s Western Australia Iron Ore operations in Port Hedland. The work is part of BHP Billiton’ s Rapid Growth Project 5 (RGP5), designed to increase the capacity of the ...
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NewsLNG breakthrough with European Ro-Ro ships
Rolls-Royce Marine reported a strong financial performance for 2008 at a media presentation held in London last month. Some £ 2.2bn in revenue fulfilled expectations, an order book standing at £ 5.2bn was more than triple that of 2005, and profits were up 62% on 2007.
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News'Peter' beats brother in Hamburg power stakes
One of the most powerful tugs in the port of Hamburg has just celebrated its 10th anniversary, along with the MaK VRT engine technology that has been part of its equipment since it went into service.
