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NewsFirst day at work for new Boskalis dredger
The latest vessel to join Royal Boskalis Westminster' s fleet of dredgers started its maiden dredge operation at the Harwich Maintenance Contract in Harwich Haven last month.
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NewsHadag takes 10th in series
Hamburg' s city owned Hadag ferry and excursion boat operator has marked ten years of operation by taking its tenth Class 2000 ferry, Wilhelmsburg, into service and placing orders for two more.
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NewsUK Treasury reviews rocketing port tax bills
A critical stage in the battle being waged by businesses based at British docks against the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) took place last month when the VOA appeared before the Treasury Committee to explain why it has issued massive, unexpected rates demands, backdated to 2005, which could have a crippling ...
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NewsSWATH pleasure sector opens on a Silver Cloud
Europe' s latest SWATH vessel, and its first for private pleasure rather than commercial pilot or coastguard operation, arrives in the US late this month after sailing from Germany where it was built.
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NewsPelamis plugs Portugal into wave power
So many mariners, pounded by the merciless power of the sea, must have wondered what it would take to get this huge force on our side. The answer, developed over the last decade by an Edinburgh based company, has been forthcoming and wave power is now being harnessed following the ...
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News'Marco Polo' plan pursued in Shetland
The planned ' Motorway of the Sea' linking Kristiansund in Norway, Rosyth in the UK and Zeebrugge in Belgium has unexpectedly run into a snag. While not grounded completely, the plan has certainly been hit by a delay.
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NewsSalvage operations keep SMIT busy
Salvage teams from Rotterdam and other SMIT Salvage locations worldwide have responded to a series of marine emergencies in recent months. Operations in the third quarter included the response to the plight of the chemical/oil tanker Peonia, aground off Cape Verde.
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NewsFelixstowe South digs in for expansion
The UK Port of Felixstowe has held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the formal commencement of the Felixstowe South Reconfiguration project.
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NewsDamen push ahead with a massive tug and barge project
Damen Marine Services (DMS) in the Netherlands have broken new ground with the delivery of the first of a series of unique pusher tugs. DMS Blackbird is purpose designed to form part of an Articulated Tug and Barge (ATB) unit and, when necessary, fulfil a range of other functions.
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NewsGermany to get new ETVs
Germany is to have new Emergency Towing Vessels (ETVs) to replace two existing tugs currently on station to protect the German coastline in the North Sea and the Baltic.
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NewsFrench harbour fleets receive an eight tug boost
The first six tugs of an eight vessel series have been deployed around the French harbour tug fleets now operated by the Boluda Group. An order was originally placed with the French shipyard Chantier Piriou of Concarneau for the construction of these vessels by Les Abeille, the harbour towage division ...
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NewsMacduff rebrand their new tug and workboat range
In response to increasing enquiries for its tug and workboat designs, Scotland' s Macduff Ship Design has developed several new designs and re-branded its entire range of vessels. Over thirty designs are now being offered and the tug and workboat range has been divided into vessel classes, each bearing the ...
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NewsITS 2008 Singapore - the Papers are available
In recent weeks the ITS 2008 Complete Book of Papers and Discussions has been arriving on the doorsteps and in the offices of many of the representatives from the Towage and Salvage industries that attended the highly successful 20th Tug & Salvage Convention held in Singapore in May of this ...
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NewsTOWLINES
Sinbad Marine Services of Killybegs in Ireland has purchased the Voith tractor tug Carron from the Svitzer fleet in Belfast. Two tugs of the same age, size and horsepower were reported sold in earlier Tugs & Towing reports. Carron was originally built in 1979 for use at the Grangemouth Docks ...
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Woolwich Ferry transfer
London' s Woolwich Ferry, a free service carrying road vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists across the River Thames, sees its operation transferred from the London Borough of Greenwich to international services company Serco from the first of this month.
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Ports on YouTube
PD Ports group development director, Martyn Pellew, discusses the development of northern England through the UK' s port and rail infrastructure in videos which have been posted on YouTube.
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ETA meeting set
The European Tugowners' Association (ETA) 46th Annual Meeting is to be held in Lisbon in May of next year. The meeting, scheduled for 13-15 May, is to be hosted by the Svitzer Group.
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Marine noise news
' Ocean Noise: Turn it Down' , a report published last month by IFAW, says that noise pollution of the world' s oceans poses a serious threat to marine animals and that urgent international action should be taken to counter it.
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Marine group launches
The Imtech Marine Group was officially launched at the SMM exhibition in Hamburg.
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Distress demos online
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