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    Olympic ferry tale

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    Huisman/IHC Merwede expansion

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    Noreq goes Dutch

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    Propeller Club blog

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    Tesco into Teesport

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    'Marine Propulsion' workshop

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    BMT grows again

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    Bearing up well

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    Teesport link cemented

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    Marelli branding move

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    Jumbo drydock facility

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    Braemar rebrands divisions

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    'Alternative' Baltic port gets cash to restructure

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    A total € 13.5m is being invested in the restructuring of facilities at the Baltic seaport of Wismar to improve its significance as an ' alternative' port of call to busy neighbours Luebeck to the west and Rostock to the east.

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    Rescue service in urgent funds drive

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    The Gosport and Fareham Inshore Rescue Service (GAFIRS), an independent rescue service providing free marine rescue cover in the Solent, has launched an appeal to raise the £ 61,000 funding shortfall that will enable it to bring a new frontline lifeboat into service.

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    Fish farm workboat for Irish coastal duties

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    Mooney Boats Ltd of Co Donegal in Ireland has built the steel hull fish farm support vessel ' Johnny M' , which was designed by Seawork 2008 exhibitor Marine Design International and will be used by a fish farm operator off the west coast of the Emerald Isle.

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    Harms fleet expansion continues with Ursus

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    The fleet of Hamburg based Harms Offshore Gmbh continues to grow rapidly, with five powerful new anchor handling tugs put in service in three years and there are more new vessels to come. Harms building programme first started to bear fruit in 2005 with the delivery of Primus, the smallest ...

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    Shoalbusters Galore

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    One of the tug designs most comprehensively covered in these pages is almost certainly the Damen Shoalbuster. This is due mainly to the success and continuing development of this shallow draft vessel and its use by a large section of the Maritime Journal readership.

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    Smit announce record profits

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    Announcing their results for 2007, Smit Internationale N.V. has reported another record year with a 40% increase in net profit from € 75m to € 105.6m. Operating results increased to 23% from € 77.3m to € 94.7m.

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    MarineCo boosts fleet with two additional vessels

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    Two recent additions to the fleet of Scottish marine services provider MarineCo UK Ltd have boosted the company’ s capability and versatility considerably. A particularly interesting acquisition is the tug Marineco Ashanti, purchased in May from the Russian company Dukkar Engineering.

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    Former Belgian tug sold for the fifth time

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    As more modern vessels enter service several of the deepsea tugs formerly employed by the Antwerp based towage and salvage company URS in the early days of North Sea oil exploration have been sold or scrapped, the most recent being Fighter and Boxer.