Marine Construction News – Page 136
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NewsLNG support urged as Helgoland enters service
Europe’s first LNG ferry is on track for service from October as Germany’s maritime industry urges Berlin to do more to promote investment in LNG as an alternative fuel in shipping.
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NewsHamburg completes lock rebuild
The Rugenberger Schleuse, an important central access lock in the Port of Hamburg, is being re-opened to traffic this autumn after being rebuilt as part of a giant port infrastructure development programme lasting until about 2019 and costing about €110 million.
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NewsNew river boats impress Czechs
What is described as the most advanced river excursion boat ever to enter service in the Czech Republic is drawing a lot of praise in Prague - along with the predecessor that prompted its building.
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NewsAdvancing maritime leadership
From 3 – 6 November 2015, Europort, organised in the Netherlands port city of Rotterdam, will again be the meeting place for the international maritime industry.
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NewsBurgess Marine: You’re Hired!
Britain’s largest independent ship repairer Burgess Marine has secured a substantial winter refit on-board Lord Sugar’s new Superyacht, ‘MY Lady A’, at its ship lift facility in Portchester.
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NewsPort Radar for a safer maritime domain
Lystrup, Denmark-based Terma is providing three high-resolution Scanter 5102 radars to be deployed in and around the remote Port of Prince Rupert, on Canada’s rugged British Columbia coast.
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NewsDredged materials treatment centre opens
Envisan France, the French environmental subsidiary of Belgium’s Jan De Nul Group, has inaugurated its Eco-Materials Production Centre in La Seyne-sur-Mer, the first centre of its kind in the Mediterranean area.
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NewsVenice Port masterplan
Venice Port Authority has published the international tender for the drafting of the new port masterplan, which will set the basis for the port development up until 2050.
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Boskalis lands home market contracts
Dutch dredging major Royal Boskalis Westminster has come first in the bidding for two major contacts in its home market.
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NewsWeed harvester heads for Lake Victoria
The lastest Italian-built Italdraghe acquatic weed harvester is now on its way to Kenya.
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NewsVan Oord goes dredging at home and abroad
The Dutch Highways and Waterways Agency (Rijkswaterstaat) has awarded the construction of the new IJmuiden sea lock, which is located at the entrance to the North Sea Canal, officially to the Consortium OpenIJ.
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NewsIHC launches Mahury and speeds strategy
The Netherlands’ Royal IHC has launched the 1,840m3 capacity twin-screw trailing suction hopper dredger’ Mahury’ at partner shipyard MTG Dolphin Shipyard in Varna, Bulgaria.
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NewsHarbour clean-ups US-style
US-based pollution control specialist Elastec is manufacturing trash and debris collection boats to skim floating litter from harbours and waterways. Designed to be manoeuvrable in hard to reach areas, the boat has an inverted bow to usher floating refuse into its 98 cubic feet trash basket.
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NewsSuper-clean tour boat
Australian naval architecture company Incat Crowther has announced the delivery of ‘Wavelength 4’, a 19m aluminium catamaran tour vessel claimed by its operator to be “the cleanest tour vessel on the Great Barrier Reef”.
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NewsUkrainian situation drives further sales
Willard Marine of California, USA, a 56-year-old builder of composite and aluminium boats, has received an order to supply the Ukrainian navy with four aluminium patrol boats, with an option for a fifth.
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NewsHull Vane claims 12.5% fuel saving
According to a study using computational fluid dynamics (CFD), the fitting of a transom mounted Hull Vane from Netherlands-based Van Oossanen Naval Architects could save up to 12.5% in fuel costs in an offshore patrol vessel.
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NewsCutting vibration at low speeds
Swedish anti-vibration specialist Trelleborg has launched two new marine engine mounts – the high deflection (HD) Cushyfloat and the mini HD Cushyfloat – to provide improved vibration isolation and passenger comfort on marine vessels.
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NewsState-of-the-art cable layer
ABB, the Swiss power and automation technology group, has announced that it has ordered the world’s most advanced cable-laying vessel to boost the capacity of its submarine cable operations while achieving greater efficiency and precision.
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NewsAfrican air-cushion agreement
Paramount Group, the African based global defence group and UK-based hovercraft builders Griffon Hoverwork Ltd have signed a cooperative agreement, revealing a number of global projects that will bring British hovercraft capability to Sub-Saharan Africa and innovative South African designed and developed naval solutions to European customers.
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NewsNaviModel software upgraded
Denmark’s Eiva A/S has upgraded its popular 4D data modelling and visualisation tool NaviModel; part of its NaviSuite group of software.
