Marine Construction News – Page 220
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NewsRemediating Pipelines in Shifting Sands
The Waterweg division of Dutch shipping company Acta Marine has recently completed the remedial lowering of a 48" diameter live gas pipeline across some 5.5km across the IJsselmeer in Northern Holland. Den Helder based Acta Marine Watereg, which can access a fleet of more than 60 workboats, conducted the operation ...
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News'Environmental Aspects of Dredging' in One Volume
The Dutch based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has published a new edition of ' Environmental Aspects of Dredging' in cooperation with the International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC).
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NewsDredging Systems Readied in Mozambique
Swindon UK based hydrographic survey systems supplier Del Norte Technology Ltd has completed its contribution to the handover of the single pipe trailing suction hopper dredger ‘ M S Alacantara Santos’ from the Japanese shipbuilders Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to the Mozambique government' s dredging company, Emodraga.
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News'Pearl River' Heads Marseilles Expansion
Dredging is underway in the first phase of construction work on the Port of Marseilles Authority’ s Fos 2XL container terminal project. Due in service by 2010, two new terminals are being developed in partnership with private operators Port Synergy and MSC, increasing annual capacity at Fos from 600,000 to ...
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Newbuild Boom Continues for Renamed IHC
Having gained new orders to the value of € 650m during the summer, Dutch dredger builder IHC Holland Merwede (which announced a name change to IHC Merwede at Europort Maritime last month) has purchased the largest covered slipway in Europe at Krimpen aan den Ijssel, where it will build the ...
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NewsWell Planned Pontoon Replacement
Sub-Surface Engineering (SSE), a subsidiary of Opus International Consultants, has completed a new section of the wave break pontoon at Southampton’ s town quay.
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NewsKaiserschleuse Key to Bremerhaven Vehicle Future
Work proper has begun on what is being described as one of Europe’ s biggest current port engineering projects, the € 233m rebuilding and expansion of Bremerhaven’ s Kaiserschleuse sea lock to provide access for giant modern vehicle carriers.
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NewsNew Lock Gates for Sutton Harbour
Sub Marine Services Ltd (SMS) is providing the pontoon barge, crawler crane, support vessels and diving teams for a project underway to replace the inner and outer lock harbour gates at Sutton Harbour in Plymouth UK. Their plant is being used by Taylor & Sons Ltd, subcontractor to May Gurney ...
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NewsRostock Construction Boosts Cruise Capacity
Work on a new cruise ship berth is underway in the port of Rostock as the German Baltic facility rushes to keep up with rising cruise business which this year has been better than in any other German port save Kiel.
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NewsBusy Jack-Up Finds Haven in Harwich
The jack up barge ' Vagant' was towed into Harwich Haven last month to shelter from the North Sea storms and tidal surge which lashed the east coast of England and Continental Europe. The barge was under tow by Euro-Tugs’ 5,000bhp ' Union Diamond' from the North Sea to Dunkirk, ...
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News: Scale of Ambition Defines Marine Civils Projects
Much has changed in the marine civil engineering industry since Maritime Journal was first published, but perhaps the most obvious trend or development is the scale of many projects.
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NewsDemountable Workboat Free to Roam Ireland
Seawind Barclay Curle launched and delivered the multi-purpose workboat ' Inish Davar' this month for client Waterways Ireland, which is a cross border initiative established by the Dublin and UK governments to administer, husband and develop the waterway systems both north and south of the border. Inish is Gaelic for ...
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New Materials Technology Extends Carriers
Buckinghamshire UK based Intelligent Engineering has completed an innovative project for Wallenius Lines to strengthen the decks of their sister ship car carriers ' Don Pasquale' , ' Don Quixote' and ' Don Carlos' .
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NewsChina, But No Crisis for Ship Repair
The ship repair and maintenance industry has been through some significant changes over the past few years. Increasingly, the larger scale vessel repair projects, involving significant steel renewals on bulk carriers, tankers and containerships for example, are being carried out at yards in China, where labour costs are relatively low.
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NewsTamar Class is Most Advanced Lifeboat
The series production of the latest Tamar Class lifeboats for the RNLI is continuing at a steady pace following the recent takeover of builders, DML Group, by Babcock Marine. In October the new Cromer boat 16-07 was brought to East Anglia by its new crew, shortly after the Barrow in ...
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Electric Anchor Windlass for 'Joides Resolution' Refit
Seattle USA based Markey Machinery has supplied a the Type WES-32 electric anchor windlass to the Transocean owned drill ship ' Joides Resolution' as part of a major overhaul and conversion the vessel is undergoing in Singapore.
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NewsRINA Launches Corrosion Prevention and Coatings Programme
International classification society RINA has joined forces with UK based coatings testing company Bodycote to launch a global Corrosion Prevention and Coatings (CPC) programme. The heart of the programme will be a CPC training course for shipyard and ship owner staff, and testing facilities for type approval of coatings according ...
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NewsGalatea Goes On Show
For a week in mid-October the brand new Trinity House Vessel ' Galatea' was host to a wide variety of visitors from the world of shipping and the maritime press. Among the visitors were Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip, who are by no means strangers to the Trinity ...
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NewsIrish Sea Freight Capacity to Triple
Irish Sea freight only specialists Seatruck Ferries have taken over Celtic Link''s Dublin-Liverpool route. In addition, capacity available on Seatruck''s fast growing Warrenpoint-Heysham route is about to increase substantially, with the addition of the large newbuilding ''Clipper Point''.
