All News articles – Page 1021
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NewsHooked On for the Future
Lifeboat and davit manufacturer Schat-Harding has completely re-engineered its range of on-load release hooks.
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News'Sort of Like a Floating JCB'
Williams Shipping Marine Ltd celebrated the arrival of the latest addition to its fleet with christening and blessing ceremonies for ''Willendeavour'' at its Empress Dock facilities in Southampton UK earlier this month.
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NewsA Ferry Good Relationship for MSC
Southampton UK based MSC has reported another major contract with long standing clients P& O Ferries.
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NewsExtended RoPax Returns to Harwich
The newly extended ''Stena Britannica'' made its maiden voyage from Harwich International Port to Hook of Holland last month.
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NewsHybrid Propulsion First for RiverQuest 'Explorer'
The launch last month in America of ''Explorer'', the world''s first green engineered floating classroom, claims to herald a new era in marine design for environmental sustainability.
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News'Osterdijk' Emergency Required Fire Expertise
Specialised firefighting techniques proved the key to success in the recent operation to save the Dutch general cargo vessel ''Ostedijk''.
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NewsFuel Efficiency for Ferry Fleet
With financial pressures due to the rising cost of fuel effecting all transportation fleets, the requirement for ship owners and operators to professionally monitor their fuel usage in real time has become paramount.
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XK's Easy Ride for Marine Engines
Trelleborg Industrial AVS has launched a new high performance member of its Cushymount range of mountings, specially designed to provide optimised shock and vibration isolation for large marine engines and gensets.
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NewsNew Lifeboat Freefall Drop Record
Norsafe AS Lifeboat has claimed the record for lifeboat freefall drops with its GES 50 Lifeboat.
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Ribble Link Dredging Work on Schedule
British Waterways in the UK says the Ribble Link is on target to reopen on the 6th of this month following £ 600,000 of winter maintenance works, including channel dredging, repairs to a lock bywash and the filling of a number of voids behind lock walls.
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Dredging at Falmouth Harbour a Step Nearer
The dredging of Falmouth Harbour in the UK has taken a step forward with Falmouth Harbour Commissioners and A& P Falmouth Limited.
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Diesel-Electric for Fisheries Protection Newbuild
The latest vessel being built for the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency (SFPA) will have an electric propulsion system provided by Rolls-Royce.
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PMI Develops Z-Drive Tug Handling Programme
The Pacific Maritime Institute in Seattle USA, in partnership with Captain Jeff Slesinger, has developed and implemented a three phase Z-drive Tug Handling Programme.
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NewsNIOT Deploys Tsunami Detection System
The National Institute of Ocean Technology of India has successfully installed a Sonardyne Tsunami Detection System in the Bay of Bengal in 3,500m of water.
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NewsDublin Pilots Take Delivery of Newbuild
Cork based commercial boatbuilders Safehaven Marine have delivered a new Interceptor 42 ‘ All Weather Pilot Vessel’ to the Port of Dublin.
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NewsCost Effective Workboat Design at Seawork
The work of first time Seawork exhibitor Marine Design International (MDI) will be familiar to MJ readers who recall the Vessel Launch coverage in the November 2006 issue of ''Bluefinn 40'', an 11.91m LOA category 1 offshore workboat built by Ireland''s Mooney Boats Ltd. MDI designed the Bluefinn 40.
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Winch Control Package for 'Floating Port'
Siemens announced the award of a contract earlier this month from Oceaneering Advanced Technologies to provide an electric winch motor control system and an energy storage system for a crane designed to move large containers on US Navy ships at sea.
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NewsTwo Major Contracts for DEME
An important contract for trench dredging, backfilling and rock placement in India has been awarded to Tideway, the Breda, Netherlands based subsidiary of dredging and environmental group DEME.
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NewsAn Important New Contract for Ostensjo
Østensjø Rederi AS of Haugesund, Norway has signed a contract with Norske Shell to provide towage services at the new Shell Nyhamna terminal now under construction at Aukra in Norway.
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NewsGreen Light For Offshore Gas/Wind Co-Development
Eclipse Energy UK plc has been granted consent to construct and operate the Ormonde offshore wind farm and to generate and export electricity from the adjacent Ormonde Gas Fields development, thus completing the series of principal permissions necessary to construct the world''s first co-development of offshore gas and wind.
