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NewsRestored Smack Back with Twin Props
The Pioneer Sailing Trust was established in 1999 with the purpose of restoring back to sailing condition the last remaining first class Essex skillinger smack, named Pioneer. The 70'' long smack, originally built in 1864, was an abandoned wreck lying in the mud at West Mersea UK when the Trust ...
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NewsRhine Yards Attract Unusual Conversions
German Rhine conversion shipyards have demonstrated some acumen by attracting one complex job from local owners and snapping another away from rivals in France.
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NewsAsteam Gets More New Tugs in Australia and Reinforcements in the UK
Adsteam Marine has added several new tugs to its fleet in Australia in recent months and is taking steps to reinforce its towage operations in Britain.
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News'Arrow' Flies to Falmouth
The second VT Halmatic 16m pilot boat was named ''Arrow'' and entered service in ceremonies conducted at the Port of Falmouth last month. Arrow is the second of two new Camarc designed boats ordered by Falmouth Harbour Commissioners and PD Ports. Sister ship Greatham entered service recently at Teesport (see ...
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NewsAstilleros Armon Building More New Tugs for Fairplay Towage
Hamburg based Fairplay Towage has ordered two more tugs from Spanish shipbuilder Astilleros Armon in order to expand its current fleet. In the autumn of 2005 Fairplay and its associate company URS of Belgium placed an order with Armon for four compact stern drive tugs of 5,027bhp with a bollard ...
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Chalmers' Simulator Emulates Any Vessel
Transas has supplied a large scale simulator for the Ship Simulator Centre at the Chalmers University of Technology at Gothenburg in Sweden. The Chalmers Ship Simulator Centre''s mission is to develop and implement standards in maritime training using aviation standards as the model.
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Hydrogen Engines for Water Taxis Offers Alternative
The Hydrogen Engine Center, Inc (HEC) has received a Letter of Intent from an investment group Brightwell Holdings BV representing Turkish boat builder "Labranda" and in cooperation with UNIDO-ICHET (United Nations Industrial Development Organization and International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies).
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NewsEverard Aims for Paperless Bridges
''MV Speciality'', the first of four new 4,426dwt diesel-electric short sea product tankers built for Dartford UK based F T Everard & Sons by the Qingshan Shipyard in China, has been authorised to operate without paper charts.
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Agreement on Increased River Tolls
The Broads Authority in the UK has accepted the Navigation Committee''s proposals that tolls should rise by 9.9% for private boat owners and 6.1% for hire boats from 1 April 2007 to pay for an extra £ 100,000 of dredging.
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NewsSalvors Prove Importance Yet Again
Salvage and towage operators Multraship, working with Antwerp based URS Salvage & Maritime Contracting, have successfully completed two salvage operations in the River Scheldt over a period of less than 24 hours.
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NewsNew Cat ACERTs Itself
Caterpillar launched the new Cat C18 ACERT engine at the recent Workboat Show in New Orleans. Based on the existing Cat C18 and 3406 marine engines, the new model will be available in eight commercial power ratings ranging from 454bhpat 1,800rpm to 873bhp at 2,200rpm and compliant with US EPA ...
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NewsDredging International to Deepen Access to Bulgarian Port
Belgian contractor Dredging International has signed a ¢ 30m contract for the expansion and deepening of the access channels to Port of Bourgas, the second biggest port in Bulgaria. In a statement, Dredging International said the contract was awarded after ''very stiff competition'' from two other groups. Work on site ...
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NewsABPmer Reaps Environmental Award
ABP Marine Environmental Research (ABPmer), Associated British Ports''Southampton-based marine research arm, was commended at the Environment Agency''s Project Excellence Awards when it was awarded Joint-Runner-Up in the ''Innovation and Technical Excellence'' category.
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NewsDutch Heavy Lift Operator Dockwise Sold for $700m
International private equity and funds manager 3i has agreed to buy Dutch marine heavy lift operators Dockwise Transport BV from Dutch offshore services company Heerema Group and Norwegian maritime group Wilh. Wilhelmsen in a deal valued at over $700m.
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NewsBusy Salvors See Out 2006
It was a busy second half of 2006 forSvitzerWijsmuller Salvage BV, with operations in November alone including assistance for a standby/safety vessel following a collision to miles northwest of Terschelling and assistance for vessels involved in incidents in severe weather conditions.
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Subsea 07
Aberdeen''s ,Exhibition & Conference Centre is the venue for what is claimed to be Europe''s largest subsea event, Subsea 07, on Thursday 8 February. Over 80 exhibitors and 800 visitors are expected to participate in the day long proceedings aimed at bringing together operators, contractors, suppliers and small niche technology ...
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TOWLINES
Stuart McNiven, managing director of Svitzer Marine Limited, left the company on 1September after five years in post and 20 years service with A.P. Moller-Maersk. Stuart is well known in the offshore and towage sector and has left on an amicable basis to pursue other business interests. James Curry, who ...
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NewsTeam in Place for WestWave Project
Renewable energy generator E.ON UK and Ocean Prospect have agreed to work together to develop proposals for a potential 5MW wave power project in the sea off Cornwall. The pioneering scheme would be connected toWave Hub, an offshore electrical ''socket'' developed by the South West of England Regional Development Agency.
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Wizards of Oz
Dover UK based Burgess Marine, which supports Incat fast ferries across the globe, sent a dedicated team of employees to Incat Tasmania''s Hobart shipyard in Australia for a specially developed ''in-house'' training course.
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NewsSmall Ports NavComms Solution
The Port Marine Safety Code and other legislation makes it all the more important that even the smallest ports and harbours control their waters effectively. AIS on its own, a solution favoured by many ports, is unreliable since the accuracy of the information received depends upon the correct configuration of ...
