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News'Morgan Foss', A Powerful New Compact Tug
Foss Maritime of the USA has taken delivery of the powerful new harbour tug Morgan Foss for service in Pacific Coast ports. Yet another example of the growing popularity of ''compact tugs'', this highpowered vessel is the result of a unique collaboration between Foss and the Canadian based designer Robert ...
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NewsGas Vapour Monitors Satisfy US Coast Guard
When ships are loaded with liquids such as gasoline, fuel oils or naptha, vapour is displaced from the hold. This vapour can either be recovered or destroyed using an enclosed flare. The composition of the displaced vapour is highly variable and under certain conditions can fall within the flammability limits ...
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Nelson Revisited in Historic City of Portsmouth
Over 600 children from the Admiral Lord Nelson School in Portsmouth dressed in nautical costumes on 21 of October and took to the waters of the Solent with Wightlink Isle of Wight Ferries to celebrate the famous victory 200 years ago of their school''s namesake at the Battle of Trafalgar.
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Wartsila's Chinese Gensets
Construction has started on Wartsila''s joint venture genset factory in China. The Wartsila Qiyao Diesel Company Ltd (Shanghai) will initially manufacture Wartsila Auxpac W20 diesel gensets which will be sold through Wartsila''s global sales network. The new facility is jointly owned by Wartsila and the Shanghai Marine Diesel Engine Research ...
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EUR-OCEANS Tracks Climate Change
The Plymouth UK based National Marine Aquarium is the only tourist attraction in the country selected to participate in a major new climate change project. As a member of the European Network of Excellence project, it will join participants in 25 other European countries to investigate and communicate the effects ...
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Ceres Paragon Lifts Off
Amsterdam''s innovative Ceres Paragon container terminal, largely unused since its 2001 opening, has enjoyed a turnaround in its fortunes recently with two Grand Alliance loops now calling to bring an initial 200,000teu per year throughput. This has, in turn, seen the creation of Dutch Feeder Line, a twice weekly operation ...
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NewsGiant Trimaran Flies in the Canaries
Canary Islands ferry operator Fred Olsen SA has added a 126.7m LOA aluminium trimaran ferry to extend its services on routes linking Los Cristianos on Tenerife, San Sebastian on Gomera, and Palma Island. Benchijigua Express is a fast and comfortable ferry capable of transporting up to 1,350 passengers and with ...
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NewsPrecise Positioning Helps Island Builders
Trimble has provided details of the work that it is doing in support of dredging contractor Van Oord NV of the Netherlands on the huge land reclamation projects it is working on in the Middle East.
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News'V' Boom's Victorious Pollution Trial
Cornwall County Council''s Emergency Planning staff were called into action last month to respond, for exercise purposes, to a major oil pollution incident. A full emergency team was assembled in the incident centre in Falmouth docks and specialist companies Triskel Marine Ltd (TML) and Transas were drafted in to advise ...
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NewsFast Pilot Boat Exceeds Design Speed
A twin UltraJet 451 propulsion system propels a new 74ft aluminium pilot boat built by Horizon Shipbuilding of Alabama USA. The vessel is scheduled for service at the Port of Umm Qasr in Iraq.
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BMT Pays Respect to a Founding Father
David Goodrich, chairman of BMT Ltd and a former President of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) died last month at the age of 64.
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NewsMott MacDonald Wins Contract to Expand Montego Bay Cruise Terminal
The Port Authority of Jamaica has awarded Mott MacDonald, engineering and management consultant, a contract to help expand cruise terminal facilities at Montego Bay, Jamaica.
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Masterplan for Barrow's Port Development Picks Up Speed
First announced in 2003, the overall Masterplan for developing the port area at Barrow in Cumbria includes 400 waterfront homes, offices, retail units, a 300-berth marina, powerboat racing course, water sports centre and innovation park. Now, work has started on the design of two of the other projects included in ...
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NewsBaby Suzuki Completes Four Stroke Family
Suzuki Marine has completed their four stroke outboard line-up with the launch of their smallest and lightest four stroke ever, the DF2.5.
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Merger to Create Peterhead Port Authority
The separate organisations that currently control Peterhead''s two harbours are to undergo a historic merger that will bring major economic benefits to the town.
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NewsGerman Yards Attract Inland Conversion
Two inland motor ships have been lengthened this Autumn at the J Braun Schiffswerft at Speyer on the Rhine as the demand for revamped waterway tonnage continues to attract shipping customers to smaller inland shipyards.
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New General Counsel at Associated British Ports
Associated British Ports has named Andrew Garner as the company''s new General Counsel in an appointment which became effective from the first of this month.
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Type Approval for Engine Lube Metal Detector
The AMOT MPD metal detector, which prevents engine failure by spotting metal particles in lubricating fluids due to bearing wear or other problems, has received a DNV Type Approval certificate. It covers application Class B for operating temperatures from 5 to 700C and up to 100% humidity, with ''on-engine'' vibration ...
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Analyser NOx Sox Off Emissions
Set up earlier this year in Gloucestershire UK as a sister company to land based air quality monitoring specialist Enviro Technology Services, ET Marine has had its compact SeaNox nitrogen oxides analyser receive an approval certificate from Det Norske Veritas.
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Voith Gets AIRborne at Europort
Heidenheim, Germany based Voith Turbo Marine announced a commercial cooperation agreement at Europort Maritime that will see it expand its portfolio in the strategically important market for marine propulsion systems made from CFK. The agreement is with AIR Fertigung-Technologie GmbH & Co KG, which was founded in 1993 by employees ...
