All News articles – Page 1077
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NewsDubai Drydocks Builds Its Own Crane
Visitors to ShipRepair & Conversion Dubai may find time to make a side excursion to Dubai Drydocks, which has built a 2,000 ton floating crane to its own account.
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NewsK Damen Complete the First of Three Bugsier Tugs
Dutch builders Shipyard K Damen Europe BV has delivered the first of three virtually identical tractor tugs to Bugsier Reederei und Bergungs-Gesellschaft mbH & Co KG of Hamburg.
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NewsBoxship Towed to Rotterdam
The 2,757teu container vessel Fowairet , which suffered hogging damage and hold flooding after running aground on September 20 between Terneuzen and Antwerp with part-hazardous cargo, has been safely towed to Rotterdam by joint salvors Multraship Salvage and URS Salvage and Maritime Contracting .
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NewsBox Handling Streamlined at Muuga Container Terminal
Estonia''s main dedicated container handling facility, Muuga Container Terminal (Muuga CT) in the Port of Tallinn , has placed an order with Kalmar Industries for two all electric E-One rubber tyred gantry (RTG) cranes and two Shuttle Carrier (r) of the fast transport one over one design.
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NewsSkyjack Lowers the Boom for Maintenance
Contractors performing maintenance works on the slipped Wightlink passenger catamaran Our Lady Pamela used two knuckle boom cranes from the AFI Aerial Platforms rental fleet to ensure easy access to all parts of the vessel.
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NewsNavComms Bonanza at Europort
Alphatron Marine BV will have a home nation presence on Stand 376 at Europort Maritime , showing not only the products it supplies from JRC, Sailor, Consilium, Kelvin Hughes and Yokogawa but also the growing collection of its own Alphatron equipment.
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News'Manchester Bobber' Promises Wave Power
The University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Intellectual Property Ltd (UMIP), in partnership with Mowlem plc and Royal Haskoning , are developing an innovative and patented new wave energy device known as the Manchester Bobber . The device was showcased last month at the New & Renewable Energy ...
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NewsBlade Repair Undertaken in a Cold Climate
A fully laden bulk carrier arrived at the Port of Ventspil in Latvia last winter with serious propeller damage and requested Antwerp based Hydrex to carry out an inspection and the needed repairs.
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Transas Celebrates Birthday at Europort
Celebrating 15 years in business at Europort Maritime will be safety systems and simulators manufacturer Transas Group. Founded in 1990 in St Petersburg, Russia, Transas has grown to where it now retains 30% of the world market for ECDIS systems and has created an electronic chart collection containing 13,000 items.
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NewsFerry Traffic Takes Big Step Forward
Stena Line Freight hasannounced a 28% increase in its Irish Sea business during the first six months of 2005, part of an overall 14% increase across the company''s entire freight route network.
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NewsBig Teeth Guard Europort Entrance
International dredging engineers and contractors VOSTA LMG will be the first exhibitors visitors see upon arrival at Europort Maritime .
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NewsBreakwater Beats the Weather at Holy Loch
Intermarine Ltd has just completed a race against time to design, supply and install a floating breakwater and moorings in the Holy Loch on the west coast of Scotland. The breakwater for client Seavision Ltd creates a large area of protected water for the continuing development of moorings over the ...
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Mooring Basin Opens
The revitalisation of Scotland''s inland waterways has reached a major milestone with the formal opening of a new £ 1.2m mooring basin on the Forth & Clyde Canal. The mooring basin, which has been funded by Scottish Enterprise Lanarkshire and British Waterways, with support from North Lanarkshire Council, will help ...
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SIX Construct awarded contract in Cameroon
SIX Construct , the subsidiary of Belgium-based BESIX , has been awarded a contract by Cameroon Shipyard and Industrial Engineering Ltd for the design and construction of a 400m long multipurpose quaywall.
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NewsHypo Hoists Young Engineer Award
Britain''s most talented young engineers converged on the Old Royal Navy College in Greenwich last month to participate in the 2005 Annual Celebration of Engineering .Taking the top award, Young Engineer for Britain 2005 , and a £ 2,500 prize was 18 year old Tanya Budd of Waingels College ...
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NewsAtlantic Specific on Marine Refurbishment
Marine component refurbishment, whether emergency or routine, demands the very highest of standards. Speed of response, efficiency and value for money are qualities sought by ship owners and their representatives worldwide.
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NewsNaturally Aspirated Clean Marine Engine
The new naturally aspirated Perkins Sabre M92B is claimed to be the only marine propulsion engine in the world to be certified as complying with Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine (CCNR) Stage Two requirements, which do not come into force until January 2007. The new direct injection four ...
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NewsFirst Car Carrier Arrives on Humber
The ever expanding Humber Sea Terminal (HST) has added a car carrier to its list of clients with the arrival of a vessel operated by Eukor Car Carriers transporting some 2,500 cars from a major producer in the Far East.
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'MV Husky' Arrives On Emerald Shore
Ireland''s HydroServe Projects Ltd has taken delivery of the 21m shallow draft multi-purpose vessel MVHusky , which was shipped to Killybegs from the Far East on board the freighter BBC Mexico . The vessel was previously under contract to Shell for gas field support operations and is specially equipped to ...
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First S-VDR Type Approval
Norwegian marine electronic safety equipment manufacturer Jotron Electronics AS hasclaimed an industry first by gaining Type Approval for their new TRON S-VDR (Simplified Voyage Data Recorder) capsule. Jotron''s latest product has been tested and approved by DNV in accordance with IMO Res.MSC.163 (78).
