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Busy Time for Specialist Small Ship Yards
German inland shipyard Kö tter-Werft has been bursting at the seams of late with specialist repair and conversion, particularly the lengthening, of small inland motor ships.
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NewsNew Wyre Ferry Brings Year Round Service
Since the development of Fleetwood, from around 1830, a ferry has operated across the River Wyre to Knott End on Sea. The early ferries were powered by oar or sail. In 1892 an agreement with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway resulted in new jetties being constructed on both sides of ...
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NewsCutterhead Breakthrough
The Belgian DEME Group ''spowerful self-propelled cutter suction dredger (CSD) D''Artagnan , nearing completion by IHC Holland and due for delivery next month, was designed to work in hard rock and will be equipped with a third generation cutting system designed and supplied by VOSTA LMG .
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Boxship Boost for MacAndrews
MacAndrews has added the 700 TEU Werder Bremen to its weekly shortsea container service between Portugal, Ireland, the UK and Holland.
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Blade Repair 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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NewsUK Pollution Response Contract Award
Specialist incident response company DV Howells Ltd hasbeen awarded a major contract to store the equipment and run the teams that would be drafted in by the UK government in the event of a serious pollution incident at sea. The firm, which was awarded the contract by the Maritime and ...
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NewsPort of London Authority Chasing Olympic Gold
The Port of London Authority has welcomed London''s surprise victory in the race to host the 2012 Olympic Games. PLA chief executive Richard Everitt said, ''This is excellent news for London and the UK. The announcement also presents important opportunities for greater use of the River Thames.''
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NewsAtlas is on Trial With Serco Denholm
The appearance of the twin screw tug Atlas in Portsmouth has created considerable interest in the UK towage industry. On bareboat charter to Serco Denholm Ltd , towage and marine services contractor to the Ministry of Defence (Navy), the vessel is in service and undergoing extensive trials in and around ...
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NewsArtificial Reefs Could Protect Dutch Coast
Royal Haskoning in the Netherlands has put forward an innovative solution in the form of an offshore artificial island designed to provide protection to coastlines that are in danger of being eroded.
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Approval Sought for WinChart ECDIS
On prominent display at Seawork 2005 was the WinChart flat-panel ECDIS system from Gosport based Chartwork , the UK subsidiary of Norwegian software specialists, Navtech.
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NewsSeabulk Angola Represents a New Breed of Anchor-handler
The first of a new breed of offshore support tug appeared in May 2005 when, Seabulk Angola was delivered by Labroy Shipbuilders of Singapore.
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Agreement on River Meuse Border Project
Van Oord Nederland has signed a joint venture contract to execute the River Meuse Border Project .
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Major Refit for Aggregate Dredgers
Over the last decade, United Marine Dredging''s 1990 built City of London and City of Westminster have averaged over 1 million tons a year of marine aggregate delivered back into the UK and to the near Continent. However, with the main propulsion plant becoming increasingly unreliable, costly and difficult to ...
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Thamesport Adds Dublin Feeder
X-Press Container Line (UK) Ltd has introduced a third service at Thamesport (London) Limited .The specialist feeder operator''s RDX service will provide a weekly service from Thamesport to Dublin, with the port rotation continuing from Dublin to Rotterdam before returning to Thamesport.
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NewsAC-CESS for All at Seawork
AC-CESS Co UK Ltd , which designs and manufactures the next generation AC-ROV , achieved multiple sales at the Seawork 2005 exhibition. With one order for multiple units of its mini ROV and another for a single unit already confirmed, the company is also busy processing the numerous leads and ...
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NewsStrong First Half for ABP
Associated British Ports Holdings PLC issued its trading statement for the six months ending 30 June 2005.
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Over 80% More Power for New Panama Tugs
Eight new tugs to the latest ''Z-Tech'' design have been ordered for the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) to boost Canal capacity and provide enhanced shiphandling services. As the number of transits by Panamax size vessels increases, the new more powerful tugs will generate over 80% more bollard pull to assist ...
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Big Response for WMTC 2006
Nearly 500 abstracts from 43 countries have been submitted for the World Maritime Technology Conference ( WMTC 2006 ) which takes place 6-10 March next year at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London.
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NewsSales Soar at Seawork 2005
The ability of the Seawork Exhibition and Conference tocontinuously grow and improve was demonstrated once again at Seawork 2005 International .The eighth annual Seawork , in its unique presentational format in the working Port of Southampton , was up in all significant categories this year, with more exhibitors, more visitors, ...
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NewsAtlas Reveals New Products at Seawork 2005
New ranges of software for seabed classification were unveiled at Seawork 2005 byYeovil based Atlantas Marine, UK and Irish distributors for the developers, Quester Tangent ofCanada. They included QTCMultiview for classifying sediment types and defining acoustic diversity with an emphasis on image quality control and sophisticated data filtering.
