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NewsNewDevelopment in Mobdock Technology
Antwerp based underwater specialist Hydrex has just adapted a fast, simple and inexpensive way of dealing with underwater work in confined areas, such as a thruster tunnel, where the work in the water needs to be done ''in the dry''.
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NewsNew Life for Oldest Steamship
Community involvement is at the heart of a valuable and ongoing vessel restoration project at Canary Wharf in London''s Docklands. The SS Robin is the world''s oldest complete steamship, having been built in 1890 at the Orchard House Yard on London''s Bow Creek by Mackenzie Macalpine .The vessel was then ...
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Green Light for New Padstow Lifeboat House
The RNLI Trustees have given the go-ahead for a new lifeboat house and slipway to be built at Padstow as a home for the next generation Tamar class lifeboat.
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Seighford Gets to Grips With GRP
Southampton UK based corporate recovery specialists Fanshawe Lofts successfully sold the troubled Isle of Wight business GRP Laminates last month to the Oxford based Seighford Investments Company Ltd, which plans to expand the business and secure the future for its 28 strong workforce. Cowes based GRP Laminates designs and supplies ...
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NewsImprovements in Full Swing at Skandia Harbour
Excavation, piling and the laying of foundations are in full swing at the eastern Skandia Harbour container yard in the Swedish Port of Goteborg . The quay and the surfaces within the quay are being reinforced while dredging increases the depth alongside 500m of 1,200m long southern quay from 12m ...
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NewsA Major Step Forward in the use of Tug Models
The use of manned ship models in the training of ship-masters and pilots has now become well established practice.
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NewsFork In the Road for 'Triton'
Having successfully proven the concept of using a trimaran design for warships of the future, science and technology solutions specialist QinetiQ has sold its high profile research vessel Triton to Great Yarmouth UK based Gardline Shipping for use as a hydrographic survey vessel.
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SOC On New Footing
The Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC) will be renamed the National Oceanography Centre , Southampton from 1st May this year as it bids to become the focus for oceanography in the UK. The vision is embraced by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the University of Southampton, which will continue ...
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NewsFirm Foundations for the Isle of Grain
Land and marine geotechnical investigations for a proposed LNG terminal, including an unloading jetty and pipeline at Horseshoe Point on the Isle of Grain in Kent UK, has been completed by Fugro Engineering Services (FES) for Skanska Whessoe .
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Tidal Surge of Financial Support for UK Marine Renewables
With the pre-Christmas commissioning of the Scroby Sands wind farm just off the beach at Great Yarmouth, the UK has moved into position as the second largest offshore wind generator in the world, after Denmark. Scroby Sands'' 30 turbines, generating a maximum of 60MW, nearly doubled Britain''s operational capacity to ...
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Success Filters Through
Port Talbot UK based filter element specialists for marine and other industries, Filtration and Separation Ltd , reports a 60% increase in production during 2004, its first full year since being taken over by TS2Group . To meet the increased demand from existing and new customers, significant investment in production ...
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First Ever Linkspan Order for TTS
Gothenburg based TTS Ships Equipment AB has won a contract from Stena Line Scandinavia AB for the turnkey delivery of linkspan for the Stena Terminal at Verko, near Karlskrona in Sweden. It is TTS''s first ever linkspan order.
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NewsSeabed Study for EuropeAfrica Tunnel
The Anglo Norwegian joint venture of Seacore Ltd and Eidesvik Subsea AS has been awarded an open tender contract by the joint Moroccan and Spanish authorities to perform a marine site investigation of the seabed under the Straits of Gibraltar.
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Svitzer Marine Orders an Escort Tug for the River Mersey
Svitzer Marine Ltd has signed a contract with the ASL Shipyard in Singapore for a purpose-built escort tug for operation on the River Mersey.
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NewsHull Fouling Foiled by Ecopseed
In December 2004 a crowd of 50 people including ship owners, representatives of newbuiding yards, the Belgian and other national navies as well as government representatives gathered in anticipation at the Zeebrugge naval base. Their interest was to witness the efficiency and effectiveness of the Ecospeed system after it had ...
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News'Primus' is Delivered and New Orders Placed
German operators Harms Offshore of Hamburg christened their new anchor-handling tug Primus atthe yard of Mutzelfeldtwerft in Cuxhaven on 4 December 2004 (see MJ - November 2004).
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NewsCunard Honours Mersey Heritage
Merseyside Maritime Museum has landed a £ 25,000 sponsorship from Cunard for its recently opened exhibition ''Liverpool to New York - the only way to cross''. Given its long history as one of the major Atlantic shipping lines, formerly based in Liverpool, the deal which makes Cunard the museum''s biggest ...
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NewsEastPort Project Moves Step Closer
At the end of January, the UK Secretary of State for Transport, Alistair Darling, set out his view on the proposal to support the Great Yarmouth Outer Harbour (EastPort) scheme with public funding, noting that, as the Great Yarmouth areas is among the most deprived areas of the UK, and ...
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MBO at Certex
UK lifting gear distributor Certex has been bought out by its existing directors and will be run as a private limited company.
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Marine Society/Sea Cadet Merger
The Marine Society and The Sea Cadet Association in the UK have merged to form a new organisation called TheMarine Society & Sea Cadets .Committed to serving seafarers and promoting the sea as a career, the move will strengthen the role of the voluntary sector in support of both commercial ...
