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NewsNew Tugs for Svitzer Roll off the Production Line
A year ago Svitzer-Wijsmuller , the giant towage and salvage operator and part of the AP Moller Group , announced a massive new building programme that included approximately 30 vessels, the majority of them tugs. A number of vessels were already under construction and several tugs have now been completed, ...
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Volvo Penta US Honours
Volvo Penta ''s new D6-310 marine diesel engine has been honoured with the Editor''s Choice Award by the American magazine Motor Boating . The new generation D6-310 and D4-210 engines, displacing 5.5 and 3.7 litres respectively, were launched by Volvo Penta last autumn and are being installed in boats in ...
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PIANC Group Seeks Techniques for Reducing Siltation in Harbours
The MarCom Working Group 43 at PIANC on ‘ Minimising Harbour Siltation’ is conducting a worldwide search for techniques which have been developed and applied (or at least tested) with a view of reducing siltation in harbours.
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MTU Power for Fast Ferry
The new fast ferry for Spanish operator Fred Olsen will be driven by four 20V 8000 engines from MTU Friedrichshafen. The 126m long trimaran will be built at the Austal shipyard in Australia for delivery in the second half of this year.
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NewsNew Genset Extends Perkins Sabre Range
With the introduction of the new 415GM genset engine, Perkins Sabre now offers seven genset engines with net engine power outputs spanning from 13.5kWm to 161kWm.
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Metoc Expands for Marine Renewables
Consultants Metoc is further expanding its marine survey capabilities to meet the growing demand for services to the offshore renewable energy market. Services offered range from the on-site management of marine investigations, such as geophysical, benthic and other environmental surveys for Round Two of UK offshore wind farms, through to ...
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Pollution Specialists Expand
The Wales based emergency response and training company DV Howells , a subsidiary of Milford Haven Port Authority, haspurchased Aberdeen based Ceto Environmental Ltd , which had gone into receivership earlier this year. The purchase brings DV Howells extra capacity and expertise in its core markets of oil and chemical ...
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Eye In the Sky Spies Wind Energy Risk
The financial and engineering risks associated with offshore wind development and operation could be significantly reduced as the result of an investigative project using Earth Observation (EO) data which has been commissioned by the European Space Agency .
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Turku Production to End
The Wartsila Corporation hasannounced plans to cease engine manufacturing at its plant at Turku in Finland following consultation with personnel representatives. The move to reduce surplus engine capacity within the Group will result in 425 redundancies. Manufacturing will cease by the end of this year and the Turku factory will ...
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Marine Electronics Orders
Guernsey-based Marine Electronics reports Chinese and US orders for new titanium and aluminium versions of its Dolphin 6201 Obstacle Avoidance Sonar designed for navigation and pilotage of AUV''s and ROV''S.
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NewsRNLI Reflects Well On Echomax
Following sea trials, the new Echomax Midi Basemount reflector has been chosen by the RNLI for their fleet of RIBs, replacing their active antennas.
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HGVs Go East
New statistics released by the UK''s Department for Transport show that HGV''s are shunning the main channel crossings to Europe at the Dover Straits in order to avoid the permanently congested M25 motorway. For the first year on record, the number of goods vehicles crossing from Dover, Folkestone, Ramsgate and ...
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NewsJail Term for Drunk Master
The jailing last month of the dredger master who crashed through Hythe Pier while under the influence of alcohol has been followed closely by the UK Government launching new alcohol limits for professional mariners. A crackdown on drunken sailors sets alcohol limits in line with those for drivers in a ...
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Digital Video Proceedings
Proceedings of its UK Branch Scottish Region''s recent seminar on Digital Video for Offshore Survey & Inspection , held in association with the Society for Underwater Technology , are now available on CD for £ 15 from TheHydrographic Society .
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QinetiQ Sonar Development
QinetiQ has announced the world''s first commercially available towed synthetic aperture sonar with integrated interferometric profiler, GeoSAS , which is to be marketed by GeoAcoustics (UK) of Great Yarmouth.
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NewsFirst Z-Tech Tug Delivered
The first of the unique Z-Tech shiphandling tugs ordered by the Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) has passed it acceptance trials with flying colours.
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ISU Survey Sees Decline in Salvage Workload
The results of the International Salvage Union ''s (ISU) annual Pollution Prevention Survey show that the 605,677 tonnes of oils, chemicals, other pollutants and bunker fuel recovered last year represent a 37% decrease on the 2002 total. The emergency assistance provided worldwide for 218 vessels with cargoes and bunkers threatening ...
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Floating Office Debuts
Marchwood UK based boat builders Blondecell Ltd have delivered their first ''Floating Houseboat'', a yacht-shaped structure with over 1,100ft 2offloor space which can be used for living accommodation, offices or as a restaurant. The Optimum 60 ''vessel'' was designed by Lymington Yacht designer Simon Rogers for London based company Waterspace ...
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NewsMarine Historic Environment Consultation Underway
A rare 17th Century 49cwt Prince Rupert patent gun, retrieved from the Stirling Castle , King Charles II''s great 70 gun man o'' war, was put on public display late last month at the UK''s Ramsgate Maritime Museum .
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Macduff Pilot Cutter Nears Completion
Work is progressing at Macduff Shipyards Ltd in Scotland on a newbuild 15.25m steel pilot cutter for Aberdeen Harbour Board.
