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Complete Power packages for Ukraine Tugs
Volvo Penta has delivered 34 diesel engines for tugboat installations in the Ukraine since May of 2001. The latest delivery to this increasingly important market was for the tug 814 Bakai, launched last November from one of Europe''s largest shipyards, Chernomorskiy Shipbuilding at Nikolaev.
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NewsCombi Drive Launch Crowns Record Year
With power ratings of up to 6,000kW, Schottel Rudderpropellers (SRP) have proven themselves worldwide for over five decades as mechanical azimuth drives for all sectors of the shipping world and the offshore industry.
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Pier Collision Prompts Insurance Warning
The recent collision of UK south coast aggregates dredger Donald Redford with the Hythe Ferry Pier in Southampton Water has drawn attention to the limitation provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act and demonstrated the effect these have on both the ship owner and the property owner.
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DEC to Clean up Swedish Lakes
DEME Environmental Contractors (DEC) and Dredging International (DI) have received a contract for the design and execution of an important remediation project at two lakes near the city of Hultsfred in Sweden.
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Mounting a Challenge to Movement
Trelleborg Industrial AVS has designed a new mounting system to eliminate excessive engine movements in a fleet of twin-engined multi-hulls operated by City Cruises plc on the River Thames in London.
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Cathelco Expansion Continues
Marine pipework anti-fouling and hull corrosion protection system specialists Cathelco Ltd continues the expansion of its activities in the marine equipment sector with the acquisition of former competitor Wilson Taylor Ltd .Complete service support for Wilson Taylor''s customer base, which numbers more than 30 shipyards and vessel operators worldwide, will ...
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Felixstowe Lifts its Capacity
Ten new Rubber Tyred Gantry Cranes (RTGCs) and one Ship to Shore Gantry Crane (SSGC) have arrived at the UK Port of Felixstowe from Zhenhua Port Machinery Company (ZPMC) of Shanghai.
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Chain Ferries Under Build
The Tamar Bridge and Torpoint Ferry Joint Committee hasawarded the £ 15m contract to build three new chain driven ferries for the service across the mouth of the River Tamar in Devon UK to Glasgow based Ferguson Shipbuilders Ltd . The vessels are currently under build, with the contract specifying ...
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Powerful Xenon Bow Light
Norselight has developed its new BL35 MX xenon bow light in conjunction with several fast ferry operators and, following successful pilot projects, has placed it on the market. The powerful xenon light is similar to the headlights of a car and allows the navigator to see obstacles such as logs ...
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Norcontrol Boosts Research
Norcontrol IT has invested in radar and tracking technology research by taking a controlling interest in Norwegian radar technology company Applied Radar Physics (ARP). The move will strengthen Norcontrol''s position with regard to the development of radar processing and tracking for VTS applications.
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NewsWave Buoys Bolster Coastal Defences
Wave measuring buoys which could help warn of an impending flood have been strategically placed around the UK coastline as part of a three year monitoring project.
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Bob Butcher RIP
Lyme Boats hold the exclusive rights to build and sell the GRP built Powerglide 30, which will be available in two versions.Condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Bob Butcher, Chief Draughtsman at McTay Marine Limited , who died suddenly last month. Bob was an integral part of the ...
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Big Bisso Lift Re-Opens Mississippi
America''s Bisso Marine has lifted the sunken OSV Lee III from the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River, which it was completely blocking following a pre-dawn collision in the middle of one of the world''s busiest deep draft waterways.
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NewsGreenpeace Replaces 'Beluga' With German Cutter
Being completed at the small Fridtjof Nansen Shipyard inWolgast on the German border with Poland is the first survey ship ever to be built from scratch for the international environmental organisation Greenpeace .
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NewsUK Government Rejects Dibden Bay Proposal
As Maritime Journal went to press, the UK''s Department for Transport announced its decision to block the controversial £ 600m Dibden Bay container port facility proposed by Associated British Ports for its Port of Southampton .
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Extensive Work Required for Barrow Port Project
The construction of a new marina at Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria – which seemed at to be risk because of a funding crisis at the UK’ s Northwest Development Agency (NWDA) now looks more likely to go ahead, and will require extensive work at the site to create a new canal ...
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PLA Launches Online Atlas
A new online shipping service world atlas has been launched by the Port of London .
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Armon to Build New Spanish Emergency Towing Vessels
Spain''s maritime rescue authority, Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Maritima (Sasemar), has placed an order valued at ? 29.5m with Vigo-based shipyard Astilleros Armon for two salvage tugs. The vessels will be 56m long, with a beam of 15m, and equipped to carry out the duties of Emergency Towing Vessels ...
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KMM Appointed to Design Dunmore East Harbour
Consulting engineers Kirk McClure Morton have been appointed by the Department of Communications, Marine & Natural Resources in Ireland for the provision of engineering services related to the design of an extension to Dunmore East Fishery Harbour in County Waterford.
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NewsKooren Announces Orders for 'Rotor Tugs'
Rotterdam based Kooren Shipbuilding and Trading BV has ordered two RT-60 class ''Rotor Tugs'' to be built at ASLShipyard Pte Ltd in Singapore.
