All News articles – Page 1134
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NewsSmit Orders New AnchorHandlers
Smit Transport & Heavy Lift BV (a division of SMIT Internationale NV ) has ordered two new ships from the Keppel Singmarine shipyard in Singapore.
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All At Sea with Winch Repairs
Due to limitations imposed by the client''s busy seismic acquisition programme, Coventry UK based Metalock Engineering sent engineers to Ghana to in-situ machine two winch brake drums on the SRV Veritas Viking II while it was at sea en route to Cameroon.
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NewsDerecktor's Fast Ferry Speeds to Alaska
M/V Fairweather , the 73m LOA high speed vehicle/passenger ferry built by Derecktor Shipyards in Connecticut USA, has concluded sea trials and made an 8,500 mile delivery voyage to its home port of Juneau, where it will commence service for the Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) next month.
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NewsA Cure for What AILs You
A new vessel which also embodies a new concept for taking Abnormal Indivisible Loads (AILs) off Europe''s crowded highways and onto commercial waterways and short sea routes could not wish for a more spectacular start to its working life than to transport the last British Airways Concorde from London''s River ...
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Ahern Announces Go-ahead for Clogherhead Development
Dermot Ahern TD, the Irish Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, has announced a 6.5m upgrade of Clogherhead port in County Louth.
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NewsTidal Turbine Pioneers Advance to Phase Two
Hampshire UK based Marine Current Turbines (MCT) has successfully closed a £ 3m equity funding round and launched a programme to develop a successor to the Seaflow Project , the world''s first 300kW offshore tidal turbine.
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Digital Video Proceedings UKHO Launches Admiralty Coastal Surveys
A new Anglo-Swedish joint venture ''which will help shape the future of tomorrow''s survey technology'', Admiralty Coastal Surveys , was officially launched by the UKHydrographic Office at last month''s Oceanology International event in London. Together with Airborne Hydrography AB and Topeye AB of Sweden, the UKHO plans to develop an ...
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Joint Project Will Address ALWC
A new form of aggressive, localised corrosion that has occurred in unprotected marine structures constructed from steel over the past 20 years or so is to be the subject of a new research project led by the Construction Industry Research Association (CIRIA).
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ABP's Green Website
With a decision imminent on its application to build a new box terminal at Dibden Bay, Port of Southampton, Associated British Ports has launched a website dedicated to promoting its environmental policies, activities and objectives. Visitors to www.environment.abports.co.uk canlearn about ABP''s environmental responsibilities, the initiatives it has taken to improve ...
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Newsseawork Debut for Powerglide 30
New company Lyme Boats Ltd of Axminster in Devon UK will make its first appearance at seawork ''s floating pontoon this summer showing the first example of a brand new workboat design which will have been completed only weeks before the show. The Powerglide 30 ''s deep V hull has ...
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NewsBusy Start to 2004 for Tsavliris
The Tsavliris Salvage Group has redelivered the steel products laden cargo vessel Orion 1 to its owners after a lightering and refloating operation in Chioggia which was the third successfully completed Lloyds Open Form salvage contract handled by Tsavliris so far this year.
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Modular System Lifts £1m Load
Lifting Gear Hire had to respond quickly to an emergency call from Montrose Harbour Port Authority when approximately 80m of the south quay unexpectedly collapsed into the water. Lifting Gear Hire''s Aberdeen UK branch worked with consulting engineers Babtie, providing specialist knowledge and equipment to restrain the remaining quayside and ...
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NewsTowlines
Well-known propulsion system and component suppliers the Kort PropulsionCompany Ltd and associate Causeway Machinery Ltd have recently relocated to Erith in Kent. First established in 1935, the company has operated from an office in Witham, Essex for the past 15 years. Directors Norman Parsons and Malcolm Breeze have worked together ...
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NewsSeaSafe Sails to seawork
Based at Cowes on the Isle of Wight, SeaSafe Systems will have a short passage across the Solent to exhibit its range of marine safety clothing at seawork2004 .
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NewsSalvors Warn Spain of Pollution Repeat
The Spanish Government''s decision to put a half a billion dollar price tag on a place of refuge for ships in distress is counter-productive and in some situations could actually increase the threat of environmental pollution according to the International Salvage Union (ISU).
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Orbital Welding Works on Shipboard Pipes
With higher quality standards making it more necessary for automatic manufacturing systems to be used wherever possible, there has been increasing demand for Automatic Orbital TIG equipment supplied by Peterborough UK based Orbimatic GmbH for welding shipboard pipework.
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New Venture on Top of the Slops
From early next month ships visiting the Port of Falmouth will have a new service available to them as a result of a joint venture between ship repair and conversion specialist A&PFalmouth and marine oil terminal operators Falmouth Oil Services (FOS). The new facility to receive and recycle oil slops ...
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Newsseawork Neighbourhood Newbuild for PHFC
The Portsmouth Harbour Ferry Company has awarded the contract for a new 32m passenger ferry to local boatbuilder and seawork stalwart VT Halmatic Ltd .
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Revolutionary Year at Marseilles
The fourth largest port in Europe at Marseilles handled its highest cargo volume for 15 years in 2003 and set an all-time passenger record of nearly two million. Cargo throughput of 95.6 million tonnes was up 3.6% on 2002 and marked a return to 1988 levels when oil traffic accounted ...
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Maritime Research Website
The UK''s National Maritime Museum has launched the Journal for Maritime Research (JMR), the first fully refereed electronic journal in the field of maritime studies. The JMR''s purpose is to encourage research into the social, cultural and environmental contexts of maritime studies, both historical and contemporary.
