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NewsSanmar Expand Towage and Tugbuilding Activities
Sanmar Ltd of Istanbul, Turkey, has reported a very successful 2003 for both aspects of their business - tug operation and the construction of new vessels. Seven new tugs were delivered last year and three others currently under construction will be completed before the end of the first quarter of ...
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NewsNo Hanging About for Crash-Prone Ferry's Lifeboats
Swift action by lifeboat and davit supplier Schat-Harding has helped the Silja Line to maintain its schedules while replacing damaged lifeboats and davits. Three lifeboats and davits on the port side of the Silja Opera were damaged in a collision at St Petersburg earlier this year.
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NewsCat Extends Range With 3412D Commercial
The new 3412D propulsion engine is now available to the commercial marine market from Caterpillar . The V-12 four stroke cycle diesel engine offers higher horsepower than its predecessor, the Cat 3412C, meeting customer demand for more power without compromising engine life.
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NewsAdsteam Takes Delivery of Barunga - the First ASD 2411
Adsteam Marine Ltd has taken delivery of the first vessel built to the new Damen ASD 2411 design. Named Barunga , the tug was completed in China by Damen''s Changde shipyard and is expected to enter service in Australia at the end of this month.
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NewsTwin Tows Top Fairmount's 2003
Rotterdam based Fairmount Marine successfully completed major ocean towage and heavy transportation projects in the final weeks of 2003.
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NewsSouthampton Welcomes 'Queen Mary 2'
The UK''s long tradition of making maritime history was extended this month with the spectacular naming ceremony for Queen Mary 2 , the world''s largest passenger liner, at the Port of Southampton and her subsequent departure on a maiden voyage to Fort Lauderdale USA.
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NewsUK Green Light for 15 Offshore Wind Farms
In the week before Christmas the UK''s Crown Estate revealed plans for 15 new ''Round Two'' offshore wind farms and named the companies which have bid successfully to develop them.
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Ship Knowledge: A Modern Encyclopedia
This English language version of ''Scheepskennis'' follows the success of the Dutch language version in the author''s own country.
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Cracking the Code
When the ISM Code was introduced in 1998 for passenger ships, bulk carriers and tankers it was received with mixed reactions by an industry that was struggling economically and burdened by legislation.
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Stiff Stuff for Shaking Sheerlegs
Netherlands based engineering company Techno Fysica BV specialises in solving problems related to the dynamic loading of machinery and installations using several measuring and analysis techniques. In a recent case demonstrating how a combination of good components can go wrong when insufficient attention is paid to the integration aspects of ...
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'Tricolor' Salvage Suspended
Salvage operations in the English Channel to remove the sunken car carrier Tricolor and its cargo have been suspended due to hostile weather conditions. Based on weather statistics from the past, it could be April or May 2004 before work can resume.
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NewsSales Surge for Shipwreck Oil Recovery System
JLMD Ecologic Group , the French company which has invented and patented the JLMD System for recovering fuel oil from sunken ships, has signed its first three orders for a total of 14 ships after only six weeks of marketing the new product.
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KOTUG Strengthen the Management team
Kotug International BV , operator of harbour towage services in Rotterdam Hamburg and Bremerhaven, has announced the appointment of two additions to their management team. Mr Dorus Knegtel, is appointed a Director of the company to be responsible for strategic issues, business development, quality and safety. Mr Kommer Tanis was ...
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Knudsen to Launch Sounders
Canadian echosounder specialist Knudsen Engineering is to premiere two new systems at Oceanology International 2004 at London''s ExCel Centre next March.
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NewsHalf Way To Go For GAFIRS
In an unusual vessel supply contract supportive of their local rescue organisation, Portsmouth UK based Halmatic Limited has handed over a ''rolling chassis'' Pacific 30 RIB Rescue Boat to Gosport & Fareham Inshore Rescue Service (GAFIRS).
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NewsFacelift for St George's
The 675m long St George''s Bridge at Doncaster crosses the South Yorkshire Navigation Canal, River Don and the East Coast Main Line.
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NewsSatComs Extended to Smaller Vessels
One of the many exhibitors showing new marine communications equipment at Europort last month was France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications , which introduced Inmarsat Fleet 55 and 33 mobile satellite services. These mean that Inmarsat''s Fleet family of maritime communications is no longer restricted to the high seas or transoceanic ...
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NewsMcMurdo Launch Explosion at Europort
McMurdo Limited , the Portsmouth UK based manufacturer of marine electronic and safety equipment had an eventful Europort last month, revealing a new corporate branding and launching two new products plus a new website.
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NewsTanker Giant Joins ECDIS Trial
Oil tanker operators Teekay Shipping is the latest shipping company to enrol for sea trials of the forthcoming Admiralty ECDIS Service , which is expected to launch in Spring 2004. Trials are being conducted to test and prove all aspects of the service ahead of launch. The service has been ...
