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NewsThe £1 Million Load Lifter
Great Yarmouth Stevedoring faced a difficult task last month when required to unload a 20m long, 89 tonne drilling rig valued at £ 1 million from the hold of a cargo ship. They consulted Lifting Gear Hire, which specified a pair of 50 tonne Modular Lifting Beams plus wire rope ...
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Suffolk Shipping
Just published by Tempus is this third volume by Mike Stammers, following his earlier efforts on Liverpool Docks (1999) and Norfolk Shipping (2002).
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Marine Inboard Engines
This digital reprint of an existing title from the Motorboats Monthly series remains of value to novice boaters and experienced professionals alike.
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The Handbook of Maritime Economics and Business
This hefty volume contains a number of papers which, despite a somewhat academic slant, could be of relevance to Maritime Journal readers within the port authorities as they collectively provide a comprehensively global view of major maritime economic issues.
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Reed's Sextant Simplified: 7th Edition
The sextant is the treasured navigational device of generations of seamen and airmen. It enables position to be determined with good accuracy for ocean navigation and it was the combination of sextant and chronometer that allowed safe navigation of the oceans.
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NewsTowlines
Brazilian Offshore Services (BOS) a joint venture company, owned 50/50 by Farstad ofAlesund in Norway and Petroserve of Brazil, has been awarded long term contracts by Petrobras for the provision of two anchor-handling tug supply vessels. Two new Rolls Royce UT 722L vessels have been ordered to cover two contracts, ...
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NewsSuccessful 'Tricolor' Removal Underway
One of the largest wreck removal operations ever undertaken continues in the English Channel with the consortium Combinatie Berging Tricolor (CBT) having already removed two sections cut from the sunken car carrier Tricolor to Zeebrugge.
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NewsWorks in Progress
The small family firm of David Ferran & Sons of Belfast recently had the distinction of taking delivery of the first steel tug/workboat to be completed by Hampshire boat builders VT Halmatic .
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Tyne Online
Newcastle UK based Tyne First has launched a website to promote, serve and support marine and offshore technology companies on and around the River Tyne. The website, www. tynefirst. com , focuses on the capacity and capability of a range of local companies and will be used to promote the ...
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NewsWork Resumes on Warship Oil Removal
Briggs Marine have resumed work on a UK Ministry of Defence contract to remove oil from the tank of a sunken battleship off Scapa Flow, Orkney. The Royal Oak wastorpedoed by a German U-boat in 1939 while she lay at anchor, with the loss of 833 lives.
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Licences for MCA
The Maritime & Coastguard Agency , the UK''s national maritime administration responsible for promoting standards of safety at sea and protection of the marine environment, has acquired a series of licences for HIPS/SIPS, GIS and HOM from Canadian survey software specialists, CARIS .
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NewsLighthouse Solarisation Proceeds at Northern Latitudes
The Northern Lighthouse Board , responsible for Scotland and the Isle of Man, has operated gas powered systems for over over 100 years. In 1984 the Board embarked on a long term solarisation programme, replacing many of the original structures with low maintenance aluminium towers and installing solar electric power ...
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MoU Signed for Transhipment Hub at Scapa Flow
The next stage in a project to construct the Scapa Flow Container Transhipment Port was initiated in early July, when a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Orkney Islands Council and International Container Hubs Limited (ICHL) was concluded.
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NewsSupersonic Legend Makes Final Flight By Water
Dutch marine transport specialists Van der Wees Watertransporten made front page news in the Netherlands and Germany recently when their pontoon Lastdrager wasused to sail a decommissioned Concorde aircraft 50 miles down the Rhine.
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Expansion Opens at Trinity
The Port of Felixstowe officially opened the first phase of its Trinity Terminal expansion by adding six hectares of back-up land which will boost storage capacity by 6,500 teu. A further section of storage area will be opened early next year, ahead of the quay becoming fully operational by July ...
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NewsVessel Launch Pride of Exmouth
Passenger vessels servicing the tourism and holiday industries are plentiful in England''s West Country and Voyager Yachts is strategically well positioned to supply the trade from its boaty-yard on the River Tamar in Cornwall.
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Trials Expand for New ECDIS Service
Shell has become the ninth large international shipping company to join sea trials of the new Admiralty ECDIS Service ahead of its official launch in the autumn. The service, developed by the UK Hydrographic Office to provide official electronic chart coverage on a global scale, combines Electronic Navigation Charts (ENCs) ...
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NewsSubsea Vision With Falcon's Eagle Eye
Dorset UK based ROV specialist Subsea Vision Ltd has been appointed by the Babtie Group on behalf of Montrose Port Authority to conduct an underwater survey of approximately 100m of collapsed quay at Montrose Port in Scotland.
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United Kingdom Embarks on Maintenance Dredging Initiative
The British Marine Federation (BMF) and ports bodies in the UK have come together to represent the interests of marinas and ports in the UK whose ability to conduct maintenance dredging is being adversely affected by the Habitats Directive .
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NewsTide and Weather Monitoring Lifts Dover's Soul
With 50,000 ferry movements and over 16 million passengers handled last year, the UK''s Port of Dover is one of the busiest ferry ports in the world. Cruise liners, cargo ships and the small craft populating a 400 berth marina add to the high level of activity.
