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Coasters of the 1950s
Coasters of the 1950s By Bernard McCall Published by Coastal Shipping ISBN: 978-1-902953-37-3 Hardback, 80 pages Price £ 16.00 Coasters of the 1950s is the latest in the popular ' Coaster' series by Bernard McCall and avid readers of MJ will be familiar with previous book reviews. Avid followers ...
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NewsMST wins contracts at Seawork
Marine Specialised Technology (MST) of Liverpool in the UK has been winning ever-increasing numbers of orders from coastguard, customs, police and military clients following Seawork this year.
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NewsSeaspan Resolution, a handsome new tug for Vancouver
July saw the delivery of the new terminal/escort tug Seaspan Resolution to its Canadian owners Seaspan International Ltd of Vancouver, a division of the Washington Marine Group. This handsome new vessel is easily be the most powerful tug in the port and it’ s role will be primarily conventional shiphandling ...
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NewsCummins power for Royal Thai Navy tug
While many navies around the world have withdrawn from the direct ownership of tugs and other auxiliary craft, the Royal Thai Navy has utilised the resources and facilities of its extensive repair yard at Saatahip on the east side of the Gulf of Thailand near Pattaya, to build a tug ...
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NewsIskes spectacular fleet expansion continues
A Dutch tug fleet that is growing in prominence is Iskes Towage & Salvage based in Ijmuiden, The company currently has a rapidly growing fleet of shiphandling tugs to serve Ijmuiden, Amsterdam and the North Sea Canal and continues to diversify into other areas such as offshore support, wind farming ...
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NewsRosborough's 'Challenger' excels at Seawork
This year saw Canadian boat builder Rosborough Boats exhibiting at Seawork for the first time.
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NewsTOWLINES August 2009
Among the recent deliveries from Damen Shipyards was an ASD Tug 2411 for the Mauritius Port Authority named DA Patten. The highly agile 24.47m tug is powered by two Caterpillar 3516 TA HD/D main engines generating a total of 5600 bhp to drive Rolls Royce US 255 fully azimuthing propulsion ...
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News'Strider' opens wider market to Blyth
Blyth Workcats Ltd of Canvey Island in Essex UK has delivered its first 14m windfarm support vessel Strider to new owner Mick Latham of East Coast Charters out of Lowestoft in Suffolk.
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NewsTopaz reaches milestone in Vopak project
Topaz Energy and Marine Ltd, through its subsidiary Nico International, part of the newly established engineering division of the company, has successfully reached the first milestone in a project it is carrying out for Vopak Horizon Ltd in Fujairah.
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New linkspans for Swedish port
TTS Port Equipment AB has secured a contract to design, manufacture and fit two double tier linkspans for the contractor Skanska. The linkspans will be installed at Copenhagen Malmö Port in Sweden, which is currently undergoing large scale expansion with the building of new port facilities coupled with a move ...
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Hydrography & Marine SDI symposium
UK National Hydrographer Rear Admiral Ian Moncrieff will be the Keynote Speaker at a one day symposium on Hydrography & Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure organised by The Hydrographic Society UK’ s Southern Region at Bradfield College, Reading on Tuesday 27 October.
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NewsExpanded VTS for Port of Liverpool
Radio communication specialist, Northwest Radio has devised an intelligent radio system to assist in the management of vessel traffic in the busy port of Liverpool.
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NewsGoodchild go eco-friendly at Seawork
Maritime Journal came across a rather interesting eco-friendly electric boat on the Seawork pontoon this year, one of two built by Goodchild Marine Services Ltd of Burgh Castle, UK.
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Royal Haskoning investigates dyke relocation
As the leading partner in a consortium Royal Haskoning is to assist the municipality of Nijmegen in The Netherlands to draw up a regional planning programme for the ‘ Space for the Waal’ project.
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Teledyne TSS Swedish & Turkish contracts
Teledyne TSS of Watford UK, which recently supplied a further eight of its Meridian gyrocompasses for installation aboard Turkish Coast Guard patrol vessels, reports delivery of a Series 440 pipe and cable tracker to MMB AB of Gothenburg.
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NewsRovlatis completes trials
Rovlatis, a new ‘ smart’ ROV designed for international marine applications by the University of Limerick’ s Mobile & Marine Robotics Research Centre (MMRC), which was reported in these columns earlier this year, has now completed secondary trials and demonstrations in Limerick Dock attended by investors and prospective partners.
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NewsCoastal defence projects for Van Oord
Van Oord has been awarded two project contracts to reinforce coastal defences in The Netherlands. The first project involves sand replenishment along the coast in the Voorne region, where trailing suction hopper dredgers will deposit more than 2.2 million m3 of sand. The client is the Hollandse Delta Water Board. ...
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Xblocs used in coast protection project
Contractor Odebrecht has completed a major coastal defence scheme in Panama using Xbloc armoured units developed by Delta Marine Consultants in The Netherlands.
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Kongsberg multibeam century
Kongsberg Maritime in Norway has recorded its 100th order for deep water multibeam systems.
