All News articles – Page 922
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Bailey buys out A&P
The Cardiff based Bailey Group has taken full control UK ship repair and marine services business, the A& P Group, for an undisclosed sum. Property developer and entrepreneur Paul Bailey took a 50% stake in the Group in 2006 and has now purchased the remaining 50% held by A& P ...
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Zero Carbon Caravan
UK based climate change campaigners planning to attend UN talks in Copenhagen are looking to get there without using fossil fuels. Setting off by bicycle from Wales in mid-August, they are hoping to hitch a ride on a sailboat across the North Sea in late September. Anyone willing to provide ...
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NewsHigh precision maintenance dredging on the Thames
Long reach excavator specialist WM Plant Hire is using its 95 ton CAT 375 for a challenging marine project on London’ s River Thames.
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NewsBusy Swedish yard plans expansion
The Ö resundsvarvet ship repair yard at Landskrona in Sweden has announced plans for expansion of its docking capacity. This follows on from recent investment in new equipment in its workshops.
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NewsA new foundry and hydrodynamic anodes
MGDuff, the Chichester based cathodic protection company, has relocated its foundry operation to a new, purpose built facility next to their head office and depot.
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NewsTowlines
Fairmount Expedition and Fairmount Glacier, two modern deepsea tugs from the fleet of Fairmount Marine, have been chartered by the French Government and dispatched to Brazil to participate in the search for the ‘ black box’ flight recorder from the French airliner lost recently over the Atlantic Ocean.
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NewsPower planning for PLA patrol launches
John Deere engines supplied by Seawork exhibitor E.P. Barrus have been specified to power a fleet of five new, specially designed harbour patrol launches for The Port of London Authority (PLA).
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NewsSmit Panther heads for home
Smit Panther, the first example of Damen’ s new ASD Tug 3213 design, is en route to its homeport of Rotterdam. The tug is one of a series of four powerful terminal tugs ordered by Smit and constructed at the Damen Hai Pong shipyard in Vietnam.
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NewsJumbo goes supersize in Russia
LC Volgo-Baltic Logistic (VBL), one of Russia’ s biggest freight agencies, has signed an exclusive agreement with Dutch heavy lift shipping company Jumbo Shipping. Jumbo Shipping has appointed VBL as its exclusive commercial agent for Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
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NewsSubocean reels in offshore wind farm work
A carousel that can take as much as 5,500 tons of cable is one of the recent investments by Subocean Group. It has been installed on the cable laying barge ATM Discoverer, which is on a long term charter to the company.
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News'Fairplay VIII' is to be preserved
On 2 July, Fairplay Towage of Hamburg formally handed over the 47 year old harbour tug Fairplay VIII to the ‘ Foundation Hamburg Maritim’ to join its collection of historic ships.
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NewsTerminal extension underway in the Port of Muuga
Danish contractor Per Aarsleff has been installing one of its longest combination steel pile retaining walls ever for the extension to the container terminal in the Port of Muuga on the Gulf of Finland south coast, 17km east of the Estonian capital Tallinn.
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NewsIntelligent winch drive is smooth on the pull
A winch drive system that can make anchoring and mooring that bit smoother has been launched by ABB.
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New Ohmex development
Also featured at Seawork was the HydroLite TM, a new portable wireless hydrographic survey system from Ohmex of Sway, near Southampton. Easily assembled and dismantled, it was originally developed for US Army Tactical Dive teams, which are currently operating around 60 units.
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NewsThe new Serco Denholm tug fleet is rapidly taking shape
The appearance of the twin screw tug SD Jupiter at Seawork was noteworthy for a number of reasons. Jupiter is the last of three almost identical tugs to be delivered by Damen Shipyards for use in UK naval dockyards and other facilities and will be rapidly followed by ten other ...
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NewsSeaclear gains from a versatile crane
Versatility is what Seaclear’ s new owner, the Cowes Harbour Commission (CHC), wanted from its new 16m multicat type workboat, the first to be built by Southampton Marine Services. The newly completed boat received considerable attention on the floating pontoon at Seawork last month.
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NewsTugowners turn to shore power to cut costs and emissions
Many tug companies around the world are turning to ‘ shore power’ to economise on fuel and cut exhaust emissions when their shiphandling tugs are not in use and/or standing by.
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NewsThermal imaging monitor Sweden's coast
Thermal imaging technology means that Sweden’ s navy and coastguard service can now detect and read at distance, the name of a ship in total darkness, making the checking of potential intruders and smugglers along the country’ s 3,200km coastline much easier.
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NewsUKHO World Hydrography Day Celebration
The UK Hydrographic Office marked World Hydrography Day on 17 June with a formal reception aboard HQS Wellington, headquarters of the Company of Master Mariners on the River Thames in London. The ceremony was one of many held around the globe to mark the annual UN decreed event commemorating the ...
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NewsTwo tugs capsize and sink within days of each other
In spite of decades of experience and improvements to conventional screw powered tugs, reports of vessels being capsized while towing still occur with depressing regularity. Two such incidents occurred within days of each other in June.
