All News articles – Page 997
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NewsBMT Delivers Triplet Ferries to Indian Islands
Three high speed aluminium catamaran ferries designed by BMT Nigel Gee Ltd, a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, have safely arrived in India’ s Lakshadweep Islands.
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NewsTOWLINES
Late in November Newcastle based Osprey Shipping Ltd welcomed home their new tug ' Osprey Fighter' and barge ' Osprey Carrier' . The new vessels were constructed in China and arrived in the Tyne after a grueling and eventful delivery voyage from the Far East. The purpose built 50 tons ...
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NewsRemediating Pipelines in Shifting Sands
The Waterweg division of Dutch shipping company Acta Marine has recently completed the remedial lowering of a 48" diameter live gas pipeline across some 5.5km across the IJsselmeer in Northern Holland. Den Helder based Acta Marine Watereg, which can access a fleet of more than 60 workboats, conducted the operation ...
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NewsA Pusher Tug Returns to the Mersey
A pusher tug and barge combination is in use on the Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal for the first time in a decade. Peel Ports’ Liverpool – Manchester Shuttle that started operation recently is capable of carrying up to 160 20ft ISO containers between Liverpool’ s Royal Seaforth Docks and ...
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NewsOperations Have Started at Hammerfest
In Norway a new fleet of tugs owned by Buksér og Berging AS is now fully operational to fulfil a Statoil contract, providing shiphandling, escort and mooring services at Melkøya liquefied natural gas terminal near Hammerfest in northern Norway. The new tug service was inaugurated when the first LNG ship ...
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NewsDredging Gears Up to Expansive Opportunities
When MJ' s founding editor Peter Moth and colleague Ian Cardwell took the first issue of Maritime Journal to the Europort exhibition in Amsterdam in 1987 the dredging industry was not enjoying one of its better moments. Recessionary forces were at play and many of the dredgers belonging to the ...
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NewsGPS Marine Continues to Diversify
GPS Marine Contractors Ltd, based at Chatham in Kent UK, is emerging as a major player in the marine sector, offering a wide range of services including towage, marine transportation, salvage, heavy-lift, marine civil engineering, demolition and dredging.
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Busy Sanmar Extend Their Product Range
Sanmar Denizcilik Makina ve Ticaret Ltd of Istanbul is well known as one of the leading tugboat companies in Turkey and also as specialist tug builder. In addition to providing towage and pilotage services, the family run company has built tugs and workboats in their own shipyard for many years, ...
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NewsBusiness as Usual as Klyne is Taken Over
Britain’ s oldest tug and barge company J P Knight, has announced in a joint statement that the J P Knight Group has acquired a majority interest in Klyne Tugs, the current provider of Emergency Towing Vessels (ETVs) to the UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA).
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NewsChina Builds RAmparts 3000 Tugs for the First Time
Cheoy Lee Shipbuilders of Hong Kong has delivered the first of a pair of RAmparts 3000 Class ship handling tugs, the ' Harry Evans' to Svitzer Australasia. The tugs are built to the highly successful RAmparts 3000 design developed by Robert Allan Ltd., naval architects of Vancouver, for worldwide construction ...
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NewsOilfield Technology for Offshore Wind
Classification society DNV had granted an approval in principle for a new offshore wind energy concept developed by Dutch offshore design company Sea of Solutions in close cooperation with partner Sparcs Products.
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NewsTo Russia with the IHMA
St Petersburg in Russia has been announced as the setting for 2008 Congress of the International Harbour Masters' Association (IHMA). Hosted by the St Petersburg Maritime Port Administration with the support of the Russian Ministry of Transport, the event will take place next year on 12-16 May.
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NewsStena Orders Newbuilds for Harwich - Hook
Stena Line has ordered two new RoPax vessels valued at some £ 145m from Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea. The vessels will be put into service in 2011, when it is planned they will operate on the Harwich to Rotterdam route.
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News'Pearl River' Heads Marseilles Expansion
Dredging is underway in the first phase of construction work on the Port of Marseilles Authority’ s Fos 2XL container terminal project. Due in service by 2010, two new terminals are being developed in partnership with private operators Port Synergy and MSC, increasing annual capacity at Fos from 600,000 to ...
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NewsDredging Systems Readied in Mozambique
Swindon UK based hydrographic survey systems supplier Del Norte Technology Ltd has completed its contribution to the handover of the single pipe trailing suction hopper dredger ‘ M S Alacantara Santos’ from the Japanese shipbuilders Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to the Mozambique government' s dredging company, Emodraga.
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NewsFerry Delivery Thanks to Tanks
In the second week of October Dutch ship delivery and maritime recruitment specialist Redwise was approached by it’ s long term customer Conferry to deliver the Austal built catamaran ' Tallink Autoexpress 2' from Tallin to Curacao.
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NewsTechnology Tops the Charts
Just twenty years ago, in an era of tapes, magnetic disks and manufacturers extolling their latest solid state microprocessor-controlled wonders, we had data loggers doing 100 soundings a second and programmers writing real-time software for 16 and 32 bit desktop computers boasting 20MB memories, and out in the field, radio ...
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NewsSalvors Can't Place Contract with the Weather
When Smit Salvage started operations to remove the wrecked stern section of ' MSC Napoli' from Lyme Bay on the UK Devon Coast in early November progress was brisk. Within one week hydraulically operated shears had removed most of the vessel’ s 650 ton accommodation block and upper works. A ...
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NewsUK Tidal Energy Welcomed in Canada
British company Marine Current Turbines, the developer of SeaGen, the world’ s largest and most advanced tidal stream energy system, has signed an agreement with Canada’ s Maritime Tidal Energy Corporation to harness the huge tidal currents of the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Newbuild Boom Continues for Renamed IHC
Having gained new orders to the value of € 650m during the summer, Dutch dredger builder IHC Holland Merwede (which announced a name change to IHC Merwede at Europort Maritime last month) has purchased the largest covered slipway in Europe at Krimpen aan den Ijssel, where it will build the ...
