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POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Dutch fast rescue craft designer and manufacturer Fast RSQ has designed what it claims to be the first aluminium Fast Rescue Craft (FRC) in the world with hybrid propulsion mode.

1st October 2009

Worlds first hybrid fast rescue craft

1st October 2009

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The naming and launch of the 12,000 cubic meter  Gateway took place at the IHC Merwede Offshore & Marine yard in Hardinxveld-Giessendam in the Netherlands on Saturday.

1st October 2009

First of twin trailers launched in Holland

1st October 2009

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Dredging operations were due to get underway late last month at the UK Port of Tyne to create just over 13 acres of operational land by infilling Tyne Dock using the dredged…

1st October 2009

Beneficial re-use in Tyne Dock development

1st October 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Consulting engineering firm Royal Haskoning has been engaged by The Peel Group to prepare a masterplan for the Port of Sheerness in Kent. This is the preface to a fifteen year regeneration…

1st October 2009

Major reclamation planned for Port of Sheerness

1st October 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

As reported in Maritime Journal (June 2009), the Port of Rotterdam is undertaking their most ambitious project ever with Maasvlakte 2, the expansion of the port beyond the existing coastline bordering the…

1st October 2009

Maasvlakte 2 project making steady progress

1st October 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Orkney Island Councillors recommended plans last month for proposed £ 3 million redevelopments of the ‘ Golden Wharf’ at Lyness to be included in Council’ s major works for 2010/2011.

1st October 2009

Orkney acts on marine renewables potential

1st October 2009

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

Vikoma International, part of the Aberdeen UK based Energy Environmental Group, has been chosen to work with NOFO (Norwegian Clean Seas Association for Operating Companies) to develop new solutions for oil spill…

1st October 2009

UK-Norwegian collaboration to advance oil spill technology

1st October 2009

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

Work is underway in preparation to build the first of a new Multipurpose Oil Recovery & Rescue Catamaran (MORCAT) design which will also have firefighting, SAR, emergency standby and towing, hospital ship,…

1st October 2009

Multi-role oil recovery catamaran under development

1st October 2009

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

A brief news item in Tugs & Towing in July of this year reported the completion of Smit Panther, the first of Damen Shipyards’ new ASD Tug 3213 terminal tugs and the…

1st October 2009

A close look at SMITs first big cat

1st October 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Tug Malta, a subsidiary of Rimorchiatori Riuniti of Genoa, Italy, has taken delivery of the high performance Voith tractor tug Spinola. The vessel was built by Astilleros Armon of Navia, Spain, and…

1st October 2009

Malta gets a high performance Voith tractor

1st October 2009