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SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

HMS Endurance, the damaged British Royal Navy ice patrol ship, has finally been transported home from the Falklands to undergo extensive repairs following her flooding incident last December.

1st April 2009

HMS Endurance in for repairs

1st April 2009

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Inverlane Marine, which recently celebrated 30 years in business on the banks of the River Clyde, has just completed the reconditioning of an FOPX613 purifier.

1st April 2009

Thirty years history and props at Inverlane

1st April 2009

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

You could guess at what can happen if a flange carrying fuel fails, and just how nasty the resulting spray of fuel could be. But what happens if this fine spray meets…

1st April 2009

Tape shapes up to seal safety

1st April 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

JP Knight (Caledonian) Ltd of Invergordon has sold the 31m ASD tug Kincraig. Purpose built in Japan in 1998, Kincraig has been in constant use carrying out shiphandling services at Invergordon and…

1st April 2009

More Towlines

1st April 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Over the past month or so the Turkish tug owner and tug builder Sanmar Denizcilik Ltd of Istanbul has been exceptionally busy with the trials and delivery of new tugs. One of…

1st April 2009

Sanmar are busy with deliveries

1st April 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

When Damen Shipyards at Gorinchem in the Netherlands first introduced their series built Damen ASD Tug 2810 in 2004 it was recognised by many as a harbour tug with some potential but…

1st April 2009

A success story for Damen and Smit

1st April 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

In mid March Smit International signed an agreement to acquire all of the shares in the Minette Bay Ship Docking Ltd in Prince Rupert, Canada. The tug company operates a three tug…

1st April 2009

Smit increases its market share in Canada

1st April 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Southampton UK based GRP and FRP moulder Composite Mouldings Ltd (CML) is defying recessionary conditions with an order book nearly full until 2011. The company has done all the mouldings for the…

1st April 2009

CML booked up

1st April 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Freight by Water member Peter Barker from PRB Associates published his ninth annual report on UK shortsea freight, ro-ro and lo-lo capacity during the fourth quarter of 2008 and last month published…

1st April 2009

Shortsea reports available

1st April 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The Spiers Locks project in Glasgow’ s canal corridor has won the British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA) award for Strategy and Masterplanning. The ongoing regeneration of the canal corridor is recognised as…

1st April 2009

Canal regeneration awarded

1st April 2009