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TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The Invergordon based towage company J P Knight (Caledonian) Ltd has consolidated its UK tug fleet after completing the purchase of a number of modern ASD tugs from Japan. In it’ s…

27th January 2008

JP Knight (Caledonian) Consolidate Their Scottish Fleet

27th January 2008

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Salvors, other sectors of the maritime industry and government agencies, including Coast Guards, are voicing concern at the scale of the challenge which would be presented by ultra-large containership casualties. The International…

27th January 2008

Napoli Legacy Looms Large for Salvors

27th January 2008

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The Christmas past may have taken a back seat for Tsavliris Salvage Group if the number of operations it was conducting continued to come thick and fast. The last three months of…

27th January 2008

Tsavliris Longed for a Calm Christmas

27th January 2008

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Although internationally well known for its prolific output of tug designs, Vancouver based Robert Allan Ltd is not averse to bidding for other types of contract. Shortly before Christmas the City of…

27th January 2008

Tug Designer Finds Independence in Philadelphia

27th January 2008

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The BMT Group has acquired the ports and shipping consultancy Baxter Eadie Ltd, which has expertise in port planning and development, market surveys, traffic forecasting, statistical and risk analysis, management, and financial…

27th January 2008

Ports Expertise Expanded

27th January 2008

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

New sections added to the Chichester Harbour Conservancy' s website enables users to see what sediments have been deposited in the harbour over the last 10,000 years an thus learn about the…

27th January 2008

Surf Harbours Past

27th January 2008

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The French Port of Marseilles was closing on the one million TEU mark for 2007 as the year ended, with throughput reaching 826,000 units to the end of October.

27th January 2008

Fos Box Tops

27th January 2008

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Over the three months of July, August and September, SeaFrance enjoyed an increase of 13% in car traffic. This performance sees the French operator currently investigating shipyard availability in Europe to build…

27th January 2008

Ferries Find Favour

27th January 2008

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Marine South East, which addresses the needs of the marine sector in the UK South East region, has offered 40% of the funding for an initial scoping study into a project which…

27th January 2008

Cash for Seaford Sinking

27th January 2008

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Pile driving has begun on new quaysides in Bremen’ s Europahafen, part of a € 13.3m civil engineering development project to transform the historic Überseestadt docklands district into an office and leisure…

25th January 2008

Bremen Dockland Transformation Underway

25th January 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Major changes in the way the UK' s Port Ramsgate is run could be in the pipeline. In 2006 the Department for Communities and Local Government published a report entitled ' Opportunities…

24th January 2008

Changes at Port Ramsgate

24th January 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The International Association of Dredging Contractors (IADC) will hold its 30th International Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation on 16-20 June this year at Delft in the Netherlands.

24th January 2008

IADC Dredging and Reclamation Seminar

24th January 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The Netherlands based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) continued its campaign to involve students and young professionals more closely with the industry when it announced the winners of the CEDA Dredging Days 2007…

24th January 2008

CEDA Encourages the Next Generation

24th January 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Dutch shipbuilders IHC Merwede celebrated the Christmas season by launching the 9,000m3 capacity trailing suction hopper dredger ' Breydel' from its Kinderdijk yard on 22 December. Named after 14th century Flemish freedom…

24th January 2008

Belgian Folk Hero Arrives at Christmas

24th January 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The Port of Rotterdam Authority has announced its intention to award the contract for the Maasvlakte 2 port extension project to a consortium consisting of Dutch dredging and marine construction majors Van…

24th January 2008

Maasvlakte 2 Awarded to Van Oord and Boskalis

24th January 2008

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Ireland' s Safehaven Marine have just launched the first of class vessel to their latest design.

24th January 2008

Orca II at Home in the Waves

24th January 2008

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Macduff Ship Design was awarded a contract last month to provide a complete design and drawing package for the construction of two 13m twin screw harbour tugs, to be built by Boustead…

24th January 2008

Fair Maid Delivers On Eastern Promise

24th January 2008

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Southampton UK based Meercat Workboats  has sold the latest of their road transportable multi-role vessels to Østlandets Plast og Dykk Service AS.

24th January 2008

Latest Meercat Moored in Fjord

24th January 2008

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Small ship building specialist Fassmer in Germany has delivered one of its biggest newbuildings ever, the 76m Ro-Pax ferry ' Aline Sitoe Diatta for Senegal.

24th January 2008

Fassmer Delivers Biggest Newbuild to Senegal

24th January 2008

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary for State for Transport will be the headline speaker for a one day conference on the theme of UK Ports Policy: Reaching Conclusions.

24th January 2008

Conference Examines UK Ports Policy

24th January 2008