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SHORTSEA & FERRY

SHORTSEA & FERRY

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.

10th January 2008

BMT Delivers Triplet Ferries to Indian Islands

10th January 2008

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

A key part of almost all offshore and subsea operations is lifting, lifting of stores and spares handling through to complicated and heavy lifts, and there could be in excess of 200…

10th January 2008

New Crane & Winch Operations Guidelines

10th January 2008

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The head of the British Royal Navy visited the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO)  last month to get an update on the navigational services and charts the organisation provides.

10th January 2008

Navy Chief Supports Chopped UKHO

10th January 2008

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Rolls-Royce has won £ 72m of further business on its largest ever offshore marine contract, taking the total order value to £ 155m.

10th January 2008

Rolls-Royce Order Rolls On

10th January 2008

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

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…

17th December 2007

Dredging Gears Up to Expansive Opportunities

17th December 2007

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

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…

17th December 2007

Remediating Pipelines in Shifting Sands

17th December 2007

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

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…

17th December 2007

A Pusher Tug Returns to the Mersey

17th December 2007

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

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,…

17th December 2007

GPS Marine Continues to Diversify

17th December 2007

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

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…

17th December 2007

Busy Sanmar Extend Their Product Range

17th December 2007

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

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…

17th December 2007

Operations Have Started at Hammerfest

17th December 2007

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

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…

17th December 2007

China Builds RAmparts 3000 Tugs for the First Time

17th December 2007

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

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…

17th December 2007

TOWLINES

17th December 2007

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

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…

17th December 2007

Business as Usual as Klyne is Taken Over

17th December 2007

SHORTSEA & FERRY

SHORTSEA & FERRY

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…

16th December 2007

Ferry Delivery Thanks to Tanks

16th December 2007

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The Dutch based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has published a new edition of  ' Environmental Aspects of Dredging' in cooperation with the International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC). 

16th December 2007

Environmental Aspects of Dredging in One Volume

16th December 2007

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

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…

16th December 2007

Dredging Systems Readied in Mozambique

16th December 2007

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

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…

16th December 2007

Pearl River Heads Marseilles Expansion

16th December 2007

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

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)…

16th December 2007

Newbuild Boom Continues for Renamed IHC

16th December 2007

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

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…

16th December 2007

Technology Tops the Charts

16th December 2007

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

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…

16th December 2007

Salvors Cant Place Contract with the Weather

16th December 2007