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The UK based Blue Climate and Oceans Project announced a new partnership last week with the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) to inspire and engage greater awareness of seas, shores and wildlife by…

8th November 2007

Climate Change and the Deep Blue Sea

8th November 2007

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Irish Sea freight only specialists Seatruck Ferries have progressed their fleet expansion plans with the purchase of two ro-ro ferries from Elmira Shipping of Greece. 

8th November 2007

Seatruck Expands Ferry Fleet

8th November 2007

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The annual autumn exhibition and conference season hits its peak this month with two of the year' s biggest shows both lined up to take place in the Netherlands.  For many of…

1st November 2007

Double Dutch Exhibition Season

1st November 2007

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The UK Port of Southampton will benefit from a major improvement to the port’ s rail freight capabilities, after the Department for Transport (DfT) confirmed that it would contribute almost £ 43m…

1st November 2007

Rail Upgrade for Port of Southampton

1st November 2007

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Ireland' s Drogheda Port hit the 500,000 TEU container handling mark for the first time last month, with the milestone box carrying nuts and dried fruit from Holland. 

1st November 2007

Big Box Milestone for Drogheda Port

1st November 2007

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A simulated explosion in ship’ s engine room put crews from the Port of London Authority, emergency services and Royal National Lifeboat Institution to the test during an exercise on the River…

1st November 2007

Emergency Teams in Thames Training Exercise

1st November 2007

SHORTSEA & FERRY

SHORTSEA & FERRY

Irish Sea freight only specialists SeatruckFerries have taken over Celtic Links Dublin-Liverpool route. Capacityavailable on Seatrucks fast growing Warrenpoint-Heysham route is about toincrease substantially, with the addition of the large newbuilding ClipperPoint.

1st October 2007

Irish Sea Freight Capacity to Triple

1st October 2007

SHORTSEA & FERRY

SHORTSEA & FERRY

The first of two Multi-Purpose Auto Express 65m high speedferries built for the Sultanate of Oman was launched at the Austal Image Hendersonshipbuilding facility in Australia last month. With a top speed…

1st October 2007

Fastest Ever Diesel Powered Vehicle Ferry

1st October 2007

MONITORING & CONTROL

MONITORING & CONTROL

Dutch marine equipment supplier Vetus itsprevious gas detector with the new model GD 1000, which in addition toflammable gases now also detects inert but deadly carbon monoxide.

1st October 2007

New Gas Detector Gets CO Too

1st October 2007

MONITORING & CONTROL

MONITORING & CONTROL

A new Mobrey magnetic float switch from Emerson Process Management is the first float switch to combine ATEX and marine approvals in one standard product.

1st October 2007

Float Switch Control in Marine Tanks

1st October 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

For a number of years Hagglunds have provided themotor/brake assemblies used by subsea engineering and construction companySubsea 7 on ROV deployment winches together with the power units and controlsdesigned specifically o the…

1st October 2007

Hagglunds Goes ROVing with Subsea 7

1st October 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Rolls-Royce hassigned a £ 24m contract with SE Shipping in Singapore covering the supply ofintegrated equipment systems for four large heavy lift vessels. There are alsooptions for systems for a further eight…

1st October 2007

Rolls-Royce Lifts Heavy Contract

1st October 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Seattle USA based Markey Machinery has completed ofthe first winch for the current series of tugs under construction at NicholsBrothers Shipyard.  This Electric Hawser Winch, designated the DEPCF-52, isinstalled on the Crowley…

1st October 2007

Powerful Pulling with Markeys New Winch

1st October 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Ropes, stretchers and other materials incorporating thesuper strong polyethylene fibre DSM Dyneema are being tested on board the tugMultratug 12, the first vessel to be equipped with the Carrousel towing system.

1st October 2007

Carrousel Turns to Bigger Things

1st October 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Aberdeenbased marine transfer and lift solutions provider Reflex Marine responded toclient requests in developing the Frog-6, a higher capacity version of theoriginal, three-person Frog (Frog-3), for moving up to six people at…

1st October 2007

Reflex Reaction Builds Bigger Frog

1st October 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The Modulift modular spreader system has recently beenutilised by Meade Crane Services Ltd to assist in the transportation of thereplica Viking ship, the Sea Stallion of Glendalough, to the National Museumat Collins…

1st October 2007

Airborne Viking Ship Clears Rooftops

1st October 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Cablesand cabling systems specialist Nexans has developed an innovative hybrid MV(medium voltage) ship to shore connection cable that enables ships berthed inport to cut their engines and plug in to the local…

1st October 2007

Ship to Shore Cable Promises Cleaner Ports

1st October 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Tyco Safety Products Fire Suppression Group has unveiled itsnew generation of SKUM brand remotely controllable FJM-EL fog / jetfirefighting monitors for use on firefighting boats, multi-role pilot boats,tugs, workboats and merchant shipping.…

1st October 2007

New Remote Control Firefighting Monitors

1st October 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Americas Marine Travelift Inc hasunveiled the latest development in its Mariner forklift series. The MarinerM2500 is capable of lifting 25,000 pounds, 5,000 more than the previous modelas the result of a Cummins…

1st October 2007

More Grunt for Latest Travelift

1st October 2007

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

A new crane rail has been installed atSouthampton Container Terminals (SCT) to accommodate the two new post-panamaxquayside gantry cranes which are due to be operational during the secondquarter of 2008.

1st October 2007

New Crane Rail Installed at SCT

1st October 2007