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NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

Established MoD naval painting contractor Pyeroy Group is extending its maritime protective coatings work with new contract which will see it providing painting and refurbishment services to lighthouses in remote and exposed…

1st December 2006

Mobile Maintenance for Remote Lighthouses

1st December 2006

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

Trinity House has chosen Tideland SignalsSB-98P polyethylene buoy and MLED-120SC lantern for use as its emergency wreckmarking buoy in accordance with the new IALA Recommendation O-133 of December2005.

1st December 2006

Trinity Houses New Emergency Wreck Marking Buoys on Station

1st December 2006

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The Port Marine Safety Code and other legislation makes it all the more important that even the smallest ports and harbours control their waters effectively. AIS on its own, a solution favoured…

1st December 2006

Small Ports NavComms Solution

1st December 2006

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Monitor manufacturer Kent Modular Electronics (KME) has introduced a new environmentally sealed transflective LCD screen, Heliobond, for use in marine applications such as bridge wing monitors, control room consoles and security monitors.…

1st December 2006

Heliobond Toughens LCD Marine Monitors

1st December 2006

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The commissioning of Aberdeen Harbours new Marine Operations Centre marks another significant step forward in developing facilities to accommodate increasing and diversified traffic. It has been brought into use at a time…

1st December 2006

New marine Operations Centre Commissioned for Aberdeen

1st December 2006

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Japan Radio Company, well known as a navigation and communications equipment supplier to the deep draught merchant fleets of the world, also produces equipment engineered specifically for the small commercial workboat and…

1st December 2006

Durability Counts in Workboat NavComms

1st December 2006

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Plymouth UK based boat builders Ecocats picked up a significant award earlier this month when it carried off the Sustainable Products and Services gong at the Cornwall Sustainability Awards 2006. The Awards…

1st December 2006

Chelsea Sends the Tractors into Retirement

1st December 2006

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Seabus, nearing completion at the Voyager Boatyard in Cornwall UK, is the latest passenger vessel to be built by the experienced yard. The 64m vessel is equipped to carry up to 100…

1st December 2006

Seabus Set to Continue Clyde Ferry Tradition

1st December 2006

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) has awarded Klyne Tugs (Lowestoft) Limited a two year extension to the contract to provide Emergency Towing Vessels (ETVs) at four strategic areas around the…

1st December 2006

Klyne Get Two Year Extension on ETV Contract

1st December 2006

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Fairmount Marine BV, with its headquarters in the Netherlands, now has four of it new ocean going tugs in operation and the fifth and final vessel due for completion in May of…

1st December 2006

New Fairmount Tug Fleet Nears Completion

1st December 2006

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The Sliedrecht shipyard of IHC Holland Delta has completed the shallow draft, multi-purpose pusher tug Sarbas for COC of Kazakhstan. Sarbas left the yard for the first time on preliminary builder’ s…

1st December 2006

IHC to Complete the First of a Trio for Kazakhstan

1st December 2006

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

In late October, Smit announced the commencement of a new towage operation in Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Known as Smit Harbour Towage Argentina, the new organisation has brought into operation the two recently…

1st December 2006

Smit Busy with Overseas Harbour and Terminal Towage

1st December 2006

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Stuart McNiven, managing director ofSvitzer Marine Limited, left the company on 1September after five years in post and 20 years service with A.P.Moller-Maersk. Stuart is well known in the offshore and towage…

1st December 2006

TOWLINES

1st December 2006

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Construction of what is being billed as the greenestboat ever built has begun at Norways Fjellstrand Shipyard for the environmentalorganisation Green Warriors of Norway (GW) in Bergen.

1st December 2006

Worlds Greenest Catamaran Ordered in Norway

1st December 2006

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

AMOT has established a new authorised distributor partner in Germany, Lehmann & Michels, for its XTS-W bearing condition monitoring system.

1st December 2006

New AMOT Distibutor

1st December 2006

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology (IMarEST) has launched a new marine proffesional employment service for its 15,000 members in over 100 countries.  The service is open to marine companies…

1st December 2006

Global Marine Jobshop

1st December 2006

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The European Marine Equipment Council (EMEC), which represents some 1,250 companies across Europe, has welcomed the Draft EP TRAN Committee Reports amendments to the European Commissions Draft Classification Societies Directive.

1st December 2006

EMEC Backs Harmonisation

1st December 2006

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Bureau veritas latest takeover bid for rival classification society Germanischer Lloyd has been rejected as hostile by the GL Works Council, which has three representatives on the seven member board which will…

1st December 2006

GL Workers Reject BV Bid

1st December 2006

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Schleswig Holsteins State Waterways Police (WSP) has completed a Europe-wide tender process by awarding orders for four patrol boats to home shipyard Fassmer as part of a ¢ 25.4m fleet renewal programme.

1st December 2006

25.4m German Police Fleet Renewal

1st December 2006

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Container throughput at the French port of Marseilles-Fos rose by 4% for the ten months to the end of October, including a 7% increase to 542,000 TEU on east-west trades through Fos,where…

1st December 2006

Fos 2XL Go-Ahead

1st December 2006