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TUGS & SALVAGE

DUTCH salvage and towage company Multraship Salvage BV has successfully refloated the Slovakian pusher-tug Polana, which sank in the River Danube on 19 December last year following a serious fire in its…

1st January 2006

Multraship Lifts Tug from Danube

1st January 2006

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

British Maritime Technology subsidiary BMT SeaTech has recently completed a challenging project for the Orlan concrete island drilling structure on behalf of Crowley Marine Services of Seattle USA.

1st January 2006

Simulation Determines Tug Deployment

1st January 2006

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The Global Towing Alliance (GTA) managed by SmitWijs is expanding its fleet of ocean going tugs with two more units.

1st January 2006

TOWLINES

1st January 2006

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Perhaps it is not surprising that a Canadian shipyard located in Halifax should be experienced in the construction of robust tugs capable of operating in ice. During the last quarter of 2005…

1st January 2006

Irving Build More Tugs for the Ice

1st January 2006

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The fast growing European tugboat company Kotug has taken delivery of the first two of a new series of three identical, powerful ASD tugs from Med Marine in Istanbul, Turkey. Mr Ard-Jan…

1st January 2006

A Busy Time for Kooren

1st January 2006

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Much has been written on the subject of compact tugs employing azimuthing stern drive (ASD) propulsion systems but the requirement for small, powerful and extremely agile shiphandling tugs has not been lost…

1st January 2006

Compact Voith Tractors Join the Rimorchiatori Riuniti Fleet in Genoa

1st January 2006

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

One of Europes most sophisticated Fin-first Voith escort tugs has been chartered by Adsteam UK and put into service in the Thames and Medway area during the month of January.

1st January 2006

Boxer Goes on Charter in Britain

1st January 2006

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The International Salvage Union (ISU) and the International Group of P& I Clubs have reached a New Year agreement which has cleared the way for an increase in the tariff rates for…

1st January 2006

Agreement Breaks Scopic Rates Deadlock

1st January 2006

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KEY DEALS

Swedens Trelleborg Group has acquired the Lancashire UK based CRP Group of companies for £ 70m. CRP, whose operations relate primarily to systems for the subsea sector of the oil and gas…

1st January 2006

Trelleborg Acquires CRP

1st January 2006

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Investors in the P& O ports and ferries group must feel like Christmas is ongoing as the Singapore governments investment fund Temasek, which already owns the worlds number two container terminal operator…

1st January 2006

P&O Ports Takeover Cliffhanger

1st January 2006

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s UK Port of Felixstowe applied last month for permission under the Transport and Works Act (TWA) to improve the existing single track branch line between Trimley St Mary and Levington.

1st January 2006

UK Port Rail Plan

1st January 2006

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The UKs Maritime and Coastguard Agency last month awarded a five year interim contract for the provision of Coastguard search and rescue helicopter services to CHC Scotia. The contract provides for commercial…

1st January 2006

New MCA Search & Rescue Helicopter Contract

1st January 2006

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The RNLI officially unveiled its new Tamar Class all-weather lifeboat at the London Boat Show earlier this month.

1st January 2006

RNLI Launches Tamar at London Boat Show

1st January 2006

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Acquisitive Australian investment group Babcock & Brown has bought into UK port operations with the purchase of PD Ports and into the growing European marine renewable energy market with the purchase of…

1st January 2006

Babcock & Brown March on Maritime Europe

1st January 2006

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Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster has announced anticipated net profits for 2005 will be up by at least 80% on 2004, when the company posted a figure of ?32.3m. A large…

1st January 2006

Boskalis Boom Year

1st January 2006

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Associated British Ports (ABP) welcomed the Government decision last month to permit construction of the proposed Quay 2005 container terminal at the companys northern Port of Hull. The two berth development would…

1st January 2006

Box Terminal Gets Go Ahead

1st January 2006

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ITT-Jabsco has signed an agreement with Americas Algae-X International for the sale and distribution of Algae-X fuel maintenance and management systems to the European marine industry. Algae-X is a range of fuel…

1st January 2006

Fuel Conditioning Deal

1st January 2006

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

AC-CESS has continued its success in selling to international defence markets with the sale of the first AC-ROV to the French Ministry of the Defence after a successful demonstration at the Breast…

1st December 2005

AC-CESS Micro ROV Orders

1st December 2005

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

ROV manufacturer Sub-Atlantic Ltd, based in Aberdeen in the UK, has been awarded a contract to deliver a 6,000m depth rated version of its light Workclass Comanche ROV to salvage company Subsea…

1st December 2005

6,000m ROV Contract Awarded to Subsea Resources

1st December 2005

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Over 25 owners and operators attended the first UK VideoRay Conference held over two days in Poole, Dorset. The event was organised by UK distributors Atlantas Marine.

1st December 2005

Atlantas Marine Organise First UK VideoRay Users Conference

1st December 2005