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KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

As Liverpool was developing and prospering with the Industrial Revolution, William Laird arrived as a young man and began purchasing land at Birkenhead, on the more deprived side of the Mersey.

1st January 2005

Cammell Laird

1st January 2005

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

With the campaign to save the White Star Lines tender Nomadic already on MJs news pages this month, Tempus has set a January publication date for asubstantial new volume detailing the life…

1st January 2005

RMS Olympic: Titanics Sister

1st January 2005

MONITORING & CONTROL

MONITORING & CONTROL

2005 sees Essex UK-based Bond Instrumentation and Process Control enter into its 30th year of trading on a high after a busy end to 2004.

1st January 2005

Expansive Bond Celebrates 30 Years

1st January 2005

MONITORING & CONTROL

MONITORING & CONTROL

From this month, noise testing has become necessary as the amended EU Recreational Craft Directive (RCD) has come into force. For the first time, upper limits for boat noise are specified. Compliance…

1st January 2005

SoundBuoy Launch Boosts Boat Noise Compliance

1st January 2005

MONITORING & CONTROL

MONITORING & CONTROL

The double ended ferry Dokter Wagemaker has been built by the Damen Group in Romania and was delivered last month for finishing to their Schelde yard at Vlissingen in the Netherlands. The…

1st January 2005

Innovation Sparks DieselElectric Ferry

1st January 2005

MONITORING & CONTROL

MONITORING & CONTROL

As fuel is the single largest cost of marine diesel ownership, accurate metering is critical.

1st January 2005

FuelCom Goes With the Flow

1st January 2005

MONITORING & CONTROL

MONITORING & CONTROL

Working closely with Volvo Penta , Simrad has developed intelligent auto steering via CAN for the new Inboard Propulsion System (IPS) introduced earlier this month at the London Boat Show . The…

1st January 2005

Smart Steering for New System

1st January 2005

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Swedens TTS Ships Equipment AB of Gothenburg, part of Norways TTS Marine ASA , has signed an agreement to purchase Finlands Liftec Products Oy of Tammerfors. The company will be renamed TTS…

1st January 2005

TTS Finnish Handling Expansion

1st January 2005

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

A 2,500 ton capacity crane mounted on an 84m LOA catamaran is helping the booming economic metropolis that is Shanghai meet its requirements for additional ports and coastal infrastructure.

1st January 2005

Cats Cranes Speed Expansion

1st January 2005

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The UKs Thamesport set about further boosting its productivity this month when it embarked upon an ambitious modification programme to five of its quayside cranes. The five post-Panamax cranes, which are now…

1st January 2005

Cranes Upgrade Expands Thamesport Capacity

1st January 2005

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Germany based HATLAPA recently celebrated its 85th anniversary and in the same week shipped a 56 ton towing winch, the largest produced in the companys history, from its home port of Uetersen.

1st January 2005

Heavyweight Winch Marks Anniversary

1st January 2005

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

In January 2003 VOSTA LMG received an order from Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard for the design and supply of all dredging components for a trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) for the Chinese Harbor…

1st January 2005

European Expertise in Chinese Newbuild

1st January 2005

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The Netherlands based Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has issued a first Call for Papers to be presented at CEDA Dredging Days , a conference which traditionally takes place alongside the Europort exhibition.

1st January 2005

Dredging: The Extremes at CEDA Dredging Days

1st January 2005

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Based at Zierikzee in the Netherlands, Seatec Underwater Systems BV hasunveiled its latest Dredge Head Monitoring System . It is designed to monitor the dredging process on various types of dredgers and…

1st January 2005

New DHMS Makes Dutch Debut

1st January 2005

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The Dutch group IHC Caland has advised that negotiations with Rabo Participates (RaPar) is likely to lead to the sale of its shipbuilding activities.

1st January 2005

IHC Holland Management Buy-Out

1st January 2005

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Fiercely competitive pricing has been blamed by the dredging industrys largest company, Royal Boskalis Westminster , for modest net results for 2004 of ? 20? 25mon a turnover of approximately ? 1…

1st January 2005

Royal Boskalis Vision of Recovery for the Industry

1st January 2005

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Late last November Peter Madsen Rederi A/S of Denmark was awarded the contract to install the external J-tubes to the 30 offshore wind turbines being erected in the Thames Estuary at Kentish…

1st January 2005

Danish Dredger Does Wind Farm Duty

1st January 2005

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The Norwegian Hydrographic Service and the UK Hydrographic Office , as operators of Primar Stavanger and the International Centre for Electronic Nautical Charts (IC-ENC) respectively, have signed a letter of intent on…

1st January 2005

Primar & IC-ENC Agreement

1st January 2005

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

German underwater specialist Innomar Technologie is hosting a 2nd international workshop on Seabed Acoustics , in Rostock-Warnemunde from 24-25 February. Following an opening address by Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns Minister for Economic Affairs, F Dorok,…

1st January 2005

2nd International Seabed Acoustics Workshop

1st January 2005

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Spray , a novel unmanned glider-type submarine with no engine has recently completed extensive crossings of open seas measuring salinity, temperature and pressure in the Gulf stream between the surface and 1,000m…

1st January 2005

Unmanned Sub With No Engine

1st January 2005