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PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Kirk McClure Morton s marine engineering department in Northern Ireland has been awarded a contract to carry out a nine month feasibility study into an upgrade for the Port of Dunmore East…

1st October 2004

Go Ahead for Dunmore East Harbour

1st October 2004

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Halcrow in the UK has signed an agreement with the Brunei Economic Development Board (BEDB) to provide advisory services for the construction of the new Pulau Muara Besar port in Brunei.

1st October 2004

Halcrow to Advise on New Brunei Port

1st October 2004

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

A salvage team from Klyne Tugs (Lowestoft) Ltd and Smit Salvage worked for a fortnight to refloat the 2,999grt coaster Maanav Star from a beach at the Sussex UK holiday resort of…

1st October 2004

Indian Coaster Salvaged at Camber Sands

1st October 2004

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

SMIT Salvage completed a series of major salvage operations in the first half of this year, with the work programme including salvage and pollution prevention with the tanker Everton , the righting…

1st October 2004

SMITs Successful Summer

1st October 2004

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Smit Harbour Towage has taken delivery of the first of a series of three new shiphandling tugs to be deployed in Panama. The first vessel, appropriately named Smit Panama , is one…

1st October 2004

Smit Take Over Smit Panama and Increases Damen Order

1st October 2004

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The busy Spanish shipyard of Union Naval Valencia SA has delivered the first two tugs of their new UNV 265 SD series.

1st October 2004

The First of a New Breed From UNV

1st October 2004

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The ABR Company Ltd hasannounced that the 19th Tug & Salvage Convention , ITS 2006 , will be held in Rotterdam from 24-28 April 2006. Final arrangements regarding the actual venue still…

1st October 2004

TOWLINES

1st October 2004

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The British coastal tug Vanguard , owned and operated by Mersey based Carmet Tugs Ltd , has been declared a total loss after sinking off the Isle of Skye.

1st October 2004

Vanguard declared a Total Loss

1st October 2004

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

As part of a phased programme to upgrade its fleet in Britain Adsteam has placed an order with Damen Shipyards to build three new ASD 2411 tugs.

1st October 2004

Adsteam Order First Compact Damen ASD 2411 Tugs for Use in Europe

1st October 2004

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Rotterdam based Kooren Shipbuilding and Trading BV , a subsidiary of Kotug , has exercised their options with the ASL Shipyard Pte Ltd inSingapore to build a further pair of their unique…

1st October 2004

Kooren Shipbuilding Take up Rotor Tug Options

1st October 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

H4 Marine Ltd of Devon UK has supplied the RNLI with two QuicKutter SH25 rope cutters which will be trialled on the new pre-production Tamar class of offshore lifeboats currently being completed…

1st October 2004

RNLI Trials Rope Cutters.

1st October 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Tickets go on sale this month for the first exhibition to explore together the lives of two dominant leaders and adversaries, Horatio Nelson and Napoleon Bonaparte.

1st October 2004

Nelson & Napoleon Invade London

1st October 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Container handling growth at the French Port of Marseilles was up by 10% in the eight months to the end of August, with a throughput of 608,000 TEU. East-west volumes through Fos…

1st October 2004

Marseilles Maintains Growth

1st October 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The International Institute of Welding has awarded Lloyds Register and TWI Ltd the bi-annual Andre Leroy Prize for their computerised non destructive examination (NDE) training aid, in recognition of its excellence as…

1st October 2004

Award for Surveyor Training Aid

1st October 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Over the next ten years, 340,000 lorry journeys will be taken off the roads of Worcestershire UK as the consequence of a £ 1m Freight Facilities Grant awarded last month by the…

1st October 2004

Severn Up for Return of Water Freight

1st October 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

German authorities have taken delivery of the countrys latest 21.3m long multi-purpose buoy layer from Fassmer in Berne/ Motzen after an investment of ¢ 2.2m.

1st October 2004

Versatile Sturmmowe is More Than Just a Buoy Layer

1st October 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Denmarks Viking Life Saving Equipment has appointed Marine Safety Supplies (MSS) of Wallsend UK as the new distributor and authorised service station for Vikings range of sea safety products in the North…

1st October 2004

New Viking In North East

1st October 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The European Commission has authorised a Flemish aid package which will guarantee access to the Port of Antwerp by inland waterway during the reconstruction works on the Antwerp Ring Road project.

1st October 2004

European Commission Eases Port of Antwerp Access

1st October 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Germanys latest SUBS (pollution combat vessel) Arkona has entered service, doubling the countrys capacity for tackling pollution accidents in the Baltic and also beefing up emergency towage capacity in the region.

1st October 2004

New German SUBS Doubles Baltic Cleanup Capacity

1st October 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

With a vessel the size of Queen Mary 2 there are always going to be some tight squeezes. Still in its first year of operation, Cunard s flagship luxury liner came up…

1st October 2004

Close Call for Queen Mary 2

1st October 2004