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SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

With higher quality standards making it more necessary for automatic manufacturing systems to be used wherever possible, there has been increasing demand for Automatic Orbital TIG equipment supplied by Peterborough UK based…

1st March 2004

Orbital Welding Works on Shipboard Pipes

1st March 2004

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

From early next month ships visiting the Port of Falmouth will have a new service available to them as a result of a joint venture between ship repair and conversion specialist A&PFalmouth…

1st March 2004

New Venture on Top of the Slops

1st March 2004

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

A&P Falmouth has won two significant orders which are being undertaken this month.

1st March 2004

Busy March for A&P Falmouth

1st March 2004

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Well-known propulsion system and component suppliers the Kort PropulsionCompany Ltd and associate Causeway Machinery Ltd have recently relocated to Erith in Kent. First established in 1935, the company has operated from an…

1st March 2004

Towlines

1st March 2004

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

An historic steam tug/tender, the Daniel Adamson , owned by the Manchester Ship Canal Company has been saved from the cutting torch by tugmen and enthusiasts at the eleventh hour.

1st March 2004

An Eleventh Hour Reprieve for the Daniel Adamson

1st March 2004

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Valentines Day, 14 February 2004, was a landmark date for Rotterdam based towage contractor Fairmount Marine BV when the company signed a contract for the construction of two 200 tonnes bollard pull…

1st March 2004

Fairmount to Build New Deepsea Tugs

1st March 2004

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Baut , a new escort tug for Bukser og Berging A/S (a subsidiary of Neptun A/S ) is now in service at Statoil sMongstad oil terminal in Norway.

1st March 2004

A Sophisticated New Escort Tug Enters Service in Norway

1st March 2004

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The year 2004 started extremely well for Shipyard K Damen at Hardinxveld-Giessendam. During the past couple of months three shipbuilding contracts were signed from two different continents.

1st March 2004

Bugsier Order Tractor Tug from K Damen Shipyard

1st March 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The UK’ s offshore wind power industry, key to the Government achieving its target of generating 15% of the national electricity requirement from renewable sources by 2015, has been hit by opposition…

1st March 2004

Calls for ‘Joined-up Government’ to Aid Offshore Wind

1st March 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Traditional cutting of the New Years cake ceremonies held at the Piraeus offices of international salvage group Tsavliris were dominated by wishes for the safe return of salvage master Nikos Pappas ,…

1st March 2004

A Chrous of Calls to Free Karachi Eight

1st March 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

In announcing that port terminals and facilities on Londons River Thames handled over 51 million tonnes of cargo last year, the Port of London Authority also said it anticipates that over £…

1st March 2004

Port of London Terminal Boom

1st March 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The fourth largest port in Europe at Marseilles handled its highest cargo volume for 15 years in 2003 and set an all-time passenger record of nearly two million. Cargo throughput of 95.6…

1st March 2004

Revolutionary Year at Marseilles

1st March 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The UKs National Maritime Museum has launched the Journal for Maritime Research (JMR), the first fully refereed electronic journal in the field of maritime studies. The JMRs purpose is to encourage research…

1st March 2004

Maritime Research Website

1st March 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The shifting focus of the worlds major dredging contractors from jumbo trailing suction hopper dredgers to equally large cutter suction dredgers can be seen in the latest order for IHC Holland from…

1st March 2004

DRACULA Ahead By a Neck

1st March 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Construction is now under way in France of a new 107.6m long, general-purpose ocean research ship which will serve both naval and civilian masters.

1st March 2004

French Ministries Co-operate in Research Ship Venture

1st March 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Kongsberg Maritime and Uniteam International have joined forces to showcase the recently developed ConCat Survey Catamaran with aRoad Show demonstration tour of the innovative turnkey survey platform, which kicked off at Oceanology…

1st March 2004

Bespoke Survey Cat Hits the Road

1st March 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Kongsberg Seatex AS has been awarded a contract to develop AIS infrastructure covering the coast of Norway. The contract includes delivery, installation and implementation of AIS base station equipment for 35 shore…

1st March 2004

Coastal AIS for Norway

1st March 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The latest in a series of the worlds most powerful anchor-handling/tug supply vessels was being named at east German shipyard Volkswerft in Stralsund March for Danish sister company Maersk Supply Service .

1st March 2004

Danes Get Two More AHTS Ships From Germans

1st March 2004

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

NVC-Design , part of Rolls Royce , has won its first contract for a coastal product tanker which combines a bespoke hull design with a diesel mechanical propulsion system based on twin…

1st March 2004

Contract for First Azipull Coastal Tanker

1st March 2004

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

West Yorkshire UK based Specialty Welds has received the DTI Smart Award from the British Governments Department of Trade & Industry for its new Hammerhead wet-spot process.

1st February 2004

Hammerhead Awarded for Underwater Welding

1st February 2004