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POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

A new oil spill response vessel for the Middle East Navigation Aids Service (MENAS) was launched at the Galatz Shipyard in Romania last month and has been towed to Damen s Royal…

1st March 2004

MENAS Pollution Boat Launched in Romania

1st March 2004

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

The Spanish Governments decision to put a half a billion dollar price tag on a place of refuge for ships in distress is counter-productive and in some situations could actually increase the…

1st March 2004

Salvors Warn Spain of Pollution Repeat

1st March 2004

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

Transas Marine USA has been awarded a contract to provide a Spill Management Simulator (SMS) to the California Maritime Academys Institute of Maritime Technology .

1st March 2004

SMS Down By the San Francisco Bay Area

1st March 2004

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Essex UK based Challis & Sons have launched their new 10m design steel workboat, the Challis 10m2 . Designed and constructed entirely in-house at Challis Clacton-on-Sea workshops, the new vessel was immediately…

1st March 2004

Challis Rises to Workboat Challenge

1st March 2004

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

The Hammelmann Dockmaster made its first ever appearance in a UK yard late last year. A major British ship repair yard won the multi million pound contract to completely refit a Royal…

1st March 2004

First UK Outing for the Dockmaster

1st March 2004

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