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ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The newbuild oil pollution control vessel Chrissi Akti Z has gone into service in Greece equipped with an oil spill containment and recovery package supplied by Vikoma International Ltd.

1st April 2003

New Pollution Control Vessel Joins Greek Fleet

1st April 2003

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Parkburn Precision Handling Systems Limited (P-PHS) is a new name but an experienced player which now encompasses the traditional 30 year class heritage of the Dowty brand naval and commercial handling systems…

1st April 2003

P-PHS Born of Marine Handling Consolidation

1st April 2003

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Marine window wiper specialist Wynn Marine has delivered the wiper system for two new ferries in production for Caledonian MacBrayne.

1st April 2003

Clean Screens for CalMac Newbuilds

1st April 2003

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Smit Heavy Lifts Marine Projects Department completed the loading, dry tow, offloading and placement of a permanent production facility (PPF) in the UAE last month. The contract was awarded by the Anadarko…

1st April 2003

Precise Heavy Lift Placement Off Qatar

1st April 2003

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The Port of Felixstowe UK is undertaking a major expansion of its container handling capacity, ordering three Ship to Shore Gantry Cranes (SSGCs) and 10 new Rubber Tyred Gantry Cranes (RTGCs) from…

1st April 2003

Felixstowe To Lift TEU Total

1st April 2003

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Brinkmann & Niemeijer Motoren b. v. of Twello in the Netherlands has developed the new Triton range of small gensets specially for the marine market.

1st April 2003

Dutch Launch Small Marine Genset Range

1st April 2003

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Cosalt Safety & Protection has acquired specialist fishing net company Leach & Turner (Fishing Gear) Ltd. The deal complements Cosalts existing fishing business in the UK South West and provides additional expertise…

1st April 2003

Cosalt Safety & Protection Lands a Fishing Net Specialist

1st April 2003

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Bodewes Winches of The Netherlands has obtained the R4 quality rating for their 84mm Bodewes QuickLink, a connector link by which wire rope and chain can be connected/ disconnected rapidly.

1st April 2003

Bodewes Delivers Deepwater Mooring System

1st April 2003

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Alstom has won a $20m order to supply the propulsion and control systems for 10 new diesel electric platform supply vessels being built by Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Company of Alabama USA.

1st April 2003

Diesel Electric Power for US Platform Supply Vessels

1st April 2003

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Chinese shipbuilders are rapidly expanding both their product ranges and their newbuilding capacity. In addition to an already well established product line of large vessels such as tankers and bulkers, Chinese yards…

1st April 2003

Legal Issues of Chinese Shipbuilding Explained

1st April 2003

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Bank of Scotland Marine Finance, which is well established in the UK as a leisure marine finance provider, has expanded its activities to support commercial marine companies looking for asset funding. Paul…

1st April 2003

Commercial Marine Finance Makes seawork a Port of Call

1st April 2003

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

VOSTA LMG will deliver a CSD350 cutter suction dredger this month to a Russian customer who has specified that the vessel must be able to operate in Siberia at temperatures as low…

1st April 2003

Deep Freeze Dredger Designed for Defiance

1st April 2003

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The Institute of Engineering Survey & Space Geodesy at Nottingham University is offering a range of funding opportunities for its postgraduate degree, diploma and short courses for 2003-4.

1st April 2003

IESSG Funding Grants

1st April 2003

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Archival news from Liverpool Museum, which has inherited a century of global tidal records from Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory at Bidston (formerly the Liverpool Observatory & Tidal Institute).

1st April 2003

Century of Global Tidal Records Archive Inherited

1st April 2003

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HMS Echo, the UK Royal Navys new multi-role hydrographic and oceanographic survey vessel, was formally commissioned at a ceremony in Devonport on 7 March. Built by Appledore Shipbuilders in Bideford under contract…

1st April 2003

New Royal Navy Survey Vessel Comissioned

1st April 2003

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Innovation 4C, a new European joint venture company which aims to be a technology hothouse for the marine industry according to its Chief Executive, Stuart Heaver, has been established with headquarters at…

1st April 2003

New Joint Venture Company Established

1st April 2003

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

A new conference, Soil erosion and sediment redistribution in river catchments, is to take place on September 11 2003 at the National Soil Resources Institute (NSRI), Silsoe, UK.

1st April 2003

Soil Erosion and Sediment Redistribution in River Catchments

1st April 2003

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Contractor Interbeton has sunk the first caissons that will form the basis of a new 1,200m long quay wall at the Port of Durban in South Africa, a project that Interbeton is…

1st April 2003

First Caissons Floated Out for Durban Quay Wall Project

1st April 2003

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Norwegian tug owners Bukser og Berging AS have entrusted Moen Slip A/S of Kolvereid, with the construction of the new state of the art escort tug. One of the worlds most advanced…

1st April 2003

New Escort Tug Under Construction for Norwegian Owners

1st April 2003

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

On Sunday 23 March the anchor-handling tug supply vessel Union Manta arrived at her home port of Antwerp following completion at the Orskov shipyard in Frederikshavn, Denmark.

1st April 2003

Union Manta is Delivered to URS

1st April 2003