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POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Cummins Marine followed up the European debut of its new QSK60 engine range at Rotterdam Maritime with an American first appearance last month at the Workboat Show in New Orleans.

1st January 2003

Cummins Marine Introduces the QSK60 Engine Range

1st January 2003

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Testing continues at the new purpose-built Rolls Royce facility in Bristol UK of the MT30 gas turbine engine with which the company will enter a marine application marketplace currently dominated by GE.

1st January 2003

All Systems Go for Gas Turbine Rollers

1st January 2003

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Oxfordshire UK based EP Barrus Ltd celebrated 25 years as distributor of Mariner outboard engines at the London Boat Show this month. The occasion was marked by the launch of a new…

1st January 2003

Mariner Sails Through Quarter Century With Barrus

1st January 2003

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Caterpillar moved into the smaller end of the marine generator market with its launch this month at the London Boat Show of the first in a new range of compact gensets that…

1st January 2003

Small Cat Joins Engine Room Family

1st January 2003

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The Trinity Lighthouse Services programme of upgrading its vessels equipment continues to bring major benefits and greatly improve operational efficiency.

1st January 2003

New Cranes Buoy Up Trinity Houses Services

1st January 2003

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

It is becoming increasingly more difficult to understand the difference in the quality of mooring ropes due to new products continuously coming onto the market, each highlighting different characteristics. A benchmark which…

1st January 2003

Lankhorst Ropes Deliver Benchmark Clarity

1st January 2003

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Seacore has made use of a new Commachio crawler based automatic drill rig in conjunction with its Skate 3 jack-up pontoon to carry out a combined onshore and nearshore site investigation project…

1st January 2003

Jack-Up Lifts Marine Site Investigation

1st January 2003

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Verbrugge Terminals BV in Terneuzen, The Netherlands, handles about 1.8 million tonnes of forest products each year which largely originate in Sweden and are shipped to Verbrugge by ro-ro vessel.

1st January 2003

Barge Handling Reachstacker

1st January 2003

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Shipyard K Damen at Hardinxveld-Giessendam in The Netherlands has signed a contract to build a 3,880m 3capacity trailer suction hopper dredger for Scelveringhe Scheepvaart BV.

1st January 2003

Dredger Contract for K Damen

1st January 2003

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Construction of the worlds largest self-propelled cutter suction dredger is now in full progress at IHC Hollands Kinderdijk shipyard. The vessel for Belgian contractor Jan de Nul is due to be launched…

1st January 2003

Largest CSD Newbuild Underway at Kinderdijk

1st January 2003

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

De Groot Nijkerk Dredging Equipment is supplying the Suez Canal Authority with a complete assembly package for their type CZ450S cutter suction dredger. The pontoon is being built and the vessel assembled…

1st January 2003

De Groot Delivers Versatile CSD for Suez Canal Authority

1st January 2003

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Dutch dredging giant Boskalis starts work this month on a ¢ 30m project to broaden and deepen the entrance channels to the Port of Gothenburg in Sweden. The contract with the Swedish…

1st January 2003

Gothenburg Fairway Dredging Gets New Year Start

1st January 2003

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

RV Prince Madog, the Dutchbuilt research ship jointly operated by VT Ocean Sciences and the University of Wales School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor, is available for charter during this spring and…

1st January 2003

Prince Madog Available for Charter

1st January 2003

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Leading equipment distributor MK Services of Leighton Buzzard has acquired a proprietary GIB (GPS Intelligent Buoy) system from French company, Advanced Concept & System Architecture (ACSA), following successful trials of a unit…

1st January 2003

Underwater GPS For Hire

1st January 2003

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Thales GeoSolutions of Chessington has developed what it calls new-generation ROVs designed for multiple subsea applications from high-end survey work to drill rig support, the G3 series.

1st January 2003

New Multiple Subsea Application ROV Series From Thales

1st January 2003

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Primar Stavanger, the international electronic navigational chart (ENC) co-ordinating centre operated by the Norwegian Hydrographic Service, is offering a free trial for vessels considering joining its service.

1st January 2003

Free ENC Trial for Three Months

1st January 2003

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Edmund Nuttall Limited is approaching the mid-point of a £ 25.7m, 22 month coast protection project awarded to it by client Scarborough Borough Council (with DEFRA providing the major part of the…

1st January 2003

Accropodes Provide Solution for Scarborough Coast Protection Works

1st January 2003

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

At the end of 2002 the British Marine Aggregate Producers Association (BMAPA) and the Crown Estate issued an annual report detailing the extent of UK dredging for the year 2001.

1st January 2003

Latest Dredging Figures From BMAPA and Crown Estate

1st January 2003

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The Tsavliris Salvage Group has been awarded a contract to tow the semi-submersible drilling rig Atwood Eagle from Greece to Angola, a journey of 5,500 miles expected to take two and a…

1st January 2003

Tsavliris tow Atwood Eagle

1st January 2003

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

This month the European Tugowners Association (ETA) celebrates its 40 year anniversary and has declared its intention to become a more proactive organisation.

1st January 2003

European Tug Owners Raise Their Profile

1st January 2003