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TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Another project rapidly coming to fruition is the Damen ASD Tug 2810 Hybrid being built for Iskes Towage & Salvage of Ijmuiden.

18th September 2013

The Damen ASD tug 2810 Hybrid takes shape

18th September 2013

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

The UK’s Environment Agency has announced work is set to begin building an earth embankment to provide vital flood protection from the sea at Easton Broad, south of Lowestoft in Suffolk.

18th September 2013

Flood protection work to start at Easton Broad

18th September 2013

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Predictions on the future of the seas off the UK south coast are outlined in a report published last month by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO).

18th September 2013

MMO marine plan

18th September 2013

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The MacArtney Group has signed a representative agreement with Escort Sp. z.o.o. to function as official MacArtney agent in Poland.

18th September 2013

Polish agent

18th September 2013

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Described as the largest and most expensive salvage operation ever undertaken, the Costa Concordia has been righted in an operation that took 19 hours and cost upwards of £500m (€600m).

17th September 2013

Concordia upright

17th September 2013

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Houlder has developed new equipment to meet the “challenge of handling offshore wind turbine piles” which it says has grown, along with their size.

17th September 2013

New Houlder equipment

17th September 2013

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Construction has started in earnest at two major shipyards on the next generation of Rotor Tugs to the new ART 80-32 design by Robert Allan Ltd (RAL).

17th September 2013

A new generation of Rotor Tugs includes Hybrids

17th September 2013

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Peel Ports has awarded a contract to a joint venture comprising BAM Nuttall and Van Oord for construction of the new £300m Liverpool2 Container Terminal on the Mersey estuary.

17th September 2013

Contractors appointed for Liverpool2 container terminal

17th September 2013

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu welcomed the entry into force of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC 2006) last month, adopted by the International Labour Organization (ILO), a sister UN agency to IMO.

17th September 2013

MLC treaty welcomed

17th September 2013

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

In March 2012 Europe’s first true hybrid shiphandling tug, the RT Adriaan, entered service with the KOTUG fleet in the port of Rotterdam.

16th September 2013

A first-hand look at RT Adriaan

16th September 2013