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DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Dredging operations were due to get underway late last month at the UK Port of Tyne to create just over 13 acres of operational land by infilling Tyne Dock using the dredged…

1st October 2009

Beneficial re-use in Tyne Dock development

1st October 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Consulting engineering firm Royal Haskoning has been engaged by The Peel Group to prepare a masterplan for the Port of Sheerness in Kent. This is the preface to a fifteen year regeneration…

1st October 2009

Major reclamation planned for Port of Sheerness

1st October 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

As reported in Maritime Journal (June 2009), the Port of Rotterdam is undertaking their most ambitious project ever with Maasvlakte 2, the expansion of the port beyond the existing coastline bordering the…

1st October 2009

Maasvlakte 2 project making steady progress

1st October 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Orkney Island Councillors recommended plans last month for proposed £ 3 million redevelopments of the ‘ Golden Wharf’ at Lyness to be included in Council’ s major works for 2010/2011.

1st October 2009

Orkney acts on marine renewables potential

1st October 2009

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

Vikoma International, part of the Aberdeen UK based Energy Environmental Group, has been chosen to work with NOFO (Norwegian Clean Seas Association for Operating Companies) to develop new solutions for oil spill…

1st October 2009

UK-Norwegian collaboration to advance oil spill technology

1st October 2009

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

Work is underway in preparation to build the first of a new Multipurpose Oil Recovery & Rescue Catamaran (MORCAT) design which will also have firefighting, SAR, emergency standby and towing, hospital ship,…

1st October 2009

Multi-role oil recovery catamaran under development

1st October 2009

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

A brief news item in Tugs & Towing in July of this year reported the completion of Smit Panther, the first of Damen Shipyards’ new ASD Tug 3213 terminal tugs and the…

1st October 2009

A close look at SMITs first big cat

1st October 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Tug Malta, a subsidiary of Rimorchiatori Riuniti of Genoa, Italy, has taken delivery of the high performance Voith tractor tug Spinola. The vessel was built by Astilleros Armon of Navia, Spain, and…

1st October 2009

Malta gets a high performance Voith tractor

1st October 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The Rotterdam based tugboat company Kotug has recently patented its self developed towing ring, designed to replace the time honoured ‘ cow hitch’ and other methods of connecting the main towline to…

1st October 2009

Kotug kick out the Cow hitch

1st October 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Training potential tugmasters has become a major challenge for the shiphandling sector of the towage industry worldwide. With large numbers of modern ‘ state of the art’ tugs with omni-directional propulsion systems…

1st October 2009

Tugmasters may get trained by a little BRAtt

1st October 2009