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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