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TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The first of two powerful Voith Schneider propelled tractor tugs is currently nearing completion for the French Navy at the Socarenam shipyard in Boulogne. Esterel, and sistership Luberon, are due for delivery…

1st April 2002

New Voith Tractors for the French Navy

1st April 2002

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

ITS 2002, the seventeenth International Tug & Salvage Convention and Exhibition, takes place in Bilbao, Spain from 13-17th May - a natural location bearing in mind the current strength of the host…

1st April 2002

International Tug and Salvage Event Set to Break Records

1st April 2002

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The 40,000ihp Supertug Fotiy Krylov has been offered for charter. Brokers Marcon International, Inc of Coupeville, WA, USA have been authorised by the Russian Navy to offer for long-term commercial bareboat charter…

1st April 2002

Supertug for Charter

1st April 2002

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The newly formed Humber Trade Zone Initiative (HTZI) is set to benefit from over £ 34m of regional aid to boost the long term development of an area which boasts the UK'…

1st April 2002

£34m Long Term Development Aid Boost for Humberside

1st April 2002

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A new report by the Society of Maritime Industries (SMI) has warned the UK maritime supply industries to prepare to bid over the next few months for major American contracts.

1st April 2002

America Opens Door to Foreign Suppliers

1st April 2002

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The new supply vessel North Mariner, named in a ceremony last month, is the first British ordered vessel to be built to DNVs new environmental class.

1st April 2002

New CLEAN Supply Vessel

1st April 2002

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County Antrim-based Fast Engineering has secured a contract which makes the Japanese Coast Guard the first overseas customer for its new Fastank Bund Secondary Containment System (FBSCS).

1st April 2002

Japanese Coast Guard Orders Fastank

1st April 2002

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Two UK south coast marine manufacturers who have been working closely together for seven years have joined forces, with exhaust systems specialists Halyard purchasing Sabre Fabrications. Sabre, to be renamed Halyard Fabrications…

1st April 2002

Halyard and Sabre Join Forces

1st April 2002

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The new Container Terminal Lubeck, opening in April, is a Hamburg operation from start to finish, but it will also add a serious box handling dimension to the increasingly intermodal Baltic port…

1st April 2002

Hamburg Terminal Adds dimension to Lubeck

1st April 2002

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The Transas Group celebrated 10 years as an international supplier of marine software and systems last month with events at its world headquarters in Portsmouth UK.

1st April 2002

Transas Group Turns Ten

1st April 2002