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ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Seven new purpose designed cranes for the Thames Barrier are to be built with a reach ‘about the same as four London Buses’ according to Doug Palmer of contract winners Pellegrini UK.

25th June 2010

A long view for Thames Barrier cranes

25th June 2010

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

A long term partnership between a propeller manufacturer and a leading university is bringing science to bear on the interaction between hull design, propellers and other hull appendages.

25th June 2010

Propeller partnership pursues improved propulsion

25th June 2010

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

British sonar specialist Echopilot Marine Electronics Ltd won the overall Spirit of Innovation Award at Seawork 2010.

24th June 2010

Echopilot’s forward looking innovation wins Seawork award

24th June 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The US Maritime Administration (MARAD) testified before Congress last week that if it is necessary to waive the Jones Act in order to mobilise enough oil pollution control vessels to the Gulf…

24th June 2010

Gulf spill raises Jones Act issues

24th June 2010

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

South Boats Special Projects had another impressively good Seawork last week, signing a contract for a further two boats on the last day of the show.

24th June 2010

More Seawork signings for South Boats

24th June 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

With 101 proposals received by the call deadline, the third Marco Polo II call has attracted a record number of submissions, with over one third addressing short sea shipping.

24th June 2010

Over 100 calls for Marco Polo funding

24th June 2010

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

GEOxyz of Zwevegem in Belgium, which has a secondary base in Lille, France, is looking to establish similar facilities in the UK, according to company director Erwin Leys during an interview at…

22nd June 2010

Belgian organization looks to UK expansion – by David Goodfellow

22nd June 2010

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

UK based hydrographic system specialists Del Norte Technology are to forsake Swindon for the pastures of Auckley, Doncaster at the end of July, said managing director Laurie Smith.

22nd June 2010

Del Norte on the move – by David Goodfellow

22nd June 2010

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

‘HMS Roebuck’, the Royal Navy survey ship decommissioned in April as victim of an interim UK government defence review, has been sold to Bangladesh for a reported £5m.

22nd June 2010

Bangladesh buys RN survey ship – by David Goodfellow

22nd June 2010

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Applied Acoustics of Great Yarmouth UK, recent winners of a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade, have extended their range of Easytrak Ultra Short Baseline (USBL) tracking systems with development of…

22nd June 2010

Applied Acoustics extends Easytrak range – by David Goodfellow

22nd June 2010

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Appropriately named Divers Down, believed to be the UK’s oldest dive school and one of the south coast’s most respected dive charter and escorted dive operators, has repowered one of its boats.

21st June 2010

Repowered dive boat a breath of fresh air

21st June 2010

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Dredger Captain Pieter den Herder of Swalinge Scheepvaart in the Netherlands has been one of the first to trial Enhanced Target Detection (ETD) on his Kelvin Hughes MantaDigital radar.

21st June 2010

Radar delivers dredger captain shortest route home

21st June 2010

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Cargotec has received new conversion contracts from Stena RoRo for two RoPax vessels fitted with MacGregor cargo access equipment. These new orders are a continuation of four other Stena conversion contracts that…

21st June 2010

Ropax conversions orders keep rolling in

21st June 2010

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

It’s become more than a project, and seems almost a mission. Rafal Zahorski of Magemar is restoring the ‘MV Bembridge’, a task that has seen him trawl the lengths of the UK…

19th June 2010

‘Old lady’ turns out to be historic pilot boat

19th June 2010

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

At the start of the final day of Seawork 2010, Maritime Journal takes a look at the latest news to come from the exhibition over the last two days...

17th June 2010

Hot news from Seawork 2010

17th June 2010

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

Belgian dredging giant Jan De Nul completed a massive fleet renewal programme last week with the launch of the trailing suction hopper dredger Charles Darwin.

16th June 2010

Charles Darwin completes Jan De Nul programme

16th June 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

North Wales UK based offshore wind farm support vessel specialists OWPMS has partnered with the Brook Henderson Group, a leader in mission critical asset services, in order to provide a bespoke package…

16th June 2010

Funding deal for up to 60 wind farm support vessels

16th June 2010

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The biggest container ship to call at Hamburg, the 13,800 TEU CMA CGM flagship Christophe Colomb, will visit the German Elbe port regularly from July.

16th June 2010

Elbe deepening: Dredging debate continues as boxships grow

16th June 2010

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The next stage of the South West RDA’s (Regional Development Agency) pioneering Wave Hub project gets underway this week with the start of excavation work on Hayle beach in Cornwall UK.

16th June 2010

Construction of Wave Hub ‘beach pit’ gets underway

16th June 2010

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

BMT Nigel Gee and Houlder Ltd have teamed up to develop a unique Turbine Access System (TAS) which will make its world debut at Seawork 2010.

10th June 2010

Turbine Access System to debut at Seawork 2010

10th June 2010