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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

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The completion of two ‘ Rotor Tugs’ to the new RT80-32 design heralds a further milestone in the history of this unique triple unit concept first envisaged by Ton Kooren. RT Rob…

1st October 2009

More Rotor Tugs join the Kotug Fleet

1st October 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Just one year from the formation of ‘ Antwerp Towage’ , a 50/50 joint venture between Hamburg based Fairplay Towage and Multraship Towage & Salvage of Terneuzen, the company has decided to…

1st October 2009

The fleet of Antwerp Towage is strengthened

1st October 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

The Dutch Coast Guard tug Waker suffered a serious engine room fire five kilometres off Vlieland on the Dutch coast on 7 September. Several lifeboats, salvage vessels, the fire brigade and the…

1st October 2009

TOWLINES – October 2009

1st October 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The internet portal www.hafen-hamburg.de, which is designed and managed by Port of Hamburg Marketing Regd. Assn., has been completely overhauled. It now presents a completely new appearance and includes a lot of…

1st October 2009

Hamburg website upgrade

1st October 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Jumbo Offshore’ s engineers and the crew of DP2 vessel Jumbo Javelin have successfully installed their first transition piece (TP) at a wind farm off the UK’ s southeast coast.

1st October 2009

Single vessel transition piece installation

1st October 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The four yearly PIANC Congress returns to the UK for the first time in over 30 years on the occasion of the organisation’ s 125th anniversary. The PIANC MMX Congress will take…

1st October 2009

Dredging support for anniversary PIANC Congress

1st October 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

East Anglia UK based Red7Marine (R7M,ex Haven Ports/ Anglian Marine Services) has started its first overseas commission by shipping a jack up barge to the Israeli port of Haifa, where it is…

1st October 2009

First overseas contract for Red7Marine

1st October 2009

SECURITY

SECURITY

Underwater acoustic equipment supplier Reson has successfully demonstrated contraband and diver detection systems in UK ports.

30th September 2009

Diver detection success in UK port trials

30th September 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The UK’ s Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has confirmed a grant of £ 5M to the National Maritime Museum’ s project to develop a major new wing. This commitment from HLF, together…

28th September 2009

Maritime Museum development

28th September 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Maritime Statistics 2008, published in September by the British Government, show that UK ports handled 562m tons of freight last year, only 3% down on 2007. Liquid bulk traffic accounted for 43%…

25th September 2009

Port freight hangs on

25th September 2009

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

For this reason, the International Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation, developed by the International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC), continues to be highly regarded and well attended. This 33rd edition of the…

24th September 2009

33rd IADC Seminar set for Singapore

24th September 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Todd Busch was elected president of the International Salvage Union at the ISU’ s 55th general meeting in Boston USA last month. Mr Busch succeeds Arnold Witte who will continue to be…

24th September 2009

New ISU President

24th September 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

s new Hub Port terminal was officially opened for the start of ferry operations on Saturday 19 September.

24th September 2009

Boulognes new Hub Port terminal opens

24th September 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Four years of development work by Scottish Woodlands Ltd, JST Services and the local timber industry in Scotland’ s North West Highlands culminated last month when the first 56 truckloads of round…

24th September 2009

Green gain with remote floating pier

24th September 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

America’ s Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine has received type approval from the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping for its VisionMaster FT family of marine radars for high speed and standard craft. The…

23rd September 2009

High latitude radar

23rd September 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The Dockwise semi-submersible, heavy marine transport vessel, Mighty Servant 1, was safely escorted by EUNAVFOR warships through the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor (IRTC) in the Gulf of Aden last month. The Mighty…

21st September 2009

Safe heavy transport

21st September 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Dragon LNG’ s new liquefied natural gas terminal at Waterston, Milford Haven in South West Wales has successfully completed its commissioning phase and has now commenced commercial operation. The ability to import…

21st September 2009

Dragon fires up

21st September 2009