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SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

You could guess at what can happen if a flange carrying fuel fails, and just how nasty the resulting spray of fuel could be. But what happens if this fine spray meets…

1st April 2009

Tape shapes up to seal safety

1st April 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

JP Knight (Caledonian) Ltd of Invergordon has sold the 31m ASD tug Kincraig. Purpose built in Japan in 1998, Kincraig has been in constant use carrying out shiphandling services at Invergordon and…

1st April 2009

More Towlines

1st April 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Over the past month or so the Turkish tug owner and tug builder Sanmar Denizcilik Ltd of Istanbul has been exceptionally busy with the trials and delivery of new tugs. One of…

1st April 2009

Sanmar are busy with deliveries

1st April 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

When Damen Shipyards at Gorinchem in the Netherlands first introduced their series built Damen ASD Tug 2810 in 2004 it was recognised by many as a harbour tug with some potential but…

1st April 2009

A success story for Damen and Smit

1st April 2009

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

In mid March Smit International signed an agreement to acquire all of the shares in the Minette Bay Ship Docking Ltd in Prince Rupert, Canada. The tug company operates a three tug…

1st April 2009

Smit increases its market share in Canada

1st April 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Southampton UK based GRP and FRP moulder Composite Mouldings Ltd (CML) is defying recessionary conditions with an order book nearly full until 2011. The company has done all the mouldings for the…

1st April 2009

CML booked up

1st April 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Freight by Water member Peter Barker from PRB Associates published his ninth annual report on UK shortsea freight, ro-ro and lo-lo capacity during the fourth quarter of 2008 and last month published…

1st April 2009

Shortsea reports available

1st April 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The Spiers Locks project in Glasgow’ s canal corridor has won the British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA) award for Strategy and Masterplanning. The ongoing regeneration of the canal corridor is recognised as…

1st April 2009

Canal regeneration awarded

1st April 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Andrew Scott’ s Cloudburst has accepted appointment as UK sales representative for Italian dredger manufacturer Italdraghe Sp A. Cloudburst will represent Italdraghe’ s full range of cutter suction dredgers and dredging pumps…

1st April 2009

Dredging Cloudburst

1st April 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The new MAN Diesel training centre, the PrimeServ Academy, was inaugurated at Saint-Nazaire in France earlier this month. Located in the Saint-Nazaire plant, the PrimeServ Academy showcases diesel engine best practice and…

1st April 2009

Diesel academy opens

1st April 2009

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KEY DEALS

Belgium’ s Jan De Nul Group  has the  biggest dredging vessels  in the world in its fleet. The very large self-propelled seagoing rock cutter dredgers JFJ De Nul, Leonardo da Vinci and…

1st April 2009

Simon Stevin will be the worlds largest rockdumping vessel

1st April 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Trinity House, the general lighthouse authority for England, Wales, the Channel Isles and Gibraltar, is about to commission its first LED Light Vessel (LV), set for duty on the Varne station in…

1st April 2009

Trinity House introduces its first LED Light Vessel

1st April 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The operation to remove the stern section of the container vessel ‘ MSC Napoli’ from the UK’ s Devon coast has reached its second milestone. Following a successful test, the project team,…

1st April 2009

Napoli recovery chains in place

1st April 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

‘ Wind energy can replace a large proportion of the polluting and finite fuels we currently rely on, said EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, at the opening session of the European Wind…

1st April 2009

Europe can lead a wind power world

1st April 2009

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KEY DEALS

Personal Everest yachtsman Geoff Holt is planning to take on the Personal Atlantic challenge next winter in which he will sail across the Atlantic Ocean, becoming the first quadriplegic sailor to do…

1st April 2009

Geoff Holt takes on his Personal Atlantic

1st April 2009

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KEY DEALS

Under the highly topical banner of ‘ Oriented to the market, Open to the future’ , the 26th International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) World Port Conference will focus on understanding…

1st April 2009

Europes IAPH Conference arrives in Genoa

1st April 2009

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KEY DEALS

The Wiley Nautical Almanac is now available for viewing as a demonstration video. Log onto wileyalmanac.com to see the video demonstration of Wiley Nautical’ s new digital almanac, which has been in…

1st April 2009

Free Nautical Almanac about to go live

1st April 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Regular container handling began in the German Port of Kiel last month with the arrival in the port’ s Ostuferhafen of the first one hundred 20ft containers from Riga on board the…

1st April 2009

Port of Kiel begins box handling

1st April 2009

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KEY DEALS

The UK’ s Maritime & Coastguard Agency was advised last Friday by its helicopter contractor CHC that all four Coastguard S92 helicopters operating out of Stornoway and Shetland have been grounded pending…

26th March 2009

MCA Scotland grounds SAR helicopters

26th March 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The German Port of Hamburg achieved record results last year for internal waterway shipping, with container transport by environmentally friendly inland vessels growing by a dramatic 29%.

19th March 2009

Port of Hamburg boosts inland waterway box transport

19th March 2009