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TUGS & SALVAGE

In response to increasing enquiries for its tug and workboat designs, Scotland' s Macduff Ship Design has developed several new designs and re-branded its entire range of vessels. Over thirty designs are…

1st November 2008

Macduff rebrand their new tug and workboat range

1st November 2008

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

In recent weeks the ITS 2008 Complete Book of Papers and Discussions has been arriving on the doorsteps and in the offices of many of the representatives from the Towage and Salvage…

1st November 2008

ITS 2008 Singapore – the Papers are available

1st November 2008

TUGS & SALVAGE

TUGS & SALVAGE

Sinbad Marine Services of Killybegs in Ireland has purchased the Voith tractor tug Carron from the Svitzer fleet in Belfast. Two tugs of the same age, size and horsepower were reported sold…

1st November 2008

TOWLINES

1st November 2008

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London' s Woolwich Ferry, a free service carrying road vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists across the River Thames, sees its operation transferred from the London Borough of Greenwich to international services company Serco…

1st November 2008

Woolwich Ferry transfer

1st November 2008

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PD Ports group development director, Martyn Pellew, discusses the development of northern England through the UK' s port and rail infrastructure in videos which have been posted on YouTube.

1st November 2008

Ports on YouTube

1st November 2008

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The European Tugowners' Association (ETA) 46th Annual Meeting is to be held in Lisbon in May of next year. The meeting, scheduled for 13-15 May, is to be hosted by the Svitzer…

1st November 2008

ETA meeting set

1st November 2008

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' Ocean Noise: Turn it Down' , a report published last month by IFAW, says that noise pollution of the world' s oceans poses a serious threat to marine animals and that…

1st November 2008

Marine noise news

1st November 2008

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The Imtech Marine Group was officially launched at the SMM exhibition in Hamburg.

1st November 2008

Marine group launches

1st November 2008

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1st November 2008

Distress demos online

1st November 2008

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The UK' s BMT Group, whose companies have wide and varied involvement in the maritime industries, has acquired Basingstoke based procurement and business change specialist Hi-Q Systems.

1st November 2008

BMT raises its Hi-Q

1st November 2008

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The Port Equipment Manufacturers' Association (PEMA) has expanded its membership with the addition of four specialist manufacturing and consulting companies from Europe and the USA.

1st November 2008

PEMA expands

1st November 2008

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The latest vessel to join Royal Boskalis Westminster' s fleet of dredgers started its maiden dredge operation at the Harwich Maintenance Contract in Harwich Haven last month.

1st November 2008

First day at work for new Boskalis dredger

1st November 2008

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Hamburg' s city owned Hadag ferry and excursion boat operator has marked ten years of operation by taking its tenth Class 2000 ferry, Wilhelmsburg, into service and placing orders for two more.

1st November 2008

Hadag takes 10th in series

1st November 2008

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A critical stage in the battle being waged by businesses based at British docks against the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) took place last month when the VOA appeared before the Treasury Committee…

1st November 2008

UK Treasury reviews rocketing port tax bills

1st November 2008

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Europe' s latest SWATH vessel, and its first for private pleasure rather than commercial pilot or coastguard operation, arrives in the US late this month after sailing from Germany where it was…

1st November 2008

SWATH pleasure sector opens on a Silver Cloud

1st November 2008

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So many mariners, pounded by the merciless power of the sea, must have wondered what it would take to get this huge force on our side. The answer, developed over the last…

1st November 2008

Pelamis plugs Portugal into wave power

1st November 2008

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The planned ' Motorway of the Sea' linking Kristiansund in Norway, Rosyth in the UK and Zeebrugge in Belgium has unexpectedly run into a snag. While not grounded completely, the plan has…

1st November 2008

Marco Polo plan pursued in Shetland

1st November 2008

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Salvage teams from Rotterdam and other SMIT Salvage locations worldwide have responded to a series of marine emergencies in recent months. Operations in the third quarter included the response to the plight…

1st November 2008

Salvage operations keep SMIT busy

1st November 2008

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The UK Port of Felixstowe has held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the formal commencement of the Felixstowe South Reconfiguration project.

1st November 2008

Felixstowe South digs in for expansion

1st November 2008

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

In a recent salvage award case involving the Vessel Voutakos versus Tsavliris Salvage (International) Ltd in the English High Court, the Admiralty Judge had a rare opportunity to consider an appeal from…

30th October 2008

Salvage awards and the disparity principle

30th October 2008