Shipyard News – Page 83
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NewsSinbad Set to Sail with 'Coastal Cat'
Ireland' s Sinbad Marine Services' new vessel was designed by Marine Design International (MDI) and built by Mooney Boats Ltd. Sinbad and Mooney are both based in Killybegs, Co. Donegal. Sinbad approached Mooney several months ago about building them a new aluminium workboat. Mooney in turn contacted MDI and together ...
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News'Powder Barges' Inspire Creative Canalside Workspace
The London Olympic Games in 2012 draw ever closer and British Waterways, the public corporation which manages more than 2,200 miles of canals and rivers in England, Scotland and Wales, is actively engaged with a range of regeneration partners in a number of East London projects to breathe new life ...
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News'Orca II' at Home in the Waves
Ireland' s Safehaven Marine have just launched the first of class vessel to their latest design.
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NewsDemountable Workboat Free to Roam Ireland
Seawind Barclay Curle launched and delivered the multi-purpose workboat ' Inish Davar' this month for client Waterways Ireland, which is a cross border initiative established by the Dublin and UK governments to administer, husband and develop the waterway systems both north and south of the border. Inish is Gaelic for ...
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New Materials Technology Extends Carriers
Buckinghamshire UK based Intelligent Engineering has completed an innovative project for Wallenius Lines to strengthen the decks of their sister ship car carriers ' Don Pasquale' , ' Don Quixote' and ' Don Carlos' .
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NewsChina, But No Crisis for Ship Repair
The ship repair and maintenance industry has been through some significant changes over the past few years. Increasingly, the larger scale vessel repair projects, involving significant steel renewals on bulk carriers, tankers and containerships for example, are being carried out at yards in China, where labour costs are relatively low.
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NewsTamar Class is Most Advanced Lifeboat
The series production of the latest Tamar Class lifeboats for the RNLI is continuing at a steady pace following the recent takeover of builders, DML Group, by Babcock Marine. In October the new Cromer boat 16-07 was brought to East Anglia by its new crew, shortly after the Barrow in ...
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Electric Anchor Windlass for 'Joides Resolution' Refit
Seattle USA based Markey Machinery has supplied a the Type WES-32 electric anchor windlass to the Transocean owned drill ship ' Joides Resolution' as part of a major overhaul and conversion the vessel is undergoing in Singapore.
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NewsRINA Launches Corrosion Prevention and Coatings Programme
International classification society RINA has joined forces with UK based coatings testing company Bodycote to launch a global Corrosion Prevention and Coatings (CPC) programme. The heart of the programme will be a CPC training course for shipyard and ship owner staff, and testing facilities for type approval of coatings according ...
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NewsGalatea Goes On Show
For a week in mid-October the brand new Trinity House Vessel ' Galatea' was host to a wide variety of visitors from the world of shipping and the maritime press. Among the visitors were Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip, who are by no means strangers to the Trinity ...
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NewsIrish Sea Freight Capacity to Triple
Irish Sea freight only specialists Seatruck Ferries have taken over Celtic Link''s Dublin-Liverpool route. In addition, capacity available on Seatruck''s fast growing Warrenpoint-Heysham route is about to increase substantially, with the addition of the large newbuilding ''Clipper Point''.
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NewsComprehensive Refit Renews Warlock
Following a year of hard work off Angola, the anchor-handling tug ''Warlock'' returned to Europe earlier this year to work in the North Sea on behalf of Delft based Allseas Engineering BV. Owned by Barry Towage & offshore SA of Madeira, Warlock assisted Allseas'' 125m shallow water pipelay barge ''Tog ...
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NewsVintage Tug Steams for Maintenance
Most people''s image of the bustling concrete and glass jungle that is East London''s Docklands business community is probably the iconic skyline. Pockets of the area''s rich maritime history are, however, still to be found.
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NewsTight Timetable for Newbuild Conversion
A& P Tyne Ltd, part of A& P Group, has recently completed the conversion of a newbuild Offshore Support Vessel into a pipe-laying vessel for Subsea 7. In line with the original schedule, the 130m vessel will shortly depart for Brazil to complete a contract laying flexible pipelines to a ...
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NewsMegan M Emerges from a Clever Conversion
Many multi-purpose work vessels have been described in these pages and all have one thing in common. They are constructed to fulfil the special needs of their operator''s business and each vessel reflects, as near as possible and within sensible financial constraints, the ideal vessel to meet the client''s demands. ...
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NewsRFA Sir Tristram' Conversion Completed
A& P Falmouth has successfully completed the conversion of RFA Sir Tristram, ahead of schedule, and within budget. The former Falklands landing ship will now take on its new role as a static training ship for the Royal Marines based in Portland.
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Approach to Surface Preparation and Coating
Innovation in the field of surface preparation is not straightforward. Methods based on ultra-high pressure water jetting are well tried and tested.
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Support Builds for ShipRepair & Conversion 2007
More than 70 exhibitors have confirmed for ShipRepair & Conversion 2007 in London this October, including dozens of the world’ s leading shipyards.
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NewsBlast and New Coat for 'Galway Fisher'
James Fisher (Shipping Services) Ltd undertook to apply International Paints innovative underwater coating system Intersleek 900 whilst their vessel ‘ Galway Fisher’ was under refit at A& P Falmouth Limited in May.
