Shipyard News – Page 86
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News'Baloe' is Ready for the Jungle
The new Shoalbuster 2208 Baloe has been delivered to Dutch tug owner Sleepvaartbedrijf Herman SR BV of Zwijndrecht by Damen Shipyards of Hardinxveldt.
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News'Small & Green' Is Ideal for British Waterways
An important phase in the modernisation of floating plant for British Waterways (BW) is rapidly coming to fruition at the shipyard of Manor Marine in Portland, Dorset (a trading company within MPI Services (UK) Ltd).
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NewsAdsteam Invests Heavily in Damen ASD 2411 Compact Tugs
News of the recent arrival of the new Adsteam Harty and Adsteam Warden to the fleet of Adsteam Medway came with confirmation that Australian owned Adsteam Marine is to invest heavily in more tugs of the same type. The vessels are further examples of the Damen ASD Tug 2411 ordered ...
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NewsNSL Secures Cammell Laird Lease
Agreement was reached last month with Reddington Developments for Northwestern Shiprepairers & Shipbuilders Limited (NSL) to take a 15 year lease on the north yard of the former Cammell Laird Shipyard.
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NewsRing Mobdocks Seal Off Thruster Container
One of the largest crane vessels in the world is the Saipem 7000.
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NewsMoisture-Proof Maintenance for Repair Yard
It is not only vessels which require repair and maintenance, the yards which maintain them are subject to the same degradations brought on by continuous exposure to salt, seawater and humidity. The Dubai Dry Docks facility was constructed in 1971 and has since established itself as a premier ship repair ...
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NewsFerries Return to Fleet Support Limited
Portsmouth UK based ship support company Fleet Support Limited (FSL) has successfully completed the annual docking programme for Wightlink''s three Lymington based Solent ro-pax ferries.
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NewsVikoma Take Delivery of Three Workboats for Pollution Control
Oil pollution control and recovery equipment designer and manufacturer Vikoma International Ltd has taken delivery of three identical 18m steel boom-laying workboats, designed and constructed by Portchester UK based commercial and military workboat builder VT Halmatic.
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NewsWildcat Survey Boat Prowls Tees Ports
Andrew Ridley, conservation manager at PD Teesport, Middlesborough UK, wanted to upgrade multi-beam sonar capability for the port''s hydrographic survey operations but was concerned that an expensive new sonar head would be vulnerable in the conventional deployment practices used on an existing monohull survey boat.
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NewsMustang Building Repair Reputation
One of the UK''s leading workboat builders has made great strides into the vessel repair, maintenance and conversion sector since acquiring new and larger premises in 2004. With 80 and 750 ton slipways, Mustang Marine of Pembroke Dock in South Wales now lays claim to the largest such facility on ...
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NewsGerman Yards Tackle Repair and Maintenance
Germany''s small shipyards have been busy with conversion as well as routine repair and maintenance of late as they, like many bigger European yards, have continued to benefit from good fortune in the shipping sector. The 65.5m LOA Irish Marine Institute''s research ship Celtic Explorer has paid its first visit ...
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NewsDiedrich re-engines 'Spiekeroog11'
The small Schiffswerft Diedrich yard in Oldersum, Germany was expecting to complete one of its most complex re-engining projects ever late this month. Owners Nordseebad Spiekeroog on the East Frisian island of the same name off the German North Sea coast paid a reported ?650,000 for the extensive work on ...
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NewsGerman Yards Attract Inland Conversion
Two inland motor ships have been lengthened this Autumn at the J Braun Schiffswerft at Speyer on the Rhine as the demand for revamped waterway tonnage continues to attract shipping customers to smaller inland shipyards.
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NewsDiesel-Electric Power for Heavy Lift Conversions
Two semi-submersible barges are being converted into self propelled heavy lift transport vessels for Fairmount Heavy Transport NV, an associated company of Rotterdam based towage contractor Fairmount Marine BV. When the conversions are completed in the second half of 2006, the Fairmount Fjord and Fairmount Fjell will be primarily employed ...
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NewsWiWa Pumps' Eurospray Expansion
The UK based Eurospray Group are working hard to popularise the products of WiWa, principal suppliers of pumps to the US Navy, to a European audience.
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NewsDivers Deliver for Scheduled Repairs
Antwerp based Hydrex was called out to Mexico to prepare the loading of a large accommodation platform on to a heavy lift carrier vessel.
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NewsAtlantic Specific on Marine Refurbishment
Marine component refurbishment, whether emergency or routine, demands the very highest of standards. Speed of response, efficiency and value for money are qualities sought by ship owners and their representatives worldwide.
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Double for A&P Tyne Hebburn
The British Royal Fleet Auxiliary''s Fast Fleet Tanker Gold Rover iscurrently undergoing a 117 day at A&P Tyne ''s Hebburn yard.
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NewsTug Repair Surge at Milford Haven
With the only dry dock in Wales remaining in full time operation, Milford Haven Ship Repairers offers the only such facility between Falmouth and Liverpool. The yard receives a variety of work, the most significant component of which is close working relationship it has developed with Svitzer Marine Ltd , ...
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NewsNew Research Vessel for UK Marine Scientists
The University of Southampton ''s School of Ocean & Earth Science has taken delivery of the new research vessel RVCallista , which is to be based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS), a joint venture between the University of Southampton and the National Environment Research Council (NERC).
