Shipyard News – Page 87
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NewsA New Tug Fleet for BP at Coryton
When BP Shipping decided to establish their own three tug fleet at their refinery and terminal at Coryton in the Thames Estuary they chose an established and well developed design from Damen .
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NewsNew Wyre Ferry Brings Year Round Service
Since the development of Fleetwood, from around 1830, a ferry has operated across the River Wyre to Knott End on Sea. The early ferries were powered by oar or sail. In 1892 an agreement with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway resulted in new jetties being constructed on both sides of ...
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Major Refit Work Returns to Portsmouth
Fleet Support Limited (FSL) has docked the Royal Navy Type 23 Frigate HMS Richmond at the start of an 18 month refit programme. The project is the first refit contract in Portsmouth for 15 years and includes a wide range of work to upgrade the ship and enhance its systems ...
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Blade Repair In a Cold Climate
A fully laden bulk carrier arrived at the port of Ventspil in Latvia last winter with serious propeller damage and requested Antwerp based Hydrex to carry out an inspection and the needed repairs.
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Busy Time for Specialist Small Ship Yards
German inland shipyard Kö tter-Werft has been bursting at the seams of late with specialist repair and conversion, particularly the lengthening, of small inland motor ships.
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Major Refit for Aggregate Dredgers
Over the last decade, United Marine Dredging''s 1990 built City of London and City of Westminster have averaged over 1 million tons a year of marine aggregate delivered back into the UK and to the near Continent. However, with the main propulsion plant becoming increasingly unreliable, costly and difficult to ...
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NewsVESSEL LAUNCH Al Bateen
Turkish tug owner and shipbuilder Sanmar Denizcilik Makine ve Ticaret Ltd are celebrating their 30th anniversary this year and continue to forge ahead, with news of a healthy order book and a number of important deliveries. The current order book lists 11 vessels under construction, with eight expected to be ...
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Corrosion Halted at Seawork
Corrosion Technologies (Europe) travels to Seawork from Jersey with variously sized containers of CorrosionX , a product developed through aerospace research which stops corrosion, penetrates frozen parts and lubricates even better than products fortified with Teflon.
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NewsSalty Dog Finds New Life on Lakes
The 21m LOA ferry Totnes Castle has just been launched from Voyager Yachts at Millbrook UK after repair and conversion works which enable the vessel to leave its past life in salt water to become a passenger boat on Ullswater in the Lake District.
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NewsBe Crafty with Coatings at Seawork 2005 International
Eurospray Systems Ltd travels from Loughborough UK to make a first appearance at Seawork , where it will show the Wiwa Magnum high performance airless spray pump which has been designed for heavy duty environments and applications such as vessel building and repair yards.
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NewsPeters Revamps 'Most-rammed' Light-ship
Germany''s biggest light-ship, the 62-year-old Elbe 1- Burgermeister O''Swald , has been given an overhaul and spruce-up at small shipyard Peters Schiffbau in north Germany.
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NewsCause for 'Celebration' After Major Refit at A&P Falmouth
The 33,933 grt cruise vessel Thomson Celebration (formerly Holland America Line ''s Noordam ) enters service this month following a five month refit at A&P Falmouth under the supervision of Columbia Ship Management , Cyprus, who will be acting as ship managers for the vessel on behalf of new owners ...
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Passenger Ship 'Saga Ruby' Gets a Trimline Outfit in Malta
Southampton based marine outfitters Trimline have helped to bring Saga Cruises'' new passenger ship Saga Ruby into service following a refit at drydocks in Malta. Trimline''s factory had shipped four containers of materials to Malta in preparation for the works.
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NewsFirm But Gentle Grip at Seawork
Reading UK based Marine Ventures Ltd make their first appearance at Seawork this year, where they will be introducing Straub pipe joining technology, which offers low stress, progressive sealing of Cunifer tubes offered by no other mechanical coupling.
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NewsDelta Marine's Latest Fleet Addition on Show at Seawork
One of the larger work vessels on show at Seawork is VoeViking , the latest addition to the fleet of Shetland based Delta Marine Ltd . The company are experienced operators of pontoon style ''multi-purpose'' vessels and the choice of vessel, its equipment and the degree of customisation is particularly ...
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NewsThe First Damen Compact Tug in Europe
Damen Shipyards have delivered Adsteam Ferriby , the first of their new compact shiphandling tugs to arrive in Europe. The new ASD Tug 2411 entered service with the fleet of Adsteam Marine Ltd on the south bank of the Humber at Immingham in April.
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NewsSterntube Seal Change for 'Endurance'
Coventry UK based Metalock Engineering is seldom called upon to demonstrate its expertise in deep hole drilling in-situ but it was put to the test recently, enabling Deep Sea Seals to retrofit new sterntube seals to HMS Endurance , the British Royal Navy ''s ice patrol and research vessel.
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NewsCygnus to Protect the 'Warrior'
During the recent drydocking of the historic warship HMS Warrior , the Warrior Preservation Trust requested that Selman Marine Design Ltd carry out an ultrasonic hull survey from the waterline to the keel for both their historical records and to identify areas of concern.
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News'Sea Helper' is a First for Macduff Ship Design
The harbour tug Sea Helper is the first vessel of its class to be designed by Macduff Ship Design. Aberdeenshire Council in Scotland commissioned Macduff Ship Design to produce the design, contract/tender information, and act as owner''s project managers throughout the contract period.
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NewsA New Compact Escort Tug for Ostensjo
The delivery of the new Voith escort tug Velox represents a number of ''firsts'' for the owner, designer, shipyard and propulsion system manufacturer. Handed over to Ostensjo Rederi of Haugesund on 15 February, the vessel is a product of the Spanish shipyard Astilleros Gondan SA of Figueras, Asturias.
