Shipyard News – Page 89
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NewsEcospeed Rapidly Gaining Approval
The Aster, a Belgian Navy minesweeper, has just been completed in Zeebrugge with the Ecospeed system, an innovate new approach to dealing with ship corrosion and fouling from Subsea Industries. This Navy vessel is used for sweeping moored mines and hunting bottom mines all over the world.
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NewsFlying Start to Year for ASRY
The ASRY repair yard in Dubai has had a busy start to the year despite regional uncertainties. There has been no let up in the pace of work for the yard and sales were up by 10% on the same period in 2003, with 49 vessels being repaired and painted.
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NewsMacduff's New Pilot Launch for Aberdeen Harbour Board
The new steel pilot launch, Sea Shepherd , built by Macduff Shipyards Ltd hasrecently completed trials and been delivered to Aberdeen, built to the order of Aberdeen Harbour Board .
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NewsFast Ferries Get Slick Refurb
Specialist protective coatings contractor Pyeroy Group hasrecently completed a contract at Harland and Wolff ''s Belfast dockyard for the application of an advanced technology anti-fouling system on two of Stena Line ''s flagship HSS ferries . Working in collaboration with paint manufacturer International Marine Coatings , Pyeroy was awarded the ...
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NewsPolish Yard Bulges with Prestige Lengthening Work
Ship lengthening projects are coming in thick and fast at Poland''s Stocznia Nauta Shiprepair Yard , which has just finished the last of three Norwegian jobs and taken two more for Norway and Sweden.
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NewsUrban Rock Climbs Into Vessel Maintenance
An innovative new approach to vessel repair and maintenance has made a lateral arrival from mountaineering, with Northampton UK based rope access company Urban Rock Abseiling providing services to those operating in marine and other harsh environments.
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NewsThe Williams Fleet Gets a Major Boost
The arrival of a brand new tug in May represents an important milestone in the continuing development of the fleet of Williams Shipping Marine Ltd .A series of recent purchases, charters and refurbishment projects demonstrates an uncompromising intention to move forward by the Southampton based company.
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NewsPolish Yard Bulges With Lengthening Work
Ship lengthening projects are coming in thick and fast at Poland''s Stocznia Nauta Shiprepair Yard , which has just finished the last of three Norwegian jobs and taken two more for Norway and Sweden.
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NewsGermany's SET Delivers New Ships For Old
Germany''s SET-Werften Group in Tangermunde on the River Elbe has created a pair of modern new double-hulled inland tankers from the bow and stern sections of two old ships and one new ship section.
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NewsShoalbusters Tackle 'The World'
During the past three months development of the well-known Damen Shoalbuster tug moved a major step forward with the delivery of the first three vessels of a new version.
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NewsA Cure for What AILs You
A new vessel which also embodies a new concept for taking Abnormal Indivisible Loads (AILs) off Europe''s crowded highways and onto commercial waterways and short sea routes could not wish for a more spectacular start to its working life than to transport the last British Airways Concorde from London''s River ...
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NewsFirst UK Outing for the Dockmaster
The Hammelmann Dockmaster made its first ever appearance in a UK yard late last year. A major British ship repair yard won the multi million pound contract to completely refit a Royal Navy aviation training ship. The contract also called for 8000m 2of hull and topside surface to be UHP ...
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Orbital Welding Works on Shipboard Pipes
With higher quality standards making it more necessary for automatic manufacturing systems to be used wherever possible, there has been increasing demand for Automatic Orbital TIG equipment supplied by Peterborough UK based Orbimatic GmbH for welding shipboard pipework.
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New Venture on Top of the Slops
From early next month ships visiting the Port of Falmouth will have a new service available to them as a result of a joint venture between ship repair and conversion specialist A&PFalmouth and marine oil terminal operators Falmouth Oil Services (FOS). The new facility to receive and recycle oil slops ...
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Busy March for A&P Falmouth
A&P Falmouth has won two significant orders which are being undertaken this month.
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NewsVoith Unit In-Water Replacement
UMC International have once again supported the British Royal Navy and Babcock Naval Services (BNS) to successfully undertake the exchange of a Voith Schneider Propulsion (VSP) unit fitted to a naval ship while it remained afloat.
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NewsChallis Rises to Workboat Challenge
Essex UK based Challis & Sons have launched their new 10m design steel workboat, the Challis 10m2 . Designed and constructed entirely in-house at Challis'' Clacton-on-Sea workshops, the new vessel was immediately put into service, successfully completing a contract for Ballast Ham Dredging pushing their water injection dredger Baldur onworks ...
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NewsVessel Launch Afon Alaw
The new Afon Alaw is one of only two tugs currently scheduled for completion in a British shipyard this year.
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NewsVessel Launch Prince Rock
VT Halmatic Ltd has started the New Year with another substantial step forward in their pursuit of a larger share of the steel tug and workboat market with the completion of the twin-screw tug Prince Rock . One of the few tugs to be constructed in a British shipyard during ...
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NewsNew Company Gets 'Braveheart'
Barry Towage & Offshore SA, a new Portuguese tug operator with headquarters in Madeira, has taken delivery of the advanced seagoing tug Braveheart.
