Industry News – Page 254

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    Huisman/IHC Merwede expansion

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    Noreq goes Dutch

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    Propeller Club blog

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    Tesco into Teesport

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    'Marine Propulsion' workshop

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    BMT grows again

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    Bearing up well

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    Teesport link cemented

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    Marelli branding move

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    Jumbo drydock facility

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    Braemar rebrands divisions

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    HMS Severn is 79.75loa and utilises a double chine hull form which will provide an improved seakeeping performance compared with the curent Island Class ships as well as superior accommodation. The flexible and efficient design is providing VT with export opportunities, including New Zealand where the design has been short ...

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    'Alternative' Baltic port gets cash to restructure

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    A total € 13.5m is being invested in the restructuring of facilities at the Baltic seaport of Wismar to improve its significance as an ' alternative' port of call to busy neighbours Luebeck to the west and Rostock to the east.

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    Rescue service in urgent funds drive

    2008-05-22T20:09:00Z

    The Gosport and Fareham Inshore Rescue Service (GAFIRS), an independent rescue service providing free marine rescue cover in the Solent, has launched an appeal to raise the £ 61,000 funding shortfall that will enable it to bring a new frontline lifeboat into service.

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    Regulation vital to prevent Arctic shipping race

    2008-05-08T20:09:00Z

    Commercial shipping in the Arctic is poised to prosper from energy exports, cruise tourism and new ice free routes due to climate change, but even if the industry can solve its own technical and human challenges, will politics stand in the way of progress?

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    Fast growing Navalia returns to Vigo

    2008-05-08T20:09:00Z

    Following a successful show debut in 2006 which saw 200 exhibitors from over 30 countries attract some 8,000 visitors, the Navalia International Shipbuilding and Maritime Industries Exhibition and conference returns to the Spanish port city of Vigo on 20 - 22 May.

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    Chichester Working Boats Festival a success

    2008-05-01T20:09:00Z

    Twenty colourful working boats lined the jetty at Itchenor for the Harbour Working Boats Festival last month to give the public a valuable insight into life onboard working vessels in Chichester Harbour.

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    'Riverdance' wreck will be dismantled on site

    2008-05-01T20:09:00Z

    Work has started on the task of dismantling the wreck of the ferry ' Riverdance' , now lying on the beach at Blackpool on the north-west coast of England. After a lengthy evaluation process, the owner of Riverdance produced plans to dismantle the ship in situ on the grounds that ...

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    'Earthrace' away on biofuel record attempt

    2008-05-01T20:09:00Z

    Earthrace, a 78' wave piercing trimaran powerboat that runs as a carbon neutral project exclusively on 100% biodiesel started an attempt to break the round the world speed record late last month.

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    Sustainable oceans forum

    2008-05-01T20:09:00Z

    The National Oceanography Centre in Southampton UK will host a major international Ocean Stewardship Forum on 17 - 18 June.

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    Gensets get a jump

    2008-05-01T20:09:00Z

    American marine diesel genset and propulsion engine manufacturer Northern Lights has introduced 4.5 to 30kW gensets.