Industry News – Page 259
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NewsThe 'Mary Rose' Needs You!
The Mary Rose Trust has just been earmarked for a £ 21m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to build a brand new permanent museum to house the vessel and its artefacts. But the Trust needs more help, the cost of conserving history can be priceless.
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NewsItalians Build Complex Research Vessel
India’ s National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) has taken delivery of the multi-purpose oceanographic ship Sagar Nidhi (Pearl of the Oceans) from Fincantieri’ s Muggiano Shipyard in La Spezia.
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NewsWear a woolly hat for charity next week
The international seafaring charity, Sailors' Society, has announced its popular Woolly Hat Week returns from the 6 to 13 February this year, with a slightly different twist.
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Voith Takes AIR
Ship propulsion systems specialist Voith Turbo GmbH & Co KG has acquired a majority share in AIR Fertigung-Technologie GmbH & Co KG, with whom it has been working for the past two years.
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Ports Expertise Expanded
The BMT Group has acquired the ports and shipping consultancy Baxter Eadie Ltd, which has expertise in port planning and development, market surveys, traffic forecasting, statistical and risk analysis, management, and financial modelling.
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STG Joins CEMT
The German Society for Maritime Technology (STG) became a member of the Confederation of European Maritime Technology at CEMT' s recent board meeting in Hamburg, joining member institutions from the UK, Poland, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy.
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Surf Harbour's Past
New sections added to the Chichester Harbour Conservancy' s website enables users to see what sediments have been deposited in the harbour over the last 10,000 years an thus learn about the changing harbour landscape and how it was used.
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Fos Box Tops
The French Port of Marseilles was closing on the one million TEU mark for 2007 as the year ended, with throughput reaching 826,000 units to the end of October.
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Ferries Find Favour
Over the three months of July, August and September, SeaFrance enjoyed an increase of 13% in car traffic. This performance sees the French operator currently investigating shipyard availability in Europe to build a new vessel with significantly increased garage space.
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Cash for Seaford Sinking
Marine South East, which addresses the needs of the marine sector in the UK South East region, has offered 40% of the funding for an initial scoping study into a project which aims to boost the local economy of Seaford and Newhaven.
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NewsBremen Dockland Transformation Underway
Pile driving has begun on new quaysides in Bremen’ s Europahafen, part of a € 13.3m civil engineering development project to transform the historic Überseestadt docklands district into an office and leisure complex.
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News'Fair Maid' Delivers On Eastern Promise
Macduff Ship Design was awarded a contract last month to provide a complete design and drawing package for the construction of two 13m twin screw harbour tugs, to be built by Boustead Yachts of Malaysia for their own use to handle new vessels and repairs within their docks and slipways.
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NewsLatest Meercat Moored in Fjord
Southampton UK based Meercat Workboats has sold the latest of their road transportable multi-role vessels to Østlandets Plast og Dykk Service AS.
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NewsFassmer Delivers Biggest Newbuild to Senegal
Small ship building specialist Fassmer in Germany has delivered one of its biggest newbuildings ever, the 76m Ro-Pax ferry ' Aline Sitoe Diatta for Senegal.
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NewsConference Examines UK Ports Policy
Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary for State for Transport will be the headline speaker for a one day conference on the theme of UK Ports Policy: Reaching Conclusions.
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NewsNarrow Escape for Two Ships in Channel
In just over a week two ships escaped serious damage, or worse, in incidents in the English Channel. When the news broke early on the morning of 2 January that the 90,465grt container vessel ' LT Cortesia' had ran aground on the Varne Bank while travelling through the Dover Strait ...
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NewsGreen Ships Sail to Rotterdam
Regulations and systems designed to protect the marine environment raise crucial investment, procedural and safety issues for the shipping industry, but they also chart a course towards business retention, cost savings and improved public image.
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NewsPassenger Boat Industry Launches Conference
Members of the UK passenger boat industry will gather in London on 6 March 2008 for the first national conference in the history of the industry. Opportunity, Challenge and Change: The Future of the UK Passenger Boat Industry is organised by The Passenger Boat Association (PBA) in partnership with Knighthood ...
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NewsNavy Chief Supports Chopped UKHO
The head of the British Royal Navy visited the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) last month to get an update on the navigational services and charts the organisation provides.
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NewsRolls-Royce Order Rolls On
Rolls-Royce has won £ 72m of further business on its largest ever offshore marine contract, taking the total order value to £ 155m.
