Industry News – Page 266
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Guide to Port Entry 2007/2008
Guide to Port Entry'' is a comprehensive information resource available to the shipping industry.
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Tanker Barges on the Humber Waterways
The introduction of iron tanks within barges in the early twentieth century enabled much heavier cargoes to be carried on the Humber waterways, including the liquids such as coal tar or vegetable oils and, by the 1920s petrol.
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NewsNATO Warships Keep the Seabed Clean
When three Dutch fishermen were killed by a bomb they picked up in their net two years ago, it emphasised the danger still posed by unexploded ordnance on the seabed
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NewsSEEDA Secures Marine Industry Development Sites
The South East of England Development Agency (SEEDA) has appointed LDA Design as master planners for the former West Medina Mills site in Newport, a significant river frontage location and part of the ongoing Cowes Waterfront Initiative on the Isle of Wight.
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NewsUK Stakeholders Plan Marine Protected Areas
Finding Sanctuary, a project that aims to create a network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) around the South West coat of the UK, held a Regional Workshop late last month in Exeter.
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NewsProgress Knocks Locks Smocks for Century
It''s the end of an era for lock keepers all along the River Thames who hung up their old uniforms and welcomed a new look at the end of last month.
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NewsThreat Detection Becomes More Affordable
As with most new technologies, thermal imaging cameras for maritime safety and port security applications have seen a price drop recently.
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Marine Workers' Support
The Hampshire UK based Marine, Engineering and Manufacturing Skills (MEMS) Partnership has launched a programme to support employees whose jobs are at risk or whoface being made redundant within these industries.
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'WD Fairway' Refloated
Salvage operations in China refloated the world''s largest trailing suction hopper dredger last month after it had grounded in mud following collision with the 9,200 TEU containership ''MSC Joanna'' in March. Boskalis'' jumbo dredger ''WD Fairway'' had been dredging a new navigation fairway for the Port of Tianjin when the ...
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Brokers Acquired
Liverpool''s oldest ship brokers, SC Chambers & Co Ltd, has been acquired by Sanderson Maritime Ltd with backing from Merseyside Special Investment Fund (MSIF), Lloyds TSB and the company''s own investment.
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ComNav in Sweden
British Columbia, Canada based autopilot manufacturer ComNav Marine Ltd has further expanded into the Scandinavian market by appointing Stockholm based True Heading as its distributor in Sweden.
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Scientist Heads IMarEST
The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) has appointed the first scientist to ever serve as President.
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Kalmar's American Expansion
Scandinavian based cargo handling equipment supplier Kalmar Industries has acquired the assets and business of America''s Virginia based Port Equipment Service Inc (PES).
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Vetus Auctioned
Dutch marine equipment manufacturer and supplier Vetus Den Ouden has been acquired by ABN AMRO Capital, the private equity business of ABN AMRO, in a competitive auction.
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Camper in Turkey
Camper & Nicholson Marina Investments Ltd (CNMI), floated as an AIM-listed specialist marina investment company in January, has made its first acquisition.
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MJ Goes Live Online
A new online edition of Maritime Journal was lunched at the Ocean Business 2007 exhibition and conference in Southampton UK last month.
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NewsRecord New Lifeboat Order from RNLI
Devonport UK based DML have recently secured a contract from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) for what is described as the largest single contract ever awarded for lifeboat construction.
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NewsDublin Pilots Take Delivery of Newbuild
Cork based commercial boatbuilders Safehaven Marine have delivered a new Interceptor 42 ‘ All Weather Pilot Vessel’ to the Port of Dublin.
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NewsGreen Light For Offshore Gas/Wind Co-Development
Eclipse Energy UK plc has been granted consent to construct and operate the Ormonde offshore wind farm and to generate and export electricity from the adjacent Ormonde Gas Fields development, thus completing the series of principal permissions necessary to construct the world''s first co-development of offshore gas and wind.
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NewsRenewables Showcase Bursting at the Seams
If records are made to be broken then All-Energy ''07, the UK''s largest renewable energy exhibition and conference, looks set to shatter all the glass in its trophy case when the event returns to the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre on 23-24 May.
