Industry News – Page 283
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Merchant Shipping Notices
The following Merchant Shipping Notices and Notes have been published recently by the UK''s Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) - an executive agency of the Department for Transport.
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MICAD Moves Online
Marine aftermarket products manufacturer MICAD Marine Specialty Products (MMSP) has launched the website www.MICADSHOP. com to make its range available to boat and ship owners worldwide. A debut product on MICADSHOP is a Valu-Brite 17in monitor with a footprint occupying the same helm space as a 15in monitor.
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Kwant Controls' Future
Dutch nautical instrumentation and control systems specialist Stork-Kwant, which was taken over through a management buy-out in January 2004, has changed its name to Kwant Controls BV with effect from the first day of last month.
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NewsNew Type Tunnel Thruster Debut
The first commercial application of a new type of tunnel thruster technology is being deployed on a UT 712 CD anchor handler currently under construction at Aker Yards Soviknes for Olympic Shipping of Norway.
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RingProp Cops Award
RingProp PLC''s innovative ringed propeller for outboard motors received Special Mention in the Machinery, Propulsion, Electrical & Mechanical Systems and Fittings category from the international jury for the DAME 2005 Awards handed out at METS in Amsterdam last month. The Jury Report stated, ''The RingProp from RingProp Trading Ltd of ...
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NewsOutlook Positive at CEDA Dredging Days
The Central Dredging Association (CEDA) made a successful transition along with Europort last month when CEDA Dredging Days 2005 was held alongside the newly relocated Europort Maritime exhibition in Rotterdam.
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Pollution Preparedness Bridges Historical Tensions
Historical animosities have been set aside to deliver the EU funded Summeri Project, which unites three major Gulf of Finland maritime training centres as one network capable of both training personnel and responding to regional marine oil pollution events.
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NewsNew Series for German Sea Rescue Body
The second in a series of new 10.1 m patrol boats for the German sea rescue service DGzRS has gone into service out of Glowe on the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
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NewsSuccessful River Scheldt Salvage
Dutch salvage company Multraship, working with Belgian salvor URS, has successfully refloated the 3,758gt chemical tanker Philipp Essberger, which grounded in the River Scheldt near Flushing following a reported engine failure.
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Cosalt's Italian High Wire
Cosalt Safety & Protection has been appointed sole distributor in the UK and Ireland for Italian steel wire rope manufacturer Redaelli Tecna Cordati. In the marine environment this includes hoist and winch wires for dockside cranes and wires used in dredging and piling applications.
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News'Land Swap' Lands Port Facilities
A new quay and slipway facility at Polly Steps, beside the ABP Port of Teignmouth, was opened last month. The quay and slipway have been constructed as part of a ''land swap'' arrangement between Teignbridge District Council and ABP.
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Ceres Paragon Lifts Off
Amsterdam''s innovative Ceres Paragon container terminal, largely unused since its 2001 opening, has enjoyed a turnaround in its fortunes recently with two Grand Alliance loops now calling to bring an initial 200,000teu per year throughput. This has, in turn, seen the creation of Dutch Feeder Line, a twice weekly operation ...
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VT/Merwede Sign MoU
Two major Northern European shipbuilders, the UK''s VT Shipbuilding and Merwede Shipyard of the Netherlands, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together on naval warship procurement programmes outside the UK.
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BMT Pays Respect to a Founding Father
David Goodrich, chairman of BMT Ltd and a former President of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) died last month at the age of 64.
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Merger to Create Peterhead Port Authority
The separate organisations that currently control Peterhead''s two harbours are to undergo a historic merger that will bring major economic benefits to the town.
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Marine Electronics Online
Having observed evident changes in the way products will be sold in the near future, Marine Electronic Services (MES) has established a new company, Raydirect, specialising in Raymarine products online. This is now live at www. raydirect. co. uk and follows six months of internal web development to produce a ...
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NewsTrinity House RIV Launched in Poland
The new Trinity House Rapid Intervention Vessel (RIV) Alert was launched last month at Stocznia Remontowa SA shipbuilders in Gdansk, Poland, marking the first stage of a £ 38m investment on three new vessels by the General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) of the UK and Ireland.
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Nelson Revisited in Historic City of Portsmouth
Over 600 children from the Admiral Lord Nelson School in Portsmouth dressed in nautical costumes on 21 of October and took to the waters of the Solent with Wightlink Isle of Wight Ferries to celebrate the famous victory 200 years ago of their school''s namesake at the Battle of Trafalgar.
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Port Development Promoted
Politicians from all the main UK political parties were present last month at a meeting organised by Haven Gateway Partnership in the House of Commons to bring them up to date on plans for new container port developments at Bathside Bay and Felixstowe South. The briefing came with a Government ...
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Germans Develop Fuel-economy Sail Towing System
A lot of interest is being show by shipping companies in a new German-developed ship towing propulsion concept called Sky Sails and a former pilot boat is at the hub of experiments into the new system in the Baltic.
