Industry News – Page 293
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'Vicuna' Response Still Underway
In our January coverage of Wijsmuller Salvage ''s year end activities, reference was made to their response to the sinking of the tanker Vicuna , which exploded while discharging methanol alongside Cattalini pier in the Brazilian port of Paranagua on 15 November.
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Cammell Laird
As Liverpool was developing and prospering with the Industrial Revolution, William Laird arrived as a young man and began purchasing land at Birkenhead, on the more deprived side of the Mersey.
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'RMS Olympic': Titanic's Sister
With the campaign to save the White Star Line''s tender Nomadic already on MJ ''s news pages this month, Tempus has set a January publication date for a substantial new volume detailing the life and times of Olympic , built alongside sister ship Titanic at Harland & Wolff in 1911.
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EH Hassekk & Sons Extend Their Port Handling Territory
From the first day of this month, EH Hassell and Sons Ltd of Stoke on Trent UK has become the nominated distributor for the range of Sennebogen Green Line Material handlers for all industries in the UK as well as port sector distributorship in Ireland.
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NewsLockheed Grabs a SLICE of the Action
Lockheed Martin turned up at last month''s Workboat Show in New Orleans with a new $25 million contract for the detailed design, construction, test and delivery of two Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull (SWATH) variant crew transport vessels for Mexico''s national oil company PEMEX .
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MacGregor Heads to Kone
Kone Corporation has bought MacGregor from Industri Kapital and Gambro AB forapproximately ? 186 million.
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Small Ships Now Online
Lockheed Martin's vessel is based on the design of SLICE, a vessel the company designed, built and tested for America's Office of Naval Research. It takes SWATH technology one step further by converting the twin hull SWATH into a four hulled SLICE. The patented design breaks the two long submerged ...
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NewsDevelopment Threat to River Support Services
One of the last working boatyards on London''s River Thames is threatened by development.
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Long Running Maritime Charity
Opportunities to run with Paula Radcliffe and simultaneously support seafarers and their families are still available to participants in next spring''s Flora London Marathon . Those running and raising sponsorship on behalf of the maritime charity King George''s Fund for Sailors (KGFS) will benefit sailors who served in WWII, orphaned ...
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New On HIT List
Global power generation company International Power has signed a term agreement with Associated British Ports to use the new £ 44.5 million coal facility being built by extending the Humber International Terminal (HIT) at ABP''s Port of Immingham (see MJ September 2004, page 25).
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Seafarers UK Pledges £100,000 for Tsunami Sufferers
UK based maritime charity Seafarers UK is donating £ 100,000 towards rebuilding the seafaring communities affected by the Tsunami disaster, on the Indian and Sri Lankan coasts.
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Wallenius Goes Green
Shipping and logistics operators Wallenius Wilhelmsen has become the first non-container carrier shipping group to join the Clean Cargo Group , a global consortium of multinational manufacturers, shippers and carriers whose aim is to promote cleaner and more environmentally sustainable transportation. The Group is currently at work developing an Environmental ...
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Fos Box Rise
Container throughput at the French Port of Marseilles-Fos hasrisen by 9% through the first ten months of 2004 for a total of 765,000 teu. East-west trade was up by 10% to 492,000 teu while north-south trades via Marseilles improved to 8%, exceeding 272,000 teu. After a slow start to the ...
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NewsElsflether Stays Busy With Small Ship Work
German small ship repair and conversion centre Elsflether Werft on the Weser has seen its slipways full of late with a variety of small ships in for work ranging from routine maintenance and repair to complex engine exchange.
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Hamburg Booming
By the beginning of December 2004, the Port of Hamburg had already matched the previous year''s record cargo handling volume of 106,283 million tons and was heading for a year end figure of approximately 115 million tons, an increase of 8.5%.
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NewsHelp Save Titanic's Tender
The Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast has added its name to a growing online petition to save the Titanic ''s tender S/S Nomadic from the breaker. The illustrious ''Mothership of the Titanic '', which carried John Jacob Astor, Benjamin Guggenheim, Margaret ''Unsinkable Molly'' Brown and 169 other First and ...
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NewsTwenties Motor Launch Restored in Hamburg
A new lease of life has been given to a 75 year-old Alster motor launch after five years of restoration carried out by an employment and skill training group in the German port city of Hamburg.
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Hurricane Season Necessitates Heavy Lift by Bisso
America''s Bisso Marine Co Inc has completed the successful salvage of a 105 Class Liftboat from 258ft of water in the Gulf of Mexico. The liftboat, which was believed to have sunk in much shallower water in the mid 1980''s, was discovered to be on top of a 20in pipeline ...
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NewsScotland's First RNLI 'Tamar'
A new design of lifeboat, known as the Tamar class, has been allocated to the RNLI Peterhead Lifeboat Station , making it the first station and crew in Scotland to operate this class of all weather lifeboat.
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Encouragment for Industry to Think Green
The British Marine Federation (BMF) has launched an Environmental Code of Practice for its members.
