Industry News – Page 296
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Aker Shakes the Cruise World
Finland''s Aker Yards Group has merged its two shipyards in that country, Kvaerner Masa - Yards Inc and Aker Finnyards Inc , into a new company called Aker Finnyard s.
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German SWATH Programme Hits a Snag
Electrical problems during sea trials have delayed the delivery of Planet , Germany''s biggest SWATH vessel. The word from Nordseewerke (NSW) in Emden is that handover might not now take place before the end of the year.
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Big Box Load Is Beautiful
On 27 September, the pushboat Riad left Rotterdam''s ECT Delta Terminals with a record load of 652TEU. All of the 415 containers on board were full, to be unloaded in Rotterdam and feedered on to Antwerp.
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A&P Birkenhead Land Deal
Ship repairers A&P Birkenhead and Reddington Finance Ltd have reached an agreement for the sale and leaseback of some of A&P''s land at Birkenhead. A&P Birkenhead retains ownership of the drydocks but some surplus land will be sold to the property developers. A&P believes the arrangement will enable it to ...
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News'Voe Viking' Gets First New Model Effer Crane
A new Multicat under construction at Damen Shipyards '' Hardinxveld yard in the Netherlands will be the first vessel fitted with the new model 18000 3S crane from Italian manufacturer Effer .
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NewsMultraship Completes Danish Dredger Salvage at Esjberg
Terneuzen based Multraship Salvage has completed the lifting of the 79m trailing suction hopper dredger Thor R , which sank in the mouth of the Danish port of Esjberg on 26 September.
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NewsACE Set the Pace in Winch Delivery
Scotland based Alfred Cheyne Engineering Ltd (ACE Winches) continue to demonstrate their ability to deliver large winch packages in short delivery times.
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NewsVOSTA LMG Flourishing in the East
Amsterdam based dredger builder and dredging components supplier VOSTA LMG has won an ''Engineering and Components'' contract for a packaged CSD500 cutter suction dredger from a partner in Malaysia. The contract includes the design of the dredger, critical components such as the dredge pump, cutter head and ladder, operator cabin, ...
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NewsFTA Considers Dire Port Congestion Options
Members of the British Shippers'' Council (BSC) have expressed extreme concern that their supply chains are at breaking point due to the growing pressures of port congestion.
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Dredging D-Day Looms for Port of Antwerp
A report compiled by the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) following a two year study into the deepening of the River Scheldt has found that such works would not have a negative impact on the environment or security. The river, with its estuary and a navigation channel running ...
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News'Beluga 11' Yard Goes Bankrupt Over Cost Row With Greenpeace
The Fridtjof Nansen Shipyard in east Germany has applied for bankruptcy proceedings after Greenpeace paid only part of the ¢ 1.4m price for its newbuilding Beluga 11 , saying the ship had not been properly finished.
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Supplier's E-Commerce Award
Martek Marine , the Rotherham UK based supplier of safety monitoring systems to the global marine industry, has won Best Use of Teleworking at the 2004 DTI/InterForum E-Commerce Awards ceremony in London last month. The company makes extensive use of voice over internet (VOIP) and Virtual Private Networking (VPN) to ...
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NewsJohn Deere Diesels for Dredgers
IMS , a division of Liquid Waste Technology LLC , has opted to install John Deere engines on its entire Versi-Dredge product line.
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NewsEC Gives Go for Galileo
The European Commission adopted a communication last month on moving to the deployment and operational phases of the European satellite radio navigation system.
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NewsMaritime Journal Celebrates Milestone with Bumper 200th Issue
It is unusual to visit the offices of a marine industries company or enter the wheelhouse of a workboat and not find a well examined copy of Maritime Journal on the reception table or somewhere near the helm.
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NewsShipRepair & Conversion Embarks On New Format
ShipRepair & Conversion 2004 London marks the first appearance in a new guise of a major event for the industry, which has been held annually in London for the past 12 years but will henceforward alternate yearly between its home city and leading overseas repair centres.
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Published this month in association with the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich UK, this stunning coffee table book does just what it says on the cover, presenting ''5,000 Years of Maritime Adventure'' in a single volume packed with information and images presented in the inimitable Dorling Kindersley house style.
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ITS 2004 - Complete Papers & Discussions
Book of Papers is a bound volume of the complete proceedings of the very successful 18th Tug & Salvage Convention held in Miami in April of this year.
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The Last Great Adventure of Sir Peter Blake Sir Peter Blake's Logbooks
One of the world''s most famous and successful yachtsmen, Sir Peter Blake had twice won the Whitbread Round the World Race, conquered the Jules Verne around the world record, and been national manager of the twice victorious America''s Cup team for his native New Zealand.
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RNLI Trials Rope Cutters.
H4 Marine Ltd of Devon UK has supplied the RNLI with two QuicKutter SH25 rope cutters which will be trialled on the new pre-production Tamar class of offshore lifeboats currently being completed at DML in Plymouth.
