Industry News – Page 314
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NewsModel Behaviour Shapes Coastal Protection Scheme
A working-scale model of the Blackpool UK seafront has been constructed by ABP Marine Environmental Research (ABPmer) in the company''s laboratory at the Port of Southampton as part of a research project commissioned by Blackpool Borough Council to help develop the most appropriate seawall defences for the north west''s coastal ...
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NewsCORRECTION: Wessex Marine Deliver Fourth Targa 31
Our coverage in the March MJ of Wessex Marine''s delivery of a fourth Ta rga 31 patrol boat to London''s Metropolitan Police was inadvertently accompanied by the wrong photograph. To correct matters, we run this photo of the real Nina MacKay undergoing sea trials at Poole prior to delivery.
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Hong Kong Top Boxport
The Port of Hong Kong won the 2002 round of its continuing battle with Singapore to be the world''s busiest container port, in the process becoming the first port ever to break the 19 million TEU barrier. A 7% increase in volume took Hong Kong to 19.14 million TEU, up ...
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NewsUK Offshore Wind Expansion Gains Approval
The British Government has built on the imperatives of February''s Energy White Paper with the announcement last month of approval for plans to build 60 offshore wind turbines in the Thames Estuary and in the Irish Sea off Cumbria.
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NewsBusy 'Cormorant' Born to Lift
Dutch towage and salvage operator Multraship successfully completed the salvage of the pusher tug Eclips only two days after it sank in Antwerp harbour last month.
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Spanish Building Ropax for Faroes
The Spanish Izar San Fernando shipyard has entered the conventional ferry sector with the keel laying ceremony for a Ropax ferry that will operate in the harsh weather conditions around the Faroe Islands. The contract is with the Islands'' Ministry of Trade and Industry and the vessel will be operated ...
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Forth Coastguard Conduct Ferry Coordination Exercise
Scotland''s Forth Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre conducted an exercise with the Greek registered ro-ro ferry Superfast 10 last month as the vessel was on passage from Zeebrugge to Rosyth. The 30,285 tonne, 203m LOA vessel was approximately two hours from the Fairway Buoy when the one hour exercise commenced.
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NewsSouthampton Has A Lotta Bottle
A first shipment comprising 1,200 tonnes of recycled bottle-glass material left the Midland Glass Processing Company''s (MGPC) new plant at the ABP Port of Southampton last month on board MV Sea Kestrel, bound for the ABP Port of Goole on the Humber Estuary. It would have required 45 articulated lorries ...
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NewsLegal Issues of Chinese Shipbuilding Explained
Chinese shipbuilders are rapidly expanding both their product ranges and their newbuilding capacity. In addition to an already well established product line of large vessels such as tankers and bulkers, Chinese yards are now building a range of export vessels which extend from ro-ro and ro-pax vessels downwards in size ...
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Commercial Marine Finance Makes seawork a Port of Call
Bank of Scotland Marine Finance, which is well established in the UK as a leisure marine finance provider, has expanded its activities to support commercial marine companies looking for asset funding. Paul Ratcliffe, who was appointed Asset Finance Manager - Marine last December, will be visiting seawork2003.
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NewsSecurity CCTV for Port of Belfast
Ireland''s busiest ferry port at the Port of Belfast has received a high security digital CCTV installation supplied by Bell Security (NI) Ltd.
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NewsEnergy White Paper Spells Opportunity for Maritime Industries
The British Government confirmed its commitment to renewable energy last month with the release of the long awaited Energy White Paper titled ''Our Energy Future - Creating a Low Carbon Economy''. A package which will be worth £ 1 billion per year to the renewables industry by 2010 aims to ...
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Marine Electronics Takeover
Rheinmetall AG of Dusseldorf has purchased the 50% stake in EuroMarine Electronics GmbH of Hamburg held by its Brussels-based joint venture partner Zenitel SA (formerly Sait Stento) in a deal subject to approval by relevant European cartel authorities.
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NewsHammar Nails Confusion with New Release Unit
Swedish safety equipment manufacturer CM Hammar has launched a new version of the Hydrostatic Release Unit which is a widely recognised component of innumerable liferafts and EPIRBs.
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NewsMersey Beats Drum for Maritime Expansion
The Mersey Maritime cluster has been launched in the Merseyside (Liverpool) region of the UK, aiming to become a world class benchmark centre of excellence in every sector of maritime operations and services over the next three years.
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NewsSingle Branding for DaimlerChrysler Marine Diesels
All Daimler-Chrysler marine engines will now be singlebranded as MTU regardless of whether they are manufactured by the Detroit Diesel Corporation in Michigan USA or by MTU in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The single brand strategy has been defined since DaimlerChrysler AG acquired the Detroit Diesel Corporation in October 2000.
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NewsNew Hamburg Container Terminal is in Lubeck
HHLA, the biggest operator in the North Sea Port of Hamburg, has just opened a new ?50m container terminal and it is more than 60 kms away overland, in Germany''s biggest Baltic seaport, Lubeck.
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NewsABP Boosts Profits
Associated British Ports exceeded already high market expectations by posting a 6% rise in underlying pre-tax profit to £ 138.1m and boosting turnover by 7% to £ 401.9m.
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NewsEXODUS Wins Prestigious Award
EXODUS evacuation simulation software developed by the University of Greenwich (UK) Fire Safety Engineering Group has been awarded a prestigious Queen''s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education at a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace. The Queen presented a gold medal and an illuminated prize certificate to the University''s Vice ...
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Militaries March to Marine Security
Recent and current world events have given rise to increased interest in port security, with many nations accelerating their plans in this area.
