Industry News – Page 324
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UK Funding Diverts Heavy Road Transport to Water
The British Government''s Department for Transport (DfT) has awarded an £ 8.5m Freight Facilities Grant to Staffordshire-based Robert Wynn & Sons Ltd (RWSL) for the development of an innovative transportation system that will utilise shortsea routes and inland waterways to take ''abnormal indivisible loads'' off the UK''s congested roads network.
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NewsTransas Bridges River Kwai and Launches Website
Singapore-based Transas Marine Pacific has received an order from Eastwind Shipmanagement Pte Ltd to supply the first multi-purpose simulation complex to be established in Myanmar, formerly Burma.
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NewsSpectacular Lifts for New London Bridge
During the early hours of 20 May, SMIT commenced the final phase of its involvement in the construction of two new pedestrian foot bridges spanning London''s River Thames and located on either side of the existing Hungerford Bridge.
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Aberdeen Conference Sees £Billions in Marine Renewables
Britain''s Energy Minister, Brian Wilson, invited UK industry to win itself a substantial share of growing global investment in new and renewable energy, expected to add up to £ 400bn by 2010.
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New Marine Safety Consultancy Service
Southampton-based Ocean Safety has launched a new design, drawing and consultancy service created to provide technical and detailed safety specifications for shipbuilders and naval architects in the commercial, defence and leisure sectors.
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United Kingdom Treasury Supports Coastal Hydrography Project
A practical partnership between the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, the Environment Agency, Ordinance Survey and the Maritime & Coastguard Agency to produce a shared methodology for definitive measurement of environmental data in the shallow inter-tidal areas around Britain''s coast has received a financial boost.
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NewsHalmatic Cougar Mega-Order for Oman
Portchester UK-based Halmatic has secured a contract to build 20 Halmatic Cougar Enforcer 33 Ultra Fast Patrol Boats for the Royal Oman Police Coastguard.
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Superfast Ferries Takes EastPort Development Project Lead
Superfast Ferries has emerged as the front runner to operate a new passenger and freight service from the proposed £ 32m EastPort harbour development at Great Yarmouth UK. Superfast, part of the Athens-based Attica Enterprises Group, was one of four serious potential operators to submit proposals.
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NewsChannel Navigation Data Service for Busy Dover Strait
A contract worth over £ 1m to provide the MCA operated Channel Navigation Information Service (CNIS) system for the Dover Strait has been won by Norcontrol IT.
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News'Snowbird 6' Completes "Drive" Round the World
The Ice Challenger expedition has achieved its goal of becoming the first to cross the treacherous 24 miles of floating ice and open water which make up the Bering Strait between Wales in Alaska to the Russian land mass of Big Diomedes in a land-based vehicle.
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NewsMicro-Research Camera Moonlights on Marine Pollution
The Maritime & Coastguard Agency in Southampton has found an ideal camera for its aerial marine pollution surveillance work in the unlikely world of microscopic research.
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NewsIALA VTS Workshop Sets Training Guidelines
A major international gathering of navigation experts attended the Fourth International VTS Workshop of IALA, hosted by South Tyneside College in the UK.
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NewsHeavy Lift for Offshore Windfarm
Smit''s largest sheerlegs, Asian Hercules II, has installed a 1,000 tonnes transformer substation module for the world''s largest offshore windfarm at Horns Rev off Denmark. The lift was performed on behalf of HBG Steel Structures of the Netherlands, the substation''s fabricator.
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NewsNew 'Delta' Boat for German Rescue Service
Germany''s lifeboat service DGzRS in Bremen has added the new delta-hulled, wide-stern rescue boat Woltera to its fleet of more than 60 versatile lifeboats and rescue cruisers.
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Briggs Group Acquires Keliston
The Briggs Group of counter-pollution and marine specialists has acquired the name and assets of the Ipswich UK-based marine civil engineering company Keliston. The new marine civil engineering company will trade under the name Keliston Marine Civil Engineers Ltd and the scope of services it will offer will include dredging, ...
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NewsFassmer Hands Over Second Police Workboat
German shipyard Fr. Fassmer in Berne/Motzen has delivered Hoben, second of three sturdy but sophisticated 25.5m long patrol boats being built and delivered to east German authorities over three years.
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NewsFleet 77 Systems Hit the Market
To accompany Inmarsat''s recent Fleet 77 service launch, Thrane & Thrane A/S of Denmark announced shipments of their type approved Capsat Fleet 77 products to partners and distributors worldwide.
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Trials Mirth at Twelve Quays Berth
The Port of Liverpool''s Twelve Quays River Terminal for Irish Sea ro-ro ferries handled its first ship last month when berthing trials by NorseMerchant Ferries'' 21,500gt vessel Lagan Viking were successfully completed.
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NewsTyphoon Hits Exmouth
The second Typhoon fishing boat to built by the UK''s Cygnus Marine has been delivered to a charter business in Devon. Owned and operated by the Carter brothers of Exmouth, the 33ft Becci of Ladram will be used primarily for charter fishing off the south west coast of England and ...
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NewsFriction Stir Welding Workshop Will Benefit Shipbuilding
A workshop on the benefits of using the friction stir welding process in industrial applications such as shipbuilding is to be held at TWI Ltd in Cambridge UK on 16 July 2002.
