Key Deals – Page 160

  • Cargotec has envisaged the way the port of the future might look in 2060, when mega-ports are artificial islands and containers are organised in underground silos.
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    Vision of ‘Port 2060’ in Antwerp

    2011-06-09T09:53:00Z

    More than 50 years after the start of containerisation, Cargotec has envisaged the way the port of the future might look against a possible backdrop of game-change technology and innovation.

  • Harland & Wolff was the largest shipyard in the world when Titanic was launched exactly 100 years ago on Tuesday.
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    Belfast marks centenary of Titanic launch

    2011-06-02T10:18:00Z

    Belfast marked the 100th anniversary of the launch of one of the city''s most famous creations, RMS Titanic, on 31st May 2011.

  • KD’s two Rhine event vessels are seen side by side in Cologne.
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    Impressive RheinFantasie enters service

    2011-06-02T10:15:00Z

    Big demand for special functions on the Rhine motivated the building of the €10m multi-function event ship RheinFantasie, whose owners have this time plumped for a monohull newbuild instead of a second catamaran.

  • Seaweed may possess a number of properties useful to the life-sciences sector. Photo: A Price
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    Seaweed may become a marine industry

    2011-06-02T09:30:00Z

    Seaweeds and micro-algae have been receiving increasing interest and investment over recent years, and may at some point become one of the UK’s established marine industries.

  • Green Port Hull is a £100m redevelopment of Alexandra Dock.
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    Deputy PM backs Green Port Hull

    2011-05-14T11:00:00Z

    Nick Clegg, UK Deputy Prime Minister and Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam, visited Associated British Ports’ (ABP) Port of Hull late last month to see for himself the proposed Green Port Hull site.

  • ACES in place on the full size air chamber test vessel Kraichgau.
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    ACES high with a green trump card

    2011-05-12T11:59:00Z

    Bodewes Binnenvaart bv (part of the Damen Shipyards Group) has pioneered a unique way of meeting increasingly strict environmental standards while simultaneously saving on fuel costs - ACES.

  • The acquisition promises improved integration possibilities of vessels and diving equipment.
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    Hytech acquisition strengthens IHC Merwede

    2011-05-05T10:40:00Z

    Netherlands based specialist vessel builder IHC Merwede acquired vessel equipment supplier Hytech on Tuesday, further securing its position in the offshore market.

  • Thousands of sunken warships, such as this Japanese vessel in the Marshall Islands, have the potential to cause pollution incidents across the globe.
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    Conference on underwater pollution threats

    2011-04-28T12:36:00Z

    An international conference, Wrecks of the World II: Evaluating and Addressing Potential Underwater Threats, will take place on 6 and 7 June in Maryland USA to investigate global pollution concerns.

  • Final inspection of face seals at the Federal-Mogul production facility.
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    HERCULES strengthens engine performance

    2011-04-21T11:50:00Z

    The Germany based operation of America’s Federal-Mogul Corporation has developed new piston ring simulation techniques that will help make future marine engines more fuel efficient.

  • Stena Scandinavica arrives at Kiel’s Schwedenkai Terminal on Wednesday.
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    Longest Ro-Pax completes Kiel’s conversion

    2011-04-21T11:47:00Z

    The first call on Wednesday by Stena Scandinavica at Kiel’s Schwedenkai Terminal saw Stena Line’s new ship generation switch on the Kiel-Gothenburg ferry route.

  • Wave and tidal power devices are not yet mature technologies.
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    Bottom line concerns could cost Green UK

    2011-04-14T11:38:00Z

    If the UK government puts its concerns about the bottom line deficit first, it could end up by losing the economy many billions of pounds of vital investment in green energy projects.

  • The Italian port of Livorno will be at one end of the new Marco Polo route.
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    Marco Polo heads for the sea

    2011-04-14T11:37:00Z

    Following a thorough selection and negotiation process, 32 new Marco Polo projects are set to receive a share of the €57m funds earmarked under the 2010 Call for proposals.

  • The Casquets light house is soon to be silenced.
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    Arguments rumble on as foghorns fall silent

    2011-04-14T11:36:00Z

    The sudden quietening of the Alderney and Guernsey foghorns has caused a ruckus of a different nature.

  • ‘Halunder Jet’ carries about 580 passengers on the nearly four hour journey between Hamburg/Cuxhaven and Heligoland.
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    Biggest Bight cat sails through check

    2011-04-07T10:54:00Z

    The biggest and most modern catamaran in the German Bight, Halunder Jet, has had a two week overhaul and class check at Bremerhavener Dockbetrieb (BREDO).

  • A Floating Container Storage & Transhipment Terminal (FCSTT).
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    Floating boxport plan for Scapa Flow

    2011-04-07T10:53:00Z

    An innovative plan for a floating container port that could be located at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands could bring enormous benefits to Scotland’s economy.

  • An AUV photo of the landing gear of the lost Air France flight on the ocean floor.
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    AUVs locate lost Air France flight

    2011-04-06T12:32:00Z

    After two years, one of the strangest and most worrying puzzles of recent times, the loss of Air France Flight 447, may be about to be solved with the finding of the wreckage some two and a half miles down.

  • A cannon is seen on the seafloor at the wreck site of the warship ‘Coronation’.
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    Action on illegal diving at shipwrecks

    2011-03-31T11:18:00Z

    English Heritage has issued a warning that action will be taken against anyone illegally accessing, damaging or removing items from protected historic wrecks.

  • The ‘Schwedeneck’ is seen in drydock for conversion works at the Peene facility of P + S Werften in Wolgast.
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    Naval vessel converts to research usage

    2011-03-31T11:17:00Z

    The German Navy’s long serving military research auxiliary Schwedeneck is being converted into a modern, multi-purpose research ship at the Peene facility of P + S Werften in Wolgast.

  • Gardening celebrity Alan Titchmarsh is Patron of the Cowes RNLI lifeboat.
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    Call to honour UK’s heroic mariners

    2011-03-25T14:37:00Z

    The Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society is calling on members of the maritime community and air/sea rescue organisations across the UK to nominate their colleagues for their heroic acts of bravery at sea.

  • The Mark V design will use 15 to 20% less fuel per transported unit than its predecessors, thanks to a optimised hull form and a number of energy saving features such as the streamlined rudder design and duck tail.
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    Wilhelmsen launches world’s largest Ro-Ro

    2011-03-24T10:55:00Z

    The Wallenius Wilhelmsen group has launched its 150th anniversary vessel, MV Tønsberg, into operation. The Mark V class is claimed to be the most sophisticated vessel ever built in the Ro-Ro segment.