Key Deals – Page 189
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NewsAppledore strikers look for support
Following workers' strike action on Fridays and Mondays at Babcock Group' s Appledore Shipbuilders in the UK, Unite and GMB union delegates are looking for ' leverage' by getting the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions on their side.
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NewsFirst day at work for new Boskalis dredger
The latest vessel to join Royal Boskalis Westminster' s fleet of dredgers started its maiden dredge operation at the Harwich Maintenance Contract in Harwich Haven last month.
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NewsHadag takes 10th in series
Hamburg' s city owned Hadag ferry and excursion boat operator has marked ten years of operation by taking its tenth Class 2000 ferry, Wilhelmsburg, into service and placing orders for two more.
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NewsUK Treasury reviews rocketing port tax bills
A critical stage in the battle being waged by businesses based at British docks against the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) took place last month when the VOA appeared before the Treasury Committee to explain why it has issued massive, unexpected rates demands, backdated to 2005, which could have a crippling ...
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NewsSWATH pleasure sector opens on a Silver Cloud
Europe' s latest SWATH vessel, and its first for private pleasure rather than commercial pilot or coastguard operation, arrives in the US late this month after sailing from Germany where it was built.
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NewsPelamis plugs Portugal into wave power
So many mariners, pounded by the merciless power of the sea, must have wondered what it would take to get this huge force on our side. The answer, developed over the last decade by an Edinburgh based company, has been forthcoming and wave power is now being harnessed following the ...
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News'Marco Polo' plan pursued in Shetland
The planned ' Motorway of the Sea' linking Kristiansund in Norway, Rosyth in the UK and Zeebrugge in Belgium has unexpectedly run into a snag. While not grounded completely, the plan has certainly been hit by a delay.
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NewsSalvage operations keep SMIT busy
Salvage teams from Rotterdam and other SMIT Salvage locations worldwide have responded to a series of marine emergencies in recent months. Operations in the third quarter included the response to the plight of the chemical/oil tanker Peonia, aground off Cape Verde.
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NewsFelixstowe South digs in for expansion
The UK Port of Felixstowe has held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the formal commencement of the Felixstowe South Reconfiguration project.
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Woolwich Ferry transfer
London' s Woolwich Ferry, a free service carrying road vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists across the River Thames, sees its operation transferred from the London Borough of Greenwich to international services company Serco from the first of this month.
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Ports on YouTube
PD Ports group development director, Martyn Pellew, discusses the development of northern England through the UK' s port and rail infrastructure in videos which have been posted on YouTube.
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ETA meeting set
The European Tugowners' Association (ETA) 46th Annual Meeting is to be held in Lisbon in May of next year. The meeting, scheduled for 13-15 May, is to be hosted by the Svitzer Group.
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Marine noise news
' Ocean Noise: Turn it Down' , a report published last month by IFAW, says that noise pollution of the world' s oceans poses a serious threat to marine animals and that urgent international action should be taken to counter it.
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Marine group launches
The Imtech Marine Group was officially launched at the SMM exhibition in Hamburg.
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Distress demos online
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BMT raises its Hi-Q
The UK' s BMT Group, whose companies have wide and varied involvement in the maritime industries, has acquired Basingstoke based procurement and business change specialist Hi-Q Systems.
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PEMA expands
The Port Equipment Manufacturers' Association (PEMA) has expanded its membership with the addition of four specialist manufacturing and consulting companies from Europe and the USA.
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NewsRapid rescue for grounded Scheldt boxship
Netherlands based towage and salvage specialist Multraship and Belgian salvage operator URS Salvage & Maritime Contracting refloated the 39,900 gt, Singapore flag containership Kota Lagu last week after it had grounded in the River Scheldt with hazardous cargo on board.
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NewsThirsty volunteers for Sailors' Society cycle ride
A lively group of ladies from Hampshire Womens Institute (WI) in Winchester UK and local branches at Shirley, Romsey, Stockbridge and Otterbourne, are volunteering their time to man a number of water stops for thirsty cyclists during the Deloitte and Sailors Society Cycle 2009.
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NewsWOAC issues piracy recommendations
The United Kingdom Warlike Operations Area Committee (WOAC) responded on Tuesday to the extraordinary security situation in the Gulf of Aden; the establishment of the Maritime Security Patrol Area defined by the Commander of CTF 150 and the adoption of resolutions concerning Somalia by the UN Security Council.
