Key Deals – Page 227
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Dubai Wins P&O Bid Battle
A brief bidding war which saw the value of the P& O ports and ferries group escalate by £ 1.6bn in a matter of weeks has been decided in favour of Dubai Ports World (DP World).
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Bow Wow in Trondheim
The Norwegian Engineering Feat of the Year Award for 2005 was presented to Ulstein Design AS at a recent seminar in Trondheim for their Ulstein X-BOW hull design.
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Mammoet Moves Into Salvage
Heavy lift and transport specialist Mammoet has added salvage to its range of activities with the creation of Mammoet Salvage BV.
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NewsCaptain and Crew of ETV to Get Award
The Captain and crew of the Klyne tug Anglian Princess are to be awarded a Letter of Thanks from the Royal National Lifeboat Chief Executive in recognition of the professionalism and skill demonstrated by the crew when the boat went to the assistance of the motor vessel Galina.
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Ferry Hard Times
Freight is providing the dominant force in shortsea ferry trades with an 84% rise through Dover in the past ten years while tourist car traffic has declined by 13% according to SeaFrance managing director Robin Wilkins. Demand has been such that estimates suggest truck volumes through Dover could exceed cars ...
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News'Titanic' Tender Returned to Sender
Precisely a year after its plight was last covered in MJ (January 2005), the White Star Line tender S/S Nomadic, the last floating link to S/S Titanic, was purchased at auction by the Northern Ireland Office and will be returned to Belfast where it was built.
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Neptune Is King at Humber Ceremony
The first of a new fleet of pilot launches commissioned by Associated British Ports'' Humber Estuary Services was officially named Humber Neptune in a ceremony at the Port of Grimsby''s 5 Quay late last month.
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NewsMaritime Careers Sighted on Essex Exercise
Pupils from six schools in Essex UK have been praised for the way in which they dealt with a ''disaster at sea'' in a special exercise staged within the Haven Gateway.
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NewsPLA Opts for Low Wash Launches
As a measure to conserve the environment of the tidal river Thames and better serve Upper District river users, the Port of London Authority (PLA) has signed a contract with Cornwall UK based Ecocats Ltd for two Javelin 31 low wash patrol launches.
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Four Times Gold
East Coast UK engine supplier Volspec Ltd dominated the recent Volvo Penta Dealer Conference in the Canary Islands by scooping Dealer of the Year Award and Volvo Penta Gold Awards for outstanding sales and market support performance. Volspec also won Dealer of the Year in 1982, 1990 and 2002 and ...
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NewsAgreement Breaks Scopic Rates Deadlock
The International Salvage Union (ISU) and the International Group of P& I Clubs have reached a New Year agreement which has cleared the way for an increase in the tariff rates for personnel engaged in salvage operations under Lloyds Form where the SCOPIC Clause (Special Compensation P& I Club) has ...
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Trelleborg Acquires CRP
Sweden''s Trelleborg Group has acquired the Lancashire UK based CRP Group of companies for £ 70m. CRP, whose operations relate primarily to systems for the subsea sector of the oil and gas business, will slot into Trelleborg Engineered Systems within the Trelleborg Group. As a result of the acquisition, oil ...
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NewsP&O Ports Takeover Cliffhanger
Investors in the P& O ports and ferries group must feel like Christmas is ongoing as the Singapore government''s investment fund Temasek, which already owns the world''s number two container terminal operator Port of Singapore Authority (PSA), made its long anticipated counter-approach through PSA for the P& O group in ...
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UK Port Rail Plan
s UK Port of Felixstowe applied last month for permission under the Transport and Works Act (TWA) to improve the existing single track branch line between Trimley St Mary and Levington.
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NewsNew MCA Search & Rescue Helicopter Contract
The UK''s Maritime and Coastguard Agency last month awarded a five year interim contract for the provision of Coastguard search and rescue helicopter services to CHC Scotia. The contract provides for commercial SAR helicopter from civilian operated bases at Sumburgh, Stornoway, Lee-on-Solent, and Portland, running for a five year period ...
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NewsRNLI Launches 'Tamar' at London Boat Show
The RNLI officially unveiled its new Tamar Class all-weather lifeboat at the London Boat Show earlier this month.
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Babcock & Brown March on Maritime Europe
Acquisitive Australian investment group Babcock & Brown has bought into UK port operations with the purchase of PD Ports and into the growing European marine renewable energy market with the purchase of Energis.
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Boskalis' Boom Year
Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster has announced anticipated net profits for 2005 will be up by at least 80% on 2004, when the company posted a figure of ?32.3m. A large intake of orders late in the year, including a ?0.8bn project in Qatar, has doubled the order book ...
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NewsBox Terminal Gets Go Ahead
Associated British Ports (ABP) welcomed the Government decision last month to permit construction of the proposed Quay 2005 container terminal at the company''s northern Port of Hull. The two berth development would be built on the riverside in front of the present Alexandra Dock and will allow the port to ...
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Night Vision in Europe
Hampshire UK based Eurotask Ltd has been appointed European distributor for US based Night Vision Technologies Inc (NVTi) and will handle their range of night and day vision systems used for security and surveillance within the marine industries. The NVTi systems use a combination of thermal, Generation III light intensified, ...
