Key Deals – Page 228

  • The European freight industry needs strong incentives to move to modes including water transport, such as provided by Robert Wynn & Sons in the UK.
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    Transport Study Encourages Water Freight

    2005-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Road pricing schemes which would encourage haulage firms to shift some of their freight off the crowded road network and onto trains, inland waterways and short sea shipping routes were highlighted in a new study into the use of strategic transport corridors in Europe over the next decade undertaken on ...

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    Winds of Change Drive Marine Cable Alliance

    2005-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Rapid expansion of the marine renewable energy market has prompted a cooperation agreement between SMIT Heavy Lift Europe BV and Essex UK based cable installation and maintenance specialist Global Marine Systems Limited .

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    Disaster Display on Merseyside

    2005-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Admission is free to the Merseyside Maritime Museum , where a collection of newly acquired exhibits linked to the Titanic and Lusitania disasters has gone on display. These include the only item of clothing worn on the night of Titanic ''ssinking to still survive and a cushion from the Lusitania ...

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    Intermodal Box Empire Created

    2005-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Icelandic shipping to logistics company Samskip is set to acquire control of the Dutch intermodal operator Geest North Sea in a deal that will create Europe''s largest intra-European intermodal/shortsea container shipping network. The joint company will offer a network of shortsea services encompassing the North Sea, the Baltic, Ireland and ...

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    Historic Ships Website Re-Launched

    2005-06-01T00:00:00Z

    To coincide with SeaBritain 2005 , the year long festival inspired by the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar, the National Historic Ships Committee , in association with the National Maritime Museum , has launched a new, redesigned and upgraded website giving details of the UK''s fleet of historic vessels.

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    Six Is A Crowd In Southampton

    2005-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Hundreds of staff from Southampton Cargo Handling Ltd (SCH) and its subsidiary Cruise and Passenger Services (CPS) had their busiest ever week recently when the liners Queen Mary 2 and Queen Elizabeth 2 were both in port along with two other cruise ships and two Ro-Ro ships. More than 300 ...

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    Chain System Upgrade Strengthens Capacity Requirements

    2005-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Lifting hardware supplier Crosby has launched a new range of chain fittings that are 25% stronger than comparable products and can be used with either Grade 10 or Grade 8 chain. The Crosby 8/10 Chain System , which includes a wide selection of links, hooks and other chain fittings, meets ...

  • Youngsters take part in the final of the Operation Storm national engineering challenge at HMS Sultan in Gosport.
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    Young Engineers Rise to Royal Navy Challenge

    2005-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Hurricane Hugo has just struck the Caribbean island of St Kitts, causing massive damage.

  • Dr Black (left) and his partner Sam Athey testing sediment movement on the River Clyde.
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    See You Later, in the Land of the Gator

    2005-06-01T00:00:00Z

    An innovative new technology for tracking sediment in rivers and seas has opened up a lucrative new market in the United States for a Glasgow based environmental consultancy.

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    Cup of Cheer for 'Bourbon'

    2005-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Maritime services provider Groupe Bourbon has posted a turnover increase of 13.9% in marine services for the first quarter of this year. The sector has been boosted by an expansion of offshore activity and the continuation of record rates in the bulk transport trade. The towage and salvage business grew ...

  • The Rolls-Royce/UTC programme will research the operating environment of marine vessels and their propulsor and manoeuvring systems.
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    Marine Technology Centre Opens in Norway

    2005-06-01T00:00:00Z

    Rolls-Royce established its first University Technology College (UTC) in Norway last month to conduct key research programmes in the marine sector.

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    Crane Drain Boosts Boxes

    2005-06-01T00:00:00Z

    The Port of Marseilles Authority is transferring two panamax gantry cranes from Fos container terminal to handle growing box traffic at the adjacent Brule-Tabac terminal. The extra equipment will allow Brule-Tabac to grow its traditional multi-purpose ro-ro activity whilst also enabling the acceptance of small container carriers and river barges ...

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    Maritime Britain

    2005-05-01T18:07:00Z

    Subtitled ''A Celebration of Britain''s Maritime Heritage, Maritime Britain examines the island nation''s nautical heritage seen through the astonishing variety of its maritime museums, historical ships and coastal attractions.

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    The Comprehensive Guide to Shipwrecks of the East Coast

    2005-05-01T18:07:00Z

    Quite specific in its focus, this Volume 2 deals with shipwrecks along the UK east coast from Whitby down to Skegness during the years from 1918 to 2003, following an earlier Volume 1 which covered 1766 to 1917.

  • Elbmeile is the seventh Type 2000 ferry for Hamburgs HADAG and the fifth built by SSB.
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    HADAG Gets Seventh Type 2000 and Plans More

    2005-05-01T00:00:00Z

    The renewal of Hamburg''s versatile small ferry ship fleet continues with news that HADAG Seetouristik und Fahrdienst has taken its seventh Type 2000 newbuilding into service and has ordered two more.

  • Angeln and Stor are the WSPs first new patrol boats for 14 years.
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    Delivery of First Patrol Boats in 14 years to Schleswig Holstein

    2005-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Cash-strapped river and coastal police in Germany''s northernmost state, Schleswig Holstein , have taken two badly-needed new ? 335,000 Finnish-built patrol boats into service after a long wait.

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    Record Cruise Season

    2005-05-01T00:00:00Z

    The Cromarty Firth Port Authority will welcome the world''s largest cruise liner, Queen Mary 2 , this summer as part of a record breaking cruise season in which 32 different liners will make 47 calls between 16 April and 18 September.

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    Top Class Container Ships

    2005-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Lloyds Register will class the world''s largest declared capacity container ships, four 10,000teu vessels to be built in Korea at Hyundai Heavy Industries for China Ocean Shipping Corporation (COSCO).

  • Wallenius Wilhelmsens commitment to marine environmental issues extends to this design concept zero emissions Ro-Ro carrier of the future.
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    Corporate/NGO Initiative to Protect High Seas

    2005-05-01T00:00:00Z

    The global shipping and logistics company Wallenius Wilhelmsen has signed a three year agreement with the conservation organisation WWF to preserve and promote the conservation of marine life on the high seas.

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    Car Goes Up at Southampton

    2005-05-01T00:00:00Z

    As a result of rapid growth in deep sea car trade which has seen volumes more than double since 2000, the ABP Port of Southampton is to get a second multi-deck car park.