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    Books

    2005-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Potential use of Alternatives to Primary Aggregates in Coastal and River Engineering (CIRIA C590) By Alan Brampton, Michael Wallis, Elizabeth Holliday. Published by CIRIA. ISBN 0 86017 590 1 Paperback, 134 pages. Price £ 40.

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    Rolls On A Roll

    2005-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Rolls-Royce rolled up a strong second half performance in 2004, signing contracts for some £ 160 million worth of UT-Design vessels and equipment for the offshore market. The company signed contracts with shipyards in Norway, Brazil, India, Singapore and Spain for OSVs and new vessel types. A total of 50 ...

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    AAE Transponder Order

    2005-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Applied Acoustic Engineering, which is presently expanding its Great Yarmouth premises, reports an order worth more than £ 100,000 from PGS Physical in Norway for 32 of its 915 series acoustic positioning mini-transponders together with specially designed flotation devices and battery chargers. PGS plans to use them for deepwater surveys ...

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    SOC On New Footing

    2005-02-01T00:00:00Z

    The Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC) will be renamed the National Oceanography Centre , Southampton from 1st May this year as it bids to become the focus for oceanography in the UK. The vision is embraced by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the University of Southampton, which will continue ...

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    Seighford Gets to Grips With GRP

    2005-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Southampton UK based corporate recovery specialists Fanshawe Lofts successfully sold the troubled Isle of Wight business GRP Laminates last month to the Oxford based Seighford Investments Company Ltd, which plans to expand the business and secure the future for its 28 strong workforce. Cowes based GRP Laminates designs and supplies ...

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    Success Filters Through

    2005-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Port Talbot UK based filter element specialists for marine and other industries, Filtration and Separation Ltd , reports a 60% increase in production during 2004, its first full year since being taken over by TS2Group . To meet the increased demand from existing and new customers, significant investment in production ...

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    Klyne Take Over LEC Marine Branches

    2005-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Klyne Group Holdings has purchased from LEC Marine Limited (currently in Administration), plant, machinery and stock to operate a marine maintenance division, switchboard division, engraving and sign writing and cable supply division following a decision by the Administrator to close the business on 11 February 2005.

  • Images such as this one of trans-Atlantic passengers arriving in New York are on display now at the Merseyside Maritime Museum.
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    Cunard Honours Mersey Heritage

    2005-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Merseyside Maritime Museum has landed a £ 25,000 sponsorship from Cunard for its recently opened exhibition ''Liverpool to New York - the only way to cross''. Given its long history as one of the major Atlantic shipping lines, formerly based in Liverpool, the deal which makes Cunard the museum''s biggest ...

  • The research vessel Triton is to take on a new life as a hydrographic survey vessel.
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    Fork In the Road for 'Triton'

    2005-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Having successfully proven the concept of using a trimaran design for warships of the future, science and technology solutions specialist QinetiQ has sold its high profile research vessel Triton to Great Yarmouth UK based Gardline Shipping for use as a hydrographic survey vessel.

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    'Vicuna' Response Still Underway

    2005-02-01T00:00:00Z

    In our January coverage of Wijsmuller Salvage ''s year end activities, reference was made to their response to the sinking of the tanker Vicuna , which exploded while discharging methanol alongside Cattalini pier in the Brazilian port of Paranagua on 15 November.

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    UKHMA 2005 Spring Seminar Announced

    2005-02-01T00:00:00Z

    The UK Harbour Masters'' Association will hold its 2005 Spring Seminar at the IMarEST Conference Centre incentral London on 13 April.

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    Cammell Laird

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    As Liverpool was developing and prospering with the Industrial Revolution, William Laird arrived as a young man and began purchasing land at Birkenhead, on the more deprived side of the Mersey.

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    'RMS Olympic': Titanic's Sister

    2005-01-01T18:07:00Z

    With the campaign to save the White Star Line''s tender Nomadic already on MJ ''s news pages this month, Tempus has set a January publication date for a substantial new volume detailing the life and times of Olympic , built alongside sister ship Titanic at Harland & Wolff in 1911.

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    EH Hassekk & Sons Extend Their Port Handling Territory

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    From the first day of this month, EH Hassell and Sons Ltd of Stoke on Trent UK has become the nominated distributor for the range of Sennebogen Green Line Material handlers for all industries in the UK as well as port sector distributorship in Ireland.

  • If two hulls are better than one, Lockheed Martin has decided that four hulls are better than two.
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    Lockheed Grabs a SLICE of the Action

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Lockheed Martin turned up at last month''s Workboat Show in New Orleans with a new $25 million contract for the detailed design, construction, test and delivery of two Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull (SWATH) variant crew transport vessels for Mexico''s national oil company PEMEX .

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    MacGregor Heads to Kone

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Kone Corporation has bought MacGregor from Industri Kapital and Gambro AB forapproximately ? 186 million.

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    Small Ships Now Online

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Lockheed Martin's vessel is based on the design of SLICE, a vessel the company designed, built and tested for America's Office of Naval Research. It takes SWATH technology one step further by converting the twin hull SWATH into a four hulled SLICE. The patented design breaks the two long submerged ...

  • Turning the present site of Thames Craft Dry Docking Services into more yuppie flats would have a detrimental effect on the rivers support services.
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    Development Threat to River Support Services

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    One of the last working boatyards on London''s River Thames is threatened by development.

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    Long Running Maritime Charity

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Opportunities to run with Paula Radcliffe and simultaneously support seafarers and their families are still available to participants in next spring''s Flora London Marathon . Those running and raising sponsorship on behalf of the maritime charity King George''s Fund for Sailors (KGFS) will benefit sailors who served in WWII, orphaned ...

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    New On HIT List

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Global power generation company International Power has signed a term agreement with Associated British Ports to use the new £ 44.5 million coal facility being built by extending the Humber International Terminal (HIT) at ABP''s Port of Immingham (see MJ September 2004, page 25).