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    Multi-Lingual Marine Website

    2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Marine Power Europe, the Belgium based distributor of marine engines, boats, parts and accessories, has redesigned its website to enable browsing of 8,000 pages and 22,000 documents in nine languages.

  • Edda Fjord, the worlds biggest supply vessel.
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    World's Biggest Offshore Supply Ship Delivered

    2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

    What is said to be the largest offshore supply vessel ever built, and one of the most versatile to boot, has joined the fleet of Norwegian shipping company Ostensjo Rederi in Haugesund after completion at Norwegian shipyard Flekkefjord Slipp & Maskinfabrikk.

  • The converted CGG Mistral after completion by MWB last Summer.
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    'CGG Mistral' Lost - Soon After MWB Conversion

    2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The French seismic ship CGG Mistral went down in 750m of water in the eastern Caribbean just before Christmas, a few months after her 22m conversion at Germany''s MWB Motorenwerke in Bremerhaven.

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    Tideland Maritime Goes Global

    2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Tideland Maritime Systems, the new division of Tideland Signal dedicated to the supply, installation and servicing of Automatic Identification Systems (AIS), has signed a worldwide service agreement with the Radio Holland Group. Rotterdam based Radio Holland, will install and service SOLAS AIS units globally as well as providing other technical ...

  • Under the terms of the VT Halmatic Fleet Contract Hire Scheme, ABP Southampton will receive three new Halmatic Nelson 48/50 pilot cutters by early next year.
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    New VT Halmatic Service Launches With Premier Contract

    2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

    VT Halmatic celebrated the launch of a new Fleet Contract Hire and Support Division this month with the announcement of a ten year contract with the ABP Port of Southampton.

  • A picture of the Hardinxveld yard taken in 1969 shows series production of Pushy Cat workboats.
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    Damen Celebrate 75th Year Anniversary

    2002-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Early in November the Damen Shipyards Group, with headquarters at Gorinchem, celebrated 75 years of shipbuilding under the Damen name and 34 years of unique progress under their present chairman Mr Kommer Damen.

  • The new and compact X-Pack DS is now available from Atlantas Marine.
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    Historic Pilot Schooner is Transported Home to Hamburg

    2002-12-01T00:00:00Z

    After 70 years in the United States, the Elbe pilot schooner No 5 Elbe has gone back to her home port Hamburg and the River Elbe, where she started her working life 120 years ago in 1883.

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    IBIA Airs Response to EU Pollution from Ships Strategy

    2002-12-01T00:00:00Z

    The International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA) broadly welcomed the EU strategy for controlling air pollution from ships this month but expressed reservations over the practicality of aspects of the strategy which go beyond international regulations.

  • The Phyllis John is seen trawling off Portsmouth.
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    South Cat Workboat Lands Record Catch

    2002-12-01T00:00:00Z

    South Boats have launched the fifteenth catamaran to be built at their Isle of Wight yard.

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    South Coast Shipping Renamed RMC Marine

    2002-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Southampton UK based South Coast Shipping has been renamed RMC Marine Ltd to bring the firm further into line with its parent company''s corporate identity.

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    Schat-Harding Acquires Dutch Lifeboat Builder Mulder & Rijke

    2002-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Lifeboat and davit specialist Schat-Harding has taken over Dutch lifeboat builder Mulder & Rijke.

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    European Support for Japanese Dredger

    2002-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) in Japan has called upon European dredging expertise to help it build the largest dredger ever produced in that country, a 10,000m 3capacity trailing suction hopper dredger for the Suez Canal Authority. The vessel will be used to maintain dredged depths in entrance channels to the ...

  • Fireworks add atmosphere to the launch of the Tong Tan.
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    'Tong Tan' Launch Marks IHC's Chinese Century

    2002-12-01T00:00:00Z

    IHC Holland continues its steady output of small to medium sized trailing suction hopper dredgers with the recent launch and naming ceremony for Tong Tan, built for China''s CHEC/Tianjin Dredging Company (TDC).

  • Tushar Bijur, senior lecturer in marine simulation at South Tyneside College, Chris Raley of the MCA and Bob Shaw, team leader on the VTS course.
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    'Matador 3' in First Visit to Ireland

    2002-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Rotterdam based heavy lift specialists Bonn & Mees are taking their new 1,500 ton capacity floating sheerlegs Matador 3 to Dublin this month where it will lift a 470 ton linkspan into position.

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    New Parliamentary Act Helps Port Authority Build Economy

    2002-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Royal assent has been obtained in Britain to create an Act of Parliament which will allow Milford Haven Port Authority to operate more efficiently and effectively, and help in its aim of developing the local economy.

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    Essential Awareness of Port and Shipping Security

    2002-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Following the recent major Diplomatic Conference on Maritime Security, held at the IMO between 9-13 December, the development of the International Ship and Port Security Code (ISPSC) is likely to have considerable impact on shipping and port operations in coming years.

  • The AIMS MIII trial in the Solent provided transponder equipped vessels with weather monitoring and hydrological data.
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    54 Years of Excellence Certified

    2002-12-01T00:00:00Z

    PB Asher, Diesel Injection Specialists based in Southampton, Hampshire has achieved certification to ISO 9001:2000, the international quality management system standard and were presented with their certificate at the Ship Repair Exhibition at Olympia, London on Wednesday 27 November 2002 by James West, General Manager of MAN B&W Diesel, London.

  • The jetty consists of steel piles with horizontal frames and a concrete top.
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    'Centaur' Set To Be Shetland Workhorse

    2002-12-01T00:00:00Z

    The Alexander Noble & Sons yard at Girvan on the West Coast of Scotland last month delivered the latest vessel in a long line of specialist workboats it has completed since moving into the sector from its traditional role as a builder of fishing boats.

  • The entire team for Exercise Rigid Lion share one of their calmer moments.
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    New Pontoons for Jenkins Marine

    2002-12-01T00:00:00Z

    To support their recent growth in the marine civil engineering sector, as well as increase the size of their charter fleet, the Jenkins Marine Group, based in Poole, Dorset has recently purchased three 33 x 10m (approx) flat deck pontoons.

  • David Brown Engineering will design and build the accessory drive gearbox for use on gas turbine marine engines.
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    David Brown Gears Up for Gas Turbine Transmission

    2002-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Huddersfield UK based David Brown Engineering has been awarded a contract to design and build an advanced technology, high speed accessory drive gearbox for use on the WR-21, a new generation intercooled recuperated gas turbine power plant being developed jointly by Northrop Grumman of the USA and Rolls Royce in ...