Industry News – Page 258
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NewsInterspill 'Working Together' with the IMO
With the spill industry offering more prevention, better response and serving wider markets across Europe and the world, the need for a platform to demonstrate the strengths of the industry and to communicate its message is fulfilled by the Interspill 2009 Conference and Exhibition.
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Wartsila goes Kampen
Finnish marine engine producer Wartsila has commissioned the design and implementation of a new Central Distribution Centre (CDC) at Kampen in the Netherlands. The € 50m contract will result in facilities enabling Wartsila to centralise the spare parts logistics from nine existing product line specific warehouses into a single global ...
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CML booked up
Southampton UK based GRP and FRP moulder Composite Mouldings Ltd (CML) is defying recessionary conditions with an order book nearly full until 2011. The company has done all the mouldings for the Camarc designed 15m HMS patrol boat for the UK Ministry of Defence, in partnership with Holyhead Marine, and ...
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Shortsea reports available
Freight by Water member Peter Barker from PRB Associates published his ninth annual report on UK shortsea freight, ro-ro and lo-lo capacity during the fourth quarter of 2008 and last month published the first edition of the Irish freight, ro-ro and lo-lo capacity report. Both reports provide a comprehensive market ...
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Canal regeneration awarded
The Spiers Locks project in Glasgow’ s canal corridor has won the British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA) award for Strategy and Masterplanning. The ongoing regeneration of the canal corridor is recognised as key to the transformation of the north of the city. The Spiers Lock Masterplan focuses on sustainable design ...
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Dredging Cloudburst
Andrew Scott’ s Cloudburst has accepted appointment as UK sales representative for Italian dredger manufacturer Italdraghe Sp A. Cloudburst will represent Italdraghe’ s full range of cutter suction dredgers and dredging pumps as well as accessory dredging equipment such as backflow pipelines, riddling plant and support vessels. Italdraghe is exhibiting ...
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Diesel academy opens
The new MAN Diesel training centre, the PrimeServ Academy, was inaugurated at Saint-Nazaire in France earlier this month. Located in the Saint-Nazaire plant, the PrimeServ Academy showcases diesel engine best practice and will provide expert diesel engine maintenance and operational training. A natural evolution of the Diesel School, which has ...
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News'Simon Stevin' will be the world's largest rockdumping vessel
Belgium’ s Jan De Nul Group has the biggest dredging vessels in the world in its fleet. The very large self-propelled seagoing rock cutter dredgers JFJ De Nul, Leonardo da Vinci and Marco Polo can tackle the hardest and most difficult soil conditions during shore approach dredging works.
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NewsMCA Scotland grounds SAR helicopters
The UK’ s Maritime & Coastguard Agency was advised last Friday by its helicopter contractor CHC that all four Coastguard S92 helicopters operating out of Stornoway and Shetland have been grounded pending further advice from the relevant safety authorities.
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NewsPort of Hamburg boosts inland waterway box transport
The German Port of Hamburg achieved record results last year for internal waterway shipping, with container transport by environmentally friendly inland vessels growing by a dramatic 29%.
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NewsArabian Gulf gets its Work Boat show
With a high percentage of the world''s dredging fleet and ancillary workboats filling the region in recent years it is surprising that the Arabian Gulf has not had its own dedicated workboat exhibition and conference. The unlikely void has now been filled by Baird Publications, which launches Work Boat Gulf ...
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NewsOcean Business back with a bang
Ocean Business 2009 brings the ocean technology industry back to the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton UK for an event which has doubled in size compared to its last staging in 2007.
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Experts meet to discuss aggregates challenges
The European Marine Sand and Gravel Group (EMSAGG) is hosting what it describes as ''an exceptional conference in Rome, Italy on 7 and 8 May 2009.
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Wartsila pezzi del motore
Finland based marine engine manufacturer Wartsila has boosted its range of engineering services available in Italy by opening a new workshop in Taranto, an important commercial hub in the Puglia region of Southern Italy.
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Site purchase for SAR HQ
Agreement has been reached on the purchase of a suitable site for the proposed new Doolin Search and Rescue Headquarters in Ireland.
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Marine podcasts for free
The Tamar is faster than its predecessor, and is the most technologically advanced lifeboat ever to be produced by the RNLI.The new site offers podcasts on a range of topics, including marine insurance, ports and terminals. Coracle provides the audio files for free via the site and via iTunes, supported ...
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Marine power agreement
Metoc plc, which provides environmental design and risk management services for infrastructure assets, and consulting engineers Parsons Brinckerhoff have signed a non-exclusive alliance agreement to provide new services to the offshore renewable energy and marine power cable sectors.
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Maersk Line moves
Maritime expansion goes forward in Liverpool as international shippers Maersk Line UK & Ireland, part of the vast A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, establishes a headquarters in the port city.
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Alphatron approved and expanded
Rotterdam based Alphatron Marine has been appointed ''Officially Approved LRIT Test Centre'' by the Dutch Directorate General for Public Works and Water Management (IVW).
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Good news on Ouse
UK operator PD Ports achieved a full calendar year without any reportable accidents at its shortsea port of Howden on the River Ouse.
