News 2-10 – Page 268
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James Fisher Buys Everard
James Fisher created the largest UK owned shipping and marine services group last month with the £ 350m purchase of rival product tanker operator FT Everard.
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Torque Talk Returns
The second conference on The Science of Making Torque from Wind has been scheduled for 28 to 31 August at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) at Lyngby, 10 miles north of Copenhagen.
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NewsMustang's Match with Incat Crowther
Mustang Marine (Wales) Ltd has signed a cooperation agreement with Australian design house Incat Crowther which gives the Pembroke Dock based boat builders exclusive rights to build Incat Crowther designs for customers in the UK and Ireland. Mustang Marine anticipates that the demand will be for workboats and ferries in ...
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News'Arrow' Flies to Falmouth
The second VT Halmatic 16m pilot boat was named ''Arrow'' and entered service in ceremonies conducted at the Port of Falmouth last month. Arrow is the second of two new Camarc designed boats ordered by Falmouth Harbour Commissioners and PD Ports. Sister ship Greatham entered service recently at Teesport (see ...
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Hazardous Waste Website
With the current regulatory climate creating a financial and manpower burden to UK businesses, a new website launched this month aims to help small and medium sized businesses comply with waste legislation. The website, www.BeCompliant.co.uk, provides applications and tools to help producers of hazardous waste meet compliance criteria, save money ...
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RENK to Buy MAAG
Germany''s RENK AG has indicated its intention to take over MAAG Gear AG of Winterthur in Switzerland. MAAG makes turbo and marine gears.
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NewsConservancy Fights 'Flawed' Coastal Strategy
The Chichester Harbour Conservancy, statutory harbour authority for Chichester Harbour in the UK, has expressed disappointment at the draft Coastal Defence Strategy drawn up by the UK Environment Agency. It will determine how East Head, the sand dunes at the Harbour Entrance, will be managed in the future.
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NewsWharf Comes Back to Life
The 'Wiebke D' collects the first cargo to leave Alexander Wharf in over a decade.The ship arrived at the wharf to collect about 1,000 tons of stainless steel scrap metal for recycling. This high value metal cargo will now be sailed out of the Thames directly to a major stainless ...
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Agreement on Increased River Tolls
The Broads Authority in the UK has accepted the Navigation Committee''s proposals that tolls should rise by 9.9% for private boat owners and 6.1% for hire boats from 1 April 2007 to pay for an extra £ 100,000 of dredging.
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Conference
A conference on Water Status Monitoring under the WFD will be held in Lille, France on 12-14 March 2007.
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SEEDA's Hoist Wight On
A technologically advanced new hoist for the expanded apron at East Cowes UK is now in operation. The 10m wide hoist dock and crane is suitable for transporting both blades for wind turbines as required by Isle of Wight based Vesta Blades (UK) Ltd, and large yachts of up ...
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Shipping on the Humber - The South Bank
The River Humber has been used for commercial navigation for centuries and remains today as one of the busiest stretches of waterway in Britain.
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Just Off the Swale - The story of the barge building village of Conyer
The peaceful waterside village of Conyer nestles at the head of the North Kent creek which shares its name, situated to the south of The Swale and the Isle of Sheppey it has a timeless charm of a rural idyll.
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NewsWorld's 'Greenest' Catamaran Ordered in Norway
Construction of what is being billed as the ''greenest'' boat ever built'' has begun at Norway''s Fjellstrand Shipyard for the environmental organisation Green Warriors of Norway (GW) in Bergen.
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New AMOT Distibutor
AMOT has established a new authorised distributor partner in Germany, Lehmann & Michels, for its XTS-W bearing condition monitoring system.
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Global Marine Jobshop
The Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology (IMarEST) has launched a new marine proffesional employment service for its 15,000 members in over 100 countries. The service is open to marine companies looking for qualified and skilled professionals and for IMarEST members looking for a change of career ...
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EMEC Backs Harmonisation
The European Marine Equipment Council (EMEC), which represents some 1,250 companies across Europe, has welcomed the Draft EP TRAN Committee Report''s amendments to the European Commission''s Draft Classification Societies'' Directive.
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GL Workers Reject BV Bid
Bureau veritas'' latest takeover bid for rival classification society Germanischer Lloyd has been rejected as hostile by the GL Works Council, which has three representatives on the seven member board which will shape the German group''s response to the French bid.
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News25.4m German Police Fleet Renewal
Schleswig Holstein''s State Waterways Police (WSP) has completed a Europe-wide tender process by awarding orders for four patrol boats to home shipyard Fassmer as part of a ¢ 25.4m fleet renewal programme.
