Industry News – Page 272
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NewsChichester Working Boats Festival a success
Twenty colourful working boats lined the jetty at Itchenor for the Harbour Working Boats Festival last month to give the public a valuable insight into life onboard working vessels in Chichester Harbour.
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News'Riverdance' wreck will be dismantled on site
Work has started on the task of dismantling the wreck of the ferry ' Riverdance' , now lying on the beach at Blackpool on the north-west coast of England. After a lengthy evaluation process, the owner of Riverdance produced plans to dismantle the ship in situ on the grounds that ...
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News'Earthrace' away on biofuel record attempt
Earthrace, a 78' wave piercing trimaran powerboat that runs as a carbon neutral project exclusively on 100% biodiesel started an attempt to break the round the world speed record late last month.
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Sustainable oceans forum
The National Oceanography Centre in Southampton UK will host a major international Ocean Stewardship Forum on 17 - 18 June.
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Gensets get a jump
American marine diesel genset and propulsion engine manufacturer Northern Lights has introduced 4.5 to 30kW gensets.
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Seafair Haven Flourishing
Milford Haven Port Authority' s Seafair Haven festival has attracted the interest of over 200 traditional and classic craft that will visit Pembrokeshire UK between 18 to 25 June.
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Legal Maritime Date
A date has been confirmed for the International Legal Maritime Conference taking place in the Italian port city of Ancona next month (see MJ February, page 17).
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News'Napoli' design defects identified by MAIB
Design defects which led to catastrophic hull failure of the containership ' MSC Napoli' when it encountered heavy seas in the English Channel last year have been identified in 12 other ships.
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NewsMajor donation to National Maritime Museum
The UK' s National Maritime Museum (NMM) has received a donation of £ 20m towards the creation of a major new wing at the heart of its Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site.
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NewsCrane Ship Finally Delivers the Goods
The heavy lift crane carrier Zhen Hua 23, which broke away from its moorings at Felixstowe on 1 March, was finally moved to the Trinity Container Terminal number 7 berth some three weeks after the accident which destroyed two of the port’ s quayside container cranes.
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NewsOban Trial Demonstrates Galileo Navigation
The Northern Lighthouse Board, the General Lighthouse Authority for Scotland and the Isle of Man, welcomed guests and members of the European MARUSE Consortium to its base in Oban last month to view a high tech demonstration aimed at developing an understanding of the maritime uses of Galileo for navigation.
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NewsAmos Saved from a Watery Grave
After 32 years lying on the Medway next to Chatham Historic Dockyard, the UK’ s last surviving steam paddle tug, ' John H Amos' , has been moved to a more suitable location for work on the vessel’ s restoration.
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NewsClimate Change Comedy Raises Funds for NOCS
The National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS) at the University of Southampton is celebrating the success of its Climate Change Comedy Night, held to raise funds for its Solent Science Roadshow programme.
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NewsChallenge of Ferries on the Move
Following the delivery voyages of the fast ferry ' Tallink Autoexpress 2' and the ' Coastal Renaissance' , Netherlands based Global ship delivery and crewing specialist Redwise Marine Services BV is currently delivering the second newbuilding ferry from BC Ferries, the ' Coastal Inspiration' , from Flensburg (Germany) to Vancouver ...
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NewsCoasters 2007
This selection of the world' s coasters not only gives the gross tonnage, present flag and a bit of history, but, just like a group of rather homely pin-ups, it also shows them in some unusual locations.
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NewsSolent Shipping Memories
This book is the latest all colour album in the same series as Bristol Channel Shipping Memories and Mersey Shipping Memories. It takes a look at Solent Merchant Shipping over the last 50 years.
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NewsMaritime Britain
Maritime Britain is a journey around Britain' s coast in bite-sized pieces that still manages to give the local flavour of the harbours, bays and ports, while putting them all in their historical context.
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NewsSWATH Windpark Tender Contract for A&R
Leading German SWATH ship builder Abeking & Rasmussen has booked a 26m tender for offshore wind farm maintenance and supply. The 13m wide tender is for delivery in 2010 to the BARD Group for operation at a new wind farm off the north German coast near Borkum.
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News'Terra Marique' Assists RNLI Again
Following last month' s high profile recovery of the Portrush lifeboat, the Katie Hannan, Eccleshall UK based shipping company Robert Wynn & Sons have been called in again to help the RNLI.
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NewsNew MCA Helicopters for UK South Coast
In a change to the previous arrangement, Canadian operator CHC Helicopter Corporation now operate rescue helicopters for the MCA at four UK bases.
