Industry News – Page 284
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NewsConference Examines UK Ports Policy
Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary for State for Transport will be the headline speaker for a one day conference on the theme of UK Ports Policy: Reaching Conclusions.
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NewsNarrow Escape for Two Ships in Channel
In just over a week two ships escaped serious damage, or worse, in incidents in the English Channel. When the news broke early on the morning of 2 January that the 90,465grt container vessel ' LT Cortesia' had ran aground on the Varne Bank while travelling through the Dover Strait ...
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NewsGreen Ships Sail to Rotterdam
Regulations and systems designed to protect the marine environment raise crucial investment, procedural and safety issues for the shipping industry, but they also chart a course towards business retention, cost savings and improved public image.
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NewsPassenger Boat Industry Launches Conference
Members of the UK passenger boat industry will gather in London on 6 March 2008 for the first national conference in the history of the industry. Opportunity, Challenge and Change: The Future of the UK Passenger Boat Industry is organised by The Passenger Boat Association (PBA) in partnership with Knighthood ...
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NewsNavy Chief Supports Chopped UKHO
The head of the British Royal Navy visited the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) last month to get an update on the navigational services and charts the organisation provides.
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NewsRolls-Royce Order Rolls On
Rolls-Royce has won £ 72m of further business on its largest ever offshore marine contract, taking the total order value to £ 155m.
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NewsSalvors Can't Place Contract with the Weather
When Smit Salvage started operations to remove the wrecked stern section of ' MSC Napoli' from Lyme Bay on the UK Devon Coast in early November progress was brisk. Within one week hydraulically operated shears had removed most of the vessel’ s 650 ton accommodation block and upper works. A ...
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NewsUK Tidal Energy Welcomed in Canada
British company Marine Current Turbines, the developer of SeaGen, the world’ s largest and most advanced tidal stream energy system, has signed an agreement with Canada’ s Maritime Tidal Energy Corporation to harness the huge tidal currents of the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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NewsOilfield Technology for Offshore Wind
Classification society DNV had granted an approval in principle for a new offshore wind energy concept developed by Dutch offshore design company Sea of Solutions in close cooperation with partner Sparcs Products.
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NewsTo Russia with the IHMA
St Petersburg in Russia has been announced as the setting for 2008 Congress of the International Harbour Masters' Association (IHMA). Hosted by the St Petersburg Maritime Port Administration with the support of the Russian Ministry of Transport, the event will take place next year on 12-16 May.
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NewsRenewable Energy Congress Planned for Vienna
Environmental experts from all over Europe and overseas will be gathering in Vienna for the first European congress for environmental technology and renewable energies, Envietech, which will run from 31 January to 1 February.
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NewsContract Signed for New Dartmouth Ferry
The Dartmouth-Kingswear Floating Bridge Company, operator of the town’ s Higher Ferry across the River Dart, has signed a contract with Pendennis Shipyard for the construction of a replacement vessel to be delivered in the summer of 2009.
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How Finance Has Helped to Change the Marine Market
Due to the ever increasing costs of raw materials, commercial vessel prices continue to rise well ahead of inflation and vessel acquisitions often require additional funding from banks and financial institutions.
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NewsShip Finance Forum Debates Boom or Bust
After several years of mainly rich pickings, the shipping industry’ s eternal boom and bust cycle provided the inevitable focus of attention at the 20th annual Lloyd’ s Shipping Economist ship finance and investment conference in London last month.
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NewsReducing Pollution Threat is Salvage Priority
Given the huge volumes of crude oil transported worldwide, the tanker industry has achieved a remarkable reduction in the number of significant oil spills, which has fallen to less than five per year. Nevertheless, industry, governments and the public at large remain aware that a major spill threat can arise ...
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NewsRIB Tubes To Go
Avon Inflatables, which has built over 200,000 high Hypalon inflatables and rigid inflatable boats (RIBs) since 1959, has tasked its specialist Military & Professional division with creating a separate tube build facility.
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NewsOceanology '08 Appears on the Horizon
Leading figures from the marine science and ocean technology community will focus on the key themes of climate change, meeting future energy needs and ensuring environmental and civil security when the Oceanology International conference and exhibition returns to London next year.
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NewsArnold Witte is New ISU President
Members of the International Salvage Union (ISU), attending their 53rd General Meeting in Cape Town on 30 - 31 October, have elected Arnold Witte, CEO of US salvor Donjon Marine, as president. He succeeds Hans van Rooij of SMIT.
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NewsPlanning Support for UK Marine Businesses
Marine South East, the regional marine initiative of the South East of England Development Agency (SEEDA), has recently expressed support for plans to include specific reference to waterfront sites in the development of a regional spatial strategy, the South East Plan.
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NewsEnd of Season Insurance Advice
With the season drawing to a close, the many commercial marine operators who are also leisure boat owners are likely to be planning where and when they are going to lay up their boats to carry out winter maintenance or simply remove from moorings. UK leisure boat insurers Navigators & ...
