Industry News – Page 295
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PLA Quality Awards
The Port of London Authority (PLA) has received two certifications from Lloyds Register Quality Assurance.
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NewsTanya Takes USCG Water Safety Award
The current holder of the title Young Engineer for Britain has won the United States Coast Guard Award for Boating and Water Safety at the International Science and Engineering Fair held at Indianapolis USA last month.
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Ports Insurance Responds to Hectic Hurricane Season
Following losses from the 2005 hurricane season, property premiums have increased on average by 40% for global ports and terminals, particularly those operating in catastrophe prone areas, according to a new report by Aon Marine.
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NewsInvestment Programme for Wightlink Ferry Operations
Wightlink Isle of Wight Ferries is poised to embark on an investment programme that will see the company ordering new ships, replacing its operating systems, enhancing its corporate image and, in the shorter term, making changes to the structure of its senior management.
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NewsMCT Moves for Money Men
With Marine Current Turbine''s 1MW SeaGen tidal device set to be installed in Northern Ireland''s Strangford Lough later this year, and preliminary work underway to develop a commercial tidal farm in UK waters within the next three to five years, MCT has appointed KPMG as financial advisers to review all ...
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NewsShore-Side Electricity in Ports Recommended
The European Commission has published a Recommendation in its Official Journal (OJ) which could lead to the development and installation of much new marine infrastructure in the form of shore-side electricity for the use of ships at berth in Community ports.
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NewsWind Farm Sector Guidance on Underwater Cabling
One of the issues raised by the growing UK investment in offshore wind farms is that of the cabling that connects turbines to the mainland.
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HIT Bulks Up
A new long term agreement between Associated British Ports and Arkady Feed (UK) Ltd will boost agribulks throughput at the Port of Immingham''s Humber International Terminal by an estimated 100,000 tons per year.
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DNV Makes It Official
Radio Holland Group is the first company to receive worldwide recognition by Det Norsk Veritas for servicing and testing radio communication equipment and annul certification of Voyage Data Recorders. Global recognition follows many years during which the experienced staff at some 51 Radio Holland Group subsidiary branches along the major ...
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NewsFirst of Three 'Heavies' for Hamburg Police
Now in service in Germany is the first in a series of three 17.56m long heavy harbour patrol boats for the Hamburg Wasserschutzpolizei, which is responsible for law and order on the City''s rivers and estuary waters.
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Holyhead Freight Boom
Stena Line is to increase freight capacity on its Holyhead to Dublin route with the introduction of an additional vessel. The company will redeploy current ferry Stena Seatrader from its North Sea fleet, commencing operations on the Central Corridor in July.
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News'HMS Daring' Foremast Delivered
VT Shipbuilding has completed its construction work on the Royal Navy''s first of class Type 45 destroyer HMS Daring with delivery of the foremast to BAE Systems Naval Ships in Glasgow.
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Box Tops at Felixstowe
The world''s largest containership, COSCO Ningbo, made its inaugural call at the UK Port of Felixstowe last month. At 9,449 TEU, the giant boxship has the highest declared capacity of any vessel currently in operation. Designed to cope with the ever growing trade from China, COSCO Ningbo will operate on ...
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NewsYoung Engineer Drug Busters
Young Engineers is a UK educational charity with a remit to inspire young people to pursue careers in engineering.
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NewsSpanish Ferry to Commence Operations in Portsmouth
Portsmouth Commercial Por t in the UK and Portsmouth City Council have confirmed that the Spanish short sea shipping line Acciona Transmediterranea will commence operations from the city to the Port of Bilbao on the 18th of this month.
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NewsPort-Net Partners Share Experiences
Delegates from the Haven Gateway Partnership joined port representatives from across Europe last month to share and discuss their experiences in electronic data interchange (EDI) and cargo flows, in the latest of a series of workshops within the EU''s Port-Net initiative.
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NewsFassmer Produces First Oil Skimming Combination
Fassmer Werft has handed over the first of a new type of small ship combination designed for environmental service with local authorities.
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MCA SAR Improvements
The UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency search and rescue figures for 2005 show the total number of occasions where assistance was required went down compared to 2004, and the total number of persons rescued (where lives were at risk) was also down. The total number of alerts received by the ...
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International ENC Cooperation
The Norwegian Hydrographic Service (NHS), operator of the Primar Stavanger electronic navigational chart service, has signed a distribution agreement for Japanese ENCs with the Japan Hydrographic Association.
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Calamity Corner: The Wrecks of the Eastern English Channel
The Titanic is the best example of an enduring public fascination with shipwrecks, but for many whose interest is perhaps determined by a proximity to home territory or some aspect of personal history, there is lore to match each and every nautical location.
