Vessels News – Page 183
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NewsPod power for fast workboats at Seawork
With the IPS system, Seawork 2010 exhibitor Volvo Penta has introduced a pod system for planing applications, such as fast workboats, pilot boats and patrol boats. The IPS program is now being expanded still further. With new and larger drive units coupled to the 13 litre marine diesel, Volvo Penta ...
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NewsSee what’s new with Watermota at Seawork 2010
Following a busy and successful 2009, South Devon based WaterMota Ltd continues to grow with new customers, products and personnel.
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NewsWärtsilä engines for Polar supply and research vessel
‘Low rates of fuel consumption and low levels of emissions are an important consideration when operating in the Antarctic''s vulnerable natural environment’, says Jukka Paananen, business manager of Wärtsilä Ship Power.
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NewsClutch time solutions on show at Seawork
Seawork 2010 exhibitor Centa Transmissions, the flexible coupling and shaft supplier, has supplied two special electric clutch assemblies to Griffon Hoverwork Limited.
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NewsCoastlink plans shortsea conference in Antwerp
Coastlink is to return to the port city of Antwerp in September for its 2010 Annual Conference. Reflecting its close cooperation with the Antwerp Port Authority, the event will be held on 14 and 15 September in the Havenhuis, the authority’s headquarters building on Entrepotkaai.
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NewsBRAtt takes off and goes green - by Jack Gaston
The project to produce the world’s first, purpose built training tug took a quantum leap forward in May with the completion of the first prototype and a signed contract to build two vessels with ‘Green’ propulsion systems. Both events were timed to coincide with the ITS 2010 Tug & Salvage ...
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NewsUNV deliver Tommaso Onorato - by Jack Gaston
Italian owner Moby S.p.A. based in Cagliari has taken delivery of the powerful Voith tractor ‘Tommaso Onorato’. The tug was built by the Spanish shipbuilder Union Naval Valencia, a member of the Boluda Group, purchased ‘on the stocks’ and completed for use under the Italian flag.
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News'Ginger’ joins the Iskes fleet - by Jack Gaston
‘Ginger’, the second of two new tugs to be completed in the Netherlands for Iskes Towage & Salvage, is now in service.
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NewsMAIB report on Ijsselstroom capsize - by Jack Gaston
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has issued its report on the capsize and sinking of the Dutch tug ‘Ijsselstroom ‘ at Peterhead in June 2009. The incident, and the resulting MAIB report, is yet another reminder of the inherent dangers still present in the operation of conventional screw ...
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NewsDMS Osprey evolved from a flexible design - by Jack Gaston
On 27 April Damen Marine Services took delivery of the new tug ‘DMS Osprey’ and ‘DMS Pelican’, a Multicat 2409. The ‘DMS Osprey’ has a striking resemblance to the ‘Pushbuster’ class of tugs introduced in 2008 but bears the designation Shoalbuster 3511. The explanation lies in some slick redesign and ...
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NewsFairplay Towage charter the Italian Fox - by Jack Gaston
Hamburg based tugowners Fairplay Towage have taken the anchorhandling ASD tug ‘Fox’ on a two year bare boat charter from Ocean Srl of Trieste. The deal was completed at the end of April and the tug sailed from Trieste in Fairplay colours under the name ‘Fairplay 27’.
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The International Tugmasters Association is formed - by Jack Gaston
A new International Tug Masters Association has been formed to represent tugmasters throughout the world, largely by means of a new and most comprehensive web site. The launch is backed by a host of influential personalities representing a wealth of experience from all sectors of the towage industry.
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NewsTOWLINES June 2010 - by Jack Gaston
Kompania di Tou Korsou (KTK) took delivery of the ‘Orca VI’, a powerful Damen Stan Tug 4011 built by PT Dumas in Surabaya, Indonesia on 2 April. With its bollard pull of 70 tons the new vessel will give an important boost to KTK’s capabilities in the international towing and ...
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NewsSuperferry sails on Sunday
The first of the world’s two largest Superferries will sail the North Sea between Harwich and the Hook of Holland when Stena Line puts it into service on Sunday.
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NewsUSCG approves salvage and firefighting services contract
Marine Response Alliance, LLC (MRA) has received approval from the U.S. Coast Guard of its Salvage and Marine Firefighting Contract and Funding Agreement.
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NewsA long haul home for ‘RT Peter’ – by Jack Gaston
The latest addition to the Kotug fleet, the Rotor Tug ''RT Peter'' arrived in Rotterdam in mid-April after a very lengthy delivery voyage from the Far East.
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NewsA tug and barge service delivers new Aircraft Carrier sections – by Jack Gaston
The first major transfer of prefabricated blocks (sections) for the new aircraft carrier, ‘HMS Queen Elizabeth’, was completed on 8 April when the barge ‘Osprey Carrier’ arrived in the Firth of Forth, towed by the tug ‘Vigilant’.
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NewsHerman Sr BV get a new Tarka 3 – by Jack Gaston
The names ‘Herman Sr’, and ‘Tarka’, well known in the dredging and marine civil engineering business. Dutch tugowners Herman Sr BV took delivery of their first Shoalbuster named ''Tarka'' from the Damen Shipyard at Hardinxveld in 1996.
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NewsITC continues to diversify – by Jack Gaston
In recent years the Dutch towage specialist ITC applied a strategy to progressively diversify its activities more into offshore support and other similar activities, alongside its traditional core business of deepsea ocean towage.
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NewsTOWLINES May 2010 – by Jack Gaston
Dutch tug owners F J M Hubregte van der Berge have taken delivery of the new anchorhandling tug Dutch Pearl. The new tug was built by Scheepswerf Gebr Kooiman of Zwijndrecht and is a further example of the successful 31m shallow draft, twin screw design that has proved popular with ...
