Vessels News – Page 204
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NewsFuel Efficiency for Ferry Fleet
With financial pressures due to the rising cost of fuel effecting all transportation fleets, the requirement for ship owners and operators to professionally monitor their fuel usage in real time has become paramount.
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NewsHybrid Propulsion First for RiverQuest 'Explorer'
The launch last month in America of ''Explorer'', the world''s first green engineered floating classroom, claims to herald a new era in marine design for environmental sustainability.
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NewsCummins Power for Crew Boat Surge
The oil industry is one of the primary motivators in current boat building and the Middle East is one of the primary sources of oil.
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NewsEuropean Skies Clear with John Deere
John Deere Power Systems has progressed well beyond the limitation of early associations with American tractors and is now placing ever more marine engines on European workboats.
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Diesel-Electric for Fisheries Protection Newbuild
The latest vessel being built for the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency (SFPA) will have an electric propulsion system provided by Rolls-Royce.
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The Show Must Go On On Board
Worboats perform any number of roles but there can be few more unusual than that of ''Amara Zee'', which is used as the performing platform for the Caravan Stage Company Tall Ship Theatre.
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XK's Easy Ride for Marine Engines
Trelleborg Industrial AVS has launched a new high performance member of its Cushymount range of mountings, specially designed to provide optimised shock and vibration isolation for large marine engines and gensets.
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NewsSvitzer-Adsteam Takeover Moves Rapidly as Liverpool Operation is
Following publication of the Competition Commission report on the proposed takeover of Adsteam Marine by SvitzerWijsmuller, matters have progressed rapidly.
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NewsMore Rotor Tugs for German Operators
Kooren Shipbuilding and Trading B.V. has announced the sale of two Rotor Tug RT-80r class vessels to Unterweser Reederei GmbH (URAG) of Bremen.
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NewsBusy Sanmar Has Ten Tugs Under Construction
In keeping with other specialist tug builders the Turkish yard Sanmar Denizcilik Ltd is working hard to meet the current high demand for new tonnage.
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News'A Turtle' Goes to the Bottom
A long period of anxiety for the residents on the remote island of Tristan du Cuhna came to an end on 11 February when the wreck of the errant oil rig ''A Turtle'' was finally scuttled by salvors in deep water well away from their coastline.
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NewsA New Contract for Ostensjo
Østensjø Rederi AS of Haugesund, Norway has signed a contract with Norske Shell to provide towage services at the new Shell Nyhamna terminal now under construction at Aukra in Norway.
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NewsSvitzerWijsmuller Win Major Milford Haven LNG Contracts
Towage services in the UK port of Milford Haven will be transformed with a fleet of nine powerful new tugs and six line handling vessels to be introduced bySvitzer Marine Ltd .
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NewsMore New ETVs for the Spanish Coast
The first of two coastal protection vessels has been handed over to Spain''s Maritime Safety Authority SASEMAR. Named Don Inda, the vessel''s primary role is that of an emergency towing vessel (ETV) for tankers of unlimited size under adverse conditions. A bollard pull of about 220 tons makes these vessels ...
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NewsJP Knight Go Shopping in Japan
JP Knight (Caledonian) Ltd,; the Scottish branch of JP Knight Ltd based at Invergordon, has returned to Japan to replace the Japanese built tugs Kinnaird and Kincardine, which were sold in November 2006. The result of their negotiations is the purchase of two modern Japanese built tugs for almost immediate ...
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Competition Commission Reports on Svitzer-Adsteam Takeover
On 9 February the Competition Commission (CC) published its final report on SvitzerWijsmuller''s proposed takeover of Adsteam Marine Ltd. In the report the Commission will require SvitzerWijsmuller A/S to sell off one of the harbour towage operations in Liverpool if it goes ahead with the anticipated acquisition of Adsteam Marine ...
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NewsTOWLINES
Iceland has ordered their first Coastguard ETV from ASMAR in Chile.The new compact tug Union Amber is undergoing extensive trials after completion by the Spanish yard Astilleros Armon. Union Amber is the first of four new vessels to be ordered by URS in Belgium and associates Fairplay Towage, it will ...
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Prevention is the Cure as Tsavliris Calls for 'Liability Salvage'
The principal of Piraeus based salvage operators Tsavliris has called on liability and property insurers as well as governments to adopt the concept of ''liability salvage'', in which salvors are remunerated for preventing a liability from materialising.
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Van der Wees Celebrate Centenary of Service
On the 1st of January the Dutch transport contractors Van der Wees Watertransporten BV, well known for their extensive fleet of tugs and barges, celebrated 100 years of service to the marine industry. The company was founded in Delft in 1907 when the brothers Abraham and Nicolaas van der Wees ...
