Vessels News – Page 141
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NewsZodiac hits waterjet century down under
Zodiac Milpro (Military and Professional) in Australia has been presented with a plaque to acknowledge its one hundredth purchase of HamiltonJet HJ274 jets.
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NewsGenerator men move on electric propulsion
There is growing interest in electric propulsion and hybrid systems for fitting to both sail and power yachts and up until now it has been mainly specialised companies that have been developing this market.
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NewsThe most powerful electric outboard
The growing interest in electric propulsion for boats is shown by the development of electric outboard motors.
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Propulsion packages for two new AHTS
MAN Diesel & Turbo’s medium-speed propulsion packages have been supplied for two anchor handling tug supply vessels built by Abu Dhabi-based Adyard.
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NewsFirst VSP equipped X-BOW under build
The Siem Moxie, an infield support vessel (ISV), will be put into operation in spring of 2014 as the first workboat with the Ulstein-designed X-BOW to be fitted with two Voith Schneider Propellers (VSP).
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Suzuki Joystick Control in development
Suzuki Motor Corporation has a new Joystick Control System in development. The announcement was made earlier this month at the 2013 Japan International Boat Show in Yokohama.
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NewsPreparations for Costa Concordia righting
Scotland based subsea grouting specialist FoundOcean has been working at the Costa Concordia wreck removal site since October 2012.
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NewsTug delivery crews dice with cyclones
During the first three month’s of 2013 some 13 tugs, two of which were towing barges, an OSV, a landing craft and three dredgers were mobilized and safely delivered to their new destinations.
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NewsNew diesel engine concept powers up
A new concept of diesel engine that could transform the diesel outboard market has received a significant development boost with support from the British Ministry of Defence.
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NewsFairmount Sherpa delivers rig in Las Palmas
The tug Fairmount Sherpa, operated by Rotterdam based Fairmount Marine, has safely delivered the rig GSF Arctic I in Las Palmas, having been towed from off Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
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NewsFour sets of deck equipment delivered
America based manufacturer JonRie has delivered four ship sets of deck equipment to Seabulk Towing.
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NewsAward for EU Hybrid Marine (HyMar) project
The EU Hybrid Marine (HyMar) Project won the ‘Ocean Going and Coastal Division Technology Award’ at the Royal Thames Yacht Club’s Mansura Trophy Awards Ceremony in London last week.
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NewsRolls contract for battery powered ferry
Rolls-Royce plc has signed a contract for the delivery of its highly efficient Azipull propulsion and control system for the ''ferry of the future'', a new vessel which will operate on battery power alone.
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NewsPOSH and TeraSea form a powerful alliance
A newly formed joint venture entitled ‘POSH TeraSea’ has resulted in world’s largest and youngest tug fleet of vessels for ocean towage services.
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NewsDamen delivers Ice class ASDs to Ukraine
Damen Shipyards has delivered two ‘Ice class’ variants of their increasingly popular ASD Tug 3212 shiphandling tug to the Ukrainian State Enterprise – Mariupol Sea Commercial Port.
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NewsTOWLINES
Among a number of the recent high profile tows carried out recently by Fairmount Marine of Rotterdam was the delivery of the 156,907 dwt container ship Emma Maersk from the Suez Canal Container Terminal in Egypt to Fincantieri’s repair yard in Palermo, Sicily. The 398m long Emma Maersk was disabled ...
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NewsMacduff tug designs grow in popularity
Over the past year or so substantial orders have been secured for tugs, workboats and other craft to be built to designs from Scotland based naval architects and marine consultants, Macduff Ship Design.
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NewsKOTUG news from Australia and the UK
Teekay Shipping - Australia has chartered three more high powered Rotor Tugs from KOTUG International to boost maritime services for the mining industry in Western Australia''s North-West region.
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NewsStatesman joins the SMS fleet
British tugowner SMS Towage Ltd, with headquarters in Hessle on Humberside, has recently purchased the former Ulupinar 14 from Sanmar, the Turkish tugowners and shipbuilders.
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NewsMacleod a unique ‘dual-draft’ ASD
Over the past few months a variety of RAmparts 3000 series of ASD tug designs by Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) has been described in these pages.
