Vessels News – Page 186
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NewsReinforcements for URAG
Bremen based towage company Unterweser Reederei (URAG) has taken delivery of two new Voith Schneider tractor tugs and is reported to be considering further orders for replacement vessels for their 16 tug fleet.
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NewsNew Smit Broncho Class Almost Complete at IHC
Smit Broncho, the first of three new pusher tugs, has been delivered by the IHC Holland Delta Shipyard to Smit Transport BV. Designated a Delta Multi Purpose Pusher Tug 2500 (DMPT 2500), the vessel was subjected to extensive trials and is now in service.
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News'Afon Caradog', Britain's Biggest Newbuild
The Holyhead Towing Company Ltd has taken delivery of its fifth multi-purpose shallow draft tug/work vessel from Hepworth Shipyard Ltd at Paull, on Humberside. Named Afon Caradog, it is the only tug of any size to be built in a British yard this year.
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News'Valiant B' Gives Plantain a Major Boost
The capability of Falmouth based towage and marine services contractor Plantain UK Ltd has been given a major boost with the delivery of their new twin-screw tug Valiant B.
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NewsLerwick Port Authority Gets a Powerful New Tug/Pilot Vessel
A powerful new tug/pilot vessel for the Lerwick Port Authority arrived at the Shetland port during the first few days of June. The 20m vessel, with a 20 ton bollard pull, is a direct replacement for the existing 18.8m Knab and bears the same name. Like its predecessor, the new ...
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NewsCaptain Arthur Naismith Retires
Captain Arthur Naismith, a familiar face and friend to many tugmen and tug companies around the world has retired as Voith''s training tugmaster.
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NewsSvitzerWijsmuller Bids to Take Over Adsteam Marine Ltd
In a move likely to have a profound effect on the towage industry globally and in Europe and Australasia in particular, SvitzerWijsmuller has made a cash offer for all of the shares in Adsteam Marine Ltd.
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NewsDuo Service Newbuild Ferries
Two exhibitors at Seawork 2006 are responsible for power and propulsion on sister ships Mercuria and Sapele, which have recently entered service on London''s River Thames.
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NewsEnhanced Waterjet Control for Small Boats
Small craft with a high power to weight ratio tend to respond quickly to both internal and external disturbances. The characteristic high sensitivity of planing craft requires an advanced control system to optimise craft controllability and response.
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NewsRepower for Tour Boat Transplant
Marine engineers at Southampton UK based Golden Arrow Marine have given a new lease of life to one of the south coast''s most instantly recognisable sightseeing boats. The old Poole Belle spent its life taking holiday makers around Poole Harbour, Bournemouth Bay and the Solent. Following a major refit, the ...
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NewsMaprom Muscle Moves Danube Pushboats
Maprom Engineering BV of the Netherlands is supplying water lubricated shaftline drive systems for a series of eight pushboats which are being upgraded and converted at two shipyards in Romania.
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News'MouseBoat' Makes Debut at Seawork
Hamilton Jet (UK) Ltd used the occasion of Seawork 2006 to launch their new blue ARROW waterjet control system, which is suitable for use with twin jet installations on a wide range of high speed workboats, patrol boats, crew boats, fireboats, landing barges and ferries. The system is suitable for ...
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NewsNew Events Boat on Seawork Pontoon
Over the years, Seawork has become the established venue for variety of marine trade association functions. It is a natural meeting point for such organisations as most members are likely to be attending Seawork in any case. At Seawork 2006, the Association of Diving Contractors, the Commercial Boatbuilders Association, the ...
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NewsSkeletons Avoid Scary Maintenance Costs
UK based Marine Software is supplying Marine Planned Maintenance to Northumberland Ferries vessels Holiday Island and Confederation, which ply between Caribou, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick.
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Bugsier to Purchase Three Rotor Tugs
German tug owners Bugsier Reederei und Bergungsgesellschaft Gmbh & Co, KG may well be ''fighting fire with fire''when they take delivery of three new RT80r class Rotor Tugs from Kooren Shipbuilding and Trading BV. In a recent announcement Kooren reported the sale of this trio, already on order from the ...
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NewsAnglian Monarch' Takes Cruise Ship in Tow
Britain''s National Contingency Plan for marine emergencies was tested in the early hours of the 6 May by a potentially serious fire aboard the 11,100grt cruise ship Calypso, with 708 people onboard. When the ship reported an engine room fire in the early hours of that Saturday morning, 16 nautical ...
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NewsBarry to Build a New Offshore Tug at Zamakona
Among several significant deals completed or initiated in Rotterdam at the ITS 2006 convention was one concerning the construction of a new anchor handler to the Robert Allan Rampage 5000 design.
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NewsJ P Knight Substantially Reinforce Scottish Fleet
J P Knight (Caledonian) Ltd has recently substantially reinforced their tug fleet at Invergordon with two modern azimuthing stern drive (ASD) tugs from Japan. Now bearing the names Kincardine and Kinnaird, the tugs are virtually identical sisters with just a few minor differences.
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NewsTOWLINES
.Ostensjo Rederi of Haugesund in Norway has ordered two more Velox class escort and shiphandling tugs from Astilleros Gondan in Spain. Delivery is scheduled for October 2007 and February 2008. The vessels will be virtually identical to the Tenax, the second of two previous tugs described in the February issue ...
