Commercial Marine News
EXTRAORDINARY DOCKINGS AND UNSCHEDULED SHIP REPAIRS BOOST 2020 FOR A&P
Forty-two extraordinary dockings and unscheduled repairs contributed to A&P Group’s strong performance in 2020 - despite the challenges of operating during a pandemic. Across all three facilities, A&P’s teams deployed their fast-turnaround response and technical...
ANOTHER WORLD RECORD FOR SOLAR SOLVE
And finally, a bit of icing on the cake. In June last year (2020), the world’s biggest container carrier, HMM Algeciras, with a capacity of 24,000 teu; a length of 1,312ft and breadth of 200ft, arrived in Essex, from China, to drop off containers of imports and load containers of UK...
Cammell Laird complete project for CalMac Ferries
A nine day project to replace bow visor hinge pins and bearings for CalMac Ferries’ MV Isle of Mull has been completed by Cammell Laird. Delivered as part of the vessel’s annual survey, the project involved a multi-disciplinary approach from Cammell Laird’s...
Jonathan Green has been appointed as RFA Cluster Programme Director in A&P’s Defence Director in A&P’s Defence division at A&P Falmouth.
Jonathan is now responsible for managing A&P’s dedicated Cluster Support Team (CST), which provides all engineering and management support to RFA Mounts Bay, RFA Lyme Bay, RFA Cardigan Bay, RFA Argus and HMS Scott. The team has functions of Programme Engineering, Fleet Time Support...
Polaris Media MD signs book deal with Rethink Press
Ben Pinnington, the managing director of maritime specialist public relations firm Polaris Media, has signed a new book deal with entrepreneur publisher Rethink Press. The deal will see Rethink publish Ben’s forthcoming book titled ‘Making Waves: Public Relations strategies to...
The ‘Tesla of the Seas’ – pioneering British company, Windship Technology unveils first True Zero Emission ship design
With shipping now accounting for over 3% of global CO2 emissions, and still increasing, the innovative all-ship solution is set to revitalise an industry under pressure to reform 8th February 2021, London: Windship Technology, a British company with a whole-ship solution to tackle the CO2...
BMT selected by the European Space Agency to lead innovative study
BMT has been awarded a project by the European Space Agency (ESA) to assess the feasibility of using space-based data to support the decommissioning of energy assets. The decommissioning of all energy assets, such as oil and gas platforms and wind farms, is currently a pertinent issue...
Somers Forge granted Fit for Nuclear Status
Somers Forge has been granted Fit For Nuclear (F4N) status by the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre. The Fit For Nuclear award is granted to companies that have benchmarked their performance against the standards demanded by the nuclear industry’s top tiers. Over the...
SOLAR SOLVE RECORDS MANY SUCCESSES GAINED DURING 2020
The year 2020 has been a very successful one for South Shields based Solar Solve, in spite of the Covid-19 setbacks all people and organisations have had to endure globally. Renowned worldwide as a prolific exporter, one of the marine equipment manufacturers many achievements was the...
BMT’s latest passenger catamaran ferry is delivered to Kitsap Transit
BMT’s latest passenger ferry, designed for Kitsap Transit in the United States, has successfully completed sea trials and is ready to start operation in the next few weeks. The ENETAI out-performed design requirements during vessel trials, delivering to Kitsap Transit; a lighter, faster...
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