Month: March 2004

The Integration of transportation is considered the solution to the expected increase in freight traffic.In its ongoing attempt to manage predicted increases in freight transport, the European Commission is taking steps to…

A leading supplier of halogen-free ship interiors has called for the use of PVC to be outlawed. Danish-based Inexa Panel believes that: "it is difficult to understand why there are still some…

The 110 metre long, 11.45-metre beam inland waterways tanker Rosette, recently entered into service and like her sister ships, was built in two sections at the Centromost Shipyard in Poland. After launching,…

Although the US-based General Electric Transportation Systems (GE) has for many years supplied diesel engines for the US inland waterway market, it has only recently received its first order to power an…

An unusual newbuilding entered the European water transport scene with the recent entry into service of the Waterways 1, an estuary Ro-Ro vessel designed for the transportation of new cars. Not only…

"A ship is worse than a gaol [jail]. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of being in…

Holland may be the obvious country for dredger newbuildings but there are a number of other shipbuilding nations where this expertise is available . Japan which is about to deliver its largest…