Svitzer Europe has awarded a contract to Damen Shipyards Group for the delivery of an ASD tug to support operations in the Port of London. Svitzer Thames will arrive in ..
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CSP Abu Dhabi Terminal launches new direct services to Europe, Indian Subcontinent
CSP Abu Dhabi Terminal, a project of COSCO Shipping Ports (CSP), has commenced a direct, weekly service to several ports across Europe and the Indian Subcontinent. ..
Port of London acquires new remote monitoring deal
The Port of London Authority (PLA) inked a deal with Reygar Ltd, to expand the BareFLEET remote monitoring system across PLA’s varied fleet of multi-cat, crewboat, and survey vessels improving emissions’ reduction.
Specifically, the monitoring system enables the team of PLA to understand fuel consumption, engine efficiency, and CO2 emissions across their varied fleet of workboats, additional to improving the Authority’s maintenance strategy
Chris Huxley-Reynard, engineering director, Reygar,...
https://safety4sea.com/port-of-london-acquires-new-remote-monitoring-deal/
Monitors to track cruise ships emissions in Greenwich
An £80,000 network of air pollution monitors, funded by the Port of London Authority (PLA), is now in place, ready to record the effect of emissions locally from cruise ships docking in Greenwich this summer.
Installed in collaboration with Breathe London and the borough councils covering both Greenwich and Tower Hamlets, the eight monitoring stations are located close to the Greenwich Ship Tier landing stage. They will capture data all day long, with the raw data available at the websites of...
https://safety4sea.com/monitors-to-track-cruise-ships-emissions-in-greenwich/
London receives new high-tech vessel to monitor Thames
Heidi Alexander, the Deputy Mayor of London for Transport, has named the latest addition to the Port of London Authority (PLA) fleet of vessels that survey the bed of the tidal River Thames. This ship aims to ensure that the is safe for freight and passenger vessels, as well as recreational river users.
Extending from Richmond in Surrey to Gravesend in Kent, ‘Thame’s’ goal is to make sure that the river is safe for freight and passenger vessels, as well as recreational river users.
The vessel...
https://safety4sea.com/london-receives-new-high-tech-vessel-to-monitor-thames/
London Port Authority faces charges over man’s drowning in Thames
The Port of London Authority and a tugboat captain are facing criminal charges seven years after the tugboat capsized in the river Thames and the engineer drowned due to lack of safety measures.
On August 12, 2011, the engineer of the tug Chiefton drowned when it capsized and sank after colliding with the crane barge it was towing in Greenwich, south London.
According to MAIB report on 2015, two of his colleagues were rescued and the body of the engineer and deckhand was found three days later....
https://safety4sea.com/london-port-authority-faces-charges-over-mans-drowning-in-thames/
Sewerage project shows how the Thames could again be a major cargo route
London is facing the perfect opportunity to revitalise the Thames’s reputation as a working river that can be a viable alternative to the city’s gridlocked roads for cargo transport.
At Intermodal Europe in Rotterdam this month, freight and fleet project manager at Transport for London (TFL), Peter Binham, said a new sewerage system being constructed in London sets a good example of this.
“More than 7m tonnes of cargo are being moved by barge in the development of …
The post Sewerage project...
https://theloadstar.co.uk/sewerage-project-shows-thames-major-cargo-route/