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U.K. Maritime Report companies today. To better manage the new structure and ensure responsiveness to the various generic fields, three divi- sions have been created, all of which report to group managing director

Kelvyn Derrick, based in the U.K. at

Poole.

Compressors, Schilling rudders, ship- board waste management systems and condition monitoring equipment are now under the ambit of the marine and offshore division, domiciled at Poole.

From Gothenburg, the dry cargo han- dling division will oversee the design and supply of cargo access gear such as hatch covers, and ramps, doors and decks for RoRo vessels. Hamworthy

KSE's liquid cargo handling business has twin locations, in Tranby, Norway, and Aalborg, Denmark, in deference to the influence of the KSE and Svanehoj legacy companies.

In an important new initiative, the liq- uid cargo division has recently supplied a Norwegian shuttle tanker with a com- plete plant assembly for the recovery, storage and compression of cargo-borne volatile organic compounds (VOC) for use as fuel in the vessel's propulsion machinery.

The Kvaerner group's dramatic April announcement of its decision to entirely withdraw from shipbuilding, denoting a complete turnabout in policy, cast uncer- tainty over the future of one of the remaining cornerstones of U.K. mer- chant shipbuilding, Kvaerner Govan.

At the time of writing, the Tyneside firm Swan Hunter had expressed interest in the Govan yard, giving rise to hopes that the Clyde's last remaining deepsea vessel shipbuilder would stay in busi- ness. The yard has achieved substantial productivity improvements over the years, has been extensively modernized, and has a high-technology track record Paxman 18VP185 high speed diesel

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