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News

  • Environmental Court Approves Goteborg Fairway Works

    01 Jan 2002

    The Swedish environmental court has approved plans for the Port of Goteborg to deepen, widen and straighten its fairways in works valued at $140m. 

  • Scots Prepare Taiwan for Oil Spill

    01 Jan 2002

    A delegation of high-ranking officials from the Government of Taiwan has spent two weeks in Scotland learning about the latest oil spill response and prevention techniques. The 28 senior personnel, including representatives of the Taiwanese coast guard service, the national parks agency and water suppliers, attended intensive training sessions hosted by Aberdeen based pollution control experts Briggs Environmental Services. 

  • New Fully Enclosed Lifeboat in Europe

    01 Jan 2002

    A newly developed, fully enclosed lifeboat with a capacity of 102 persons and a new fast rescue craft in three different versions, all produced by Jiangyin Xinjiang of China, have been introduced to the European market by sole regional distributor Norwegian Maritime Equipment AS. 

  • MBE for Giro Engineering's Paull Williams

    01 Jan 2002

    Paull Williams learned to his astonishment that his MBE was on the cards while participating as an exhibitor at Europort 2001 with Giro Engineering Ltd, the company he co-founded in 1980. 

  • SASMEX Goes Dutch

    01 Jan 2002

    The Safety at Sea and Marine Electronic Conference and Exhibition (SASMEX) moves to the port city of Amsterdam for the first time this year, taking place at the Passenger Terminal Amsterdam (PTA Centre) on 16-18th April. 

  • The Princess Royal to Present Seatrade Awards

    01 Jan 2002

    The 14th Seatrade Awards Ceremony Dinner, to be held in the City of London on 22 April, will be graced by HRH The Princess Royal as the Guest on Honour. 

  • New Fairway Service Vessel Design for Finland

    01 Jan 2002

    Finland has thousands of kilometres of fairways, marked by some 17,000 spar buoys and other buoys. There are many lamps to replace, plus many buoys are moved by winter storms and ice and need restoration to correct position in order to maintain navigational safety. 

  • Safety First With High Speed Radar

    01 Jan 2002

    Kelvin Hughes has won a contract to provide shipping company Sea Containers Irish Sea Operations with a high speed version of its new Nucleus3 Radar. 

  • RNLI Launch 24 Hour Service on Thames

    01 Jan 2002

    The Royal National Lifeboat Institution welcomed the New Year by launching a new round-the-clock rapid response service on London's River Thames. 

  • Low Location Lighting System

    01 Jan 2002

    Existalite/Thomas & Betts Ltd have been awarded the contract to supply and install over 18km of their Guide-LITE system on three ships being built by Kvaerner-Masa Yards in Helsinki. 

  • News Ormston Technology Takes Tracs

    01 Jan 2002

    Ormston Technology has been appointed main distributor throughout the UK and Ireland for the Thales Tracs series of telemetry, tracking and positioning systems for marine and land applications. 

  • Gulf of Guinea Pipeline Survey Completed

    01 Jan 2002

    Andrews Survey have completed a pipeline corridor survey in West Africa, providing specialist teams working onshore and offshore from a proposed tanker mooring point, through the transition zone and right up to the Tema Oil Refinery in Ghana. 

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