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News

  • Seawork Inward Buyer Mission

    The Seawork Inward Buyer Mission will take place on the last two days of the Seawork International event (www.seawork.com) in Southampton on 13th and 14th June 2007.  

  • Gdansk Terminal Readies for June Start

    Poland’s new deepwater container terminal, DCT Gdansk, is being readied for first phase commercial operation starting in June and plans, in time, to be the biggest on the Polish Baltic capable of handling a million TEUs a year.  

  • MJ Goes Live Online

    A new online edition of Maritime Journal was lunched at the Ocean Business 2007 exhibition and conference in Southampton UK last month.  

  • TUGNOLOGY 07 Does the Double with Seawork

    Southampton will be the focus of the tug world for two days on 11-12 June when international delegates will gather in the famous port city for Tugnology ’07.  

  • Record New Lifeboat Order from RNLI

    Devonport UK based DML have recently secured a contract from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) for what is described as the largest single contract ever awarded for lifeboat construction.  

  • Dublin Pilots Take Delivery of Newbuild

    Cork based commercial boatbuilders Safehaven Marine have delivered a new Interceptor 42 ‘All Weather Pilot Vessel’ to the Port of Dublin.  

  • Green Light For Offshore Gas/Wind Co-Development

    Eclipse Energy UK plc has been granted consent to construct and operate the Ormonde offshore wind farm and to generate and export electricity from the adjacent Ormonde Gas Fields development, thus completing the series of principal permissions necessary to construct the world’s first co-development of offshore gas and wind.  

  • Renewables Showcase Bursting at the Seams

    If records are made to be broken then All-Energy ’07, the UK’s largest renewable energy exhibition and conference, looks set to shatter all the glass in its trophy case when the event returns to the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre on 23-24 May.   

  • Pan-European Coastal Flooding Project Launched

    A pioneering EU funded project to promote the innovative use of multi-national maritime search and rescue (SAR) resources when dealing with major coastal inundation, caused by events such as tsunamis and tidal surges, was launched in London last month.   

  • Dragon Boats Battle for Charity

    The British & International Sailor’s Society (BISS), a charity operating in almost 100 ports worldwide, has launched the BISS Dragon Boat Challenge 2007 fundraising event. Sponsored by BP Shipping and Cargill, the spectacular team event will take place on Dorney Lake at Eton UK, venue for the 2012 Olympic rowing events, on 16 June.  

  • Aberdeenshire Support for RNLI

    Aberdeenshire Council in Scotland has solidified its support for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution with a visit from chief executive Alan Campbell and a £1,000 donation.  

  • AES 2007: The Vision Redrawn

    A Call for Papers has been published for AES 2007, a milestone event marketing its 10th anniversary.  

  • Europe-Oz Trade Link Spans 75 Years

    ‘MV Texas’, a 66,532gt ro-ro vessel operated by Wallenius Wilhelms led a flotilla of boats under the Sydney Harbour Bridge last month in a ceremony marking the iconic structure’s 75th anniversary.   

  • Boost for Merseyside ‘Superport’

    A lobbying campaign to raise the profile of Merseyside’s growing maritime sector is gathering momentum, with a number of well known figures publicly declaring their support.  

  • Ocean Theme for Irish Attraction

    An interactive exhibition examining the Atlantic Ocean is a feature of the Cliffs of Moher New Visitor Experience in Ireland, has been officially opened by An Taoiseach, Mr. Bertie Ahern, T.D., more than 17 years after the €31.5m project was first proposed.  

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