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  • UK Wind Farm Beyond Territorial Waters

    01 Mar 2007

    The British government has granted planning permission for one of the world’s largest wind farms, which will also be the first UK offshore facility to be built outside of territorial waters.  

  • Biggest Dredgers Yet for Jan De Nul

    01 Mar 2007

    Family owned Belgian dredging giant Jan De Nul has overturned the current industry form book with an order for what will be by far the world’s highest capacity trailing suction hopper dredger.  

  • SOSREP IS HONOURED BY THE ISU

    01 Mar 2007

    The International Salvage Union (ISU) has recognised the stirling work done by Mr Robin Middleton, Britain’s Secretary of States Representative for Maritime Salvage and Intervention (SOSREP) with the presentation of an ‘Industry Award’.   

  • Opportunity Knocks at Gulf Maritime 2007

    20 Mar 2007

    The fifth annual Gulf Maritime event, Gulf Maritime 2007, will take place from 16 to 18 April in the United Arab Emirates at Expo Centre Sharjah, which is in close proximity to the business centres of Sharjah and Dubai.  

  • Ocean Theme for Irish Attraction

    01 Mar 2007

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

  • Dragon Boats Battle for Charity

    01 Mar 2007

    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.  

  • A Fascia Lift for Westminster Bridge

    16 Mar 2007

    The UK’s seat of Government backs on to waters that are part of the country’s third largest port by volume of trade and even so far inland, the River Thames at Westminster still sees a fair amount of commercial traffic passing through the ‘17 Bridges to Wandsworth’.  

  • Pan-European Coastal Flooding Project Launched

    01 Mar 2007

    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.   

  • Green Light For Offshore Gas/Wind Co-Development

    01 Mar 2007

    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.  

  • Dockside Regasification Facility Opens at Teesport

    01 Mar 2007

    The arrival of the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo at Teesport UK last month marked the opening of the first ever dockside regasification port and second operational LNG facility in the UK.  

  • Aberdeenshire Support for RNLI

    01 Mar 2007

    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.  

  • Boeing Going to Sea

    01 Mar 2007

    The Boeing Company continues to grow the marine division of its wholly owned subsidiary Jeppesen with the purchase of digital maritime cartography, data services and navigational information providers C-Map.  

  • Propulsion Website Launched

    01 Mar 2007

    Southampton UK based CJR Propulsion Ltd, which designs and manufactures propellers and stern gear systems, launched a new website last month.  

  • WaterBridge Webster

    01 Mar 2007

    Based in Northumberland UK, The Engineering Business has appointed the experienced marine engineer Ben Webster as Business Developer for Renewable Energy Projects.  

  • Gardline Adds Consultancy

    01 Mar 2007

    Great Yarmouth UK based Gardline Environmental Limited (GEL), part of independently owned survey company Gardline Marine Sciences, has acquired the environmental consultancy Marine Ecological Surveys Limited.  

  • New Scotland Power House

    01 Mar 2007

    American diesel marine generator manufacturer Northern Lights has opened a dedicated warehouse in Scotland to service their European and UK sales. The warehouse stocks generators and sound enclosures on the 5 kW to 30 kW range.  

  • Ferry Good Numbers

    01 Mar 2007

    Particularly strong growth in goods traffic between eastern Europe and Scandinavia helped Scandlines Denmark A/S boost the volume of lorries carried last year.  

  • Marine Workers’ Support

    01 Mar 2007

    The Hampshire UK based Marine, Engineering and Manufacturing Skills (MEMS) Partnership has launched a programme to support employees whose jobs are at risk or whoface being made redundant within these industries.  

  • River Boat Expansion

    01 Mar 2007

    Chester UK riverboat operator Bithell Boats, which has been providing passenger vessels and commercial services such as dredging on the River Dee for over 100 years, has expanded its operations to the River Ouse in York with the acquisition of YorkBoat.  

  • Kalmar Buys Tagros

    01 Mar 2007

    Cargo handling equipment supplier Kalmar has purchased Slovenia based service contractor Tagros d.o.o., which provides general maintenance for rubber wheeled container handling equipment at the Balkan Port of Koper.  

  • Wartsila Powers Forward

    01 Mar 2007

    The full year operating profit for Finnish marine engine manufacturer Wartsila soared by 29.2% during 2006 to reach €261.6m.  

  • Gdansk Terminal Readies for June Start

    01 Mar 2007

    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.  

  • Osthafen Expansion Ends, Kaiserschleuse Rebuild Begins

    01 Mar 2007

    The multi-million Euro expansion of Bremerhaven’s Osthafen car handling hub is ending late next month as work gathers speed on the €233 million rebuilding of the neighbouring Kaiserschleuse, a project described as the biggest of its kind in Europe.  

  • Blank Bolsters Weser Terminal Expansion

    01 Mar 2007

    Now supporting Bremerhaven’s ever increasing need for round the clock berth and basin dredging is the new €4.4m water injection dredger Hol Blank following its completion at Lloyd Werft.  

  • New coastal and ports surveying conference welcomed

    01 Mar 2007

    Coastal and Ports Surveying, is a new one-day conference for hydrographers, port and harbour authorities and engineers.  

  • ‘Personal Everest’ Sails in May

    20 Mar 2007

    Disabled yachtsman Geoff Holt launches his challenge this month to be the first disabled person to sail solo around the coast of Great Britain, a voyage of over 1600 miles.  

  • Mustang/Camarc Formalise Collaboration

    01 Mar 2007

    A close working relationship has been in place between naval architects Camarc and Wales based boat builder Mustang Marine for some time.  

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