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New harbour facilities in County Galway
28 Aug 2008
The Department of Transport in Ireland has announced that construction of new harbour facilities at Caladh Mór, Inis Meáin, Aran Islands, County Galway are currently ongoing.
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RNLI takes over lifeboat operations at Cowes
28 Aug 2008
The UK's Royal National Lifeboat Institution has recently taken over the operation of the lifeboat at Cowes on the Isle of Wight. The service was previously operated by the independent Cowes Inshore Lifeboat service.
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Strategic windfarm siting study underway
28 Aug 2008
ABP Marine Environmental Research (ABPmer) has been awarded a contract to develop spatial information layers on the location and economic value of commercial fishing and shellfishing activities in UK waters.
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Ice Chasers return
28 Aug 2008
The 'Ice Chaser' survey team on board the James Clark Ross returned last week from its exploration of the Arctic's sea ice with news on the environment, a hot topic since some forecasts have predicted an ice free Arctic summer within the next ten years.
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Uncle Sam sends diesels to Europe
28 Aug 2008
America's GE Marine is going to supply eight medium speed diesel engines for two newbuild marine projects in Europe.
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Gearboxes galore at SMM
21 Aug 2008
ZF Marine's presence at SMM 2008 in Hamburg next month will see the company display a variety of transmissions, controllable pitch propellers and electronic controls on their stand in Hall A3 (stand no. A3.300). Outside, between halls A3 and A4, a propulsion shaft-line with ZF W43100 gearbox and CPP will be shown.
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Marine Measurement Forum
21 Aug 2008
Gardline Environmental is to host the 43rd UK Marine Measurement Forum, at the Macdonald Bath Spa Hotel, Bath on Wednesday 15 October.
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Biomass power plans for Port of Bristol
21 Aug 2008
The UK energy company E.ON announced plans this week to build one of UK’s largest biomass power stations at the Port of Bristol.
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Hot August start for Kotug
21 Aug 2008
This month got off to a busy start for Rotterdam based Kotug International BV. The liner SS Rotterdam arrived at the Maascenter buoy on Monday the 4th after a short voyage from Wilhemshaven, towed in by Kotug’s tugs RT Magic and RT Spirit.
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Determining sound foundations for offshore wind
21 Aug 2008
Doncaster UK based Soil Mechanics has been awarded a £1.4 million ground investigation contract from power company EDF Energy for the proposed construction of an offshore wind farm located in the North Sea between Redcar and the mouth of the River Tees.
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North Pole could be Danish
14 Aug 2008
Martin Pratt, of Durham University's International Boundary Research Unit, (IBRU) said last week on BBC Radio 4 that 'if pushed' he would come down on the side of a Danish claim to the North Pole.
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Ceasefire 'removes' threat to ships
14 Aug 2008
The Joint Negotiating Group (JNG) has rejected a demand from the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), made this week, that the ports and Black Sea coastal waters of Georgia should be declared an area of warlike operations under Article 17 of the International Bargaining Forum (IBF) Framework Agreement.
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Short-sea offered 'a break with tradition'
14 Aug 2008
An 'invitation to break with maritime tradition' is being offered in the form of a pilot study by Dutch firms Wagenborg Shipping, Flinter Management and Amasus Shipping.
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Sinking Ice Maiden leaves gap
14 Aug 2008
A&P Tyne is out hunting for a 'substantial' piece of work to fill the gap left by the sinking of Scottish C&M Group, and with it the Ice Maiden I contract.
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Latvian SWATHs get engine change
08 Aug 2008
The new SWATH patrol boats being built by Germany’s Abeking & Rasmussen for the Latvian Coast Guard will boast MAN propulsion rather than the MTU engine technology of earlier 25m vessels.
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Rocking the cradle on the Seawork pontoon
07 Aug 2008
Featuring on the floating pontoon at Seawork 2008, the 'Geo Explorer' is nearly new 16.4m, 5.2m beamed fast survey vessel, built by No Limit Ships and fitted out by Datamine in the Netherlands.
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Gecko go ballistic at Seawork
07 Aug 2008
Cornish company, Gecko Headgear Ltd took advantage of Seawork 2008 to preview their new ballistic cap GMSH.
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MiniB promote safe routine maintenance at Seawork
07 Aug 2008
MiniB stormed Seawork with their ever popular ready to dive pack this year, taking a large number of orders at the show.
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Small vessel engine failure study launched at Seawork
07 Aug 2008
In response to the reported concern of the British Government’s Department of Transport (DoT) about the growing number of small vessel engine failures at sea in recent years, and the resulting increased burden on the public services, the Small Ship Group of the Institute of Marine Engineers, Scientists and Technologists (IMarEST) has initiated a simple reporting procedure for failures to gather initial data from owners, operators, insurers and their surveyors, as well as the rescue services.
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Seawork coat saves double jeopardy pilot
07 Aug 2008
SeaSafe Systems launched a new anti-static coat range at Seawork 2008, suitable for anyone that works in hazardous and potentially explosive areas in the marine industry.
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Jura ferry runs again after 36 years
07 Aug 2008
A gruelling five hour journey to the mainland from the Scottish island of Jura has been shrunk to a mere 45 minute hop to a local bus service by a new ferry which was officially launched this week.
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Michigan modelling sends storm warning
07 Aug 2008
The theoretical link between storms and climate change has been bolstered with a new mathematical model from the University of Michigan that shows atmospheric phenomena like water spouts, tornadoes, hurricanes and cyclones develop from warmer and moister air.
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Marine Bill MMO could revive Dibden Bay
07 Aug 2008
The Port City Futures conference in Southampton heard last week that the Dibden Bay Container Terminal plan could be revived by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO), which will be set up by the current Draft Marine Bill.
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Underwater noise is news in Southampton
07 Aug 2008
The marine environment is subject to both natural ambient noise and man made noise from sources such as shipping, offshore oil and gas platforms, renewable energy generators, seismic surveys, piling, sonar, fisheries and marine aggregate extraction.
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South Boats wins £22m order book
01 Aug 2008
Isle of Wight based boatbuilder South Boats Special Projects won contracts for four more boats from the June Seawork event, a sales surge which operations director Ben Coleman said was worth 'in the region of £22m'.
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