Industry News – Page 196
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NewsAberdeen harbour plans port expansion
Scotland''s Aberdeen Harbour Board has begun a study to evaluate the likelihood of extending the facilities at the port to meet its increasing operations.
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NewsEncouraging inshore fishery management
Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities (IFCAs) are encouraging people interested in the management of inshore fisheries around the North East and North West coasts of England and the Isles of Scilly to volunteer to help.
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NewsRNLI plans future production
The UK''s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has announced its plans to build an £11.2m lifeboat building and maintenance facility at its headquarters in Poole, Dorset, for future in-house production of all weather lifeboats.
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NewsTransas launches port management systems
Swedish marine software company, Transas Marine, has launched its Port Management Information Systems (PMIS) – a solution for real-time port management.
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NewsRealistic cost and budget targets needed
This summer’s report on the US Coast Guard is not only damning about the need for forward looking, realistic targets when it comes to maintenance, it also carries lessons more broadly applicable.
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NewsEco Marine completes EnergySail
Japanese marine solutions company, Eco Marine Power (EMP) Co Ltd, recently announced that it has completed the design of its EnergySail product – a year after the design project began.
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NewsImtech opens Brazilian office
Pulled by customer demand alone, Dutch marine solutions company, Imtech Marine and Offshore, will be establishing its presence in the South American market this month with the opening of an office in Santos, Brazil.
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NewsABC portfolio gets bigger and greener
Belgian medium speed engine company ABC has launched a new engine at SMM in Hamburg. The 6DL36 is rated at up to 5,299bhp at 750rpm and is said to comply with IMO Tier III without the need for external catalysts.
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NewsZF Marine firsts at SMM 2012
Germany’s ZF Marine Group had a lot to shout about at this year’s SMM trade fair in Hamburg – it launched a new hybrid ready ZF 5300 PTI transmission gearbox and introduced its new executive vice president in industrial technology to customers.
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NewsVoith showcases control system at SMM
German ship propulsion systems specialist, Voith Turbo, displayed its latest vessel propulsion control system for Voith Schneider Propellers and Voith Radial Propellers at SMM 2012 in Hamburg this week.
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Maritime Labour Convention ratified
Ratification of Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) is “great news for the world’s more than 1.2m seafarers”, said Dr Rosalie Balkin of the IMO’s Legal Affairs and External Relations Division.
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NewsCammell Laird targets renewables
UK based Merseyside shipyard and engineering business, Cammell Laird, is looking to grow its business across the marine, renewables and civil nuclear sectors in the second half of 2012, following a strong first six months of trading.
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NewsAustal vessel completes Acceptance Trials
The first-in-class Joint High Speed Vessel USNS ‘Spearhead’ (JHSV 1), under construction at Austal USA’s Alabama shipyard, has successfully completed Acceptance Trials (AT) – the last milestone before delivery.
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NewsPaper calls for research strategy agenda
More needs to be done to bring industry and academia together as a matter of urgency, says Alf Baird of Edinburgh Napier University.
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NewsEuropeans jack-up offshore innovation
HGO InfraSea Solutions, a joint venture between Germany’s Hochtief Solutions and GeoSea, a subsidiary of the Belgian DEME Group, has officially commissioned a powerful jack-up vessel for offshore work, the ‘Innovation’ this week.
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NewsMcMurdo showcases AtoNs at SMM
UK based satellite tracking and monitoring systems company, McMurdo Marine Systems, displayed its range of Aids to Navigation (AtoNs) at Hamburg''s SMM 2012 this week.
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NewsSqueezing a quart into a pint pot
“I tend to get the projects that other people have said ‘no’ to,” says naval architect Ian Darley, who has developed a reputation for taking on difficult design briefs since starting out in 1974.
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NewsNew Alnmaritec handling boat for Ghana
UK boatbuilder, Alnmaritec, recently delivered a hull number 149 new line handling vessel for operations at a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit off the coat of Ghana.
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NewsAnti-piracy beams into SMM
Australian satellite communications company Beam Communications Pty Ltd, will be showcasing its satellite piracy solutions for secure communication onboard a vessel at SMM 2012 taking place in Hamburg this week.
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NewsTitan present 'Costa Concordia' removal plan
Titan Salvage has presented the detailed engineering and design plan for the removal of the ‘Costa Concordia’ wreck to the Osservatorio, the body responsible for overseeing the removal operations.
