Industry News – Page 248
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NewsEC presents strategic goals for maritime transport policy
The European Commission presented a comprehensive ten year strategy plan last month to promote safe, secure, clean and efficient shipping.
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NewsDEME joins the jumbo dredger club
The Belgian contractor DEME (Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering NV), which includes Dredging International, has joined the jumbo trailing suction hopper dredger operators club by placing an order with IHC Merwede for a 30,000 m³ capacity vessel.
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News: UK ports rates rage hits Parliament
You are a struggling port business manager who gets a bill for three and a half years of backdated unpaid rates. Not only this, the rates you think you have paid as part of a bill to the port owner, have been paid after all.
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NewsTurkish delights at Europort Istanbul
There is so much interest in participating in Europort Istanbul 2009 that an extra hall has to be added to the exhibition area. The event from 25 to 28 March in the Istanbul Expo Centre is organised by Ahoy Rotterdam and NTSR International Exhibition and Congress Organisation in exclusive cooperation ...
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Boskalis' bigger bite
Dutch dredging major Royal Boskalis Westminster has revealed a continuing interest in Smit Internationale by upping its stake in the harbour towage, salvage and terminals group from 20% to 25.1%.
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'Motorways' money at last
The European Commission is set to release funding for the EU''s long delayed Motorways of the Sea project.
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Power packed consumables
With the aim of providing a one stop shop for as many customers as possible, engine manufacturer Scania has launched a new range of products called Scania Consumables.
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Marine licensing changes
The British Government''s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has launched a booklet to help companies dealing with marine licensing changes.
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Scotland gets shipshape
Scottish Enterprise, Scotland''s main enterprise, innovation and investment agency, has launched a three year campaign to boost the number of new recruits entering the shipbuilding and engineering industry in Scotland.
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Satellites save lives
Satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) were key factors in the rescue of 283 people in the USA and its surrounding waters last year.
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Wartsila's Global glory
Finland based marine engine manufacturer Wartsila was included on the list of the Global100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World, published at the recent World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland.
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French turn the tide
Electricite de France (EDF) has chosen Irish renewable engineering company OpenHydro to develop the first tidal current demonstration farm to be connected to the French electricity grid.
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NewsStepping lightly through conflicting demands
Concerns over ports'' energy outputs are rising. It isn''t just the price that is giving port authorities pause for thought, there are two other sets of clashing public and political demands. One of them is improved security and the other is for greener practices. They are not the most natural ...
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NewsRunaway lorry leaves Stranraer ferry passengers stranded.
A lorry broke free of its lashings and crashed through the stern door of the ferry Stena Voyager last night as it was leaving the Scottish Port of Stranraer on passage to Belfast.
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NewsMegabucks barrage barges onto Severn shortlist
The British Government announced five shortlisted schemes this week to harness the tidal power in the Severn Estuary, the largest of which would cost at least £ 22bn.
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NewsAnother timber spill approaches UK south coast
The timber cargo that broke free from the Russian vessel Sinegorsk in heavy seas earlier this week has started coming ashore on the Kent coast today.
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NewsPort of London Authority plans Gala Centenary Concert
The Port of London Authority celebrates its centenary this year and one of the planned highlights is a very special Gala Concert in London’ s Cadogan Hall, to be held on Saturday 18 April at 7:30 PM.
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NewsMersey beats big boat record
The largest ship ever to enter the Port of Liverpool berthed at the Tranmere Oil Terminal yesterday to discharge a new traffic of West African crude oil for the Shell Stanlow Refinery in Cheshire.
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NewsDo dredgers divine the rainbow's return?
The credit crunch may be having an adverse effect on almost every industry, including investment in ports and marine infrastructure, but recent investments by some of the biggest and best known names in the business suggest that companies believe they can ride out the seeming slump in demand and that ...
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NewsProlific tug and workboat innovation continues
It is only when we stop for a breath and look back over the 250 issues of Maritime Journal that it becomes obvious to what degree massive historic changes in the many maritime industries embraced by the magazine have been put on record.
