Industry News – Page 302
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NewsUMC Goes Into Hull Cleaning
UMC International Plc have decided to launch a range of hull cleaning equipment based on the huge global interest shown in their Mini Pamper hull cleaning machine, which features technology adapted to underwater cleaning. Its advanced cleaning mechanism has scrub pressure control, allowing the diver to ensure only the required ...
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Barcelona Sees Shortsea Future
The Spanish Port of Barcelona is focusing on growing shortsea traffic and has allocated part of its ongoing expansion for a dedicated terminal to accommodate the sector. Port authority chairman Joaquim Coello told a recent shortsea conference in Barcelona that the creation of new port capacity, alongside economic and strategic ...
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NewsNorMar Launches as Lifeboat Choice
Norwegian Maritime Equipment AS has developed a new range of lifeboats and rescue boats which includes enclosed lifeboats and free fall lifeboats as well as semi-enclosed lifeboats and rescue boats.
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NewsTalks Underway on More German SWATH Boats
Abeking & Rasmussen hasreported it is in ''intensive negotiations'' about further repeat orders for small SWATH pilot tenders after delivering the 25.65m long Wangeroog to German waterway and shipping administration (WSV) authorities.
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QE2's Longest Voyage
In recently completing 35 years, six months and three days in service, Cunard ''s Queen Elizabeth 2 has become the longest serving liner in the company''s history, surpassing the Aquitania . The vessel has covered more than 5 million nautical miles, equivalent to sailing around the world 230 times, and ...
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NewsSecret Santa Meets Working at Height Regulations
The forthcoming Working at Height Regulations in the UK represent a very different approach to health and safety.
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Macduff Has The Right Stuff
Macduff Ship Design hasreceived two accolades reflecting the company''s provision of high quality professional technical services to the marine industry.
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Tall Oil Tales in Yorkshire
Rix Shipping ''s coastal tanker RixHawk recently became the first vessel since the early 1990s to discharge at the UK''s Drax Power Station on the River Ouse between Goole and Selby.
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Ports Hunger for Feeders
A new report from Netherlands based shipping consultancy Dynamar says the shortsea feeder trade is an important part of an integral port network. Efficient feeder links act as a catalyst to the growth of containerisation and hence play an important role in growing business volumes. Transhipment cargo, in addition to ...
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Rail Rockets from Thamesport
Thamesport (London) Ltd has introduced a fourth train operating company, Direct Rail Services , which will operate a full daily service to Daventry from the Medway based container port.
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MARPOL Revisions Adopted
Revised regulations to prevent marine pollution by ships carrying oil or chemicals have been adopted by the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the IMO .The revised MARPOL Annex 1 isexpected to enter force on 1 January 2007, incorporated the various amendments adopted since MARPOL entered into force in 1983. These ...
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News'Maria S Merian' Readies for Action
Shaping up to enter service in January 2005 in waters as far north as the Arctic fringes is the research vessel Maria S Merian , being completed at Kroeger Werft near Rendsburg for delivery to German authorities.
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NewsPort of London Raises Historic Elizabethan Remains
The Port of London Authority (PLA) has successfully recovered significant sections of a late 16th Century vessel from the Thames Estuary. Working closely with experts from Wessex Archaeology the Marine Services Department of the PLA has raised a portion of the bow, part of the side of the Tudor vessel ...
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NewsFast Travel to London Boat Show
With the London Boat Show returning to the ExCel Exhibition Centre on 6-16 January, visitors wishing to get into a maritime mood en-route can travel to the event by high speed catamaran and shuttle coach from six central London piers. The ExCel Express , operated by Thames Clippers, will be ...
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2nd Sea and Water Conference
The second annual Sea and Water Conference will be held in Hull UK on 1 March 2005. The event will include a full day''s conference, a dinner and a tour of local water freight facilities. Agreement has been reached for a senior government minister to deliver the keynote speech for ...
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Contract Awards
Marine Support Services (1) Glasgow, UK; (2) Ministry of Defence, Glasgow; (3) Marine-base support services for the Portsmouth International Festival of the Sea 2005.
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NewsShipRepair & Conversion Embarks On New Format
ShipRepair & Conversion 2004 London marks the first appearance in a new guise of a major event for the industry, which has been held annually in London for the past 12 years but will henceforward alternate yearly between its home city and leading overseas repair centres.
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'City Barge' Potential Nurtured
A special inland navigation vessel which can transport 144 TEU of boxes as well as big bags and pallets has been developed to bring and collect cargo to and from companies and manufacturers in the Amsterdam and North Sea Channel area.
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Jan De Nul Growing Again
Belgium''s Jan De Nul Group has ordered two stationary cutter suction dredgers from the same Tianjin Xinhe Shipyard in China that is building four 3,700m3 split barges for the dredging and marine construction giant.
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MCA Diverse and Conquers
The UK''s Maritime and Coastguard Agency is the national overall winner in Remploy ''s 8th annual Leading the Way Awards . The awards were developed to recognise employers that have made significant moves towards actively encouraging diversity within their organisations. The MCA employs 380 people at its Southampton headquarters, 17% ...
