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NewsJail Term for Drunk Master
The jailing last month of the dredger master who crashed through Hythe Pier while under the influence of alcohol has been followed closely by the UK Government launching new alcohol limits for professional mariners. A crackdown on drunken sailors sets alcohol limits in line with those for drivers in a ...
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NewsGreenpeace Replaces 'Beluga' With German Cutter
Being completed at the small Fridtjof Nansen Shipyard inWolgast on the German border with Poland is the first survey ship ever to be built from scratch for the international environmental organisation Greenpeace .
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Cathelco Expansion Continues
Marine pipework anti-fouling and hull corrosion protection system specialists Cathelco Ltd continues the expansion of its activities in the marine equipment sector with the acquisition of former competitor Wilson Taylor Ltd .Complete service support for Wilson Taylor''s customer base, which numbers more than 30 shipyards and vessel operators worldwide, will ...
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NewsRNLI Reflects Well On Echomax
Following sea trials, the new Echomax Midi Basemount reflector has been chosen by the RNLI for their fleet of RIBs, replacing their active antennas.
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Metoc Expands for Marine Renewables
Consultants Metoc is further expanding its marine survey capabilities to meet the growing demand for services to the offshore renewable energy market. Services offered range from the on-site management of marine investigations, such as geophysical, benthic and other environmental surveys for Round Two of UK offshore wind farms, through to ...
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NewsTidal Turbine Pioneers Advance to Phase Two
Hampshire UK based Marine Current Turbines (MCT) has successfully closed a £ 3m equity funding round and launched a programme to develop a successor to the Seaflow Project , the world''s first 300kW offshore tidal turbine.
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PLA Launches Online Atlas
A new online shipping service world atlas has been launched by the Port of London .
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Bob Butcher RIP
Lyme Boats hold the exclusive rights to build and sell the GRP built Powerglide 30, which will be available in two versions.Condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Bob Butcher, Chief Draughtsman at McTay Marine Limited , who died suddenly last month. Bob was an integral part of the ...
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HGVs Go East
New statistics released by the UK''s Department for Transport show that HGV''s are shunning the main channel crossings to Europe at the Dover Straits in order to avoid the permanently congested M25 motorway. For the first year on record, the number of goods vehicles crossing from Dover, Folkestone, Ramsgate and ...
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Pollution Specialists Expand
The Wales based emergency response and training company DV Howells , a subsidiary of Milford Haven Port Authority, haspurchased Aberdeen based Ceto Environmental Ltd , which had gone into receivership earlier this year. The purchase brings DV Howells extra capacity and expertise in its core markets of oil and chemical ...
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NewsWave Buoys Bolster Coastal Defences
Wave measuring buoys which could help warn of an impending flood have been strategically placed around the UK coastline as part of a three year monitoring project.
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Turku Production to End
The Wartsila Corporation hasannounced plans to cease engine manufacturing at its plant at Turku in Finland following consultation with personnel representatives. The move to reduce surplus engine capacity within the Group will result in 425 redundancies. Manufacturing will cease by the end of this year and the Turku factory will ...
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ABP's Green Website
With a decision imminent on its application to build a new box terminal at Dibden Bay, Port of Southampton, Associated British Ports has launched a website dedicated to promoting its environmental policies, activities and objectives. Visitors to www.environment.abports.co.uk canlearn about ABP''s environmental responsibilities, the initiatives it has taken to improve ...
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NewsDerecktor's Fast Ferry Speeds to Alaska
M/V Fairweather , the 73m LOA high speed vehicle/passenger ferry built by Derecktor Shipyards in Connecticut USA, has concluded sea trials and made an 8,500 mile delivery voyage to its home port of Juneau, where it will commence service for the Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) next month.
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Volvo Penta US Honours
Volvo Penta ''s new D6-310 marine diesel engine has been honoured with the Editor''s Choice Award by the American magazine Motor Boating . The new generation D6-310 and D4-210 engines, displacing 5.5 and 3.7 litres respectively, were launched by Volvo Penta last autumn and are being installed in boats in ...
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Pier Collision Prompts Insurance Warning
The recent collision of UK south coast aggregates dredger Donald Redford with the Hythe Ferry Pier in Southampton Water has drawn attention to the limitation provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act and demonstrated the effect these have on both the ship owner and the property owner.
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NewsMarine Historic Environment Consultation Underway
A rare 17th Century 49cwt Prince Rupert patent gun, retrieved from the Stirling Castle , King Charles II''s great 70 gun man o'' war, was put on public display late last month at the UK''s Ramsgate Maritime Museum .
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Calls for ‘Joined-up Government’ to Aid Offshore Wind
The UK’ s offshore wind power industry, key to the Government achieving its target of generating 15% of the national electricity requirement from renewable sources by 2015, has been hit by opposition from the Government’ s own Ministry of Defence (MoD) as well as the Royal Society for the Protection ...
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NewsA Chrous of Calls to Free 'Karachi Eight'
Traditional cutting of the New Year''s cake ceremonies held at the Piraeus offices of international salvage group Tsavliris were dominated by wishes for the safe return of salvage master Nikos Pappas , detained by authorities in Pakistan for pollution incidents related to the grounding of the tanker Tasman Spirit off ...
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Port of London Terminal Boom
In announcing that port terminals and facilities on London''s River Thames handled over 51 million tonnes of cargo last year, the Port of London Authority also said it anticipates that over £ 1.3 billion will be invested in PLA terminals over the next decade. This is in addition to the ...
