Interviews – Page 16
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NewsShip Finance Forum Debates Boom or Bust
After several years of mainly rich pickings, the shipping industry’ s eternal boom and bust cycle provided the inevitable focus of attention at the 20th annual Lloyd’ s Shipping Economist ship finance and investment conference in London last month.
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NewsPlanning Support for UK Marine Businesses
Marine South East, the regional marine initiative of the South East of England Development Agency (SEEDA), has recently expressed support for plans to include specific reference to waterfront sites in the development of a regional spatial strategy, the South East Plan.
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NewsEnd of Season Insurance Advice
With the season drawing to a close, the many commercial marine operators who are also leisure boat owners are likely to be planning where and when they are going to lay up their boats to carry out winter maintenance or simply remove from moorings. UK leisure boat insurers Navigators & ...
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NewsCombined Commercial Marine Insurance Launched
Commercial marine insurance providers Navigators & General (N& G), members of the British Marine Federation (BMF), have launched a new Commercial Marine Combined insurance product offering a tailored one stop solution for the specialist UK leisure and small commercial marine industry.
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EU Waterways Directive Sparks Dutch Debate
A legislative proposal before the Lower House of Parliament in the Netherlands would revise the national Shipping Act to bring legislation into line with the EU Inland Waterways Directive (2005/44/EC).
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NewsShippers saving billions on freight spend
Outsourcing to a freight audit company seems to be a solution to the problem of increased obscurity in financial control.
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NewsNew Funding for Tidal Turbines
The ethical savings and investment bank Triodos is making its first ever investment in marine renewable energy as a contributor towards £ 7.5m of new funding for Marine Current Turbines Ltd (MCT), the developer of the world’ s first commercial scale sub-sea turbine.
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NewsMarine Money Available at Seawork 2007
Bank of Scotland Marine Finance is a familiar name in the leisure marine market and an active player in the global shipping market for many years.
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NewsUK Budget Keeps Shipping on Even Keel
Recently presenting the UK Budget, Chancellor of the Exchequer (and soon to be Prime Minister) Gordon Brown said that his budget was fiscally neutral and was designed to meet three key objectives; ensuring long term investment and environmental sustainability, encouraging work and savings, and supporting families.
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NewsTime is Wright for Workboat Funding
Wright International Marine Finance Ltd (WIMF) and Merchant House Finance Ltd have signed a joint venture agreement.
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NewsShipping Loss Total Tumbles
There has been a dramatic reduction in the number of total losses of merchant ships since the year 2000.
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NewsOwners Beware of Inadvertent Pollution
The recent bad weather in which ''MSC Napoli'' was grounded in Lyme Bay UK has caused more than the usual headaches for port authorities trying to ensure that vessels do not pollute or become contaminated by pollution.
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Insurers Advise on Floating Box Risk
The recent and ongoing loss of containers from the grounded ''MSC Napoli'' has drawn attention to the risk of hitting semi-submerged objects, (containers included) in most oceans.
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Royal Haskoning Leads Upgrade of Ferry Facility
Royal Haskoning in the UK is leading a project that will add years to the life of the ferry facilities at Holyhead, Stena Line''s busiest ferry port in the UK.
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CEDA Stakes Out Position on WFD
The Central Dredging Association (CEDA) participated in the recent Seminar ''Navigation and the EU Water Framework Directive'' which took place on 31 January in Brussels. CEDA provided input on a range of subjects relevant to the WFD and the dredging industry.
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Coordination of Contaminated Sediment Strategy
Port areas around the UK are being expanded to deal with ever increasing maritime trade. In order to maximise the economic advantages this presents, dredging of seabed sediments is being undertaken to provide safe operational navigable depths. The historical and contemporary industrial legacy has, however, created zones of contaminated sediments, ...
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Agreement on Increased River Tolls
The Broads Authority in the UK has accepted the Navigation Committee''s proposals that tolls should rise by 9.9% for private boat owners and 6.1% for hire boats from 1 April 2007 to pay for an extra £ 100,000 of dredging.
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NewsStrategy Defined for Sustainable Aggregates Industry
The British Marine Aggregate Producers Association (BMAPA), which represents over 90% of the marine aggregates industry, has released a sustainable development strategy for the sector. As a constituent member of the Quarry Products Association (QPA), and following on from last year''s overarching QPA document, BMAPA has created the strategy to ...
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UK's Climate Change Minister Formally Opens New Sea Defences
The UK''s Minister for Climate Change and the Environment, Ian Pearson, formally opened a completed coastal defence scheme between Whitstable Harbour and Preston Parade on October 3rd. The ceremony marked the completion of an 11 month project to build new groynes and totally recharge the beach at West Beach.
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NewsBMT Business Planning for UAE Port Development
BMT Maritime Consultants Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of BMT Ltd, has completed the business planning for a major new offshore port development near Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. The work undertaken by BMT on behalf of the Mubadala Development Company will be used as a basis for the ...
