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Ceredigion Flood Defence Plans Unveiled
Plans for a £ 1.6m project to protect homes and businesses from flooding in Ceredigion in Wales have gone on display. The scheme, funded by the Welsh Assembly Government, will attempt to reduce the risk to 88 homes and 22 commercial properties in Tregaron.
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News'Gambe d'Amfard' Begins Long Haul in Le Havre
owner Dragages Ports. The new 700 m3 grab hopper dredger, built by Damen Shipyards'' Galati yard in Romania, will undertake maintenance duties using either its grab crane or its trailing suction pipe at the port of Le Havre in France.
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NewsUKHMA Autumn Seminar and Dinner
The UK Harbour Masters'' Association Autumn Seminar will take place at the IMarEST Conference Centre in London on 17 October. The programme has proved a challenge to finalise but the result offers one of the most interesting ranges of topics in recent years. The line up of speakers includes the ...
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NewsCardiff Celebrates Centenary of Queen Alexandra Dock
Associated British Ports'' (ABP) Port of Cardiff celebrated the centenary of Queen Alexandra Dock with an official tree planting ceremony last week and the opening of a special photographic exhibition featuring images from the past 100 years of port operations.
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NewsBremore Project Challenges Irish Government
Ireland''s national ports are facing a capacity crisis. The growth in exports, the trend to outsourcing part of the production process and the boom in imports of construction materials has wiped out the capacity of most ports. Hence, the approval by the Government of the joint venture between Drogheda Port ...
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NewsGiant Boxship Docks at Hamburg
At the beginning of September the new flagship of the Chinese shipping company COSCO Container Lines Ltd docked at the Port of Hamburg for the first time. The ''Cosco Asia'', with its slot capacity of 10,062 TEU, is the largest container ship to have entered the Port of Hamburg to ...
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NewsBatman Boat to Save the Planet
The revolutionary New Zealand biodiesel powerboat Earthrace arrived in Amsterdam last week as part of its European promotional tour sponsored by Deutsche-Med of Rostock, Germany.
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NewsSt Petersburg Hosts Ports and Shipbuilding Conference
Neva 2007, the 9th International Shipping, Shipbuilding, Ports and Offshore Energy Exhibition takes place on the 24th- through 27th of September at the Lenexpo Exhibition Complex in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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NewsNicola Turns Port Waters Green
The Port of London Authority' s (PLA) Nicola Jenkins has scooped an international award for showing European ports how to " up" their environmental game.
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Coastal Port Agency
Cory Brothers Shipping has been awarded a three year contract to provide agency services throughout the UK to coastal tanker operator James Fisher Everard, whose combined fleet will provide an anticipated additional 3,000 port calls per year.
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More Shortsea
The growing freight market between the UK’ s River Thames and the Continent was boosted last month by the introduction of a new dedicated ro-ro service between the Port of Tilbury and Zeebrugge in Belgium.
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NewsWounded Warriors Sail the Channel
At noon on 11 September, ten members of the British Limbless Ex-Service Men''s Association (BLESMA) and two participants from its American counterparts The Wounded Warrior Disabled Sports Project (WWDSP) embarked upon a nine day sailing trip across the English Channel.
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Britain's Best Maritime Technology Student
The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) will take an active role in finding Britain''s Best Maritime Technology Student when it hosts the judging of this category in the annual SET awards (Science, Engineering & Technology Student of the Year) on 20 September.
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NewsRV 'Prince Madog' Available for Hire
RV Prince Madog, the 34.9m Dutch built multi-purpose research vessel jointly operated by the University of Wales, Bangor and VT Group, is now available for charter at a special winter rate of £ 3,463 per day.
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UKHO Guide for Electronic Chart Carriage
The UK Hydrographic Office, which has just been retained by the Military Survey Department of the United Arab Emirates to advise on planning and management for surveys of local territorial waters, has introduced a second edition of its Facts About Electronic Charts & Carriage Requirements
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Seabat Multibeam Systems for UK Ports
The Aberdeen Division of Denmark''s Reson reports sales of SeaBat 8125 shallow water multibeam systems and associated equipment to PD Ports, Teesport and Peel Ports, which operates the ports of Mersey Docks & Harbour Company and Clydeport as well as the Manchester Ship Canal. This, the company says, follows earlier ...
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DP System for ROVs
Edinburgh based SeeByte has launched its new SeeTrack Offshore V2.1 dynamic positioning system for ROVs which, it says, can also be retrofitted to existing craft.
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NewsMost Powerful Engines in Shipping History
APL, the global container transportation company, has ordered eight MAN B& W 14K98ME-C7 engines, each generating a massive 84,280 kW or 115,000 BHP at 104 rpm, to power eight 10,000 TEU containerships from Korean builders.
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NewsMarseille Makes Big Box Plans
The Port of Marseille Authority (PMA) is planning to develop two more new container terminals at Fos, its base for east-west trades, with a combined capacity of two million teu per year. The PMA’ s recent board meeting approved the launch of technical and financial feasibility studies, which are due ...
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NewsA Hard Act to Follow
The UK Department for Transport and Maritime and Coastguard Agency are now advertising to recruit a successor to Robin Middleton, who is about to retire from the position of Secretary of State’ s Representative (SOSREP) which he has held for eight years.
