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NewsA Fascia Lift for Westminster Bridge
The UK''s seat of Government backs on to waters that are part of the country''s third largest port by volume of trade and even so far inland, the River Thames at Westminster still sees a fair amount of commercial traffic passing through the ''17 Bridges to Wandsworth''.
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NewsHigh Specification Survey Boat for Saudi Ports Authority
Isle of Wight based boat builders Cheetah Marine has made steady progress since founder Sean Strevens built a first GRP planing catamaran for his own use as a commercial fisherman in 1989.
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NewsSvitzer-Adsteam Takeover Moves Rapidly as Liverpool Operation is
Following publication of the Competition Commission report on the proposed takeover of Adsteam Marine by SvitzerWijsmuller, matters have progressed rapidly.
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NewsMore Rotor Tugs for German Operators
Kooren Shipbuilding and Trading B.V. has announced the sale of two Rotor Tug RT-80r class vessels to Unterweser Reederei GmbH (URAG) of Bremen.
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NewsBusy Sanmar Has Ten Tugs Under Construction
In keeping with other specialist tug builders the Turkish yard Sanmar Denizcilik Ltd is working hard to meet the current high demand for new tonnage.
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News'A Turtle' Goes to the Bottom
A long period of anxiety for the residents on the remote island of Tristan du Cuhna came to an end on 11 February when the wreck of the errant oil rig ''A Turtle'' was finally scuttled by salvors in deep water well away from their coastline.
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NewsA New Contract for Ostensjo
Østensjø Rederi AS of Haugesund, Norway has signed a contract with Norske Shell to provide towage services at the new Shell Nyhamna terminal now under construction at Aukra in Norway.
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NewsAIS Enabled Buoy Launched in Oz
A truly ''smart'' Sealite buoy was launched last month by Toll Westernport in Westernport Bay, Australia.
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NewsAuto-Dimming Range Lights for Esbjerg
A range light system supplied by Tideland Signal Limited to the Danish Lighthouse Authority (Farvandsvaesenet) for the port of Esbjerg is equipped with a range of auto-dimming facilities to provide appropriate light levels for all conditions from bright sunlight to fog and dark nights.
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News'Video Wall' VTS for Port of Antwerp
Two Belgian companies, Barco, which designs and develops visualisation products, and technical installations specialists Fabricom GTI, are installing a high performance VTS system, including new radars, for the Port of Antwerp.
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Dredgers Scoop Savings on Satellite Use
Belgium based contractors Dredging International is using new software to cut the cost of transferring business critical data over satellite between its ships dispersed worldwide and its onshore offices.
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NewsCar Carrier Captains Drive Digital NavComms
Wallenius Marine AB in Stockholm have placed a landmark order through Admiralty Distributor Nautic Center AB for over thirty complete sets of the recently launched Admiralty Digital Publications (ADP) portfolio developed by the UK Hydrographic Office.
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NewsPocket Navtex Links to Any PC
Bristol UK based Marine Electronic Services has introduced the new Wetterbox WIB2 Navtex Black Box Receiver, a cigarette packet sized unit which incorporates an internal Navtex receiver and PC interface.
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News'Future of Marine Navigation' Demonstrated
Specially adapted Kongsberg Norcontrol IT C-Scope software formed the platform for an in depth MarNIS (Maritime Navigation and Information Services) demonstration, held at the MCA''s Highcliffe Training Centre on 13 & 14th Feb 2007.
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NewsAluminium Workboats debut at Seawork 2007
Through their agents, Wave Seven Marine Ltd, Anytec Marine AB will introduce their range of high speed aluminium boats to the UK and Irish market at Seawork 2007.
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NewsBBEx Victors Sail to Seawork
The winners of the ''Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award'' last month at Seawork''s sister event, the Boating Business Exhibition in Bournemouth, will bring their fast expanding network of online boat brokerages to Seawork this summer.
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NewsCat Sandwich Sails to Seawork
The international flavour of Seawork has been further enhanced with confirmation that Baltec Werft, one of Germany leading shipyards, specialised in working with high tech sandwich build technology, will be a first time exhibitor in Southampton this summer.
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NewsLights Out for Old Buoys at Seawork
XJF Plastics has confirmed that it will be displaying an Eason Marine Class 2 Lightweight buoy at Seawork International this year.
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NewsSeawork Exhibitor Builds Wind Farm 'Xplorer'
The Northumberland UK based designer and builder of aluminium workboats Alnmaritec will be exhibiting one of their vessels on the floating pontton at Seawork 2007.
