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  • Wind farm components are delivered from Denmark to the Port of Invergordon.
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    Wind of Change Sweeps Highlands Port

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The Cromarty Firth is becoming a key staging post for the delivery of components to wind farm developments in the Highlands and the north east of Scotland. Danish logistics company Deugro Danmark A/S has begun a series of 15 shipments through the Port of Invergordon of components for wind farm ...

  • The Lord Mayor of the City of London, Michael Savory.
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    Call for UK Maritime Lobby

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The Lord Mayor of the City of London, Michael Savory, believes that the UK''s diverse maritime industry needs to create a UK-wide council to ensure that the sector is taken seriously by Government.

  • The worlds largest containership, MSC Pamela, alongside last month at the Port of Felixstowe.
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    'Pamela' Points Towards Port Expansion

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The UK Port of Felixstowe has received calls from the world''s largest and longest containerships recently.

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    Primar ENC Pilot Service

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Primar Stavanger , operated by the Norwegian Hydrographic Service , has established a new service under which it will support more than 280 national coastal pilots with remote ENC access.

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    Swift Selling Safety

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Aberdeen based Swift Industrial Supplies Ltd , which supplies ships chandlery and marine safety equipment, has been awarded the sales distributorship for Draeger Safety . Draeger Safety specialises in gas measuring technology and supplies fixed and portable warning systems which measure for gas continuously and sound an alarm if elevated ...

  • The Maria S Merian will be handed over to the Baltic Research Institute Warnemunde this month.
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    Delayed Research Ship Heads for Handover

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Due for handover this month, nine months later than scheduled, is the new German polar research ship Maria S Merian , being described as the most modern ship of her type in Europe.

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    First S-VDR Type Approval

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Norwegian marine electronic safety equipment manufacturer Jotron Electronics AS hasclaimed an industry first by gaining Type Approval for their new TRON S-VDR (Simplified Voyage Data Recorder) capsule. Jotron''s latest product has been tested and approved by DNV in accordance with IMO Res.MSC.163 (78).

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    Irish-Norwegian Accord

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The Marine Institute of Ireland in Galway and the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research (IMR) in Bergen have signed a Memorandum of Understanding covering collaboration and co-operation for seabed surveys and underwater robotics as well as fisheries science, farming and health.

  • Luneplate will be deployed in the Weser Estuary, where increasing ship traffic heightens the possibility of pollution incidents.
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    New Pollution Ship Heads for Completion

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The former Eckelmann cleaning and oil disposal tanker Marcus is now in Bremerhaven for final fitting out and completion as Germany''s latest oil pollution combat ship Luneplate after conversion in Brake.

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    New Pompey-Le Havre Service

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Paris based shipping company LD Lines started operations between Portsmouth UK and Le Havre in France earlier this month. The 1992 built Norman Spirit , with a capacity for 120 trucks and 1,850 passengers, will operate the new service daily. Traffic forecast is for 600,000 passengers and 50,000 trucks per ...

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    Picture Perfect ABP

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Associated British Ports '' latest annual report has won a special award for ''Best Packaging, Visuals & Communication''.

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    Trees for Trafalgar

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

    One of many events commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar this month is an ambitious tree planting project organised by the Woodlands Trust in the UK. ''Tree for All'' invites anyone to dedicate a tree in the Trust''s new Victory Wood at a site overlooking the sea ...

  • Tanya Budd, Young Engineer for Britain 2005, displays her Hypo Hoist.
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    Hypo Hoists Young Engineer Award

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

      Britain''s most talented young engineers converged on the Old Royal Navy College in Greenwich last month to participate in the 2005 Annual Celebration of Engineering .Taking the top award, Young Engineer for Britain 2005 , and a £ 2,500 prize was 18 year old Tanya Budd of Waingels College ...

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    New UK/Holland Freight Service

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Harwich International Port haswelcomed the first call of a new Nedlines BV ro-pax service. The service between the Essex UK port and IJmuiden in the Netherlands is operated by the MS Envoy and is chartered by Finnlines. It focuses on driver accompanied freight traffic and offers a daily overnight sailing.

  • The Holy Loch breakwater was installed within 24 hours of the components arriving from Finland.
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    Breakwater Beats the Weather at Holy Loch

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Intermarine Ltd has just completed a race against time to design, supply and install a floating breakwater and moorings in the Holy Loch on the west coast of Scotland. The breakwater for client Seavision Ltd creates a large area of protected water for the continuing development of moorings over the ...

  • A ships rudder is seen in Atlantics 17.5m lathe.
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    Atlantic Specific on Marine Refurbishment

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Marine component refurbishment, whether emergency or routine, demands the very highest of standards. Speed of response, efficiency and value for money are qualities sought by ship owners and their representatives worldwide.

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    Double for A&P Tyne Hebburn

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The British Royal Fleet Auxiliary''s Fast Fleet Tanker Gold Rover iscurrently undergoing a 117 day at A&P Tyne ''s Hebburn yard.

  • Building RAF target barges which are deployed off the Pembrokeshire coast by David Little Engineering has proven a useful sideline for Milford Haven Ship Repairers. Photo by Jack Gaston.
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    Tug Repair Surge at Milford Haven

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

    With the only dry dock in Wales remaining in full time operation, Milford Haven Ship Repairers offers the only such facility between Falmouth and Liverpool. The yard receives a variety of work, the most significant component of which is close working relationship it has developed with Svitzer Marine Ltd , ...

  • Bugsier 1 is in service with the Hamburg fleet.
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    K Damen Complete the First of Three Bugsier Tugs

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Dutch builders Shipyard K Damen Europe BV has delivered the first of three virtually identical tractor tugs to Bugsier Reederei und Bergungs-Gesellschaft mbH & Co KG of Hamburg.

  • Buoy handling has been simplified in Jersey with the arrival of the Duke of Normandy.
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    The Duke of Normandy Demonstrates Its Versatility

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Jersey Harbours are making very good use of their new shallow draft, multi-purpose tug, the Duke of Normandy , which was displayed at Seawork 2005 . The first of the new generation of Damen Shoalbuster 2609 tugs to be built for a port authority, its versatility has surprised even its ...