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MARPOL Revisions Adopted
Revised regulations to prevent marine pollution by ships carrying oil or chemicals have been adopted by the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the IMO .The revised MARPOL Annex 1 isexpected to enter force on 1 January 2007, incorporated the various amendments adopted since MARPOL entered into force in 1983. These ...
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News'Maria S Merian' Readies for Action
Shaping up to enter service in January 2005 in waters as far north as the Arctic fringes is the research vessel Maria S Merian , being completed at Kroeger Werft near Rendsburg for delivery to German authorities.
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NewsPort of London Raises Historic Elizabethan Remains
The Port of London Authority (PLA) has successfully recovered significant sections of a late 16th Century vessel from the Thames Estuary. Working closely with experts from Wessex Archaeology the Marine Services Department of the PLA has raised a portion of the bow, part of the side of the Tudor vessel ...
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NewsFast Travel to London Boat Show
With the London Boat Show returning to the ExCel Exhibition Centre on 6-16 January, visitors wishing to get into a maritime mood en-route can travel to the event by high speed catamaran and shuttle coach from six central London piers. The ExCel Express , operated by Thames Clippers, will be ...
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2nd Sea and Water Conference
The second annual Sea and Water Conference will be held in Hull UK on 1 March 2005. The event will include a full day''s conference, a dinner and a tour of local water freight facilities. Agreement has been reached for a senior government minister to deliver the keynote speech for ...
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Contract Awards
Marine Support Services (1) Glasgow, UK; (2) Ministry of Defence, Glasgow; (3) Marine-base support services for the Portsmouth International Festival of the Sea 2005.
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NewsChinese Yard Builds a Large ASD Tug for the Mediterranean
An interesting new azimuthing stern drive (ASD) tug is due to enter service in the Mediterranean early next year.
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NewsSvitzer Reinforce Their Milford Haven Tug Fleet
Svitzer Marine Ltd has significantly reinforced their fleet of tanker handling tugs at Milford Haven with the arrival of the new Svitzer Milford . The tug, the first of a new series to be deployed to a British port, arrived during the first week of November and entered service after ...
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NewsNew Terminal Tugs Romulo and Remo are Ahead of Schedule.
Two important new terminal tugs are rapidly nearing completion in Spain at the Astilleros Balenciaga Shipyard in Zumaia. To be named Romulo and Remo , the tugs are to join the fleet of Remolcadores de Puerto y Altura SA - ''Repasa'' at Tarragona.
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NewsSemco and Fairmount Launch 'OneAllianz'
A major new force in the long-haul ocean towage market has been established by Fairmount Marine BV of the Netherlands and Semco Salvage & Marine Pte Ltd ofSingapore. With immediate effect, the ocean towage fleets and expertise of both companies are pooled in a new consortium christened OneAllianz .
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NewsSaab Launches On Course at Hamburg
Saab TransponderTech was a notable presence at the recent SMM exhibition in Hamburg, introducing a new DGPS Navigator meeting the latest IMO and IEC specifications, including Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM), as well as a new type-approved GPS as an integrated part of the R4 ship AIS transponder system.
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NewsNew VTS for Port of Londonderry
Transas Marine UK Ltd , in cooperation with Joss Skelton Ltd (Belfast), recently secured an order for a Vessel Traffic Services system to be installed in Northern Ireland''s Port of Londonderry. Similar systems are already installed in the UK at the ports of Larne, Cardiff, Swansea, Barry, Port Talbot, Newport, ...
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Management Information Added to Cork VTS
Bremen-based Atlas Elektronik is to extend Cord Harbour Authority''s VTS network with the addition of an all-purpose Management Information System (MIS) facilitating overall port management and traffic control as well as general administration.
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NewsBuilding a Bridge to Choice
Rotterdam''s Alphatron Marine is delivering an alternative to standardised integrated bridge consoles with the introduction of the new Alphabridge design concept, which enables shipyards and owners to select the wheelhouse equipment they would like to install rather than be made to accept a full package from a single manufacturer.
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Force Be With You Underwater
Force Dredging Systems (FDS) has recently completed a successful hire contract in the Caspian Sea which involved clearing drill mud cuttings and debris away from the base of a production jacket and placing them in a specified dumpsite some 60m to 80m away. Once FDS'' Superstream Dredging System had cleared ...
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NewsNearshore Project for New Pipe Tracker
The ShengLi Oilfield has purchased two advanced TSS440 pipe trackers for use with its new pipelay plough. The two pipe trackers have been supplied by UK company VT TSS Ltd and fitted to the front and rear of the tracked plough. Designed and built by ShengLi Oilfield engineers, the plough ...
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News'Redeemer' Adds Diving to Activities List
Seeing what at first appears to be a modern sport fisherman with an Effer knuckle boom crane mounted to port amidships makes the viewer wonder how big a fish the crew is after. However, appearances can be deceiving and Falmouth UK based Bay Marine ''s 37'' vessel Redeemer is in ...
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Hydro4 Proceedings Available
Proceedings of its Hydro4 symposium in Galway last month attended by delegates from over 30 countries are now available from the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies , formerly The Hydrographic Society .
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NewsSeaBats for Bristol and London
The Port of Bristol has completed installation of a Reson SeaBat 8101 multibeam echosounder on its survey vessel, Isambard Brunel .
