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NewsFirst Survey Vessel Simulator
The official trial of the world''s first Survey Vessel Simulator, manufactured by Transas for the Russian Ministry of Defence''s Directorate of Navigation and Oceanography ''s Kedr development project has been completed successfully.
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NewsRNLI's Lifeboat College Opens
Continuing its commitment to providing the highest possible level of training, and subsequently saving the highest possible number of lives, the RNLI has opened the unique and purpose built Lifeboat College near its Poole headquarters. The project, which cost a total of £ 25m and has an estimated annual running ...
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NewsTraining Goes to mars2 at SMM Exhibition in Hamburg
Following the split of STN Atlas Elektronik last year, much of the operation remained in Bremen with Rheinmetall Defence Electronics GmbH , which launched its new Maritime Safety and Security Training Environment (mars2) at the recent SMM Exhibition inHamburg.
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Drop Tested SART Meets New SOLAS Regs
The S.701 SART being used by Viking Life Saving Equipment claims to be the first in the world to use non-hazardous battery packs and meets SOLAS requirements for liferafts.
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NewsArmon Produce Four More Jewels for Belgium
URS - Towage & Salvage Union Ltd of Antwerp are by no means strangers to the Spanish shipyard of Astilleros Armon SA , in Navia. The last eight shiphandling tugs, six Voith tractors and two stern drive vessels, built for the Belgian company started life in their yard. Therefore it ...
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NewsInput Now on Water Framework Directive
The recently implemented EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) applies to all water bodies, including rivers, lakes, coasts and estuaries, and hence anyone who earns their living within these catchments needs to know about its implementation.
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NewsIADC Award Winner 'Dredging in a Sensitive Environment'
Dr Elijah Ohimain, a biologist working in Nigeria, has won this year''s IADC Award at the World Dredging Congress (WODCON), held in Hamburg in late September.
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NewsNew Standard for Ro-ro Linkspans
As briefly highlighted in the October issue of MJ , a new code for the design of ro-ro ramps, linkspans and walkways - British Standard 6349 Part 8 - is due to be published early next year, enabling ro-ro infrastructure to be planned, designed and built to an acceptable common ...
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NewsAutomated Mooring System for Dover
The Port of Dover in the UK is to be the first European port to install an automated mooring system using vacuum technology developed by Mooring Systems Limited (MSL), following the signing earlier this year of a European licensing agreement between MSL and Cavotec Group Holdings NV in the Netherlands.
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NewsIraqi Ports Obstructed by Wrecks, says UNDP
Hundreds of sunken ships ranging from large freighters and tankers to small tugs and dhows are blocking access to Iraq''s principal seaports and threatening the marine environment of the northern Persian Gulf, according to a detailed report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) which was released in early October.
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Seacore Wins More Windfarm Work
Seacore in the UK has been awarded a contract by the Danish power utility company, Energi E2 , to erect an 80m high meteorological mast for the London Array Offshore Wind Farm project in the Thames Estuary.
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Coastline of England and Wales 'Becoming Steeper'
The coastline of England and Wales has become steeper and is undermining coastal defences against flooding and erosion, according to research published by Dr Nigel Pontee, a senior coastal scientist at Halcrow in the UK.
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NewsRoSafe Ups the Standard
Posford Haskoning and Bosch Rexroth have revealed details of a new safety device for ferry linkspans that they have developed. The new device, named RoSafe , is a secondary system that works independently of the operating mechanism that moves a linkspan or walkway into position. It acts as an independent ...
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NewsDredging Instrumentation Gets Major System Upgrade
Damen Dredging Equipment (formerly De Groot Nijkerk ) has carried out a major renovation of the dredging instrumentation on board two of UMA ''s trailing suction hopper aggregates dredgers, City of Cardiff and City of Chichester .
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Published this month in association with the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich UK, this stunning coffee table book does just what it says on the cover, presenting ''5,000 Years of Maritime Adventure'' in a single volume packed with information and images presented in the inimitable Dorling Kindersley house style.
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ITS 2004 - Complete Papers & Discussions
Book of Papers is a bound volume of the complete proceedings of the very successful 18th Tug & Salvage Convention held in Miami in April of this year.
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The Last Great Adventure of Sir Peter Blake Sir Peter Blake's Logbooks
One of the world''s most famous and successful yachtsmen, Sir Peter Blake had twice won the Whitbread Round the World Race, conquered the Jules Verne around the world record, and been national manager of the twice victorious America''s Cup team for his native New Zealand.
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RNLI Trials Rope Cutters.
H4 Marine Ltd of Devon UK has supplied the RNLI with two QuicKutter SH25 rope cutters which will be trialled on the new pre-production Tamar class of offshore lifeboats currently being completed at DML in Plymouth.
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Nelson & Napoleon Invade London
Tickets go on sale this month for the first exhibition to explore together the lives of two dominant leaders and adversaries, Horatio Nelson and Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Marseilles Maintains Growth
Container handling growth at the French Port of Marseilles was up by 10% in the eight months to the end of August, with a throughput of 608,000 TEU. East-west volumes through Fos rose 9% to 388,000 TEU while terminals handling north-south trades improved by 11% to 220,000 TEU. Container tonnage ...
