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Beacons Mark Abu Dhabi Port Expansion
Sea Safe Services Ltd of Abu Dhabi has installed two large unitised beacons from Tideland Signal together with aids to navigation buoys and ancillary equipment at the new port of Mussafah, Abu Dhabi.
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Wind Farm Consultation
The British Government has stated that it will not site wind farm developments where they could present any danger to navigation.
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New AIS As Deadline Nears
Simrad released a new Class A AIS unit last month designed to reduce the overall cost of ownership in order to meet the budget demands of owners and operators required to install this technology by the end of the year. The A180 features full AIS functionality but takes a ''no ...
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NewsNew VTS Unifies South Wales Ports
A landmark marine control centre which will for the first time enable all commercial shipping entering or leaving the five Severn Estuary ports in South Wales operated by Associated British Ports (ABP) was officially commissioned late last month. ABP has invested £ 600,000 developing Severn VTS the advanced new VTS ...
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News'Broadband at Sea' for Trinity House
Inventor of the radio and Nobel Prize winner Guglielemo Marconi would be pleased that the current incarnation of the company he founded in 1900 has been selected by the UK''s Trinity House lighthouse service to supply, install and maintain the first SeaTel 4003 ''Broadband at Sea'' system to be ordered ...
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Transas Adds Value at seawork2004 Exhibition with VAR Status
Transas Ltd , which will be represented at seawork2004 by Transas Marine , has received Value Added Reseller (VAR) status for the IC-ENC (International Centre for ENCs) official electronic nautical charts.
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NewsSpain and Sweden Upgrade VTS
Norcontrol IT has been selected to supply upgrades for the VTS system at the Port of La Coruna in Spain. A new system based on Norcontrol IT''s VTMIS 5060 will be in place by this August with added AIS data and information management functionality.
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NewsTyne River Clean-Up Project
An ambitious scheme to clean up the River Tyne has been given approval. The River Clean-Up Project , led by the Port of tyne and managed by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council , has received £ 272,000 from SITA Environmental Trust and £ 20,000 from the UK Environment Agency to add ...
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NewsNorway and France Embrace Pollution Prevention
Rapidly increasing tanker traffic along the coast of Norway, especially in the far north, has raised fears of extensive pollution in the event of a tanker grounding. An important role of the new UT512 design for the Norwegian Coastguard will therefore be towing and pollution prevention.
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Flanders Moves Waste to Water
The European Commission hasapproved a Belgium Flemish scheme to subsidise domestic waste transport through inland waterways to the tune of 7.4m. The project will offset the additional costs of transporting domestic waste by inland waterway rather than road.
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Newsseawork Exhibitor's Booms Don't Bust
Following an EU Tender, seawork2004 exhibitor Vikoma International has won an order to supply 600m of Hd Boom on reels to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency ''s anti-pollution stockpile. The Southampton based firm''s oil containment booms have earned a worldwide reputation for effectiveness and durability, and their latest Hd Boom ...
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'Crescent Highway' Paves Road to Security in MCA Trial
Crescent Marine Services , part of the Southampton based Crescent Group , has been specifying the ultra-compact ''Ocean Alert'' Ship Security Alert System (SSAS) from the global satellite based telematics information services provider Satamatics.
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News'QM2's Gigantic Safety Requirement
Cosalt Safety and Protection , the UK distributor for McMurdo pyrotechnics, electronics and lights, supplied 6,061 of its Premier Lifejackets fitted with McMurdo''s L7 tamper-proof lifejacket lights for the recently commissioned cruise liner Queen Mary 2 before its maiden voyage.
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NewsNew Space Efficient Free Fall Lifeboat
Aberdeen UK based Survival Craft Inspectorate Ltd has introduced the new SC59FF free fall lifeboat as a cost effective safety system for cargo ships, tankers and offshore platforms. By optimising the interior layout of the new 5.9m lifeboat, SCI''s designers have achieved an exceptional 25 passengers carrying capacity.
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NewsThe Williams Fleet Gets a Major Boost
The arrival of a brand new tug in May represents an important milestone in the continuing development of the fleet of Williams Shipping Marine Ltd .A series of recent purchases, charters and refurbishment projects demonstrates an uncompromising intention to move forward by the Southampton based company.
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Coastal Surveillance for Poland
Atlas Elektronik, BAR Systems'' Bremen based German subsidiary, has received a ? 5morder from the Polish Border Guard for a coastal surveillance system. The pilot scheme will provide surveillance of the Polish coastline from the Russian border to the Hel peninsula, north of the Gdansk Bight. Further extensions to the ...
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Newsseawork Soars With So Much More
Since its launch in 1998, the seawork Exhibition and Conference in the uniquely maritime environment of the working ABP Port of Southampton has grown inexorably year on year to become an unmissable event on the European commercial marine calendar.
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NewsSlim Packings and Soft Buoys at seawork2004
Among the products to be seen on the Ocean Safety Ltd stand at seawork2004 will be two new ones, the SOLAS Slimpack Liferaft and the Horseshoe Lifebuoy .
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NewsCat Provides Lifting Fit For A Queen
Finning (UK) has secured a deal to provide a Cat TH560B Telehandler to Cruise and Passenger Services Ltd forhandling work with the new luxury liner Queen Mary 2 .
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NewsSheerlegs Teamwork Combine on Precision Lift Operation
Smit Heavy Lift has undertaken a series of lifts in the Port of Rotterdam discharging the Chinese cargo barge Sainty 1 , which was laden with 18 inland vessels and barges. This was the fourth such discharge of its type, performed on behalf of Chinese shipbuilders STIG .
