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Vessel Sharing Agreement
Irish Continental Group (ICG) subsidiaries Eucon Shipping & Transport and Eurofeeders have entered into a vessel sharing agreement (VSA) with Mersey Docks & Harbour Company subsidiary BG Freight Line which becomes effective from the first of next month.
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NewsCal-Mac Makes MaK a Multiple Choice
Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co KG is celebrating an engine hat trick after supplying MaK engines to a third Northlink passenger ferry.
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NewsLeading Mark Delivers Berth Control in Bristol
An Inogon Leading Mark LM15 has been installed by the Bristol Port Company to guide vessels accurately in the approach to a new berth in Royal Portbury Dock .
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NewsNew Flasher Keeps It All HID
Tideland Signal has introduced a new flasher/lampchanger unit, LC-70 , designed to enable High Intensity Discharge (HID) metal halide lamps to be used with its TRB-400 MaxLumina gearless drive rotating beacons or as a stand alone lighthouse upgrade.
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NewsLighthouse Solarisation Proceeds at Northern Latitudes
The Northern Lighthouse Board , responsible for Scotland and the Isle of Man, has operated gas powered systems for over over 100 years. In 1984 the Board embarked on a long term solarisation programme, replacing many of the original structures with low maintenance aluminium towers and installing solar electric power ...
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Low Cost Digital Compass Module
Surrey UK based Inertial Aerosystems has announced the availability of a new solid state, dual axis, low cost digital compass module suitable for OEMs in high volume applications.
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Trials Expand for New ECDIS Service
Shell has become the ninth large international shipping company to join sea trials of the new Admiralty ECDIS Service ahead of its official launch in the autumn. The service, developed by the UK Hydrographic Office to provide official electronic chart coverage on a global scale, combines Electronic Navigation Charts (ENCs) ...
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VTS Upgrade Boosts MilfordHaven
Milford Haven Port Authority switched its control of shipping movements to a new VTS which was formally opened last month by Gwyneth Dunwoody MP, chairman of the influential Parliamentary Sub-Committee on Transport which is currently undertaking a review of the UK ports industry.
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Compacted Firefighting for Taichung Tugs
The Netherlands'' Fischcon Trading & Engineering BV has made a recent contribution to the safety of shipping in Taichung Harbour, Taiwan by supplying their new close-coupled marine gearbox/ firefighting FiFi I pumps for installation on two new 4,200 PS tugs for the Taichung Harbour Bureau.
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Cosalt Safety & Protection Appointed Jason’s Cradle Distributor
Cosalt Safety & Protection has been appointed the sole UK distributor for the Jasons Cradle man overboard retrieval system manufactured by Land & Marine Products Ltd.
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Mini Free Fall System in Europort Debut
Norwegian Maritime Equipment is developing a new free fall system which will be introduced at the forthcoming Europort 2003 in Amsterdam.
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NewsVessel Launch Pride of Exmouth
Passenger vessels servicing the tourism and holiday industries are plentiful in England''s West Country and Voyager Yachts is strategically well positioned to supply the trade from its boaty-yard on the River Tamar in Cornwall.
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Rolls-Royce Acquires VT Controls
The VT Group has sold the marine division of Portsmouth UK based VT Controls Ltd to Rolls-Royce for £ 11m cash.
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Thames Craft Correction
The deal does not include the aerospace or oil and gas divisions of VT Controls .The Front Cover Story for the August 2003 issue of Maritime Journal contained a measurement inaccuracy of significance for potential users of Thames Craft Dry Docking Services Ltd 's new floating drydock. The new facility ...
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Wind Blows Briggs' Way
Briggs Marine has signed a contract with Vestas - Celtic Wind Technology for part of the work installing one of the UK''s first offshore wind farms. The turbine manufacturer, in consortium with Mayflower Energy Ltd , has secured a £ 74m wind farm contract from National Wind Power to install ...
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Early Warning Saves Bear Necessities
Bear Grylls and his crew, who last month crossed the North Atlantic via the Arctic Circle in an 11m Ocean Dynamics open RIB, had a potential power failure averted by their remote monitoring and tracking service.
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Boom boxes at Hamburg
The Port of Hamburg achieved a 14.9% increase in container handling over the first half of 2003, with a record 2.9 million teu handled at the Hamburg Container Terminal . It is the fifth consecutive year that Hamburg can claim double-figure growth in box turnover. The Port also saw a ...
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NewsGermany's Biggest SWATH Ship Takes Shape
The biggest SWATH ship ever built in Germany has been named and launched for the Bundesmarine at the North Sea shipyard Nordseewerke NSW , in Emden.
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NewsWorks in Progress
The small family firm of David Ferran & Sons of Belfast recently had the distinction of taking delivery of the first steel tug/workboat to be completed by Hampshire boat builders VT Halmatic .
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NewsSuccess for Atlantic Crossing
Bear Grylls and his team have succeeded in a record setting effort to make the first ever unassisted crossing of the North Atlantic just south of the Arctic Circle in an open 11m RIB.
