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NewsURS Announces Massive Fleet Improvement
Belgium''s largest provider of towage and salvage services, Unie van Redding en Sleepdienst NV (URS), has announced an investment representing a massive investment of over 135m.
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News'Savannah', a New ASD for Crescent Towing
Bollinger Shipyards Inc of Lockport, USA has delivered the compact and powerful azimuthing stern drive (ASD) tug Savannah to Crescent Towing of New Orleans.
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Isn't It Good, Norwegians Would (Use It If They Could)
The success accruing after only three years for the Trinity House Lighthouse Estate Business Plan in the UK recently attracted a visiting party of 17 national and local government officials from Norway who would like to implement similar enlightened strategies in their own country.
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NewsBreakthrough in VTS Training at South Tyneside
South Tyneside College has become the first institution to receive MCA approval for VTS Supervisor Advancement Training. The breakthrough comes less than two years after the College was first to receive accreditation for the provision of basic training in VTS.
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NewsAtlantas Marine and Nauticast AG Launch New AIS
Somerset UK based Atlantas Marine Ltd, well known for their distribution of the very useful VideoRay mini-ROV, have entered the IMO mandated growth arena for Automatic Identification Systems (AIS).
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NewsIt's Good to Talk In a Force 8 Gale
The British Army Powerboat Team, supported by radio distributor Icom UK Ltd, circumnavigated Britain this summer in only ten days with 13 young soldiers crewing two 6.5m Humber Ocean Pro RIBs. Some of the team had never set foot in a RIB before training began for the 2,397 mile voyage.
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NewsOne-Box Gyrocompass and Motion Sensor from TSS
A new attitude and heading reference system combining gyrocompass and motion sensor in one box has been launched by the recently re-branded VT TSS Ltd of Whitney UK.
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NewsSouthampton UAIS Trial Adds Weather and Hydro Data
AIMS MIII, the universal automatic identification system (UAIS) from Marine Data Systems (MDS) of South Africa has recently completed a successful trial on the Solent conducted by Trinity House in collaboration with ABP Southampton, Red Funnel Ferries, Condor Marine and Tideland Signal, which distributes the system worldwide.
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NewsSilt Curtains Please Malta Divers
Netherlands based Oil Control Systems (OCS) have provided silt curtains to protect a famous diving area in Malta from siltation originating at the nearby construction of a ferry teminal extension.
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News'Prestige' Disaster Launches Massive Response
Oil from the sunken tanker Prestige continued to wash onto the beaches and pollute the rich fishing waters of north west Spain earlier this month as a major oil pollution response operation was underway and the ramifications of yet another major environmental disaster echoed across Europe.
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NewsHistoric Pilot Schooner is Transported Home to Hamburg
After 70 years in the United States, the Elbe pilot schooner No 5 Elbe has gone back to her home port Hamburg and the River Elbe, where she started her working life 120 years ago in 1883.
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IBIA Airs Response to EU Pollution from Ships Strategy
The International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA) broadly welcomed the EU strategy for controlling air pollution from ships this month but expressed reservations over the practicality of aspects of the strategy which go beyond international regulations.
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NewsSouth Cat Workboat Lands Record Catch
South Boats have launched the fifteenth catamaran to be built at their Isle of Wight yard.
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South Coast Shipping Renamed RMC Marine
Southampton UK based South Coast Shipping has been renamed RMC Marine Ltd to bring the firm further into line with its parent company''s corporate identity.
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Schat-Harding Acquires Dutch Lifeboat Builder Mulder & Rijke
Lifeboat and davit specialist Schat-Harding has taken over Dutch lifeboat builder Mulder & Rijke.
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European Support for Japanese Dredger
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) in Japan has called upon European dredging expertise to help it build the largest dredger ever produced in that country, a 10,000m 3capacity trailing suction hopper dredger for the Suez Canal Authority. The vessel will be used to maintain dredged depths in entrance channels to the ...
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News'Tong Tan' Launch Marks IHC's Chinese Century
IHC Holland continues its steady output of small to medium sized trailing suction hopper dredgers with the recent launch and naming ceremony for Tong Tan, built for China''s CHEC/Tianjin Dredging Company (TDC).
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News'Matador 3' in First Visit to Ireland
Rotterdam based heavy lift specialists Bonn & Mees are taking their new 1,500 ton capacity floating sheerlegs Matador 3 to Dublin this month where it will lift a 470 ton linkspan into position.
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New Parliamentary Act Helps Port Authority Build Economy
Royal assent has been obtained in Britain to create an Act of Parliament which will allow Milford Haven Port Authority to operate more efficiently and effectively, and help in its aim of developing the local economy.
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Essential Awareness of Port and Shipping Security
Following the recent major Diplomatic Conference on Maritime Security, held at the IMO between 9-13 December, the development of the International Ship and Port Security Code (ISPSC) is likely to have considerable impact on shipping and port operations in coming years.
