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NewsRed Sea subsea mount discovered
A hitherto unknown underwater mount the size of the Rock of Gibraltar has been discovered in the southern Red Sea.
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NewsDutch invention helps prevent towline failure
The Rotterdam based shipping company Rotortug (KST) BV and ASD Ship Design from Alblasserdam have invented a revolutionary device to prevent towline failures on tugs, due to chafing against a fixed ‘staples’ and fairleads.
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NewsEuropean Tug Owners meet in Finland
Members of the European Tugowners Association (ETA) gathered in Turku, Finland, for its 49th Annual Meeting and Conference hosted by Finnish member Alfons Håkans Oy.
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NewsThe first of four new tractors arrive in Antwerp
At the end of June the first of four new Voith propelled tractor tugs ordered by the Antwerp Port Authority arrived from the Union Naval Valencia (UNV) shipyard in Spain.
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NewsTOWLINES
Royal Boskalis Westminster NV has announced that its associated company Smit Lamnalco has been awarded a 10 year contract, with additional options for extensions, by Esso Highland (a subsidiary of ExxonMobil) to provide terminal services at the Papua New Guinea liquefied natural gas (PNG LNG) export terminal near Port Moresby. ...
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NewsTraffic rises at Aberdeen harbour
Reports on traffic in the first six months of the year at Aberdeen Harbour have shown a significant increase as activity within the energy sector and the North Sea in particular continues to rise.
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NewsUllman safeguards the Olympic flame
Swedish suspension boat seating expert, Ullman Dynamics, has played its own part in safety at the London 2012 Olympics.
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NewsSuccessful sale of Norderwerft shipyard
Berthold Brinkmann, the receiver of the Sietas shipyard, has successfully sold the Norderwerft to the Lürssen Group following extensive discussion.
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NewsGeo Plus extends vessel fleet
Geo Plus of Scheemda in northern Holland has extended its fleet of survey vessels with the commissioning of a seventh designed for continuous 24 hour operation over periods of up to two weeks, ''Geo Focus''.
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Graduates glimpse seafarer’s rights issues
Seafarers’ Rights International has placed a number of high performing young graduates into this year’s short but intensive SRI Legal Internship Scheme.
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NewsUNCLOS is still essential, says ICS
The number of significant oil spills had decreased from about 23 per year in the 1970s to just three per year during the past 10 years, while the volume of maritime trade had more than tripled during the same period.
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NewsEquity capital wanted for ship finance
At present it is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain equity capital from investors, and loan capital from banks for vessel finance, but though times are difficult there will also be winners.
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NewsSix Shoalbusters head for Australia
A total of five Damen Shoalbusters have recently been purchased from owners in the Netherlands for use in Australia.
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NewsA familiar ETV returns to Scotland
After much discussion and lobbying Government, the UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has placed a contract enabling an Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV) to be stationed in Scottish waters until March 2013.
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NewsMarine Energy Park for Scotland
It was announced recently by the Department for Energy and Climate Change in the UK that Scotland’s Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters have been designated as Scotland’s first Marine Energy Park.
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NewsNew wave device creates ‘lift’
Tests are taking place at Texas A&M University on a wave power prototype which takes advantage of blades that, like modern aircraft or wind turbines, create lift rather than drag.
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News25th SMM expands with Offshore Dialogue
The 25th Shipbuilding, Machinery & Marine Technology International Trade Fair Hamburg, better known as SMM, takes place at the Hamburg Fair site from 4 to 7 September.
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New boat on job for German cable project
Braveheart Shipping baptised its Javelin 22.22 Guardian last month and straight after the ceremony the vessel was en route to its first job on the TenneT export cable project.
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NewsChallenging design for new Antwerp HQ
Construction work on Antwerp Port Authority’s new headquarters, which will start in September, will be kept on a tight rein.
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Offshore Survey 13 Call for Papers
Three-hundred word abstracts of papers for the fourth Offshore Survey conference at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton on 10 and 11 April 2013 are now invited.
