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NewsTrials highlight evacuation problems
Until just two years ago, ‘ committee opinion’ was the main input on passenger response times in fire evacuations, explains Jenny Gyngell, a project manager for BMT Group.
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NewsWork In Progress: Rosyth refurbishment fit for a Queen
Hugely impressive but temporary engineering achievements will be only footnotes to the successful completion of ongoing works at Rosyth Dockyard in Scotland.
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NewsS G Brown celebrates 100 years of gyrocompasses
The 2010 Oceanology International exhibition in London this month coincided with the celebration of 100 years of gyrocompass manufacture by S G Brown. The occasion was marked by the company with celebrations at the show and elsewhere.
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NewsGibraltar Port to get new VTS system
The Gibraltar Port Authority (GPA) is set to get a new and updated VTS system from Transas International, based on Transas Navi-Harbour VTMIS solution.
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NewsNew AIS transponder for boat owners
Navcomms specialist Icom UK Ltd is introducing a new AIS transponder, the MA-500TR, which will help owners of small craft to benefit from the latest safety technology.
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NewsEU Marine Equipment Directive approval for C-Nav
The recently introduced C-Nav 3050 GNSS units from C&C Technologies Ltd have received full type approval under EN/IEC 61108-1 and EN/IEC 60945 standards for shipborne GNSS units.
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Valeport down under
UK hydrographic and oceanographic instrumentation manufacturer Valeport has signed a new distributor agreement with Swathe Services Australia.
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Marine electronics at Seawork
SES (Ships Electronic Services Ltd), which was recently appointed UK distributor for Raytheon Anschuetz GmbH, will show a range of products from Raytheon Anscheutz on Stand 151 at Seawork 2010.
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C-Quip on display at Seawork
Seawork 2010 exhibitor C-Quip Ltd will be showing a wide range of certified navigation lights that include Aqua Signal, Paters & Bey and Blue Water, which now accommodates all vessels from small launches through to commercial shipping in both incandescent and LED versions.
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Training academy sponsored
Wilhelmsen Ships Service is supporting the work of the Nautical Technical Training Academy (NTTA) by providing a range of the company’s Unitor branded safety equipment, including a brand new liferaft which will be used in the academy’s crew training facility to teach the Basic Safety course.
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Year of the Seafarer
International maritime welfare charity the Sailors’ Society is backing the IMO Year of the Seafarer campaign with a new fundraising drive which is asking for just £1 for every one of the 375,000 seafarer the charity aims to support in 2010.
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Research institute grows
The UK’s National Subsea Research Institute (NSRI) has added two new member companies. Kongsberg Maritime, which is headquartered in Aberdeen and Newcastle based Wellstream International bring NSRI’s industry membership to 17 in less than a year since its launch.
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Maritime toy story
London’s National Maritime Museum will launch a free admission ‘Toy Boats’ exhibition on 1 May, featuring miniature ocean liners, toy paddle steamers, tin battleships and clockwork submarines alongside games, catalogues and photographs all produced in Europe between 1850 and 1950.
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Cherbourg in the loop
The Chanel Islands company Huelin-Renouf Shipping adds the Normandy Port of Cherbourg this month to the lifeline freight link it operates between the Channel Islands and the UK, with a weekly visit to Cherbourg en route for Southampton.
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Jaguar goes to sea
Vehicle logistics services provider Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has renewed a contract with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to ship its vehicles from the United Kingdom to North America and Oceania.
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Baltic bounces back
With container traffic to and from Russia via Hamburg picking up again, growing demand for feeder transport capacity has prompted the launch of an additional service between the Ports of Hamburg and St Petersburg.
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Feeder from Hamburg
The French shipping company CMA CGM has started operating a new feeder service between the Port of Hamburg and the Danish ports of Fredericia and Copenhagen, as well as Halmstad in Sweden and the Baltic Sea port of Szczecin in Poland.
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‘PlanningBlog’ launch
PlanningBlog is intended to be interactive, with readers encouraged to share their views on how the built environment should develop. It is available at: www.brodies.com/publications/blogs
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Three into one at BMT
The international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy, BMT Group, is consolidating its environmental and maritime software service with the merger of three companies.
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Rapid barge deployment
When Civil & Coastal Construction (Pty) Ltd of South Africa required a split hopper barge urgently for works deepening the Ben Schoeman Basin in Cape Town harbour, they contacted Baars BV of Sliedrecht in the Netherlands.
