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NewsEC presents strategic goals for maritime transport policy
The European Commission presented a comprehensive ten year strategy plan last month to promote safe, secure, clean and efficient shipping.
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NewsDEME joins the jumbo dredger club
The Belgian contractor DEME (Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering NV), which includes Dredging International, has joined the jumbo trailing suction hopper dredger operators club by placing an order with IHC Merwede for a 30,000 m³ capacity vessel.
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News: UK ports rates rage hits Parliament
You are a struggling port business manager who gets a bill for three and a half years of backdated unpaid rates. Not only this, the rates you think you have paid as part of a bill to the port owner, have been paid after all.
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NewsTurkish delights at Europort Istanbul
There is so much interest in participating in Europort Istanbul 2009 that an extra hall has to be added to the exhibition area. The event from 25 to 28 March in the Istanbul Expo Centre is organised by Ahoy Rotterdam and NTSR International Exhibition and Congress Organisation in exclusive cooperation ...
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Boskalis' bigger bite
Dutch dredging major Royal Boskalis Westminster has revealed a continuing interest in Smit Internationale by upping its stake in the harbour towage, salvage and terminals group from 20% to 25.1%.
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'Motorways' money at last
The European Commission is set to release funding for the EU''s long delayed Motorways of the Sea project.
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Power packed consumables
With the aim of providing a one stop shop for as many customers as possible, engine manufacturer Scania has launched a new range of products called Scania Consumables.
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Marine licensing changes
The British Government''s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has launched a booklet to help companies dealing with marine licensing changes.
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Scotland gets shipshape
Scottish Enterprise, Scotland''s main enterprise, innovation and investment agency, has launched a three year campaign to boost the number of new recruits entering the shipbuilding and engineering industry in Scotland.
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Satellites save lives
Satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) were key factors in the rescue of 283 people in the USA and its surrounding waters last year.
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Wartsila's Global glory
Finland based marine engine manufacturer Wartsila was included on the list of the Global100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World, published at the recent World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland.
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French turn the tide
Electricite de France (EDF) has chosen Irish renewable engineering company OpenHydro to develop the first tidal current demonstration farm to be connected to the French electricity grid.
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NewsEMGS launches world's first EM survey vessel
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) of Trondheim, Norway has launched the world''s first purpose built EM survey vessel, Boa Thalassa to enhance its global hydrocarbon exploration activities.
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Cheetah Catamaran for Clydeside Surveys
Specialist catamaran builder Cheetah Marine of Ventnor on the Isle of Wight has delivered another of its 7.9m models to an operator in Scotland. The newbuild incorporates Cheetah''s proprietary Hydropod survey mount moonpool system together with a Reson Seabat 7125 multibeam sounder and a CodaOctopus 185R motion sensor.
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Record number of North Sea licenses awarded
Medium term prospects for seismic surveys and drilling offshore Europe still appear to be good following recent award of a record 171 new exploration licenses in the North Sea by the UK government.
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Offshore Survey 09
Organisers Intelligent Exhibitions say there is still time to register for their two day technical conference, being held as part of Ocean Business 2009, on 1 and 2 April at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton UK.
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News'Forth Linesman' is the first Tri-Meercat
When construction was underway on the first of his multi-role workboats, boatbuilder Peter Smith called time for the workers to have a coffee break. The sight of welders popping up from each of the seven sections which comprise one of the vessel''s hulls reminded him of a small underground burrowing ...
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NewsBriggs raises its game with three new vessels
During the past few months Briggs Marine, the UK based marine contracting and environmental services company, has made three major additions to its extensive marine services fleet. The most significant vessel in the trio is a new flagship for Briggs, a powerful anchor handling tug delivered to the company during ...
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NewsFoss Unveils 'Carolyn Dorothy'
The world''s first true hybrid tug, built by Foss Maritime, was welcomed to Southern California at a high profile event at the Port of Long Beach attended by around 300 VIPs on 23 January.
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NewsSanmar deliver 'Chieftan' to Martinique
Turkish tug builders Sanmar Denizcilik Makine ve Ticaret Ltd of Istanbul has delivered a ''Dogancay'' twin screw tug to Somara (Société Martiniquaise de Remorquage et d''Assistance) in Fort de France, Martinique. Named Chieftan, this is the nineteenth Dogancay class vessel produced by Sanmar since the design was first introduced a ...
