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NewsNew Seatruck Ferry Sets Sail
Seatruck Ferries, freight only specialists on the Irish Sea route, are about to introduce a major increase in capacity for the link between Heysham and Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland. Seatruck is part of the major shipping consortium Clipper Group.
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NewsResults of Marine Aggregate Research Published
The Marine Environment Protection Fund in the UK has published the findings of over £ 9m of research related to marine aggregate dredging.
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Assessing the Risks Posed by Marine Aggregate Extraction
A risk assessment framework for marine aggregate extraction has been developed by HR Wallingford in association with Royal Haskoning and the University of Newcastle.
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NewsX-Ray Specs Enhance Port Security
The requirement for rapidly deployable and portable x-ray systems that can be used in public places such ports, airports, railways and underground stations has grown substantially in the last year.
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NewsMCA Approves Marine Security Training
Securewest International, which has specialised in maritime security for more than 20 years, has received official approval of its security training operations from both the UK''s Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA) and the classification society Det Norsk Veritas (DNV).
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NewsFlair in the air and Seawork award
Ocean Safety won the Safety & Sea Survival category in the Spirit of Innovation Awards at Seawork 2008 with an ingenious waistcoat style lifejacket.
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NewsNew Lifejacket Moves Safety Standards Forward
A new lifejacket has been launched by International Safety Products Ltd (ISP) of Merseyside UK to meet the needs of the Spanish fishing industry. Developed in conjunction with Aeromarine, the distributor of ISP products in Spain, the lifejacket has been designed to comply with new regulations requiring Spanish fishing crew ...
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NewsLifeboats Delivery Surge in Norway
Norwegian marine equipment manufacturer Noreq AS has built and delivered 19 lifeboats to Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) for use on their semi-submersible crane vessels ''Thialf'' and ''Hermod''.
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NewsTransas Scoops SASMEX Training Award
Transas won the Training Category Award at a ceremony which was part of the revived Safety at Sea and Marine Equipment exhibition (SASMEX) in Brighton UK. The SAMEX Award was presented for the first ever distance simulation based training of oil spill and rescue response operations based in the Baltic ...
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Screened Testing Ends EPIRB False Alarms
With SOLAS amendments dictating that EPIRBs must undergo shore based maintenance at least every five years, the onus is on service companies and organisations to ensure that they have the correct equipment to undertake these service regimes.
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NewsSea Cadet's Double Diploma Distinction
A 17 year old from Sea Cadet and pupil at Nonsuch High School for Girls in Sutton UK was presented with two BTEC First Diplomas by local Member of Parliament, Siobhain McDonagh.
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Marine Firefighting for Turkey and Egypt
A new marine fire fighting system designed by Anglesey based company Marinex, has won a five figure deal to supply high speed military patrol boats in Turkey.
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RINA Invests in Crew Training
International classification society RINA has invested in crew training in a bid to help owners overcome the major challenge of manning their growing fleets.
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NewsNew Buoy Tender for Caernarfon Harbour Trust
The 12.8m buoy tender ''Seiont IV'' has been delivered to its owner, Caernarfon Harbour Trust, after completing successful trials off Macduff in Scotland and sailing through the Caledonian canal and down the west coast to its home port.
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NewsBiodiesel Attempt at Circumnavigation Record
Boaters around the world are following the record setting effort of Peter Bethune aboard his futuristic ''Earthrace'' powerboat as his team attempts to break the world circumnavigation record of 75 days in a vessel fueled 100 by biodiesel.
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NewsWärtsilä gets BigLift with propulsion package order
Finnish ship power system integrator Wä rtsilä has been awarded two large orders this year from the Amsterdam headquartered Spliethoff Group.
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NewsBritNed cable project moves forward
Offshore cable laying for the UK end of the BritNed electricity link is the latest stage of the € 600m project. It involves the first ever power supply connection between Great Britain and the Netherlands, with cable testing underway in 2010 and full commercial operations planned for 2011.
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News'Plug & play' deck workshops at Seawork
' Mobile workshops can be almost used on a plug and play basis on workboat decks said Simon Coote, general manager of Seawork exhibitor Richards Drydock & Engineering Ltd, which was showing some of the customised boxes on the Seawork quayside last month.
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Big Cranes for Bugsier Tugs
The deep sea azimuth tractor tugs Bugsier 2 and Bugsier 3, delivered this year by the Dutch Shipyard K. Damen for German operator Bugsier Reederei und Bergungs-Gesellschaft GmbH, feature foldable knuckle boom cranes supplied by Van der Velden Industrial, the Palfinger Marine/Crane Power representative in their country.
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NewsTonnage Tax Withdrawn But EU Flagging Rules Apply
THE UK government has announced that the package of changes to tonnage tax published in January for implementation through the 2008 Finance Bill, will not take place this year pending further developments in Brussels.
