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NewsEmergency Teams in Thames Training Exercise
A simulated explosion in ship’ s engine room put crews from the Port of London Authority, emergency services and Royal National Lifeboat Institution to the test during an exercise on the River Thames last month.
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NewsBig Box Milestone for Drogheda Port
Ireland' s Drogheda Port hit the 500,000 TEU container handling mark for the first time last month, with the milestone box carrying nuts and dried fruit from Holland.
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Record Works Plan for UK Waterways
The Environment Agency (EA) in the UK has announced that £ 13.2m will be spent on essential repairs and improvements to hundreds of sites and structures along EA managed rivers this winter.
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NewsNew Shipbreaking Regulations in Pipeline
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is taking action to address the unacceptable working conditions and poor environmental standards at many shipbreaking yards around the world. A new convention is currently being drafted to regulate the breaking up of old ships.
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NewsModular Oil Spill Recovery System
oil spill recovery technology, the Lamor Corporation AB, has built some 600 advancing recovery systems for vessels. The systems have been tailor made to fit each vessel and comprise several different components.
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VTMS Has Wreck Marking Success
Barwell UK based Vessel Traffic Management Systems Ltd (V.T.M.S), Barwell, UK, has completed a successful operation to mark a partially sunk wreck just off the coast of Gibraltar.
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NewsPowerful Pulling with Markey's New Winch
Seattle USA based Markey Machinery has completed of the first winch for the current series of tugs under construction at Nichols Brothers Shipyard. This Electric Hawser Winch, designated the DEPCF-52, is installed on the Crowley chartered tug ''Valor'', which is on charter from Baydelta Maritime.
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NewsVintage Tug Steams for Maintenance
Most people''s image of the bustling concrete and glass jungle that is East London''s Docklands business community is probably the iconic skyline. Pockets of the area''s rich maritime history are, however, still to be found.
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Thames Lock Signs
The UK Environment Agency has introduced new signs on the River Thames to tell boaters whether or not a lock keeper is at the lock. The signs will be introduced at all 44 locks on the River by Christmas. A white board will be displayed when a lock keeper is ...
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New Klein Sidescan Sonar
US subsea search and survey systems specialists L-3 Klein, well known in Europe for their series of sidescan sonars, have introduced a new portable digital model designed for search and rescue missions.
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NewsTragic 'Jack-up' Incident at Milford Haven
An investigation was initiated in west Wales after one person died and seven others were rescued when the jack-up barge ''JB 104'' partially collapsed at Milford Haven on Saturday 6 October.
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NewsNew Harbour Master for Lower Thames
The Port of London Authority (PLA) has appointed Roy Stanbrook harbour master for the Lower Thames District, which stretches along the Kent and Essex coasts from Crossness to the sea. He joined the PLA as deputy harbour master six years ago and has a wideranging maritime background.
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NewsPort-Net Partners Meet in Hamburg
After more than two years of workshops, conferences, best practice tours and several papers and studies being published considering the common challenges faced by ports across Europe, the EU''s Port-Net project held its closing conference and general assembly in Hamburg last month. Delegates focused on EU Port Policy at this ...
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NewsMore Grunt for Latest Travelift
America''s Marine Travelift Inc has unveiled the latest development in its Mariner forklift series. The Mariner M2500 is capable of lifting 25,000 pounds, 5,000 more than the previous model as the result of a Cummins QSB4.5 Tier III engine, which has 130 HP output.
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NewsGrowing Interest in Sediment Stability
Glasgow-based marine consultants Partrac Ltd are seeing a continued and rising interest in sediment stability instruments, the Cohesive Strength Meter (CSM).
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NewsHolyhead's Newbuild Goes Out to Launch
from the yard of Metaaldraaierij Sepers BV at Druemel in the Netherlands was complicated by the fact that there is no slipway at the facility.
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Ferry Travel Surges
The trend for ferry travel among holiday makers continued to strengthen this summer as customers sought to avoid chaos at UK airports. The Ferrystat figures for the crucial month of August showed car carryings from the UK to the Continent were up by 4.6%, with car journeys on shortsea routes ...
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NewsHydraulic Power for King Harry Ferry
The ferry crossing saves motorists a 43km round trip but the stretch of water between the Feock and the Roseland Peninsula on the River Fal in Cornwall UK is only 300m wide. There has been a ferry crossing here for a very long time but in 2000 news came that ...
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NewsForward Planning for Wind Farm Installation
Thanet Offshore Wind Limited (TOW) has signed a reservation agreement with Denmark headquartered A2SEA A/S for the long term use of the vessel the ''Sea Jack'' for the main construction periods for the Thanet project. Starting in the autumn of next year Sea Jack will be used to install the ...
