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Irish Marine Institute Opens New HQ
The Irish Marine Institute''s new headquarters at Oranmore, Galway Bay have been formally opened by Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. Housing a majority of the Institute''s 200-strong staff, the 50m, 11,000m 2building features 54 scientific laboratories, a crescent-shaped office facility and a 150-seat auditorium specially designed for both national and international ...
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NewsModified Wiper Motor Housings at SMM
Hepworth Marine and Wynn Marine are exhibiting on Stand 123 of the British Pavilion in Hall 7 at SMM Hamburg.
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NewsOrkney Ports Trainees at Home on Tyneside
The Orkney Islands Council Harbours Authority has enhanced its standard of marine service by sending employees on a comprehensive training course at South Tyneside College.
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NewsHarmonious Power at SMM
Renold Hi-Tec Couplings is using SMM 2006 in Hamburg to launch a new range of flexible couplings and rubber anti-vibration engine mountings for marine applications on Stand A3 001. The new VF couplings are designed for use with high speed, flex-mounted diesel engines across a torque range from 5,000 to ...
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NewsHamburg Serves Up a Whopper
SMM 2006 is setting records in all areas, with the world' s largest shipbuilding event expecting 1,669 exhibiting companies from 50 countries to fill some 75,000m 2of exhibition space alongside a host of conferences and specialist events. The 22nd Shipbuilding, Machinery & Marine Technology International Trade Fair Hamburg will fill ...
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NewsGreat Yarmouth Selects Outer Harbour Partner
Great Yarmouth''s Outer Harbour Development has taken an important step forward with an announcement by the promoters, East Port Great Yarmouth Limited and Great Yarmouth Port Authority, that, following a competitive process which has taken place over the last five months, they are minded to award preferred partner status to ...
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NewsGlobal Hand-Held Satellite Phone Service Launches
Mobile satellite services operator Inmarsat took the first steps in launching its global hand-held satellite phone service this month with the announcement of collaboration arrangements with ACeS international Ltd, the leading Asian hand-held voice satellite services operator. The alliance will deliver low cost hand-held and fixed voice services, initially in ...
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NewsGet a Grip for a Non-Slip Ship
The physical properties of Traffideck were put to the test when Mitsubishi Heavy Industries specified the material for resurfacing three vehicle decks on a P& O passenger ferry. A polyurethane developed by Hyperlast Limited for anti-skid protection on industrial and commercial surfaces, Traffideck has been engineered to provide a durable, ...
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NewsSee Next Generation NavComms at SMM
Global marine electronics manufacturer JRC invests some 60m annually on research and development and has embarked on an ambitious programme to introduce new advanced communication and navigation products to meet the demands of the modern, IT driven marine electronics user. A glimpse of the new JRC product line being launched ...
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NewsTrinity House Vessel 'Galatea' Launched in Poland
The second new ship for Trinity House has been launched at the Stocznia Remontowa SA shipbuilders yard in Gdansk, Poland by Jane de Halpert, wife of Trinity House executive chairman Jeremy de Halpert.
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Fugro Geos Ormen Lange Project
Fugro Geos, which has provided measurement support services since 2001 for development of Ormen Lange, Norway''s largest gas field, due to come onstream next year, has been contracted by Norsk Hydro to provide all-important real-time current profile, wind and wave data for both the pipeline and the field itself.
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NewsRepower for Poole Harbour Ferry
Castello, a 9.14m passenger ferry, has been repowered with a Perkins Sabre 92hp diesel engine coupled to a Borg Warner 72C gearbox. The 36 year old boat, which can carry up to 28 passengers, travels at a maximum speed of nine knots as it cruises across Poole Harbour to Brownsea ...
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Jolly Good Fellow
HRH The Princess Royal has accepted an invitation to become an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST). She follows in the footsteps of her father, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, who became an Honorary Fellow in 1949 and was IMarEST''s President in 1962. IMarEST ...
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NewsWelding Fatigue Monitor Moves Innovation to Market
The Isle of Wight UK based Strainstall Group Ltd will make the CrackFirst fatigue sensor system available to industry following and agreement with The Welding Institute (TWI), which project managed the innovative programme that developed the gauge.
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NewsFastest Gibraltar Strait Ferry for FRS
An Incat catamaran has entered service as the fastest ferry in the Strait of Gibraltar on routes of German owner Forde Reederei Seetouristik (FRS).
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NewsEngineer-Divers Prove Their Worth in Water
The problem of taking engineering expertise below water is increasingly being addressed through the use of engineer-divers. Rather than have engineers stay on dry land to glean essential information from non-specialist divers, firms are looking to place engineer-divers into the water.
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NewsA Vertical Future for Marine Energy?
Progress continues on the prototype device being developed to harness wave energy from the movement of the sea (see MJ, October 2005).
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SSAS and SVDR Security Upgrade for Dredger Fleet
Somerset UK based Atlantas Marine has been supplying the Satamatics Ocean Alert SSAS (Ship Security Alert System) for both UK and international fleets during the last two years, during which time it has equipped over 400 vessels with a package mandated by the IMO''s ISPS Code for ships over 500gt. ...
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NewsDive Team Recovers 'Pamela S'
Swansea based Kaymac Marine & Civil Engineering Ltd were asked to assist in the recovery of the wreck of the fishing vessel Pamela S, which sank in Camarthen Bay on 17 July.
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Seismic Development
Paris-based Compagnie GUnUrale de GUophysique (CGG) has announced that it is to acquire US competitor Veritas in a 2.4bn takeover that will create a giant in the supply of geophysical and seismic survey services to the worldwide oil and gas industry.
