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Paperless US Navy
The US Navy has unveiled plans for a major transformation in military marine navigation, with paper nautical charts to be replaced by advanced, interactive electronic navigation systems throughout the fleet. The ECDIS-N will be based on the Voyage Management System software developed by Sperry Marine operating with digital nautical charts ...
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Money for New Rope at Seawork
Seawork regulars MarineCo Ltd had an unexpected but welcome experience at Seawork 2005. As the company''s Chris Dinham explained, ''A group of fishermen came onto the stand and, after the usual negotiation, handed me £ 750 in cash for rope to be delivered the following week. It''s very unusual to ...
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New Marina Proposed at Rhyl
A new marina is being proposed at Kinmel Bay at Rhyl in North Wales UK on the site of a well known local landmark, a historic fun-fair.
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Mariners Reunited at LMGMA
Liverpool Maritime Graduates & Masters Association haslaunched a website at www. lmgma. co. uk which allows former and current students to enrole online as members, search for other members, catch up on LMGMA news and learn of forthcoming events. The site will establish a global network of maritime professionals who ...
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Offshore Upsurge at Lerwick
The offshore oil industry has contributed to a 5% increase in the volume of cargo handled at Lerwick Harbour in Shetland over the first half of 2005. The high level of industry activity saw 119 oil related vessels calling at Lerwick, up 30% on the same period in 2004, which ...
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Help Mercy Ships Help New Orleans
A hospital ship that survived Hurricane Katrina is now providing essential relief to devastated communities along the US Gulf Coast. The Caribbean Mercy , which is run by the international charity Mercy Ships was berthed just north of Mobile, Alabama during the hurricane and survived without damage.
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NewsGrating's Great Strides in Workboat Safety
The Irish Sea Pioneer is a self propelled jack-up marine construction unit owned and operated by Halliburton inLiverpool Bay UK, providing offshore support services to BHP Billiton . The vessel''s raised cargo rail system is essential to operations but was creating a trip hazard to crew working on deck.
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Lifejacket Gift to OYT
Crewsaver has gifted its new Crewfit Lifejackets to all the boats in the Scottish Ocean Youth Trust Fleet . The gift includes some 40 275 and 150 Newton Lifejackets , all with integral safety harnesses and embroidered with the OYT Scotland logo. Both organisations see this as the start of ...
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NewsVirtual Navigation for German Water Police
Belgium based Barco , in cooperation with ELNA ElektroNavigation und Industrie and a third company named in-innovative navigation , has won a 1m contract to supply a new radar simulation training system to Wasserschutzpolizei-Schule (WSPS), the German Water Police Academy in Hamburg.
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Fairplay Towage and URS Order Tugs from Spain
Hamburg based tug owner Fairplay Towage and their Belgian associate company URS have placed an order for four new tugs with Astilleros Armon in Spain. Two of the vessels, due for delivery in February and August 2007 will be used primarily in Hamburg and Rotterdam and two identical sisters will ...
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Fairmount Heavy Transport Floats in Norway
Fairmount Heavy Transport NV has closed a $50m offering of new equity, the proceeds of which will be used to acquire the semi-submersible barges BOA 19 and BOA 20 from BOA Offshore AS of Norway as well as for general corporate purposes. The barges will be converted to self propelled ...
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Irish Eyes on Lifeboat Training
The new National Maritime College of Ireland has begun training the country''s next generation of seafarers using a complete range of lifeboats manufactured by Survival Craft Inspectorate Ltd of Aberdeen.
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Furuno Expands Presence
Japan''s Furuno marine electronics company has opened a fully owned subsidiary, Furuno Deutschland GmbH in Hamburg, which has taken over Furuno''s service and distribution activities within Germany, Austria and Switzerland from former distributor Ferropilot. The establishment of Furuno Deutschland together with the recent opening of Furuno Eurus in Russia strengthens ...
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NewsGPS Goes to Heart of Europe
Established UK tugs, dredgers, hopper barges and crane barges operator GPS Marine Contractors Ltd , based at Chatham Dock in Kent, is developing the business further and entering the marine contracting and services market in mainland Europe.
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News'Kinnaird' Enters Service with JP Knight
J P Knight (Caledonian) Ltd introduced their most powerful tug to date at a reception held for local dignitaries and industry guests on the 16th of August. A subsidiary of J P Knight Ltd of Rochester, the Invergordon based company has been in existence for 35 years, providing towage services ...
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President Promotes Engineering
Maurice Storey, recently chief executive of the MCA and currently the 103rd president of IMarEST , will deliver a topical President''s Lecture in London on 11 October in which he will criticise the failure of successive British Governments to recognise the contribution of engineers and technologists to wealth creation and ...
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NewsHamburg Research Ship Probes North Sea Ecology
Fifteen scientists and 20 crew members aboard the tough research vessel Gauss were recently involved in Germany''s annual month long check on the ecology of the North Sea.
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NewsHRO for EastPort Great Yarmouth
EastPort Great Yarmouth , the £ 43.5m project to construct a new outer harbour to provide the shortest North Sea crossing from the UK to the Netherlands, has been granted a Harbour Revision Order from the Department for Transport (DfT). The development will incorporate one ro-ro berth (with scope for ...
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Maritime Industries Mourn Lord Donaldson of Lymington
Maritime safety has lost one of its greatest and most influential advocates with the sudden passing earlier this month of Lord Donaldson of Lymington.
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NewsJoint Venture to Develop Rochester Riverside
Medway Council and the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) have awarded a civil engineering joint venture between Edmund Nuttall and Van Oord the main ? 44m contract to carry out infrastructure works at the Rochester Riverside regeneration site.
