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EU Bill to Cut Ship-Borne Air Pollution Will Push Up Costs
European Union members have given the go-ahead for a bill aimed at cutting air pollution caused by ships, a move that would help fight respiratory disease but push up costs for ship owners.
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Project Ahead of Schedule
Reclamation work on The Pearl-Qatar , the US $2.5 billon man-made island being built offshore Doha, is running ahead of schedule, The Pearl-Qatar newspaper reported in October.
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Jan De Nul Growing Again
Belgium''s Jan De Nul Group has ordered two stationary cutter suction dredgers from the same Tianjin Xinhe Shipyard in China that is building four 3,700m3 split barges for the dredging and marine construction giant.
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UTEC At Work Off Africa
Lowestoft UK based underwater services contractor UTEC and partners Nutec West Africa Ltd have secured a contract to install a 2km long outfall pipe as part of the $95 million Kolre Lagoon Ecological Restoration Project in Ghana. UTEC''s versatile survey vessel MV Goosander is key to the four month contract ...
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NewsACE Set the Pace in Winch Delivery
Scotland based Alfred Cheyne Engineering Ltd (ACE Winches) continue to demonstrate their ability to deliver large winch packages in short delivery times.
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NewsMaritime Journal Celebrates Milestone with Bumper 200th Issue
It is unusual to visit the offices of a marine industries company or enter the wheelhouse of a workboat and not find a well examined copy of Maritime Journal on the reception table or somewhere near the helm.
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NewsTraining Goes to mars2 at SMM Exhibition in Hamburg
Following the split of STN Atlas Elektronik last year, much of the operation remained in Bremen with Rheinmetall Defence Electronics GmbH , which launched its new Maritime Safety and Security Training Environment (mars2) at the recent SMM Exhibition inHamburg.
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News'Beluga 11' Yard Goes Bankrupt Over Cost Row With Greenpeace
The Fridtjof Nansen Shipyard in east Germany has applied for bankruptcy proceedings after Greenpeace paid only part of the ¢ 1.4m price for its newbuilding Beluga 11 , saying the ship had not been properly finished.
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Ship
Published this month in association with the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich UK, this stunning coffee table book does just what it says on the cover, presenting ''5,000 Years of Maritime Adventure'' in a single volume packed with information and images presented in the inimitable Dorling Kindersley house style.
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The Last Great Adventure of Sir Peter Blake Sir Peter Blake's Logbooks
One of the world''s most famous and successful yachtsmen, Sir Peter Blake had twice won the Whitbread Round the World Race, conquered the Jules Verne around the world record, and been national manager of the twice victorious America''s Cup team for his native New Zealand.
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ITS 2004 - Complete Papers & Discussions
Book of Papers is a bound volume of the complete proceedings of the very successful 18th Tug & Salvage Convention held in Miami in April of this year.
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NewsTOWLINES
The ABR Company Ltd hasannounced that the 19th Tug & Salvage Convention , ITS 2006 , will be held in Rotterdam from 24-28 April 2006. Final arrangements regarding the actual venue still have to be finalised but are expected to be announced shortly. The deadline for the submission of papers ...
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Syncrolift Upgrades Software
New software has been launched by Syncrolift Inc , part of the Rolls-Royce naval marine business in the USA that has installed 226 of its Syncrolift lifting platform systems worldwide. They provide an elevator mechanism to lift a large range of marine vessels from the water, transfer them to dry ...
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NewsSMIT's Successful Summer
SMIT Salvage completed a series of major salvage operations in the first half of this year, with the work programme including salvage and pollution prevention with the tanker Everton , the righting of the capsized fallpipe vessel Rocknes and the expected completion of salvage operations for the car carrier Tricolor ...
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NewsWork on The World 'On Schedule'
Nakheel , developers of Dubai''s luxury offshore project TheWorld , has provided an update of its progress - less than a year after construction first began on the 300 islands.
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NewsKooren Shipbuilding Take up Rotor Tug Options
Rotterdam based Kooren Shipbuilding and Trading BV , a subsidiary of Kotug , has exercised their options with the ASL Shipyard Pte Ltd inSingapore to build a further pair of their unique ''Rotor'' tugs. Earlier in the year, the company placed an order with the yard for two 28.30m long ...
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Nelson & Napoleon Invade London
Tickets go on sale this month for the first exhibition to explore together the lives of two dominant leaders and adversaries, Horatio Nelson and Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Turbidity Software Will Help Predict Sediment Release
The Dutch dredging industry, through the Stichting Speurwerk Baggertechniek (SSB) and the Rijkswaterstaat , has commissioned new research to produce a software package for use by stakeholders in the aggregate production process, including regulators and the industry, the aim being to improve the ability to predict sediment release during dredging.
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NewsVolvo Penta Power Surge in Hamburg
Volvo Penta was in expansive form at the SMM Exhibition inHamburg last month, where it launched no fewer than four new engines.
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Marseilles Maintains Growth
Container handling growth at the French Port of Marseilles was up by 10% in the eight months to the end of August, with a throughput of 608,000 TEU. East-west volumes through Fos rose 9% to 388,000 TEU while terminals handling north-south trades improved by 11% to 220,000 TEU. Container tonnage ...
