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Holyhead Towing Company Orders from Hepworth
The Holyhead Towing Company Ltd has once again returned to Humber based Hepworth Shipyard Ltd at Paull for their next new tug. Due for delivery in January 2004, the new tug will be larger than any of the existing vessels in the Holyhead fleet but similar in configuration to the ...
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UKHO Routeing Charts
The UK Hydrographic Office at Taunton has published the first of a series of five routeing charts with updated meteorological data, initially covering the Red Sea and Persian Gulf and a greater overlap of the Indian Ocean.
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Electronic Chart Handbook
The Electronic Chart: Functions, Potential & Limitations of a New Marine Navigation System is the title of a new specialist handbook from GITC of the Netherlands, publishers of the monthly Hydro International.
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NewsMcMurdo Launches Regional 'Centres of Excellence' Plan
Portsmouth UK based marine safety equipment manufacturers McMurdo have announced plans to set up regional ''centres of excellence'' in major ports around the world.
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News'Mount Stuart' is First Halmatic Cara Fast Pilot Launch
The first vessel to result from VT Halmatic''s acquisition of Cara Marine''s workboat range has been delivered this month to the Clyde Ports Authority.
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Launch for CableAwareness. com
Thales GeoSolutions (Pacific) Inc has launched an online information system aimed at providing submarine cable owners with added protection for their cable system. The web address www.Cable Awareness. com provides basic cable positional data and cable awareness charts to the fishing community and other marine users over the internet on ...
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seawork Newcomer Set to Chase Fuel Bugs
Should anyone showing a boat at seawork''s floating exhibition encounter fuel contamination problems during the show, first time exhibitor Liquid Engineering (UK) Ltd will be close at hand with the solution.
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MCA Brings Successful Prosecution of Pollution Ship
The UK''s Maritime and Coastguard Agency successfully prosecuted Freedom Investments of Panama earlier this month following an incident last year when one of their general cargo vessels breached the Prevention of Oil Pollution Regulations.
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Briggs' Foresight Sees 'British Shield' Vessel Deliver the Goods at 'Prestige ' Spill Response
Briggs Environmental Services Ltd played a significant role in the clean-up process which followed the recent sinking of the tanker Prestige off the coast of Spain.
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NewsSingle Branding for DaimlerChrysler Marine Diesels
All Daimler-Chrysler marine engines will now be singlebranded as MTU regardless of whether they are manufactured by the Detroit Diesel Corporation in Michigan USA or by MTU in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The single brand strategy has been defined since DaimlerChrysler AG acquired the Detroit Diesel Corporation in October 2000.
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Bountiful Year for Milford Haven
Milford Haven Port Authority has reported a strong performance in shipping activity for the year 2002, with the number of ships using the Welsh deepwater port up 3% to 3,445 while gross tonnage grew by 4.4% to 48,360,000. Recent innovations and investments at the port include the routine active escorting ...
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NewsUpgraded Irish VTS Gets Tracking Bonus
By combining their purchasing power with EC grants, the four Irish ports of Cork, Shannon, Rosslare and Waterford have installed VTS systems that are technically more advanced than those of some ports many times their size. The STN Atlas VTS systems at Shannon, Cork and Waterford also include a Thales ...
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NewsSecurity CCTV for Port of Belfast
Ireland''s busiest ferry port at the Port of Belfast has received a high security digital CCTV installation supplied by Bell Security (NI) Ltd.
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NewsFlexible Liner Restores Canal Bed in Lancaster Canal
A major £ 700,000 renovation project, which has closed off a northern section of the Lancaster Canal throughout the winter, is on course for completion this month, British Waterways has confirmed.
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NewsMersey Beats Drum for Maritime Expansion
The Mersey Maritime cluster has been launched in the Merseyside (Liverpool) region of the UK, aiming to become a world class benchmark centre of excellence in every sector of maritime operations and services over the next three years.
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NewsTideland Tower Beacons for Gulf
The Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) has awarded Tideland Signal Ltd a contract to supply tower mounted beacons to mark two navigational reefs in the Arabian Gulf.
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BGS Bathymetric Software
The British Geological Survey has released the first version of a vector-attributed digital bathymetry software covering UK and adjacent European waters, DigiBath 250.
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Nyet In My Back Yard, say Norwegians
The Norwegian parliament is considering a new Act that will extend the country''s territorial sea from four to 12 nautical miles. The proposed Act is designed to reduce the threat of environmental pollution from oil spills and comes in the wake of the recent Prestige incident.
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NewsEXODUS Wins Prestigious Award
EXODUS evacuation simulation software developed by the University of Greenwich (UK) Fire Safety Engineering Group has been awarded a prestigious Queen''s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education at a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace. The Queen presented a gold medal and an illuminated prize certificate to the University''s Vice ...
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SARIS II Wins Top Award
The search and rescue information system SARIS II, developed by British Maritime Technology subsidiary BMT Cordah Ltd, has won the 2003 Maritime Excellence Award for ''Technological Excellence in Training''. The UK''s Maritime and Coastguard Agency has been involved in the SARIS II project since its inception and operates the system ...
