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NewsTugs Attend Atlantic Casualties
Winter gales and machinery breakdowns have resulted in a number of shipping casualties in the Atlantic Ocean needing tug assistance.
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seawork Trade Association Meetings
seawork provides a natural venue for marine association meetings as their members have already converged in Southampton for the Exhibition and Conference.
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News'Aquadozer' Barges Debris Off the Clyde
Liverpool Water Witch Marine & Engineering have signed a contract to build a Water Witch Pollution Control Workboat for Glasgow City Council. The 10.5m LOA Mark 3 version of the company''s versatile surface dredger will be a sister ship to Condor, delivered last year for the Port of Antwerp.
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Wheel Mark Approval for New GPS Chartnavigator
Simrad''s newly launched GN33 B/W GPS Chartnavigator is the first GPS Navigator with built-in chartplotter to gain the Wheel Mark approval awarded by BSH in Germany. Aimed at all sizes of commercial and coastal vessels, the GN33 succeeds the GN30 DGPS, which was also awarded Wheel Mark approval upon its ...
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BHS Type Approval for New UAIS Control Unit
STN Atlas Marine Electronics'' new Debeg 3401 UAIS Display and Control Unit (DCU), designed for operation and primary display of data in support of its European Wheelmark certified 3400 UAIS, has been type approved by the German Maritime & Hydrographic Agency (BSH).
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NewsRoute for New Canal Announced
British Waterways has announced the route selected to link the River Great Ouse at Bedford with the Grand Union Canal at Milton Keynes, the first new canal to be built in the UK for more than a century.
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Alfa Laval Tanks Up in Denmark
Marine oil treatment, desalinisation and heat transfer solutions specialist Alfa Laval has acquired the Danish Toftejorg Group, which includes tank cleaning specialists Gunclean Toftejorg.
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NewsISS Ahead of Schedule
Inchcape Shipping Services'' (ISS) programme to expand support services in the Arabian Gulf is continuing apace, with the two launch vessels ordered last June on course to be delivered ahead of schedule.
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NewsA New Tug and Barge Service for Aggregates
Starting earlier this year, a new tug and barge combination has entered service between the Isle of Wight and the mainland for the transportation of sand and ballast. Harbrown Shipping Ltd of Newport, Isle of Wight has purchased a tug and barge to replace an elderly coaster on the trip ...
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New Year, New ABPmer Team
ABP Marine Environmental Research (ABPmer) has expanded its services by forming a Processes team which will focus on work in the flood and coastal management sector as well as undertake dredging and marine navigation design studies.
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NewsABP Boosts Profits
Associated British Ports exceeded already high market expectations by posting a 6% rise in underlying pre-tax profit to £ 138.1m and boosting turnover by 7% to £ 401.9m.
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Timely Topics at Oil Pollution 2003
The 16th Annual Conference Oil Pollution 2003 takes place this year at the Mayflower Conference Centre in central London on 20 and 21 May.
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NewsGerman Yard Heads Into Busy 2003 After Delivering 'Loreley'
The Genthin facility of German shipyard Schiffbau und Entwicklungs-gesellschaft Tangermunde (SET) has handed over the police boat newbuilding Loreley to authorities in Mainz.
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Newsseawork2003 Soars on Solid Support
Seawork 2003 sees what has become one of Europe''s leading commercial marine exhibitions and conferences return to the working Port of Southampton for the sixth consecutive year.
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seawork2003 Conference: Be There, Be Aware of the Issues
seawork''s Conference Programme, running concurrently with the Exhibition in the same Canary Island Fruit Terminal facility, has always been an integral part of the event. The seawork2002 Conference was highly praised by delegates for the breadth of its scope and the quality of its speakers. For seawork2003, the organisers have ...
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NewsISPS Training Takes Centre Stage at seawork2003
The new IMO security standards incorporated in the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS) were adopted by the Contracting Governments to SOLAS at the IMO Diplomatic Conference late last year. The phasing in time for ISPS is remarkably short, ending on 1 July 2004.
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NewsUltra Tuff Struts Its Stuff at the seawork2003
Ultra Tuff International (UK) makes its first appearance at seawork this year, exhibiting the range of non-skid safety coatings now made available to the British and European markets from their new base in Lancashire UK.
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NewsCat In a Box Makes Tracks to seawork2003
One of the long distance travellers to seawork2003 will be first time exhibitor Neptun Workboats AS from Oslo, Norway. The company''s ConCat containerised catamaran is based on a proven workboat design to which is added the unique MB Folding Mechanism (MBFM) which allows the craft to be pulled out of ...
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First Waterfront Expo 2003 to Take Place at ExCeL
The first Waterfront Expo, Waterfront Expo 2003, an international waterfront conference and exhibition designed to serve the needs of professionals involved in waterfront and marina design, will be held in London 22-23 October 2003 at the ExCeL exhibition centre in London''s Docklands, the organisers have announced.
