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NewsApprenticeship boost for marine industry
The South East of England based Berthon Boat Company has led a consortium of marine companies, with help from Paragon Skills and support from Marine South East and the British Marine Federation, to gain funding from the UK Government’ s Apprenticeship Expansion Programme to improve skills across the industry.
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NewsFresh rubber for RNLI Flood Rescue Team
Tyre giant Goodyear, well known for its own commitment to safety and innovation, is sponsoring the UK’ s Royal National Lifeboat Institution’ s (RNLI) Flood Rescue Team by funding specialist training and equipment.
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NewsDouble Dutch make Croatian clean-up
Dutch towage and salvage salvage operators Multraship Salvage and Mammoet Salvage have successfully completed the removal of the wreck of a floating dock which sank in June 2007 at the Viktor Lenac shipyard, Rijeka, Croatia.
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NewsWorld's largest LNG carrier in Milford Haven
Mozah, the world’ s largest LNG carrier, arrived at the Welsh port of Milford Haven last week, berthing at the South Hook Terminal. The Q-Max vessel has the ability to carry up to 266,000 m3 of LNG, enough to heat every home in the UK for one day.
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NewsCameron supports UK port rates solution
The vexed issue of back dated rates demands for UK port based businesses moved towards possible resolution at the start of this month when a proposed solution to the crisis was introduced.
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News'Chatty Beetle' fights ferry fatalities
A prototype satellite based radio messaging system for relaying weather warnings in remote areas is set to be tested as part of the Interferry/International Maritime Organization joint initiative to reduce ferry fatalities in developing nations by 90%.
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NewsThe right to bear arms?
The timing of MARSEQ’ s ' Combating Piracy 09' event in London at the end of last month was fortuitously perfect, coinciding as it did with a sharp rise in piracy in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia.
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NewsAntwerp road-rail hub sets impressive targets
Construction has begun in Antwerp of a new € 29m road-rail terminal which is designed to head off future port container and traffic congestion by moving 150,000 TEUs a year off the roads.
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NewsTugnology ties up in Amsterdam next week
Tugnology ’ 09, taking place in Amsterdam next week, follows on the heels of the hugely successful inaugural Tugnology, which took place in Southampton in 2007 at the same time as Seawork.
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NewsPort of Hamburg's Birthday pulls 1.2m visitors
The 820th Hafengeburtstag Hamburg (Port Birthday Hamburg) ended on Sunday after attracting more than 1.2 million visitors from Germany and abroad.
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NewsTugs of the World - 5th Edition
To produce a register of the world’ s tugs is an impossible task, when one considers the huge variation in size and the obscure location of so many smaller vessels. With the new 5th edition of Tugs of the World, Clarkson Research Services Ltd has almost certainly produced the most ...
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Conference consolidates marine energy and coastal protection
Scottish Energy Minister Jim Mather has been confirmed to address the Institution of Civil Engineer’ s (ICE) Coasts, Marine Structures and Breakwaters 2009 conference, in Edinburgh.
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DONG on song as budget ROCS
DONG Energy has decided to build the offshore wind farm Walney II in the Irish Sea. The move is a result of the British government' s increase in funding towards sustainable energy, which the British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling announced in his budget presentation last month.
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NewsBiggest boat yet for German coastal police
The biggest and most powerful patrol boat ever built for Germany’ s river and coastal police has gone into what promises to be particularly active service out of Schleswig Holstein.
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NewsBIFA supports Cameron on UK port rates solution
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has this week come out in support of HM Opposition Leader David Cameron’ s recent remarks at the 1 May meeting at Birkenhead Docks on Merseyside, where Mr Cameron announced that he is backing the campaign to address the financial crisis at UK ports.
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Bombs away off British coast
A dramatic lifeboat alert unfolded recently as a dredger uncovered two unexploded bombs.
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Terminal tackles terrorism
The DP World Southampton container terminal has achieved Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) status from Her Majesty’ s Revenue & Customs. This status will be recognised across all Member States. The introduction of AEO status is the EU response to the need to secure international supply chains and the introduction of ...
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Valeport warranty scheme
Valeport in Totnes, one of the UK’ s leading manufacturers of hydrographic and oceanographic instrumentation, is now in its 40th year and has launched a new perpetual warranty programme covering any of its products.
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NewsLinkspans are tailored to port requirements
Cargotec says its MacGregor division has recently secured contracts to supply linkspans that are specifically tailored to meet the needs of a number of different ports. The company said it has secured € 10m worth of linkspan orders in Jordan, Morocco and Ireland.
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Work gets under way at Peterhead Harbour
Work has begun on the much heralded expansion of Peterhead Harbour in the UK. Stones are being laid at Peterhead port’ s breakwater in advance of a massive £ 30m scheme which aims to meet the increased demands of the pelagic fleet. The project became a reality earlier this year ...
