All News articles – Page 947
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NewsKey role for ABPmer in Wallasea Island project
ABP Marine Environmental Research Limited (ABPmer) has played a lead role in the Environmental Impact Assessment and Planning Application submission work for the RSPB’ s Wallasea Island Wild Coast Project in the UK.
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NewsBoskalis abandons takeover bid and Smit profits are up
In December Smit International NV announced that Royal Boskalis Westminster NV (‘ Boskalis’ ) will not pursue its intended offer to acquire all of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares in Smit International NV.
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NewsMJ 250th Issue - Marine Construction
The credit crunch may be having an adverse effect on almost every industry, including investment in ports and marine infrastructure, but recent investments by some of the biggest and best known names in the business suggest that companies believe they can ride out the seeming slump in demand and that ...
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NewsWhat recession? Evergreen 'to build 100'
According to a report in The Economic Times of India, Evergreen Marine has announced plans to spend $5.5bn to build 100 container ships before the anticipated recovery of the global economy in 2012.
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Oil Spill Response
Oil Spill Response Limited & East Asia Response Limited, the world’ s largest international oil spill response organisation, has been renamed Oil Spill Response.
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NewsOne stop shop for UK marine monitoring
A new application which shows details of UK marine monitoring programmes is available to browse at www.ukdmos.org. The United Kingdom Directory of Marine Observing Systems is a searchable database of marine monitoring conducted by UK organisations, with UKDMOS providing an internet-based tool for searching monitoring programmes with the aim of ...
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Marcon's record year
Washington USA based shipbroker Marcon International celebrated a record year by completing three deals on the final day of 2008.
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Maritime jobs guide
Sea Vision UK, a nationwide campaign to raise the profile of the sea and maritime sector, has launched the latest, largest version of its Maritime Careers Guide, a magazine profiling different jobs across the maritime sector.
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RNLI funds success
More than £ 3,500 was raised before Christmas for the UK’ s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) by Newcastle based marine rigging specialists Storrar Marine.
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Fos'inland links
The French port of Marseilles Fos has initiated a promotional partnership with eight inland ports serving its crucial north-south hinterland along the Rhone-Saone corridor.
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NewsForeign Secretary visits Port of Tyne
Taking time out from his busy schedule during the week before Christmas, the UK’ s Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, David Miliband MP, took the opportunity to visit the Port of Tyne to meet Andrew Moffat, the port’ s new CEO.
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Hagglunds' marine facility
Hagglunds Drives has begun building customised power units for their hydraulic drive systems, particularly for marine applications.
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NewsFebruary's MareNet examines global marine opportunities
Marine South East, the regional marine initiative of the South East of England Development Agency (SEEDA), will launch the findings of its Global Opportunities research at February’ s MareNet event which will take place on Tuesday 10 February at the Royal Southern Yacht Club in Hamble.
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NewsDredging simulator with an outside view
IHC Systems has celebrated the inauguration of their new dredging simulator, the first of its kind with an outside view, and also unveiled its 1,250th production meter. The ceremony was attended by Mr Martin Boevé e, the mayor of Sliedrecht in the Netherlands, where IHC Systems is based.
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NewsEnhanced positioning for Damen dredgers
Damen Dredging Equipment and Trimble Europe have sealed their cooperation by signing an OEM agreement.
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Collision lookout failure
A German shipowner has pleaded guilty before a regional court in the UK to three merchant shipping vessel safety offenses following a collision between a coaster and the East Goodwin Light Vessel in February 2007.
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NewsSAR frequencies change to be implemented
The UK’ s Maritime and Coastguard Agency has issued a reminder to seafarers of important changes to the operating frequencies of the Cospas-Sarsat satellite based distress alerting service.
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NewsCEDA Dredging Days focuses on sustainability
The role of dredging and maritime construction in sustainable development was the focus of this year’ s CEDA Dredging Days, organised by the Belgian Section of the Central Dredging Association (CEDA).
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ISP management buy-out
The management team of International Safety Projects Ltd has completed a £ 4m buy-out of what they claim to be the world’ s largest manufacturer of inflatable marine lifejackets.
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NewsBourbon fined for Dolphin capsizing
Norway’ s national prosecutor, Bjoern Soknes, has fined Bourbon Offshore Norway AS 5m kroner (some £ 500,000) this week for failures which led to the deaths of eight people when the AHTS Bourbon Dolphin capsized off Shetland in April 2007.
