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    DEME wins orders worth ¢220m

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    Subsidiaries of Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering (DEME) in Zwijndrecht, Belgium, have secured contracts valued at more than € 220m in recent weeks.

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    Trident Forum celebrates 10th anniversary

    2008-12-01T12:36:00Z

    The Trident Forum, a unique network of professional service firms working in the marine industry, celebrated  its 10th anniversary annual dinner recently.

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    Refurbished Dockside Crane Honours Maritime Heritage

    2008-12-01T11:32:00Z

    The protective coatings specialist Pyeroy Group has won a new contract to refurbish a 50 year old dock side crane as part of the £ 100 million Rochester Riverside regeneration project along the River Thames in Kent UK.

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    'Balmoral' Grows in Rapid Refit

    2008-12-01T11:32:00Z

    November was a busy month for the former Norwegian Cruise Lines vessel ' Norwegian Crown' which sailed from New York to Hamburg to come off charter and be redelivered to owner Fred Olsen Cruise Lines.

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    Underwater services secure historic Barbican

    2008-11-30T12:36:00Z

    There is a rich seam of history attached to the Barbican in Plymouth UK. It is from here that Sir Francs Drake sailed to defeat the Spanish Armada and from the Mayflower Steps here that the Pilgrim Fathers sailed to the New World.

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    Currach conference next week in Irelands

    2008-11-27T12:36:00Z

    The first ever conference on traditional boats and currachs in Ireland will take place in Ennis, County Clare on Saturday, 6 December 2008.

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    London meeting today aims to make offshore wind turbines economical

    2008-11-27T12:36:00Z

    Energy companies, civil engineers, shipbuilders and regional development agencies meet in London today to discuss the feasibility of building clean energy wind farms in deep waters offshore of the UK.

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    New control centre boosts Humber safety

    2008-11-20T12:36:00Z

    Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, opened the Port of Immingham’ s new Marine Control Centre on Monday, which was built following an investment of £ 750,000 by Associated British Ports (ABP), the owner and operator of the port.

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    Big boxster breaks Southampton record

    2008-11-20T12:36:00Z

    The arrival of the CMA CGM Vela on Tuesday set a new terminal record for the largest declared containership to call at DP World Southampton.

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    Timely conference adds value to Intermodal 2008

    2008-11-13T12:36:00Z

    An ever stronger imperative is growing for environmentally sound and cost effective transport of goods to and from ports.

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    QE2 grounds before final voyage

    2008-11-13T12:36:00Z

    It seemed for a moment early on Tuesday morning that the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2 was putting off leaving its native land for retirement in Dubai.

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    QM2 completes Queens' busy week

    2008-11-13T12:36:00Z

    It has been an eventful week for Cunard Line' s classic Queens QE2 and QM2. First the QE2 ran aground approaching the UK Port of Southampton early on Tuesday morning and today its big sister QM2 sails for Southampton after a major refit in Hamburg.

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    Plea today for Scotland's marine energy

    2008-11-06T12:36:00Z

    Scotland risks losing its position as the global leader in wave and tidal power unless rapid steps are taken to put in place vital infrastructure, the head of a green energy trade body have warned at a major conference today.

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    Global reach for Dutch dredging components

    2008-11-06T12:36:00Z

    Netherlands based dredging and offshore vessel builder IHC Merwede have opened a new factory in China for heavy industrial components. The facility in Guangdong Province will serve both the Chinese and global markets.

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    Appledore strikers look for support

    2008-11-06T12:36:00Z

    Following workers' strike action on Fridays and Mondays at Babcock Group' s Appledore Shipbuilders in the UK, Unite and GMB union delegates are looking for ' leverage' by getting the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions on their side.

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    UK marine economy contributes £50bn to annual GDP

    2008-11-06T12:36:00Z

    The Crown Estate in the UK, which manages the hereditary possessions of the Sovereign and delivered £ 211.4m of revenue directly to the Exchequer in the last tax year, has published its report titled Socio-economic indicators of marine-related activities in the UK economy.

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    TOWLINES

    2008-11-01T12:36:00Z

    Sinbad Marine Services of Killybegs in Ireland has purchased the Voith tractor tug Carron from the Svitzer fleet in Belfast. Two tugs of the same age, size and horsepower were reported sold in earlier Tugs & Towing reports. Carron was originally built in 1979 for use at the Grangemouth Docks ...

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    Ports on YouTube

    2008-11-01T12:36:00Z

    PD Ports group development director, Martyn Pellew, discusses the development of northern England through the UK' s port and rail infrastructure in videos which have been posted on YouTube.

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    Pelamis plugs Portugal into wave power

    2008-11-01T12:36:00Z

    So many mariners, pounded by the merciless power of the sea, must have wondered what it would take to get this huge force on our side. The answer, developed over the last decade by an Edinburgh based company, has been forthcoming and wave power is now being harnessed following the ...

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    Marine noise news

    2008-11-01T12:36:00Z

    ' Ocean Noise: Turn it Down' , a report published last month by IFAW, says that noise pollution of the world' s oceans poses a serious threat to marine animals and that urgent international action should be taken to counter it.